Walter Finch, is the Digital Editor of the Olive Press and occasional roaming photographer who started out at the Daily Mail.
Born in London but having lived in six countries, he is well-travelled and worldly. He studied Philosophy at the University of Birmingham and earned his NCTJ diploma in journalism from London's renowned News Associates during the Covid era.
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Over half-a-million new mortgages approved during 2025 in Spain- the highest number for 15 years

Record-breaking number of claims demanding a refund of mortgage fees flood the Bank of Spain following EU rule change

A HUGE number of home buyers in Spain are claiming refunds from their lenders after the EU changed the rules on who pays the mortgage

10 Oct, 2024 @ 17:00

Lead·Property

WATCH: How narco traffickers from Spain’s Andalucia flooded Europe with hashish, including hidden switches, secret lairs and fake cops – as police seize nine TONNES of drugs

SPANISH police have smashed a huge criminal gang that had turned the Gulf of Cadiz into one of Europe’s epicentres for drug trafficking. The group

10 Oct, 2024 @ 11:55

Cadiz·Crime & Law·Lead

‘Say yes to a deal or Gibraltar faces new border controls’: Spain piles the pressure on the UK as game of chicken enters its final month

SPAIN’S foreign minister has piled on the pressure on the UK to ‘say yes’ to the deal on offer over Gibraltar before new border controls

9 Oct, 2024 @ 18:45

Gibraltar·Lead

Father, 74, and son, 18, arrested for dealing cocaine to Estepona community from their villa on the Costa del Sol

A 74-year-old father was leading his 18-year-old son in running a cocaine operation from their villa on the Costa del Sol. The pair, 74 and

9 Oct, 2024 @ 15:25

Crime & Law·Estepona·Lead

Andalucia’s tourist tax proposal slammed for ‘driving up price of a holiday in the Costa del Sol by 5%’ and ‘hitting locals as hard as foreigners’

THE proposed tourist tax for Andalucia has been slammed by a local hotel group for hitting Andalucians as hard as foreigners. The Costa del Sol’s

9 Oct, 2024 @ 14:34

Andalucia·Lead·Travel News

Luck of the Spanish! Euromillions ticket holder wins big in Marbella – just days after €162m jackpot was won in the Basque Country

A MARBELLA resident is €1 million better off after winning big in the EuroMillions lottery. The lucky ticket was bought at lottery number eight on

9 Oct, 2024 @ 12:00

Lead·Marbella

Gibraltar’s sovereignty ‘is not up for negotiation’, insists UK – as Fabian Picardo ‘reminds’ UN that ‘Spain was a fascist dictatorship when we were a democracy’

THE UK has reaffirmed its commitment to the sovereignty of Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands in light of the agreement to hand the Chagos Islands

8 Oct, 2024 @ 15:00

Gibraltar·Lead

Thousands of Gibraltar drivers have overdue speeding fines in Spain – but they’ll probably never have to pay them

GIBRALTAR drivers nipping across the border to Spain have racked up nearly 3,000 unpaid traffic fines – the majority for speeding. With a population of

8 Oct, 2024 @ 12:15

Gibraltar·Lead

Female athlete dies while taking part in gruelling Ironman competition in Spain

A WOMAN drowned while taking part in the gruelling 226-kilometre Ironman Calella-Barcelona competition on Sunday. The body of the 41-year-old was spotted floating in the

7 Oct, 2024 @ 14:15

National News

Outrage after plans to build a hotel in a natural beauty spot in Malaga are given the green light

LONG-DELAYED plans to build a hotel in pristine mountains behind the Costa del Sol have controversially been given the green light. The hotel is set

7 Oct, 2024 @ 13:00

Lead·Malaga·Property

‘One more bite at the cherry’: The incredible tale of the Scottish drug smuggler who found stardom in Spain with a prison band – and then lost it all

THEY say everyone deserves a second chance. And for one former narco-trafficker jailbird turned rocker, it comes 30 years after he nearly hit the big

5 Oct, 2024 @ 15:00

EXCLUSIVE·La Cultura·Lead

EXCLUSIVE: ‘It’s a sad day for all of us’: The UK’s decision to relinquish the Chagos Islands has left Gibraltar and other British Overseas Territories feeling nervous

