Potimarron Message – Fruits from the heart!
MASTER Choy championed the Potimarron – or onion squash – 40 years ago, not only by growing so many in his own gardens every day, but by distributing seeds to all those
X Factor star Danny Tetley in Benidorm for shows to last all summer
X FACTOR star Danny Tetley has come back to Benidorm for exclusive shows to last all summer. The Bradford-born singer just missed out on X Factor 2018’s final after a sound issue
Tai Chi in the river of Happiness with Master Choy
Last October, the village of Cortes de la Frontera in Andalucia changed forever
US tourist was taking ‘selfie’ when hospitalised by bull in Pamplona
A US tourist has revealed he was taking a ‘selfie’ when a bull gored him in the neck at Pamplona’s San Fermin festival. Jaime Alvarez, 46, needed urgent surgery when the bull
‘WRONG MESSAGE’: Young man who accidentally killed drug addict while stopping him from robbing helpless cleaner on Spain’s Costa del Sol given two-year prison sentence and HUGE fine
The robber had beaten the hotel worker and made off with her handbag, causing the bystander to give chase
British giant Virgin Trains eyes up moving into Spain market after UK becomes ‘uninvestable’
Patrick McCall, Virgin Group’s senior managing director, confirmed the company has declared interest in Spain
Expert says southern Spain and Balearics at ‘great risk’ of tsunamis but authorities ‘are not prepared’
Southern Spain and the eastern Mediterranean (the Balearics), have frequent seismic activity which make them prone to suffer tsunamis
IN VIDEOS: Driver dead after torrential rain floods Spain, as cars submerged and ’emergency plan’ launched
Dramatic footage shows streets turned into rivers as cars are fully submerged by rising waters
Activists say one of Mercadona’s biggest free-range egg producers is ‘lying’ about welfare after 39 sick hens rescued from giant barn in Valencia
ENVIRONMENTAL activists have stormed one of Spain’s biggest egg producers, accusing the company of ‘lying’ after free-range hens were found in ‘terrible conditions’ near Valencia. Scores of activists entered the Huevos Guillen
PICS: The Hogueras de San Juan in Alicante were ‘insane’, but that’s why we love Spain, writes Joshua Parfitt
There are few religious festivals you can bring a towel to. There are even fewer you can insult a fireman at. The Fogueres de San Joan festival commemorates the birth of Saint
Iconic restaurant on Spain’s Costa del Sol divides opinion over sign declaring it ‘Spanish, Catholic and rightwing’
While some defended the owner's right to free speech, others said the sign - which has been in place for several years - helped them decide 'where NOT to spend their money'
‘ABSOLUTE FILTH’: British comedian Ricky Gervais SLAMS participants of Spanish ‘horse-wrestling’ festival
It comes as Gervais, who is a consistent supporter of animal rights, criticised a Spanish matador in May, for wiping the tears of a dying bull, calling him a ‘sequinned c**t’
Love Island fail as girls ask if Barcelona is in ROME
THE Love Island girls have suffered an embarrassing geography fail after asking if Barcelona was in Rome. Fans were stunned as Joanna Chimonides, 22, and Jourdan Riane, 24, revealed they had limited
Irish teenage lad raped by two men in Spain holiday hotspot
The shaken tourist was examined at Son Espases Hospital in Palma where doctors confirmed injuries sustained from a sex attack
Cockroaches are becoming IMMUNE to powerful insecticides
COCKROACHES have begun developing a cross-resistance to powerful insecticides, an alarming new study has found. Scientists from Purdue University exposed German cockroaches to different insecticides, and found that the populations not only
FOR CHRIST’S SAKE: Completion of Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia in trouble AGAIN as 3,000 residents fear their homes will become building site
A RESIDENT’S association has begun legal action to stop the completion of Barcelona’s iconic Sagrada Familia. Construction of the emblematic cathedral stalled after architect Antoni Gaudi’s drawings were destroyed in a 1930s
EXCLUSIVE: England ace Paul Gascoigne has stayed off the booze and only scrape was breaking thumb on a quad bike during Benidorm break
BRINGING one of the UK’s most legendary boozers to Benidorm was always going to be risky. But former England star Paul ‘Gazza’ Gasgoigne told the Olive Press he had ‘no intention’ of
British-run transfer company on Costa Blanca ‘first in Spain’ to upgrade VTC-licenced diesel minivan to dual fuel
A BRITISH-RUN transfer company on the Costa Blanca has been the ‘first in Spain’ to upgrade a VTC-licensed diesel car to dual fuel. Alicante Transfers Ltd made the upgrade this month on
WATCH: American gored in neck and teen bruises spine as annual San Fermin bull run begins in Spain’s Pamplona
Each day six bulls and accompanying steers are released, before the animals take on matadors in public fights in the afternoon
Women now breadwinners in a third of Spanish families, study shows
A study from the Valencian Institute of Economic Research (Ivie) tracked female contributions to family coffers between 1980 and 2017. The results showed that families with female breadwinners tripled from just 13.7%
Enrique Iglesias joins Take That, Liam Gallagher and Mel C at Gibraltar Calling festival THIS SUMMER
In 1995 the Spanish hunk shot to fame with his Grammy Award-winning self-titled debut album, featuring early hit Si Tu Te Vas
Police hunt gunmen who opened fire on bouncers at Marbella club that hosted Paris Hilton and Antonio Banderas
It comes after the shooting of Dutch and Belgian revellers in the same car park last year
APPEAL: Expat-run animal shelter near Costa del Sol needs help to save 800 animals from being culled
The public can help the Animal In Need Foundation by donating just €15 a time, which pays for 1m² of land
British teen headbutted by ram at Terra Natura as parent complains petting zoo has ‘no supervision’
A BRITISH teenager has been headbutted by a ram at the Terra Natura zoo in Benidorm suffering a shock that left her ‘up all night’ vomiting. The girl, 16, said the male
British director Ken Loach parks his republican politics to meet with Spain’s Queen Letizia in Mallorca
The famous lefty director, 83, took the hand of the stunning 46-year-old monarch as he received a lifetime achievement award in Mallorca
British expat says council on Spain’s Costa Blanca are ‘ignoring’ attempts to rescue mistreated dogs as they ‘know the owner’
A BRITISH expat who has fought for eight years to rescue dogs trapped in a ‘hellhole’ says town hall councillors do nothing due to their friendship with the owner. Grace Boas, 63,