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Costa Women Marbella bound

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Costa Women are launching a new group in Marbella! With 100+ members living between Marbella and Gibraltar, the group, run by Marina Nitzak, will hold monthly meet ups around the area

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Estepona’s new have-a-go hero

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Our blogger, Charlotte, discovers that despite the crisis, there are still well meaning and brave young Spaniards happy to help expats in need

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Do you know the way through San Pedro?

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Residents of San Pedro de Alcantára on the Costa del Sol await with baited breath the reopening of the road that runs through the town

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Amateur Traumatics

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Last week I was thrilled to support the El Paraiso Amateur Traumatic Society by watching their stage version of Robin Hood, Men (and Women) in Surgical Stockings, twice!

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Coffee shop-aholic

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Back in the days when I lived in New York, it was coffee and a book or newspaper. Things have moved on so now it’s coffee and my laptop or ipad!

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Cake eaters required!

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Help raise funds for a Costa del Sol charity on World Down Syndrome Day on March 21

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A Letter to My Sixteen-Year-Old Self

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“You don’t always have to fight back and the sooner you learn, the calmer you’ll be.”


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No rush for resolutions

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There’s still one more festivity to come and, let’s face it, in Spain it’s the Big One!


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Charity on the Costa

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Cudeca is forced to rely upon public donations for more than 90% of its income, due to the lack of availability of government funding


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Doolally about dogs

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Charlotte’s ‘other half’ DJs at a dog’s birthday party for charity in Puerto Banus!


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Soggy Sundays

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Olive Press blogger Charlotte Hanson heads down to her local spa


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No new record for radio’s Hannah

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She celebrated Guinness World Record Day by attempting to break a record, live on air


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Sunny Sundays

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Charlotte enjoys a sunny stroll along the paseo from Puerto Banús to Marbella


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Adventures with dolphins

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Charlotte discovers that the Gibraltar dolphins rock!


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Costa Press Club open evening

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Olive Press blogger Charlotte Hanson joins the press pack in Marbella


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No new record for radio’s Hannah

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She celebrated Guinness World Record Day by attempting to break a record, live on air

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Zoo de Castellar – not your average zoo!

Many of the animals taken in by Castellar Zoo have had a very bad start in life. Some have been seized from smugglers attempting to move them across borders in tiny boxes or cages, and others rescued from circus troops

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My Ode to Steve Jobs – The Creator of Genius

How many people heard the news of this great man’s passing on a gadget/device that he created?

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Up, up and away!

The airside bus pulled up to our plane and he gave me one of those looks that screamed out, “here’s another thing you’ve forgotten to tell me about our holiday”.

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“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. 33,000 issues a fortnight are printed plus up to 100,000 downloaded online giving an estimated readership of around 300,000 people per month.

From The Archives »

Road safety MP in drunken crash

February 26, 2010 | Lead2, National News

Popular Party spokesman on road safety has been arrested after being twice the legal limit

The Afro-Bridge comes nearer

November 26, 2008 | Andalucia

Could ‘sustainable’ 24-lane superhighway now be favoured over a tunnel? A BRIDGE across the Straits of Gibraltar could have just come a step nearer after a viability study for a tunnel came back negative.

Insurance heartache in Spain

December 10, 2011 | Andalucia, Health

EXCLUSIVE: Expat battles insurer for two years to force it to pay for his heart treatment

Sterling climbed to a 15-month high against the euro yesterday

January 5, 2012 | Business & Finance

Germany’s lacklustre bond issue sets up a tense few days as France looks to sell bonds on Friday and Italy and Spain do so next week

Former UN chief slams Costa carnage

April 21, 2011 | Lead

Kofi Annan was speaking as guest of honour at the third Global Congress on wine and climate change

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