THE United Kingdom’s shock decision to hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius has left many in Gibraltar and beyond wondering exactly what

4 Oct, 2024 @ 19:00

EXCLUSIVE·Gibraltar·Lead·Other News

Revealed: These are the wealthiest areas of Spain’s Andalucia – with one taking the top spot for the first time

THE wealthiest province in Andalucia is now Malaga, after it edged out Sevilla for the first time. The average gross income across the province stands

4 Oct, 2024 @ 16:00

National News

Missing teenager is found alive and well after vanishing from Gibraltar

A YOUNG Gibraltar girl who went missing on Wednesday has been found alive and well. A missing persons report was put out yesterday afternoon for

4 Oct, 2024 @ 12:25

Gibraltar

‘We’re not the same’: Gibraltar’s Fabian Picardo works to calm fears the territory will be ‘returned’ to Spain after Britain relinquished the Chagos Islands

THE Gibraltar government has moved to assure its people that the UK decision to cede the Chagos Islands to Mauritius will have no impact on

4 Oct, 2024 @ 12:16

Gibraltar·Lead

French leapfrog the Brits to become biggest foreign tourist group in Spain – but spend the least, new figures show

THE Brits have been knocked off their perch – by the French. New figures show that the UK’s long-running spell at the top of the

3 Oct, 2024 @ 18:00

Lead·Other News·Travel News

British expat and former BA stewardess is found dead in her Mallorca home: Police investigate 'domestic accident'

Spain’s record-breaking tourism boom is being carried by the Balearic Islands

AS Spain’s tourism boom shows no signs of abating, it is the Balearics that lead the way – or bear the brunt. New figures for

3 Oct, 2024 @ 15:30

Balearic Islands·Lead·Travel News

Have you seen Evaline? Family worry for whereabouts of missing teenager in Gibraltar

THE Royal Gibraltar Police are appealing for the public’s help to find a local teenage girl who has been reported missing.Evaline Double, 14, was last

3 Oct, 2024 @ 14:36

Gibraltar·Lead

‘We all suspected there were drugs in the containers’: Dark turn in mystery of the German couple who vanished in Barcelona’s most dangerous neighbourhood

A GERMAN couple who disappeared in a crime-ridden neighbourhood of Barcelona may have been fleeing from debts they had built up with international cocaine traffickers.

2 Oct, 2024 @ 20:00

Barcelona·Crime & Law·Lead

Gibraltar police announce ‘no evidence’ that McGrail witnesses were ‘incentivised’ to give evidence on same day lead investigator appointed to plum role

THE ghosts of the McGrail Inquiry continue to murmur. An investigation into whether whistleblowers were ‘incentivised’ to give evidence against former Commissioner of Police Ian

2 Oct, 2024 @ 14:00

Gibraltar·Lead

Uncertainty reigns: EU refuses to rule out possible delays to new Schengen border control as Gibraltar steels itself for no deal with Spain

THE European Commission has refused to rule out the possibility that its new border controls for the Schengen zone will be delayed beyond the November

2 Oct, 2024 @ 11:02

Gibraltar·Lead

Relief for Estepona family as Kinahan-linked British boxer, 24, is convicted of murder for stabbing son, 19, to death during cocaine-fuelled road rage attack in Spain

A YOUNG British boxer who stabbed a Spanish teenager to death and fled Spain four years ago has been found guilty of murder. Lewis Briggs,

1 Oct, 2024 @ 19:30

Crime & Law·Estepona·Lead

Watch: The Spanish Armada trains for drone warfare in the Gulf of Cadiz

THE Spanish Navy is busy undertaking military exercises around the Strait of Gibraltar to practise anti-drone warfare. The MAR 24-2 training mission, encompassing both the

1 Oct, 2024 @ 18:40

Cadiz·Gibraltar·Lead·Video

Spanish military plane overflies Gibraltar airspace twice during military exercises: British officials to lodge formal complaint

THE British Foreign Office is set to make a formal complaint after Spanish military aircraft made incursions into Gibraltar airspace ‘while a British Airways flight

1 Oct, 2024 @ 09:42

Gibraltar·Lead

‘They were looking to get their hands on cash by any means possible’: Mystery deepens in disappearance of German couple in Spain’s Barcelona

