Jon Clarke is a Londoner who worked at the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday as an investigative journalist before moving to Spain in 2003 where he helped set up the Olive Press.
After studying Geography at Manchester University he fell in love with Spain during a two-year stint teaching English in Madrid.
On returning to London, he studied journalism and landed his first job at the weekly Informer newspaper in Teddington, covering hundreds of stories in areas including Hounslow, Richmond and Harrow.
This led on to work at the Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Mirror, Standard and even the Sun, before he landed his first full time job at the Daily Mail.
After a year on the Newsdesk he worked as a Showbiz correspondent covering mostly music, including the rise of the Spice Girls, the rivalry between Oasis and Blur and interviewed many famous musicians such as Joe Strummer and Ray Manzarak, as well as Peter Gabriel and Bjorn from Abba on his own private island.
After a year as the News Editor at the UK’s largest-selling magazine Now, he returned to work as an investigative journalist in Features at the Mail on Sunday.
As well as tracking down Jimi Hendrix’ sole living heir in Sweden, while there he also helped lead the initial investigation into Prince Andrew’s seedy links to Jeffrey Epstein during three trips to America.
He had dozens of exclusive stories, while his travel writing took him to Jamaica, Brazil and Belarus.
He is the author of three books; Costa Killer, Dining Secrets of Andalucia and My Search for Madeleine.
Contact jon@theolivepress.es
Jon Clarke (Publisher & Editor)
Telefonica is the worst company in Spain and seeing the money they spend on marketing at sports events worlwide ( F1, Moto GP for example)makes me want to scream. They should invest the money in customer services – not sure they know what it even means.
Is there a “select all” facility on the FACUA website?
Pelayo Seguros Madrid insurance company, arrogant, ineffecient, unprofessional, incompetent beyond comprehension, stupid, and the bank manager who acted as broker to introduce me to these clowns.
Vodafone are hands down winners on this one! Prices and service etc. aren´t bad but when you get a problem or something…..try phoning customer services! Nightmare, they transfer you from person to person because they can´t be bothered to resolve your problem until finally you get to someone who hangs up the phone in your face!
Also Wayup Inmobiliaria in Valencia deserve an honourable mention here, literally tried to rob me blind on one occasion and completely break the law, NEVER touch these guys with a bargepole.
Happy to provide information to anybody unfortunate enough to be dealing with them.
I vote for Vodafone too. Having dealt with them previously I can concur with Jake; these fools have “customer service” that is designed to delay, obfuscate and lie on purpose.
A truly awful company that needs to be avoided at ALL costs. They hang up on you, lose documents, and even denied I talked to certain people, even though I record all the calls! They are much worse than Telefonica – do not use them for any contractual service – you have been warned.