From bargain to burden
Hundreds of homebuyers have been hit with new tax demands after their homes were wrongly re-evaluated
It’s grand in Sotogrande
It’s where the British royals take their hols and Eddie Jordan, Glenn Hoddle and Genesis’s Mike Rutherford have homes. Is it any wonder that the
English, the language of Europe
Two thirds of the continent able to speak English
Have suitcase will travel
PHOTO EXCLUSIVE: Priceless hoard of Spanish Civil War photos found in a suitcase to go on display in Spain next year. Copyright Magnum Pictures
Gay chess, as Torre queens take over the world
Torremolinos is holding a gay chess tournament
Euro danger
Recession could cause end of euro, says Nobel winning scientist
It’s the season for saffron
The arrival of autumn means only one thing for many of the inhabitants of Castilla-La-Mancha – time to harvest its ever precious saffron
Vicar conned
EXCLUSIVE BY WENDY WILLIAMS Fraudsters have used a vicar’s email to try and scam money from his flock
A golfer’s paradise
Sotogrande is Spain’s home of golf, with a handful of the most celebrated courses in Europe
Expat’s €35m tax hit
Miss Ascot and dump your UK phone to avoid British tax
Fish deaths lead to probe
An investigation has been launched into the deaths of hundreds of fish in the Guadalhorce River
Flight path battle for flamingos
Protest groups unite to oppose ‘unnecessary, speculative’ airport that would endanger wildlife on Antequera’s protected vega
House that Eiffel built
Buying and selling your dream home in Andalucia just got easier with the launch of the groundbreaking new website www.allaboutandaluciaproperty.com
In the money
Malaga has the highest-earning hotels in Spain
Struth! Bagged a bargain there mate!
Great white shark, Greg Norman, has bought the exclusive Valderama golf course
Wuthering heights
Sharon Corr has recorded the video for her latest single on a clifftop above Maro
Turning off the lights
Bartie suggests an alternative to banning bullfighting
Stand and deliver!
Grazalema was the setting for the annual meet of bandoleros – or bandits – from around the region
The mighty fall of the svengali, ‘Mr Marbella’
After one of the Costa del Sol’s most colourful celebrities – DJ Maurice Boland – was forced to resign from his radio show following an
No more A-plus
SPAIN’S credit rating has been downgraded
Europe’s new battle of Trafalgar
EU steps in to investigate ‘unsustainable macroproject’ that threatens precious virgin beach
Goyesca for Ken
Award-winning British director to be honoured at new Spanish film festival
Calling the impossible
A consumer watchdog has taken action against phone giant Orange on behalf of a Sevilla woman whose 500 euro phone bill included “impossible” calls.
WOW! Wrecked Over a Woman
WOW Factor competition scrapped after organiser Maurice Boland’s infidelities with 16-year-old girl are exposed
British drug gang – including a pensioner and four women – busted in Spain
The gang, who were aged from 22 to 78 and came from Liverpool, are accused of ecstacy and cannabis smuggling
Malaga hotels making money
Marbella and Estepona have the most profitable hotels in Spain