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Up the Boro

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It is not a pleasant task supporting the Boro. Your life is full of disappointments punctuated by the occasional joyful moment

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Blog, fog and smog

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The Fog Index (or Gunning Fog Index) is a measure of how readable a piece of text is

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Spring comes to Almerimar – but no green shoots of recovery?

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Hopefully the overnight temperatures will continue to rise and the summer growing grass on our golf course will start to flourish again. However, perhaps these are the only green shoots we will see this year?

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Almerimar Burns Night

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It is great that an old Scottish poet can bring together such a variety of people for a fun evening together

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Canadian Rummy, Tuesday Golf and Eric McMordie

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What do they have in common? My natural inclination would be to say that there is nothing to connect these three things

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Memories of Middlesbrough

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My home town is Middlesbrough and I am proud of it. It is not the prettiest town in the world being built on a history of mining, shipbuilding plus steel and chemical works

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Fairplay for great customer service

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One of the things that bugs me a great deal is poor customer service – so it’s good to be able to praise a business for great service


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Almerimar treasure hunts

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The event will take place on Saturday, 29 October with proceeds in aid of Francis House – a children’s hospice near Manchester


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Golf – it has taken over the last 17 years of my life!

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When we were choosing somewhere to move to in Spain one of the criteria high on the list was we would have to be close to a golf course that we enjoyed playing


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Tech Review: USB 3G pay as you go modem in Spain

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Spend periods of time in your home country and Spain? What’s the best option to get internet access at a reasonable price while you are here?


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El Ejido has a new mayor

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But will it make a difference?


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Mossies – the bane of Jacqui’s life

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John Woodhead discovers why mosquitoes make a beeline for some people


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La Isleta del Moro, Almería

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John Woodhead travels some of the back roads of southern Spain


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Spanish local elections: The foreign vote?

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Spanish local elections are due to take place on 22 May 2011


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Prospecting for oil off the Almería, Granada and Málaga coast

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Searching for oil and gas has been welcomed by both the Ministry of Industry and the Junta de Andalucía


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Mossies – the bane of Jacqui’s life

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John Woodhead discovers why mosquitoes make a beeline for some people

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Long drive to bodega for golfers

Finca Onegar – a great day trip to a bodega in the province of Almeria

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Tasty treats in Almerimar

Penne Amatriciana, aka Mimmo’s pasta and pizza for dessert!

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Getting into the swing of things in Almerimar

A new golf society is born in Almeria – with a launch scheduled for June 1

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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 »

Malaga FC secures Champions League place

May 15, 2012 | Lead, Malaga, Sport

The move is expected to bring millions of euros to the Costa del Sol

Cave approval

June 9, 2012 | News in Brief

Gorham’s Cave in Gibraltar is one of only two UK sites to be put forward for consideration as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2015, alongside Scotland’s Forth Bridge.

From beyond the Graves

October 25, 2011 | National News

Leading expat writer sees detailed compendium of work published for first time

Gust power

November 23, 2012 | News in Brief

Spanish wind farms produced the energy equivalent of 200,000 barrels of petrol on November 1 – which if laid out in a row would stretch from Malaga to Granada.

Oz pupils perform concert in Andalucia

October 2, 2010 | Sevilla

A choir and chamber orchestra from the MLC School in Sydney, Australia are performing a concert in Andalucia this weekend.

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