La Luz Saved
EXCLUSIVE - A massive hotel scheme that would have radically altered a large part of the Costa de la Luz has been scrapped.
Snapshop of Real Life
Sevilla is converting itself into an enormous, open-air photography gallery
Mayor in Trouble
Antequera mayor Ricardo Millan is in trouble after his fragile coalition broke down last week
I aim to make the best wine in the World, says Andaluz winemaker
Geoff Garvey visits Cadiz bodega Huerta de Albala
World’s largest solar tower switches on
The World’s largest solar power tower went into use near Sevilla last week
Malaga Virgin
Sir Richard Branson is in a bidding war over the running of an exclusive 20million euro spa retreat in Malaga province
Gangland Axarquia
Attack on policemen and shooting of a couple on a bench in two days are not related, claims town hall
Briton breaks speed record
A British driver is thought to have broken the Andalucian speeding record
Spanish link to UK expenses saga MP
Three second homes and a luxury escape in Spain – the Labour MP who ‘acts like an English imperialist from the days of the Raj’
My Off-Plan property nightmare
Buyer loses tens of thousands after buying unbuilt property through complex web of agents and a lawyer who wasn't interested
Amis’s mountain break
Bestselling author Martin Amis has been on holiday in Ronda after starring at this year’s Hay literary festival in Granada.
Inland fraud
It is one of the most inaccessible towns in inland Malaga. But this didn't prevent Valle de Abdalajís from suffering the malaise of urban corruption
Railway rescue
Over two dozen horses and donkeys have been rescued from a farm “perilously close” to a railway line near El Chorro
Orphans just a splash away from new pool
Children at Malaga's Ciudad de los Ninos hope to get new pool by the summer
Increased fine for whistle blowers
The couple whose illegal home featured in the Olive Press have had their fine almost doubled by the town hall
Cocaine haul foiled
A British man based on the Costa del Sol has admitted attempting to import 675 million euros of cocaine into the UK
Shot in self defence
Columbian ‘hitmen’ killed at finca where woman was found dead with her throat cut exactly a year ago
Double Standards
While the nearby Priors home was knocked down, the Olive Press can reveal that this enormous 420m villa - owned by local politicians - was
Burglars flee after realising home is Hollywood hardman’s
Armed robbers fled former movie hardman Dolph Lundgren’s home in Marbella after breaking in and tying up his wife
Raging Bull behind bars
Boxer Scott Harrison handed a lenient sentence after plea bargaining over attack on a policeman
Linekers Bar in arson attack
Linekers Bar in Fuengirola has become the target of a suspected arson attack
Village of the dead
Still no sewage works, but mayor of smallest district in Malaga wants to build thousands of houses and a golf course .... over the cemetery
Emails condemn ‘dodgy’ law firm
A SERIES of damning emails from a legal firm to its clients prove that its lawyers knew their house was illegal from the beginning
More legal vultures in for a killing
ANOTHER ‘tool shed’ owner has come forward to slam lawyers who left him with an illegal house and a 15,000 euro fine
My mobile home misery
A British woman who was told by lawyers that she could erect a mobile home on her land has been forced to move back to
Transsexual man pregnant with twins
The Jaen resident has interrupted hormone treatments and postponed plans for a sex change operation in order to have a baby