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Mad Dog vs Halloween

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Olive Press columnist Craig Scott gets into the spirit of the spookiest night of the year

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Mad Dog vs Horny Devil

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En route to his pal’s wedding, Craig Scott stops off at Valencia to investigate bizarre street scrawls and misbehaving monks. Good heavens!

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Mad Dog vs. the Euro ´12 final

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In Mad Dog’s column, he reflects on the Euro ´12 championship

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Highway to hell?

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Craig Scott puts his life at the mercy of a stranger while en-route to a job interview

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Keep calm and make a stew!

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From Tupac lentils to footballing fairies – it can only be the ´Mad Dog´ column

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Mad Dog: How dream jobs deteriorate

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In his last ever column for the Olive Press (sob, sob), Craig Scott describes how his time with us has helped him on his way to pastures new. Well, kind of…

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City on Fire (Part 2)

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Missing mojos, porno poker and claustraphobic cheeses can mean only one thing – Craig Scott is back with another ´Mad Dog´ encounter


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City on Fire (I must be crackers!)

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An unexpected phone call leads Olive Press columnist – Craig Scott, into one of his weirdest assignments yet!


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A groovy kind of love

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From supermarket stalking to swinging with The Krankies – here’s some off-beat romance tips – “Mad Dog”-style!


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The 12 Grapes of Wrath

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The ‘Mad Dog’ Craig Scott talks violent Yogis, Bieber balls, wigless Wonkas, and a New Year to forget… in chilly Cordoba!


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The nightmare before Christmas

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Watching your life flash before your eyes, is rarely a pleasurable experience. Like when a doctor tells you “it’s serious” – and to cancel that summer trip to Miami


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Something for the ‘bottom’ of your tree

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What have rapper P Diddy and Italian snapper – Raphael Muzzocco got in common?


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Fancy an English?

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“Get lost gazpacho!” Craig Scott investigates Spain’s growing love affair with good, old British grub


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I’m dreaming of a s***e Christmas

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The “Mad Dog” Craig Scott gets to the bottom of Spain’s crudest Christmas custom


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Mad Dog versus The Occult

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Forget witchcraft and baby-eating: there’s a new breed of Spanish Satanists – and they’re dying to share a drink with you! Craig Scott travels to Cordoba to spend a night in ‘Hell’


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Something for the ‘bottom’ of your tree

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What have rapper P Diddy and Italian snapper – Raphael Muzzocco got in common?

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City on Fire (Part 3)

From hellish hangovers to hunchback virgins – it can only be the concluding part of Craig Scott´s Fallas Trilogy

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Don’t worry – be happy!

Calling all expat Moanachondriacs. Stop bitching and bickering – it’s time for an awesome autumn in Andalucia

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Unexplained Spain!

In a week when the Russian government claimed to have found “indisputable proof’ of Yeti existence in the Siberian Mountains, Craig Scott investigates Andalucia’s strangest creature sightings…

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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 »

Mijas town hall ‘picking on’ foreigners to raise funds

October 20, 2011 | Andalucia, Malaga

New scheme aimed at errant taxpayers, most of whom are expats

Brand new cuts to target foreigners in Spain

April 10, 2012 | Business & Finance, Lead, National News

Ten billion euros more is to be slashed from health and education, the PP has announced

Spain bird group banned from Ronda fair over golf complex criticism

May 17, 2007 | Andalucia

Mayor stops Spanish RSPB after hard-hitting report A WILDLIFE group has been banned from Ronda’s May feria after issuing a hard-hitting report on the destructive impact the luxury golf complex Los Merinos will have on the area’s wildlife.

Vinnie Jones favourite for kidnapper role in true-life Costa tale

April 30, 2012 | Andalucia, Entertainment, Lead, Malaga

EXCLUSIVE: Melodie Nakachian was snatched at gunpoint on her way to school in 1987

Doctoring up pizza

January 29, 2011 | Blogs, Caitlyn Slivinski's The Half Of It

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

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