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January 2011


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Soldiering on in Sevilla

By on January 31, 2011

Feeling the wintery cold in the city famous for its scorching summers


New investigation as Tony King blames Robbie Graham and Dolores Vazquez for murder in two letters thumbnail

New investigation as Tony King blames Robbie Graham and Dolores Vazquez for murder in two letters

By on January 31, 2011

Convicted killer has written two letters to the mother of murdered Mijas teenager detailing the crime


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Gang shooting on Spain’s Costa del Crime

By on January 31, 2011

Gangland hit on British expat is a case of ‘mistaken identity’


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Don’t pass the port

By on January 31, 2011

Andalucia’s most exclusive enclave Sotogrande is bucking the trend with a string of fabulous new restaurants, discovers Jon Clarke


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St James’s Place to the rescue

By on January 31, 2011

St. James’s Place is holding a series of seminars throughout 2011 to give financial advice


Brit gets climate change award from Spanish bank thumbnail

Brit gets climate change award from Spanish bank

By on January 31, 2011

Nicholas Stern has been awarded a top environment accolade by Spanish Bank BBVA


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Forward Press moves into Europe

By on January 31, 2011

EXCLUSIVE By Amie Keeley. Disgraced publisher now moving its scheme into France and Italy


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I’m the pretty one!

By on January 30, 2011

When you pass out resumes here it is mandatory to attach a recent photo of yourself


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Santander banking boss in crisis

By on January 30, 2011

Boss of Spanish bank Santander may have to resign following fraud charges


John Lennon’s Strawberry Fields finca to become a museum thumbnail

John Lennon’s Strawberry Fields finca to become a museum

By on January 30, 2011

A ruined Almeria farmhouse where John Lennon was inspired to pen the Beatles hit Strawberry Fields Forever has been transformed into a cinema museum


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Suicide attempt over daughter in care

By on January 30, 2011

Irishman douses himself in petrol and tries to set himself alight outside police station


Antonio Banderas on the Boabdil trail thumbnail

Antonio Banderas on the Boabdil trail

By on January 30, 2011

Film star is scouting out locations for a biopic on the life of the last Moorish king


Cordoba’s stylish new bridge thumbnail

Cordoba’s stylish new bridge

By on January 30, 2011

The stylish Ibn Firnas bridge is certainly giving new wings to Cordoba


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Doctoring up pizza

By on January 29, 2011

It has nothing to do with medicine – I’m not dotting my pizza with aspirin


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Spätzle auf Spanisch!

By on January 29, 2011

Montejaque and neighbour Benaoján, in the Serranía de Ronda, featured on German TV’s SWR channel this week


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New Coin quarry battle

By on January 29, 2011

Residents unite against new Coin quarry plan


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Streaker’s smashing Spanish YouTube hit

By on January 29, 2011

A streaker caught stripping off in Spain has become a YouTube sensation after running into a glass partition


How a shady Swiss fraudster and 50 secret societies managed to turn a UNESCO protected area near Ronda into a golf macro-project… thumbnail

How a shady Swiss fraudster and 50 secret societies managed to turn a UNESCO protected area near Ronda into a golf macro-project…

By on January 29, 2011

A new book proves the Los Merinos project was set up illegally with Swiss financier Werner Rey at the helm


Marks & Spencer: A return to quality thumbnail

Marks & Spencer: A return to quality

By on January 29, 2011

M & S sees a four per cent rise thanks to cashmere and champagne


Roca finca to pay off social security debt thumbnail

Roca finca to pay off social security debt

By on January 29, 2011

Marbella Mayor has proposed offering an estate seized from Juan Antonio Roca as collateral towards debt


Happy New Year… now eat your grapes! thumbnail

Happy New Year… now eat your grapes!

By on January 28, 2011

The New Year to me means paper hats and noise makers, countdowns on TV and watching “the ball” drop in Times Square


Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem have baby boy thumbnail

Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem have baby boy

By on January 28, 2011

Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem become proud parents


Murdered Maria received death threats thumbnail

Murdered Maria received death threats

By on January 28, 2011

Two letters sent to the murdered teenager could be the latest clue to her killer as police reveal they have a 70 per cent DNA match


Spanish government sets out to help British property owners thumbnail

Spanish government sets out to help British property owners

By on January 28, 2011

New legislation will help British property owners in Spain


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Boom-time for Sotogrande

By on January 28, 2011

Property rates go up in Sotogrande and Marbella, while slumping elsewhere


Next Page »

Lead2, National News »

WhatsApp and Facebook’s big night out in Barcelona thumbnail

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 »

Niza Car Hire returns deposits after Olive Press report thumbnail

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 »

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

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

Lead2, Malaga »

Estepona grand boulevard project to begin this summer thumbnail

Estepona grand boulevard project to begin this summer

March 7, 2014

The €30 million project will include a shopping centre, cinema and 4-star hotel


“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 »

Court hears Durcal “happy slapping” claims

December 4, 2006 | Granada

Four teenager girls allegedly filmed the assault in the Lecrin Valley town of Durcal

Illegal building victims told to pay up

October 26, 2006 | Property

JUDGES in Granada have ordered almost 100 residents of Cenes de la Vega to hand over almost 200,000 euros of their own money in compensation after it was discovered their homes were illegally built. The provincial session of the National Court heard how construction company Avila Rojas “stole” 2,500 square metres of scrub land to […]

Gibraltar and Spain separated in UEFA qualifiers

December 18, 2013 | Andalucia, Gibraltar, Lead, Sport

The decision was made at a meeting in Bilbao, and based on the current ‘sensitivities’ between the two.

Club doorman tells Spanish police he knows who snatched Madeleine McCann

February 18, 2011 | Andalucia, Huelva, Lead

OLIVE PRESS EXCLUSIVE: Huelva-based man reveals to Olive Press that he fears for his safety after fleeing Portuguese trafficking gang. By Jon Clarke

Deia dreaming in Mallorca

July 23, 2007 | Travel

Jason Heppenstall spends an idyllic few days on the island of Mallorca – and comes home without his hubcaps