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Spanish police linked to drug trafficking ring

Andalucia, Huelva, Lead  •  2 Comments

Guardia Civil and customs officers accused of helping smuggle thousands of kilos of hashish into Andalucia

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Shield to deploy at Rota naval base

Andalucia, Huelva  •  0 Comments

American anti-missile defence to protect against ballistic missiles

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Donana UNESCO Biosphere reserve to triple in size

Andalucia, Cadiz, Huelva, Lead, Sevilla  •  2 Comments

UN votes to make Spain’s most important reserve three times larger as sewage battle hots up

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Algarrobico hotel to get the chop despite amnesty for Costa del Sol properties

Almeria, Andalucia, Huelva, Lead, Malaga  •  9 Comments

The 400-room hotel is set to be demolished for violating environmental protection laws

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Former director of Spanish golf course accused of forgery

Andalucia, Crime & Law, Huelva  •  1 Comments

Businessman denounced for forging documents so he could claim €300,000

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Donana under threat from gas extraction

Andalucia, Cadiz, Environment, Huelva, Nature  •  4 Comments

Environment Ministry issues licence for area close to park

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Aracena’s wonderful Grutas de las Maravillas

Huelva, Travel  •  0 Comments

These incredible caves have been open to the public for 100 years


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Ham-azing Aracena!

Huelva, Travel  •  0 Comments

There are no cinemas, beaches and Chinese takeaways, but it’s ham heaven in the rolling mountain region of Aracena that few have heard of and even less visit, discovers Jon Clarke


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One eye on Mecca – Almonastar la Real mezquita

Huelva, La Cultura  •  0 Comments

It is one of the few surviving Spanish mosques to have stood the test of time


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Dreamtime in the Aracena

Huelva, Travel  •  5 Comments

Aracena counts some of the best quality and most peaceful hotels in southern Spain, reckons Jon Clarke


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A landscape you’ll never forget

Huelva, Travel  •  0 Comments

Guy Hunter-Watts, author of Walking in Andalucia, takes a look at the Sierra de la Aracena


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The home of jamon

Food & Drink, Huelva  •  3 Comments

Aracena is the true spiritual home of the world’s best ham, discovers James Bryce


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A walk through Hardy’s Wessex

Huelva, Travel  •  1 Comments

One of his favourite areas for walking, author Guy Hunter-Watts praises Aracena and, continuing his series of walks for The Olive Press, describes a delightfully leafy circuit easy for all the family starting at Galaroza


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Eating out in the Aracena

Food & Drink, Huelva  •  0 Comments

You are spoilt for choice with good places to eat in Aracena, discovers Jon Clarke


Money certainly grows on trees in isolated Spanish region of Monegros, which lands 700million El Gordo windfall thumbnail

Money certainly grows on trees in isolated Spanish region of Monegros, which lands 700million El Gordo windfall

Huelva, National News, Sevilla  •  2 Comments

In Andalucia, Sevilla continued its winning streak of landing a top prize – while unlucky Huelva, once again, won nothing, writes Jon Clarke


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The home of jamon

Food & Drink, Huelva  •  3 Comments

Aracena is the true spiritual home of the world’s best ham, discovers James Bryce

Andalucia, Huelva, Lead »

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Self-made man becomes Junta vicepresident

Diego Valderas Sosa was orphaned as a teen and once worked as a gas delivery man

Andalucia, Huelva, Lead »

Toll too far between Spain and Portugal thumbnail

Toll too far between Spain and Portugal

The 77 euro fee to cross into the Algarve is tourist suicide

Andalucia, Huelva »

Former Spanish Mayor resigns amid allegations he used town hall credit card in brothel thumbnail

Former Spanish Mayor resigns amid allegations he used town hall credit card in brothel

Miguel Angel Dominguez quits post as Provincial Delegate for Public Works and Housing but maintains he is innocent

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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 »

Blue skies for Blue Monday

January 17, 2011 | Andalucia, Photo

It is officially the most depressing day of the year

Why do some want us to forget?

October 15, 2007 | Features

If Spain’s judges can chase, hound and illegitimise Latin American dictators, why can’t they do the same to their own asks Carlos Pranger WITH the processing in parliament of the Ley de Memoria Histórica (Law of Historical Memory), Spain is taking a step towards the consolidation of its democracy. This process, which began after Francisco [...]

Markets focus on ongoing Greek debt crisis

June 20, 2011 | Business & Finance

Meanwhile, analysis from the CEBR will today show that the euro is likely to break up within five years

Grounded!

January 10, 2008 | Andalucia

Endangered birds stop record cable car as UNESCO backs Junta snub THE proposed cable car between Granada and the Sierra Nevada mountain range has been indefinitely shelved.

Strong demand at Spanish bond auction

January 20, 2012 | Business & Finance

Meanwhile consumer confidence in the UK fell to the lowest level for seven years

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