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New specialist diabetes care units to open next year across Costa Blanca and Valencia areas of Spain

Scientists move closer to a cure for Type 1 diabetes — with EU approval targeted within five years

SCIENTISTS are moving closer to what could become the first real cure for Type 1 diabetes after an experimental treatment helped several patients stop taking

24 Nov, 2025 @ 10:27

Health·Lead

‘Violent, racist, authoritarian’: Acclaimed British historian reminds Spain who Franco really was amid surge in popularity for the dictator

FIFTY years ago this week, Francisco Franco died and Spain’s transition to democracy finally began. But half a century on from his death, is the

23 Nov, 2025 @ 15:00

La Cultura·Lead·Politics

Olive Press offers its top tips as Spain’s gastronauts wait to see who joins the Michelin-rated creme de la creme

SPAIN’s culinary spotlight is about to be thrown on Malaga’s Sohrlin Theatre as it hosts the 2026 Michelin Guide presentation for the first time. November

23 Nov, 2025 @ 14:33

Food & Drink·Lead·Travel News

Travel chaos in Spain: Fuming passengers are ‘trapped' on stifling hot AVE train outside a station in Madrid

Train journeys between Madrid and Barcelona will take UNDER two hours after Spain agrees to bump up top speeds to 350km/h

TRAVELLING by train between Spain’s two biggest cities will soon take less than two hours, according to plans unveiled by the government earlier this week.

23 Nov, 2025 @ 13:30

Barcelona·Lead·Madrid·Olive Press Travel·Travel News

Horror after ‘man throws his elderly mother to her death from apartment window’ near Barcelona

RESIDENTS in a Catalan neighbourhood have accused local authorities of ‘not giving a damn’ after a ‘violent’ man allegedly threw his mother out of an

23 Nov, 2025 @ 12:05

Barcelona·Catalunya·Crime & Law·Lead

Ronda has struck the imaginations of poets, artists, bullfighters and musicians for thousands of years

RONDA doesn’t just appear; it confronts you. As the road bends, this captivating city leaps into view, rising like a white pearl surrounded by the

23 Nov, 2025 @ 12:01

Lead·Malaga·Olive Press Travel·Travel News

In Spain it’s known as violencia de genero. Tuesday, November 25, marks the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

WE all have a mental image of domestic violence, but the Spanish government urges us to broaden our understanding. Physical abuse is, sadly, familiar to

23 Nov, 2025 @ 11:57

Andalucia·Lead

No Carlos Alcaraz, no problem: Spain reach first Davis Cup final in six years after storming past Germany

SPAIN will face reigning champions Italy in Sunday’s Davis Cup final after beating Germany in a deciding doubles match – despite the absence of injured

23 Nov, 2025 @ 11:47

Lead·Sport

Spain pledges additional €800 million in support for Ukraine as concern grows over Trump’s peace plan

SPAIN has pledged over €800 million in further support for Ukraine after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited Madrid earlier this week. The total package – adding

23 Nov, 2025 @ 11:15

International Affairs·Lead·Politics

Linking the opera Carmen to the Sevilla tobacco factory and a French author

We all have heard of Carmen, the sexy heroine of the opera set in Sevilla. But what’s her connection with nicotine? Michael Coy informs us.

23 Nov, 2025 @ 10:27

La Cultura·Lead

Meet the 22-year-old ‘professional squatter’ who blackmails institutional owners to leave homes – and has never been to jail despite 31 arrests

On July 17 this year, a man shattered the glass of a first-floor balcony window in Cardedeu, a small town south-west of Barcelona, and slipped

23 Nov, 2025 @ 10:00

Barcelona·Lead·Property

The perils of ‘Bargain Blitz’ are huge in Spain as the ‘ciberdelincuentes’ multiply on Black Friday

BLACK Friday is Christmas come early for fraudsters. Every online scammer around the world is looking to make a fast buck at the expense of

23 Nov, 2025 @ 08:00

Crime & Law·EXPLAINER·Lead

Pope accepts resignation of Spain’s Bishop of Cadiz after investigation launched into historic child abuse claims

POPE Leo XIV has accepted the resignation of the Bishop of Cadiz after an official investigation was launched into an allegation of historic child sexual

23 Nov, 2025 @ 08:00

Cadiz·Crime & Law·Lead

WATCH: Heavy snowfall blankets northern Spain after Arctic cold snap rolls in – with temperatures plummeting to as low as -10C

