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Airport terminals in Spain will reopen for people to greet or wave goodbye to family and friends

Airport terminals in Spain reopening for people to greet or wave goodbye to family and friends

FAMILIES and friends will again be able to wave farewell or welcome arrivals from inside Spain’s airport terminals from this Friday(October 15). For the last 17 months, terminal access has been restricted

11 Oct, 2021 @ 18:30

Lead·National News·Travel News

These are officially the 10 best tortillas served in Spain

With onions or without? Runny or well done? These are the questions that continue to divide Spanish society when it comes to Spain’s unofficial national dish – tortilla. But however you like

11 Oct, 2021 @ 18:00

Food & Drink·Lead·Olive Press Travel·Where to eat

Drug Smugglers Arrested Loading Up Over Four Tonnes Of Hashish From Mar Menor Fishing Boat Onto A Lorry In Spain

Drug smugglers caught loading four tonnes of hashish from Mar Menor fishing boat onto a lorry in Spain

CUSTOMS officers pounced in San Pedro del Pinatar as a fishing boat cargo of 4.3 tonnes of hashish was being unloaded. A refrigerated lorry pulled up at the dock and three men

11 Oct, 2021 @ 16:45

Crime & Law·Lead·Mar Menor·Murcia

High Electricity Prices Force A Steelmaker In Spain To Suspend 'special Steels' Production For 20 Days

High electricity prices force major steelmaker in Spain to suspend production for 20 days

A leading Spanish steelmaker has slashed production at one of its factories due to the big hike in electricity prices. They say that power costs have risen by 400% in a year,

11 Oct, 2021 @ 15:29

Business & Finance·Lead

Olive oil in Spain soars to new record wholesale price

Spain to host international conference backing the health benefits of olive oil

AN annual olive oil conference organised by a top American university is heading to Spain this December. The event to be held in Jaen, at the heart of Spain’s olive oil producing

11 Oct, 2021 @ 14:38

Health·Jaen·Lead

COVID certificate could lead to full indoor capacity returning for late bars and nightclubs in Murcia area of Spain

Nearly all bar and nightlife COVID restrictions to end this week in Murcia area of Spain

DANCING at nightclubs returns this Wednesday(October 13) to the Murcia region. In a new relaxation of COVID-19 restrictions, nightlife businesses which currently close at 4.00 am, will now be able to return

11 Oct, 2021 @ 13:45

Lead·Murcia

290 Evacuees From Afghanistan Land At Torrejón De Ardoz Air Base In Madrid, Spain 24 Aug 2021

Spain pledges to evacuate more Afghans and their families from Taliban threat

SPAIN has said it will launch a new evacuation operation to extract those Afghans who worked for Spanish authorities and are now at risk from the Taliban. Spain’s Defence Ministry announced on

11 Oct, 2021 @ 12:59

Lead·National News

Car salesman threatened with knife during test drive as customer steals car in Valencia area of Spain

Youths arrested for attempted murder as they mowed down teenagers on bicycles on Spain’s Costa Blanca

A revenge attack has seen three young men arrested in Gandia for trying to kill three minors by ploughing into their bicycles with a car. The incident happened on September 28 but

11 Oct, 2021 @ 11:38

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Valencia

Legal row brews over Franco’s flowery bathroom sink at dictator’s summer palace

A FLOWERY basin where General Francisco Franco carried out his daily ablutions when at his summer palace in Galicia is at the centre of a legal row between the Spanish state and

11 Oct, 2021 @ 11:15

La Cultura·Lead

Northern flank of La Palma volcano in Spain’s Canary Islands collapses three weeks after volcano eruption increasing power of lava flows

Northern flank of La Palma volcano in Spain’s Canary Islands collapses three weeks after eruption—increasing power of lava flows

THE Northern flank of La Palma volcano has collapsed sending hot boulders the size of three-storey buildings down the side of the volcano. The volcanic eruption that began on September 19 in

11 Oct, 2021 @ 10:00

Canary Islands·Lead

Face masks rules to remain in place in Spain until spring 2022

PEOPLE in Spain will be expected to wear face masks in indoor public spaces until Spring next year, says Minister of Health, Carolina Darias. With 87.4% of the population fully vaccinated and

11 Oct, 2021 @ 09:15

Coronavirus·Health·Lead·Other News

GIBRALTAR: Demo after death of Spanish ‘tobacco smuggler’ ruled accidental

A SPANISH man who was killed when his boat was in collision with the Gibraltar Custom’s vessel HMS Searcher died accidently, an inquest has ruled. The news was greeted with anger in

10 Oct, 2021 @ 16:38

Gibraltar·Lead

Gang of six arrested in Spain for kidnapping plot with €20,000 ransom demand

OFFICERS from Spain’s National Police and the Mossos d’Esquadra have arrested five men and a woman between 22 and 42 years old, who are accused of the crimes of robbery with violence,

10 Oct, 2021 @ 16:15

Barcelona·Catalunya·Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Where does Spain feature in the Top Ten rankings of World’s Most Beautiful People?

