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Police close 15 marijuana farms on the Costa del Sol

Andalucia, Lead, Malaga  •  0 Comments

Police make two record drug hauls in one week

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Hotel halt in Estepona

Andalucia, Lead, Malaga  •  2 Comments

EXCLUSIVE: Homeowners win first battle against ‘Algarrobico of Estepona’ after courts order halt

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Costa conman Toni Muldoon ‘aggressive’ and ‘bullying’

Andalucia, Lead, Malaga  •  0 Comments

Fraud king Muldoon was ‘aggressive’ and ‘bullying’ and ran his business with a climate of fear

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Marbella marina dead in the water?

Andalucia, Lead2, Malaga  •  6 Comments

A Sheik’s promise of a €400 million glitzy marina in Marbella has all but died, writes Giles Brown

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Artists open studios in Gaucin

Andalucia, Lead2, Malaga  •  0 Comments

Open studio weekends will take place on May 24 – 26 and May 31 – June 2.

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Take me to Marbella

Andalucia, Lead2, Malaga  •  0 Comments

The Lecheritas are preparing to release their first record

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Terrific for tots!

Andalucia, Lead2, Malaga  •  0 Comments

British couple become first expats to open a non-Spanish business at Malaga airport


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Celebrity Golf Classic comes to Marbella

Andalucia, Lead2, Malaga  •  0 Comments

Former Republic of Ireland footballer will be hosting a celebrity golf day this month


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Queen Sofia heads to Malaga

Andalucia, Lead2, Malaga  •  0 Comments

The Spanish royal will appear in the city to mark 150 years of the Red Cross Movement


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Three cheers for Tommy in Torremolinos

Lead2, Malaga  •  0 Comments

The Ground Force star appeared at the Homes and Garden’s and Lifestyles Show


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Child attacked in Rincon de la Victoria

Andalucia, Lead, Malaga  •  0 Comments

Seven-year-old hospitalised after being thrown down stairs during screening of Iron Man 3


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Missing Molly

Andalucia, Lead2, Malaga  •  0 Comments

A distraught expat is searching for her elderly pet that was stolen during a burglary


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Leave my home alone!

Andalucia, Lead, Malaga  •  21 Comments

UK pensioner battling to keep London home over a Spanish property investment that went wrong


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Dolphin rescue in Casares

Andalucia, Lead, Malaga  •  0 Comments

Dramatic effort sees team of expats save animal from certain death


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Second tragedy for Malaga Three Kings family

Andalucia, Lead2, Malaga  •  1 Comments

The mother of a boy crushed under the wheels of a float during a Christmas Three Kings parade in Malaga has died


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Missing Molly

Andalucia, Lead2, Malaga  •  0 Comments

A distraught expat is searching for her elderly pet that was stolen during a burglary

Andalucia, Lead, Malaga »

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Four arrested in Nerja shooting case

Four people have been arrested over a violent botched drugs deal

Inland Andalucia

Video and tourist information about the province of Malaga


Andalucia, Lead, Malaga »

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Marbella regular Max Clifford charged with sex offences

PR Guru who spends much of the year in Marbella is charged with 11 indecent assaults on women and girls

Lead2, Malaga, Sport »

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Malaga coach to replace Chelsea’s Benitez?

Speculation is rife that Manuel Pellegrini will be the successor to Rafael Benítez at Stamford Bridge

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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 »

At home in Ronda – the City of Dreams

November 1, 2012 | Features, Travel

Eloise Horsfield makes an emotional return to Ronda, where she lived for over a year

He’s Funked off home!

February 10, 2012 | Andalucia, Malaga

EXCLUSIVE: Gardening conman has given up his Costa antics for now, it can be revealed

Fire threatens natural park

July 6, 2007 | Andalucia

TEN hectares of protected park land was destroyed after a fire in the Sierra de Alhama, Tejeda y Almijara Natural Park.

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

December 22, 2011 | Huelva, National News, Sevilla

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

No Benefit

November 2, 2011 | News in Brief

A BRITISH expat has been forced to repay 17,000 euros after fraudulently claiming UK income support while living in Malaga. James Bowery, 54, from Blackpool, was sentenced to a three-month curfew order after pleading guilty to benefit fraud in September. Benefit cheats stole 90 million euros from British taxpayers in the year to March 2011 [...]

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