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October 2009


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‘Like being accused of Hiroshima bomb’

By on October 30, 2009

Ronda mayor compares Los Merinos accusations to H-bomb, while calling environment boss ‘incompetent’ and ecologists ‘terrorists’


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Lorca’s exhumation begins

By on October 30, 2009

After much speculation, excavations are now officially underway


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Dolphin beach tragedy

By on October 29, 2009

Fishermen blamed for dead dolphin, fish and birds


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Columbus was a Catalan Jew

By on October 29, 2009

Explorer’s final fascinating discovery


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An abortion protest that shrank in size

By on October 29, 2009

Organisers claimed millions of protesters, while the media and police insisted there were 250,000. The truth, it emerges, is much less


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Between a rock and a hard place

By on October 28, 2009

Why everyone should take a butchers inside the privileged world of the Bishop’s Avenue of Andalucia, where the average house price is 1.5m euros, writes Jon Clarke


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Why the witches like to fly high

By on October 28, 2009

With Halloween looming, Asha Stuttard discovers why Spanish witches rubbed a hallucinogenic mould from rye bread onto their broomsticks


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Not our problem!

By on October 28, 2009

Expat writes to 70 British MEPs to save his home from demolition – while Junta rules that Priors home was illegal


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Smuggler birds are go!

By on October 28, 2009

Microlights loaded with drugs increasingly used by smugglers


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Expats Giving English Lessons

By on October 28, 2009

Expats’ mother tongue being put to good use


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What a quacker

By on October 28, 2009

Why Katie had to say goodbye to Carmen


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Freak expat death

By on October 20, 2009

British women suffers heart failure after bar accident


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El Ejido Mayor Arrested

By on October 20, 2009

Juan Enciso Ruiz suspected of money laundering and bribery


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Scalpel tourists

By on October 20, 2009

Expats accused of abusing Spanish health service


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Tom and Cameron set for Cadiz

By on October 20, 2009

Hollywood duo are dropping in to shoot fast-paced film finale


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Spain: Must do better

By on October 20, 2009

Only Portugese and Hungarians worse linguists than the Spanish. UK is a classic C-student


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Our Dream Hotel

By on October 18, 2009

How hotelier got 93 mates – including the odd celebrity – to help buy medieval manor house


Stone Age brew

By on October 17, 2009

Neolithic man may have liked his beer just as much as his modern-day counterparts


A devil in the kitchen

By on October 16, 2009

Satanic sect had domestic slaves for the kitchen


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Brit claims shock win at Madrid masters

By on October 16, 2009

Ross McGowan – who? – wins prestigious Madrid tournament


Los Merinos would ‘gravely endanger’ local ecosystem

By on October 16, 2009

As Ronda mayor appears in court for corruption, new report slams the golf project which he controversially passed


‘Like being accused of dropping the Hiroshima bomb’

By on October 16, 2009

Ronda mayor compares Los Merinos golf accusations to Second World War bomb


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Riddle of Nazi photos

By on October 16, 2009

EXCLUSIVE: Rare German photo album found in Costa rubbish bin


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Sun sets on Israeli scientists

By on October 16, 2009

Israeli scientists kicked out of solar power competition


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Ole! Pink Torero sponsors ‘gay’ drink

By on October 15, 2009

Gay bullfighter makes traditionalists see red


Next Page »

Blogs »

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Lawyers suing lawyers

March 8, 2014

Our regular Olive Press legal column by lawyer Antonio Flores


Lead2, National News »

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WhatsApp and Facebook’s big night out in Barcelona

March 8, 2014

Jan Koum celebrated his app’s birthday with Mark Zuckerberg and singer Psy

Andalucia, Lead, Malaga »

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Niza Car Hire returns deposits after Olive Press report

March 8, 2014

Deposits are finally being returned to customers following the Olive Press’s exclusive investigation last issue

Property »

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Spanish investors use London’s booming property market to protect savings

March 7, 2014

New research reveals correlation between Spanish and British housing markets

Andalucia, Lead »

Truth of Spanish gender-violence revealed in ground-breaking survey thumbnail

Truth of Spanish gender-violence revealed in ground-breaking survey

March 7, 2014

Disturbing stats and spate of Andalucian domestic murders casts a dark shadow over International Women’s Day

Gibraltar, Lead2 »

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Gibraltar government launches investigation into bullying accusations

March 7, 2014

A civil servant accused of bullying a group of graduates


“The best English newspaper in southern Spain,” according to the Rough Guide. The Olive Press is the English language newspaper for Andalucia. Local news from Costa del Sol and inland Andalucia plus national news from around Spain. A campaigning, community newspaper, the Olive Press represents the huge and growing expatriate community in southern Spain – 200,000 copies distributed monthly (120,000 digitally) with an estimated readership, including the website, of more than 500,000 people a month.

From The Archives »

Jerez shuts down

February 19, 2010 | Andalucia, Cadiz

Storm causes city to become isolated as transport comes to a standstill

The other bullfighting

November 13, 2007 | News Feature

Neil Wilson looks at the recortes, a spectacular form of bullfighting that – perhaps – belongs in the circus rather than the ring

Prostitute’s life saved by a hook after being thrown out of a window in Spain

December 7, 2012 | National News

27-year old sex worker saved from the 10-metre fall because her clothes snagged

Gibraltar’s residents go ape

September 12, 2011 | Gibraltar

Damage caused by the Rock’s iconic apes have prompted calls for government action

Return of the Spanish highwayman

August 12, 2012 | Andalucia, Lead

British motorists in Spain warned to watch out for elaborate scams that have fooled thousands