A GERMAN couple who went missing in Catalunya this summer appeared to go on a massive fire sale of everything they owned just days before

30 Sep, 2024 @ 15:50

Barcelona·Catalunya·Lead

Malaga bans filling of private swimming pools ahead of meeting between drought experts

THE ban on filling private swimming pools returns to Malaga as the province’s reservoirs once again slip below 100,000,000,000 litres Drought committees are set to

30 Sep, 2024 @ 11:41

Lead·Malaga

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Record-breaking number of claims demanding a refund of mortgage fees flood the Bank of Spain following EU rule change

WATCH: How narco traffickers from Spain’s Andalucia flooded Europe with hashish, including hidden switches, secret lairs and fake cops – as police seize nine TONNES of drugs

‘Say yes to a deal or Gibraltar faces new border controls’: Spain piles the pressure on the UK as game of chicken enters its final month

Father, 74, and son, 18, arrested for dealing cocaine to Estepona community from their villa on the Costa del Sol

Andalucia’s tourist tax proposal slammed for ‘driving up price of a holiday in the Costa del Sol by 5%’ and ‘hitting locals as hard as foreigners’

Luck of the Spanish! Euromillions ticket holder wins big in Marbella – just days after €162m jackpot was won in the Basque Country

Gibraltar’s sovereignty ‘is not up for negotiation’, insists UK – as Fabian Picardo ‘reminds’ UN that ‘Spain was a fascist dictatorship when we were a democracy’

Thousands of Gibraltar drivers have overdue speeding fines in Spain – but they’ll probably never have to pay them

Female athlete dies while taking part in gruelling Ironman competition in Spain

Outrage after plans to build a hotel in a natural beauty spot in Malaga are given the green light

‘One more bite at the cherry’: The incredible tale of the Scottish drug smuggler who found stardom in Spain with a prison band – and then lost it all

EXCLUSIVE: ‘It’s a sad day for all of us’: The UK’s decision to relinquish the Chagos Islands has left Gibraltar and other British Overseas Territories feeling nervous

Revealed: These are the wealthiest areas of Spain’s Andalucia – with one taking the top spot for the first time

Missing teenager is found alive and well after vanishing from Gibraltar

‘We’re not the same’: Gibraltar’s Fabian Picardo works to calm fears the territory will be ‘returned’ to Spain after Britain relinquished the Chagos Islands

French leapfrog the Brits to become biggest foreign tourist group in Spain – but spend the least, new figures show

Spain’s record-breaking tourism boom is being carried by the Balearic Islands

Have you seen Evaline? Family worry for whereabouts of missing teenager in Gibraltar

‘We all suspected there were drugs in the containers’: Dark turn in mystery of the German couple who vanished in Barcelona’s most dangerous neighbourhood

Gibraltar police announce ‘no evidence’ that McGrail witnesses were ‘incentivised’ to give evidence on same day lead investigator appointed to plum role

Uncertainty reigns: EU refuses to rule out possible delays to new Schengen border control as Gibraltar steels itself for no deal with Spain

Relief for Estepona family as Kinahan-linked British boxer, 24, is convicted of murder for stabbing son, 19, to death during cocaine-fuelled road rage attack in Spain

Watch: The Spanish Armada trains for drone warfare in the Gulf of Cadiz

Spanish military plane overflies Gibraltar airspace twice during military exercises: British officials to lodge formal complaint

‘They were looking to get their hands on cash by any means possible’: Mystery deepens in disappearance of German couple in Spain’s Barcelona

Malaga bans filling of private swimming pools ahead of meeting between drought experts

Vox election manifesto: Classroom quotas for ‘foreign children’ and undocumented migrants excluded from healthcare

‘The Russian’ manhunt latest: Feared criminal who blew up policeman in northern Spain is ‘a plumber from Oviedo with no military experience whatsoever’

Search abandoned for British pensioner who fell overboard from Marella cruise ship – days after sailing from Malaga

Spain marks National Bookshop Day as rising rents force much-loved neighbourhood meeting places to close

German Turkish mafia boss wanted for seven kidnappings ‘hiding in plain sight’ with fake Swedish passport in Costa del Sol expat hub

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