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JOBS: Marbella’s Starlite Festival looking for 400 workers this summer, find out how to apply here

STARLITE Festival has begun looking for employees for this year’s edition. The Marbella festival is offering 400 jobs over the months of July and August.

14 May, 2019 @ 13:00

Business & Finance·La Cultura·Lead

British cafe on the Costa Blanca ‘first in Spain’ to ban single-use coffee cups

A CAFE on the Costa Blanca has become the ‘first in Spain’ to completely ban single-use takeaway cups. Caffe Milano, in Javea, enforced the ban

14 May, 2019 @ 12:00

Costa Blanca·Environment·Lead

Six-year-old boy in Spain’s Andalucia found dead in family hot tub as police investigate

Despite paramedics arriving quickly, nothing could be done to save the boy, and he was pronounced dead at the scene

14 May, 2019 @ 11:51

Crime & Law·Lead·Sevilla

OPINION: Desperate British families losing thousands in Spain villa scams show that we need more dedicated fraud officers

Dedicated police officers need to be made available for these crimes, or at the very least a cyber crime hotline promising rapid action

14 May, 2019 @ 10:00

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Opinion

SEEN HIM? Ex-Scotland Yard detective launches Olive Press appeal to track down Most Wanted British ‘killer’ in southern Spain

A LINKEDIN page under the name of ‘Kevin Parle’ has begun taunting an ex-Met Police officer as he begins his search for the alleged murderer.

14 May, 2019 @ 09:00

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

WATCH: HUGE jellyfish wash up on beach on Spain’s Costa del Sol

Briton Mattie Barnett spotted the floating creatures while walking on Caleta de la Velez beach in Velez-Malaga

13 May, 2019 @ 15:09

Environment·Lead·Malaga

How the British approach to gambling could benefit Spain

Spain is by no means a novice on the world-scale when it comes to gambling. In fact, in 2018, forecasts suggested that total revenue from

13 May, 2019 @ 14:17

Entertainment

10 incredible locations Game of Thrones SHOULD have filmed in Spain

We’ve put together a list of places we feel would have added to the stark alien beauty of Westeros and Essos

13 May, 2019 @ 12:59

La Cultura·Lead·Property·Travel News

WASH OUT: Beloved English business Scallops still closed three weeks after Costa Blanca town’s worst flooding in 62 years

ONE of the Costa Blanca’s longest running expat businesses is still closed after the worst flooding hit the area for 62 years last month. British-run

13 May, 2019 @ 12:43

Costa Blanca·Other News

IN PICS: The property portfolios of Spain’s political leaders

As the dust settles on last month’s snap election, we take a look at the property portfolios of Spain’s political supremos

13 May, 2019 @ 12:40

Costa Blanca·Lead·Mallorca·Politics·Property

The Olive Press helps take legal action after ANOTHER British victim loses €6,000 on a bogus villa on the Costa Blanca

THE Olive Press is helping victims take legal action against a Mallorca holiday rental company that scammed holidaymakers thousands for rental villas across Spain. It

13 May, 2019 @ 12:20

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

OPINION: After an exploding rum cocktail in Spain left three people hospitalised, do we need to re-examine modern nightlife?

It is paramount that these ‘Instagenic’ elements of modern nightlife are scrutinised before being unleashed on the public

13 May, 2019 @ 12:13

Entertainment·Food & Drink·Opinion

REVEALED: How Lewis Hamilton’s new flame Cindy Kimberly came from a tough Costa Blanca upbringing and grew up an ‘ugly duckling’

SHE is the local girl who’s zoomed into Lewis Hamilton’s affections. Yet, just four years ago Cindy Kimberly was babysitting for €4 an hour to

13 May, 2019 @ 12:08

Celebrity·Costa Blanca·Lead·Mallorca

OPINION: British fraud victims in Spain can be hopeful after MPs – who never agree on anything – lend support

Indeed getting more than a handful of MPs to agree on anything these days is certainly no small feat

13 May, 2019 @ 12:04

Crime & Law·Opinion·Politics

€30,000-a-night Marbella hotel enjoyed by Lady Gaga and Lenny Kravitz to add exclusive butler service

The butler will be on hand 24/7 and will be prepared for 'the most unexpected of requests'

13 May, 2019 @ 11:47

Business & Finance·Lead·Malaga

Want a return on your property investment? Look no further than Spain, writes the Finance Bureau’s Tancrede de Pola

The growth has been strong but stable and seems to be avoiding the fatal boom and bust cycle which lead to the meltdown some 12

13 May, 2019 @ 11:36

Columnists·Property·Tancrede de Pola: Mortgage Think Tank

Spain-based British expat arrested by armed guards on return from negotiating €200 million business deal in Russia

Saunders is close to sealing a deal to buy Castorama Russia Ltd, which is being sold by Kingfisher PLC, owner of B&Q in the UK

13 May, 2019 @ 10:56

Business & Finance·Lead·Malaga

Millionaire Brit recruits world’s top architects for exclusive new community on Spain’s White Island

Anton Bilton has drafted in a raft of globally-known architects to create an ‘eclectic community’ for the White Island of Ibiza

12 May, 2019 @ 14:20

Lead·Mallorca·Property

British MPs rally round Brits living in Spain who lost millions in dodgy Mallorca currency firm collapse

Premier FX, based in Palma, ceased trading last July, leaving behind millions in unpaid debts

12 May, 2019 @ 12:11

Business & Finance·Crime & Law·Lead

Alicante is the second-dirtiest city in Spain, according to new research

Alicante came out worst in Spain for ‘rubbish left around containers’ and second-worst for ‘animal excrement’

12 May, 2019 @ 09:00

Costa Blanca·Environment·Lead

Belinda Beckett raises a toast to the sherry merry month of May in Spain, with its free-flowing booze and outdoor eating

With barrels of rebujito hitched to the back of the tractor-drawn wagons you can refresh yourself as you walk/dance/stagger along the route

11 May, 2019 @ 18:25

Belinda Beckett: Mistress of Sizzle·Food & Drink

ABSOLUTE MELTER: Heatwave hits Spain’s Andalucia as temperatures soar to 35C

SUMMER temperatures appear to have arrived to inland Andalucia early this year after the mercury reached as high as 35C today. The sweltering weather is

11 May, 2019 @ 18:19

Cordoba·Environment·Lead·Sevilla

BEWARE OF THE BIRDMAN: British pensioners on Costa del Sol issue warning after bizarre ‘bird poo’ robbery

The couple from Yorkshire, were walking home in Benalmadena when they were showered in a brown liquid

11 May, 2019 @ 14:30

Crime & Law·Lead

Exploding rum cocktail leaves three expats in Spain hospitalised with third degree burns in bizarre drinking session

A Policia Nacional spokesperson told the Olive Press they are now ‘trying to find out more details’ about the contents of the drink

11 May, 2019 @ 12:01

Crime & Law·Lead·Mallorca

Politics aside, Andalucia’s new right-wing coalition is good news for taxpayers, writes Adam Neale

The change in direction is designed to make Andalucia more attractive to investors, both national and international

11 May, 2019 @ 11:15

Adam Neale: Property Insider·Property

EU Ministers to discuss the trade of dirty electricity between Spain and Morocco amid links to controversial REE project in Granada

It comes as anti-pylon campaigners wrote to the Minister of Ecological Transition and Spain’s European Commissioner to demand an end to all electrification projects

11 May, 2019 @ 09:44

Environment·Lead

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