HEAVY snowfall has blanketed large swathes of northern Spain this weekend after a teeth-chattering Arctic blast plunged temperatures across the peninsula. Earlier this week, the

22 Nov, 2025 @ 21:04

Lead·Video·Weather

Shock as leading Costa del Sol lawyer is hospitalised in ‘vicious’ police beating outside notorious tourist bar on the Algarve

A WELL known expat lawyer has been hospitalised after police and bouncers attacked him on a night out in Portugal. The solicitor, based between Marbella

22 Nov, 2025 @ 15:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Other News

The Ronda dining scene has developed into one of Spain’s finest in the two decades I have lived there, writes Olive Press editor Jon Clarke

IT might seem counterintuitive but you need to head deeper and deeper into the industrial estate to find one of the true secrets of Ronda.

22 Nov, 2025 @ 13:46

Andalucia·Food & Drink·For Foodies·Lead·Olive Press Travel·Travel News

WATCH: Traffickers ambush police confiscating speed boat in Andalucia drug hotspot – as police chief says the Atlantic is ‘infested with narcos’

AUDACIOUS drug gangsters ambushed police to reclaim a high-speed vessel abandoned on the Andalucian coast. The attack occurred early this week on a rural road

22 Nov, 2025 @ 12:56

Andalucia·Crime & Law·Huelva·Lead

LIFE IN SPAIN: The Deceiver of Seville, Mozart and the modern bullring

WHAT thread connects the Spanish theatre of the 17th century, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and the modern bullring? Let’s start with the bullring. If you ever

22 Nov, 2025 @ 10:07

La Cultura·Lead

THIS WEEK IN SPAIN: The Prestige oil tanker disaster

On November 19, 2002, a ship went down off the Spanish coast, causing an ecological catastrophe. MICHAEL COY reminds us what happened. SPAIN is especially

22 Nov, 2025 @ 09:00

Environment·Green·Lead

Here’s what the new British-designed tower in Malaga port will look like – if it ever gets built

PLANS to erect a new British-designed skyscraper in Malaga port are facing fresh backlash after local experts filed an 80-page complaint to Spain’s Ministry of

22 Nov, 2025 @ 08:30

Lead·Malaga·Property

Fury as case is closed in killing of Brit expat in Andalucia tourist town

A POLICE file into the death of an expat in Andalucia has revealed strong evidence of a violent robbery – yet the case has been

21 Nov, 2025 @ 18:54

Almeria·Andalucia·Crime & Law·Lead

British pilot jailed for chemsex murder of boyfriend in drug-fuelled stabbing frenzy near Barcelona

A BRITISH pilot who stabbed his Spanish lover to death during a drug-fuelled sex session has been jailed for 20 years. Aaron Rainbow, 50, was

21 Nov, 2025 @ 16:11

Barcelona·Catalunya·Crime & Law·Lead

British pub giant Wetherspoon's to open its first bar in Spain at Costa Blanca airport

Revealed: The location of British pub giant Wetherspoon’s first-ever bar in Spain

JD WETHERSPOON has announced its first-ever pub in mainland Europe will be at Alicante-Elche airport. The outlet has been named Castell de Santa Barbera after

21 Nov, 2025 @ 16:00

Alicante·Costa Blanca·Food & Drink·Lead·Travel News

Bungled Malaga kidnapping exposes corruption plot within Marbella’s local police with links to a mysterious foreign national

A FAILED kidnap attempt on a Chinese businessman has exposed an astonishing corruption plot within the Marbella Policia Local that links to a mysterious foreign

21 Nov, 2025 @ 15:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Málaga

‘Try putting a Spanish ad up in Barcelona’: Catalan-language billboard in Madrid backfires on 50th anniversary of Franco’s death

A GOVERNMENT billboard in Catalan on Madrid’s Gran Via main street has triggered a political row as Spain marks 50 years since the death of

21 Nov, 2025 @ 14:00

Lead·Madrid·Politics

Spain’s top prosecutor is banned for two years after leaking information about boyfriend of Madrid mayor

SPAIN’S Attorney General has been convicted of leaking confidential information about the partner of a major political rival. Alvaro Garcia Ortiz has been banned from

21 Nov, 2025 @ 13:00

Crime & Law·Lead·National News·Politics

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