4 Dec, 2010 @ 09:00
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Saved from beyond the grave

IT is one of the most evocative sites in Malaga city.

And now the 180-year-old English Cemetery is to be protected by a special foundation.

After four years of red tape, a charity has finally been recognised as the governing body for the historic site.

The 8,000 square metre cemetery, which has more than 1000 graves, was created in 1831 as the first official burial ground for protestants in Spain.

Among those buried here are celebrated writers Marjorie Grice Hutchinson, Gamel Woolsey and Gerald Brenan.

But although the cemetery was the property of the British Government, no regular funding has been provided since 1904, and after a long-time shortage of funds it has become dilapidated.

Now a comprehensive fundraising programme will be launched to find the money to bring it back to its heyday.

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Jon Clarke (Publisher & Editor)

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

2 Comments

  1. WHY doesn’t the British Government under Dave Cameron support it fully? He and his Cabinet “donate” 300 Million GBP to India (yes, India has their own Space Agency and spend almost as much on Defense as GB, have more Millionaires than GB, etc!) Unemployment benefits paid over 20 Billion GBP, NHS payments… too much to count. So UK supporting the ENGLISH Cemetary in Spain is PEANUT$ if it’s important. Come on Dave – write a personal check, after all, it’s tax deductable!

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