Predatory behaviour and the destruction of Iberia’s coast
Charles Schoengrund draws interesting parallels between the twin disappearances of Madelaine McCann and the coastline of IberiaAFTER reading the feedback on YouTube concerning the...
The true cost of being cheap
As the furniture superstore opens in Málaga, the Olive Press asks if Ikea goes far enough to combat the exploitation of child labour in...
Oil spillage poisons aquifer
A GRANADA court is investigating how 120,000 tonnes of a vegetable-based contaminant was allowed to enter underground water supplies.
Mayor of Atarfe Víctor Sánchez and...
The gentle giants of the wasp world
Man’s misunderstanding of the hornet has led to the insect becoming almost extinct in certain parts of Europe
The man who changed history
Emilio Silva laid the foundations for the recent law which denounces Franco - his uprising and his dictatorship - and recognises the Republicans who...
“My grandfather was buried in a roadside ditch”
Emilio Silva, director of the ARMH (Association for the Recovery of Historic Memory) shares the Civil War story of his own grandfather with Lisa...
It’s in the climate, stupid
Following last issue in which Fiona Flores Watson attacked the slick, corporate image of the Climate Project, after meeting him in Nashville this year, Rosie Sinclair has quite a different view of Nobel Laureate Al Gore
Andalucia and the Strategy for Coastal Sustainability
AT the end of October, Madrid made an announcement of a radical change in the policy that has seen Spain’s coast become saturated in...
Remembering Franco
Writing exclusively for the Olive Press, Franco biographer Paul Preston claims the legacy of the dictator’s rule has come to nothing as Spain embraces democracy.
Justice defeats the conspiracy
As those responsible for the train bomb attacks in Madrid are brought to justice, Carlos Pranger believes Spain’s politicians should respect the victims and...
Drowning in a desert of plastic
There is a certain irony, claims Bob Maddox, that not only do the plastic greenhouses of the coast of Almería and Granada suck the land dry to stock the shelves of supermarkets, but also threaten the lives of local populations with increased risk of flooding
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Climate Change*
With the news that up to 85 per cent of Andalucia is under threat from desertification, in this simple Q&A scientist AZZAM QASRAWI explains the phenomenon of climate change
Climate undergoes sea change
Bob Maddox assess the findings of a report claiming the oceans are not absorbing as much carbon dioxide as they once did
Saints and souls and modern day ghouls
For Theresa O’Shea, Halloween in Spain is a time for visiting departed loved ones and eating roasted chestnuts
PUMPKIN sales in Spain at the end...
The dehesas of Extremadura
The size of Switzerland, the region of Extremadura is home to farmland unique to Spain and endangered animals such as the lynx and imperial eagle of Iberia
A local paedophile, not the McCanns killed Maddie
As the parents of Missing Madeleine claim their innocence on Spanish TV, the Olive Press’ Jon Clarke – the first British newspaper journalist on...
Dancing bears in Spain cause public outcry
In today’s Europe, Lisa Tilley asks should it be legal to force a wild animal to perform human tricks
Dispatches from a place long lost
In the 50th anniversary since its first publication, Carlos Pranger looks at the events that led to seminal book, South from Granada
IN 1954, German...
Why do some want us to forget?
If Spain’s judges can chase, hound and illegitimise Latin American dictators, why can’t they do the same to their own asks Carlos Pranger
WITH the...
The Queen of Spain’s literary past
Hemingway for lunch, fascists hiding in the bathroom, beatnik blondes staying for years. After the Olive Press reported that Gerald Brenan’s house is in...
Drowning in water, bricks and mortar
As the big clean up of Almuñecar begins, Bob Maddox draws parallels between the flood destruction wrought in the town and that in sleepy...
The Search for Lorca’s Grave
Carlos Pranger
WHEN the Spanish Civil War broke out in 1936, Gerald Brenan was living with his wife Gamel Woolsey in Churriana, a village west...
Hollywood star’s Marbella home closer to demolition
It appears the Spanish justice system has finally caught up with actor Antonio Banderas
Mystery deluge of sewage from Ronda massacres thousands of fish
Could malfunction of new Ronda sewage works be behind leak that has snuffed out all life in the Guadiaro in Jimera?
The goats of Spain
The wild mountain goats frequently found in herds across the mountain ranges of Andalucia are Spanish Ibex
Myths and mortar
Lisa Tilley delivers some home-truths about the Spanish property market and advice for those who want out
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