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Cat-astrophe for Costa family

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Expats sue travel firm after they lose their beloved pet enroute to UK

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Sean Connery keeping quiet about Goldfinger case

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Marbella court has been kept waiting for 18 months for his answers

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Gasmen arrested in Marbella

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Crackdown leads to 14 arrests of employees from six companies

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Is there anybody out there?

James Bryce - 5 May, 2012 @ 10:00

With recent claims of a UFO sighting over the Costa del Sol, the Olive Press asked Eloise Horsfield to investigate the phenomena

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Don’t lychee me!

James Bryce - 5 May, 2012 @ 10:00

Critics are not convinced about plans to turn Axarquia into ‘land of hope and opportunity’ using lychees and longans

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Spanish bag-snatcher tries to take toddler instead

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Cheque con in Spain

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Warning after expat unwittingly gets involved in suspect employment when answering job advert

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Travel chaos for airline customers in Spain

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Flights to Almeria, Malaga and Gibraltar among those affected by planned closure of Bmibaby

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Thousands could be affected by new Costa del Sol train route

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New plan for Med Corridor sees it follow the A-7 motorway along the Costa del Sol

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Where’s Don Quixote?

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Painting of famous Spaniard stolen in Malaga

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Finals dream for Costa del Sol rugby youngsters

James Bryce - 3 May, 2012 @ 12:00

Marbella Rugby Club's Under 14s will play for a place in the national finals

rose johnson believes she saw maddie mccann on nerja beach last summer

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I saw Madeleine McCann playing outside Costa del Sol beach restaurant

Eloise Horsfield - 3 May, 2012 @ 07:05

EXCLUSIVE: Expat saw ‘airy fairy’ girl with dark-skinned family and Portuguese people carrier last summer

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No sunny delight for Arantxa in Marbella

James Bryce - 2 May, 2012 @ 11:27

Four time Grand Slam champion enjoys time on Costa del Sol despite Spain's Fed Cup defeat

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A home from home on the Costa del Sol

James Bryce - 2 May, 2012 @ 10:00

Estepona’s eastern extremes are a real expat haven, discovers James Bryce

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Father locked daughter in boot so she didn’t get chicken pox

James Bryce - 1 May, 2012 @ 16:27

Man jailed for illegal detention and attempted murder after neighbour had alerted police

Malaga

We’ve treated a tarantula with a wonky leg

James Bryce - 30 Apr, 2012 @ 14:00

Animal-loving community has grown up around local equestrian centre

Melodie Nakachian was kidnapped on her way to school

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Vinnie Jones favourite for kidnapper role in true-life Costa tale

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EXCLUSIVE: Melodie Nakachian was snatched at gunpoint on her way to school in 1987

Malaga

Mountain movie in Andalucia

James Bryce - 30 Apr, 2012 @ 10:00

Film director uses popular British-run hotel near Ronda for new film

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