Ten celebrities who died in Spain
SPAIN has long been a destination for those looking to spend their twilight years in the sun.
And, for decades, it has been the escape...
A walking guide around the Costa del Sol’s Estepona
WHILE the cities of Marbella and Malaga are held up as the cities to visit on the Costa del Sol, Estepona offers sights and...
CHOOSING THE RIGHT INVESTMENT/PENSION ADVISER IN SPAIN
There are many Financial Advisers operating in Spain and a multitude of options when it comes to making potentially life-changing financial decisions.
However, a...
Despite the bright lights of Malaga, searching for that ‘Christmassy feeling’ in Spain seems harder than ever this year
IT’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. The tell tale signs are all here- cosy coats, the kitsch jumpers, lots of lights, bows,...
Scaremongering! Spanish Wealth Tax – your Pensions & Investments.
by Sam Kelly DipPFS, EFA, BA (Hons),
Managing Partner,
Chorus Financial.
Without fail, every time there’s a new piece of legislation or an update that may affect...
Should you move your pensions into one pot?
By Tracy Storer, Senior Partner, Chorus Financial.
If you've had more than one job since your career begun, it's likely you've got pensions with different...
Cold called about your pensions and investments in Spain?
by Sam Kelly DipPFS, EFA, BA (Hons),
Managing Partner,
Chorus Financial.
Within the last 24 hours both myself and my colleague working from our Costa Blanca office...
Talking bull: How bullfighter Jairo Miguel Sánchez is modernising Spain’s most traditional and controversial past time
JAIRO Miguel Sánchez is only 27 but already he has two decades of bullfighting under his cape. People have had their eyes on him...
‘Don’t worry about it sweetheart’ From unfair wages to creepy jokes here’s the reality for women in the workplace...
A WOMAN’S place is in the home. And the boardroom. In fact, it is anywhere she likes.
But as another old adage goes, a...
Why househunters in the know are moving to inland Spain
THE south of Spain has long been a magnet for British househunters. With its laid-back lifestyle, tapas on tap and sunshine nearly all year...
Dental discovery in Granada shows textile work was done exclusively by women 4000 years ago
A NEW discovery from Bronze Age Spain reveals that women have never been afraid to sink their teeth into hard work.
Evavations of a 4,000-year-old...
From Spain’s King Felipe VI to Queen Liz – here’s how much Europe’s royalty are worth
WHO wouldn’t like to live like a princess? Or a king for that matter? The jewels, the butlers, the palaces - it might sound...
WATCH: Cocaine submarines, corruption and translation calamity – Olive Press TV news roundup November 24-30
This week, Costa Blanca reporter Joshua James Parfitt looks at the key stories covered by the Olive Press over the past week.
Featuring: Spain's first-ever...
With atheism on the rise in Spain, Maya Eashwaran checks out why the masses are deserting the church
Church marriages have also declined steeply; in a 27 year-long period, the percentage of religious marriages in Spain declined from 79% to 19.8%, a huge drop of nearly 60 percent.
Spain shutting the border would be like ‘cutting off its nose to spite its face’, slams Gibraltar’s deputy commander
Deputy Chief Minister Joseph Garcia said that tightening frontier controls would hurt the Spanish as much as the Rock.
PART 1: How we set up the Olive Press from a derelict apartment in the Granada mountains
Whoever had kicked in the door and smashed the place up probably didn’t look wet behind the ears.
As Spain experiences a 400% increase in gang rape, is porn to blame?
There were a staggering 60 gang rapes in Spain last year, compared to 14 in 2017.
EXCLUSIVE: As Dani Garcia’s Michelin-starred restaurant shuts, top chef spills beans on what Michelin Guide really look for
After Dani Garcia announced the closure of his restaurant after winning a third star, we take a look at the gruelling Michelin world and why the accolade is so hard to attain and more importantly, maintain
The British teenage anarchist who tried to kill Franco with explosives hidden under granny’s sweater
The scale of his repression, torture and murder made him a natural target for political campaigns and the morally aware, writes Alastair Stewart.
A different sort of noise: Lenox Napier’s Portuguese adventure
I last visited the other side of the Iberian peninsula two decades ago with an old black and white guidebook from 1957… so it wasn’t really much of a surprise that Portugal had changed a bit, writes Lenox Napier
Spain and Gibraltar’s LGBT heroes
Spain was one of the first countries in the world to legalise same-sex marriage
Heavy snowfall in parts of Spain could be heaviest for 35 years
AFTER warnings of freezing temperatures, heavy snow has fallen overnight in some areas of the Costa Blanca leaving schools and businesses closed this morning.
Locals...
A day of San Fermin
After eight hours on a night bus and a crack-of-dawn train from Madrid, Lance Rutkin pitches up in Pamplona, to witness the passion of those who run with the bulls
EXCLUSIVE: British mother reunited with baby 21 days after Spanish hospital claimed ‘it wasn’t hers’
Heartbroken Brit finally reunited with baby after doctors insist on a DNA test to prove it is hers
Documentary hopes to cure Spain’s animal cruelty epidemic
Film director and producer Miguel Angel Rolland speaks exclusively to the Olive Press about the launch of his most 'important work' and his desire to revolutionize Spain’s animal cruelty epidemic
Spanish students protest over university degree reforms
Reforms will see undergraduate degrees cut to three years
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IT’S the case that never seems to close.
Now into its 16th year, the mystery over the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann in Portugal,...
