Ring up the best deals
Shoppers may soon be able to leave their wallets and credit cards at home
A distinct lack of distress
Residents of Sotogrande – where the average home price is 1.5m euros – are generally not pressurised into panic-selling
Slippery slope
Protesters demand an end to new artificial snow scheme in the Sierra Nevada
Happy Blunt
The colourful lifestyle of Ibiza has lead to a more upbeat album for James Blunt
From bargain to burden
Hundreds of homebuyers have been hit with new tax demands after their homes were wrongly re-evaluated
It’s grand in Sotogrande
It’s where the British royals take their hols and Eddie Jordan, Glenn Hoddle and Genesis’s Mike Rutherford have homes. Is it any wonder that the millionaires’ enclave of Sotogrande is weathering the recession well. Jon Clarke discovers why...
It’s the season for saffron
The arrival of autumn means only one thing for many of the inhabitants of Castilla-La-Mancha – time to harvest its ever precious saffron
A golfer’s paradise
Sotogrande is Spain’s home of golf, with a handful of the most celebrated courses in Europe
Fish deaths lead to probe
An investigation has been launched into the deaths of hundreds of fish in the Guadalhorce River
Flight path battle for flamingos
Protest groups unite to oppose ‘unnecessary, speculative’ airport that would endanger wildlife on Antequera’s protected vega
House that Eiffel built
Buying and selling your dream home in Andalucia just got easier with the launch of the groundbreaking new website www.allaboutandaluciaproperty.com
Wuthering heights
Sharon Corr has recorded the video for her latest single on a clifftop above Maro
The mighty fall of the svengali, ‘Mr Marbella’
After one of the Costa del Sol’s most colourful celebrities – DJ Maurice Boland – was forced to resign from his radio show following an indiscretion with a teenager, the Olive Press explores the rise and fall of ‘Mr Marbella’ and recalls his close association with other teenagers, including wildchild Mandy Smith
Europe’s new battle of Trafalgar
EU steps in to investigate ‘unsustainable macroproject’ that threatens precious virgin beach
Goyesca for Ken
Award-winning British director to be honoured at new Spanish film festival
British drug gang – including a pensioner and four women – busted in Spain
The gang, who were aged from 22 to 78 and came from Liverpool, are accused of ecstacy and cannabis smuggling
Once bitten, twice shy
A new book by Dr Vejay Singh – aka Dr Venom – trawls a terrifying list of creepy crawlies found in Andalucía and offers symptoms and treatments. Wendy Williams meets the man and picks out some of the nastiest nasties
Pints while pregnant
A shocking 45 per cent of pregnant women in Spain have admitted to drinking alcohol during pregnancy
Irish rapist not living in Spain
New reports confirm convicted rapist Larry Murphy has moved to France
Take a walk on the wildside
There are some great hikes in the wonderful Axarquia wilderness from Frigiliana, writes guide John Keogh
Bronislava and Clyde
A British man and his Russian accomplice have been arrested near Marbella in connection with a string of 15 bank robberies
Our hospitals are unwell
Andalucia comes near the bottom for bed numbers and spending per patient
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Spain’s Met Office activates new weather warning for freezing temperatures in Malaga, Cordoba and Granada
THE icy temperatures continue to dominate weather forecasts across Spain and much of Andalucia—with a new weather warning activated due to lows of -4ºC...