SOME MIGHT SAY that ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder’, but it is very difficult to determine what makes someone beautiful. Is it family genetics, sheer luck, or are there

10 Oct, 2021 @ 14:45

La Cultura·Lead·National News

British Ambassador to Spain visits new British School of Barcelona

The British Ambassador to Spain, Hugh Elliott visited the campus of The British School of Barcelona (BSB), which recently opened in the centre of Barcelona. On Wednesday last week the ambassador was

10 Oct, 2021 @ 14:00

Barcelona·Catalunya·Lead

OLD HACK IN THE SUN – Benny Davis with the ramblings of an 80-something expat in Spain

TIME to place my trusty quill pen alongside the nicotine-stained green eye shield and lay them to rest in my grandad’s old roll-top bureau. Probably worth a fortune on TV’s Bargain Hunt,

10 Oct, 2021 @ 12:00

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Better luck this time: Boris Johnson hoping holiday in Spain’s Marbella isn’t as disastrous as previous vacations

BORIS Johnson is resting after the Conservative party conference on a sunshine break in Marbella with pregnant wife Carrie and their 17-month-old son, Wilf. With the Commons still in recess for another

10 Oct, 2021 @ 11:06

Lead

Viva la Casita! Ten years of living off grid in the hills above Spain’s Costa del Sol

IT seems hard to believe but this month marks my tenth year of living at the Casita del Lago, a converted smallholders’ cottage on the edge of the La Concepcion reservoir. I

10 Oct, 2021 @ 10:15

Lead·Malaga

British fugitive traced to Spain’s Madrid faces gun charges

A BRITISH man wanted by UK police on firearms charges has been arrested in Spain’s capital city. Clinton Blakey, 36, was traced to Madrid after he disappeared after failing to appear at

10 Oct, 2021 @ 09:15

Lead·Madrid·National News

Lava chasers: Volcano tours prove popular in the Canary Islands as La Palma eruption continues

A TOUR company on Tenerife offering day trips to see the volcanic eruption on neighbouring Canary Island La Palma has pledged to donate profits to those who have lost their homes. The

9 Oct, 2021 @ 17:00

Canary Islands·Lead

CHAMPIONS!: England take the European Cricket Championship Trophy at Spain’s Cartama Oval

ENGLAND have been crowned champions in the Dream1 European Cricket Championship held at Spain’s Cartama Oval. In the climax to four weeks of T10 (10 overs a side) action, The England XI

9 Oct, 2021 @ 16:31

Lead·Sport

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Hold on! Making Tax Digital for Income tax delayed until 2024

By Emilia Carvell Following an announcement made by HMRC, it has been confirmed that the mandation of Making Tax Digital for Income Tax (MTD) has been pushed back to April 2024. Why

9 Oct, 2021 @ 16:00

Business & Finance·Lead

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Spain’s hoteliers call for more regulation of Airbnb type tourist rentals but praise Barcelona for leading the way

ON FRIDAY representatives of hotel associations from 36 countries met to demand more regulation of tourist flat rentals such as AirBnb. Didac García, a representative of the Barcelona Hotel Association, said that

9 Oct, 2021 @ 15:45

Barcelona·Hotels·Lead·Olive Press Travel·Travel News

MIJAS MATTERS: Nobody’s perfect

By Bill Anderson I HAVE been off the Olive Press radar for a little while, and was reprimanded by the editor Jon Clarke when he came on my radio show recently. I

9 Oct, 2021 @ 14:30

Lead·Opinion

Fawlty Towers? TV host slams hotel in Spain’s Valencia ‘a disgrace’ for worst 4-star experience ever

JOURNALIST and writer Carme Chaparro has publically slammed Valencia’s Four-Star ‘Hotel Conqueridor’, based in the center of the Mediterranean city. The 48-year-old news host, television personality and writer took to Twitter to

9 Oct, 2021 @ 13:00

Lead·Travel News·Valencia·Valencian Community

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EXPLAINED: What are the new rules for travel between UK and Spain now amber list has been scrapped?

NEW simplified travel rules come into force in the UK from Monday October 4, with the traffic light system replaced by a single red list. The new rules mean that fully vaccinated

9 Oct, 2021 @ 11:39

Lead·Olive Press Travel·Travel News

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