My council house solution
Graham Govier argues that the glut of empty apartment blocks around inland Andalucia should be turned into council properties
A load of bunkum
Bartie wonders what all the fuss is about for the proposed new hotel and golf course at El Palmar beach
The future’s orange
No reason to be bitter. This year’s citrus harvest will be a bumper one, writes Wendy Williams
Huge drug crackdown
Policemen and lawyers arrested in a series of huge drugs crackdowns around Spain
Cruise ships to dock 70km inland
Sevilla courts cruise ships with ambitious river dredging project
Bond bombshell for Connery
Actor Sean Connery and other suspects in the 'Goldfinger' case have been asked to pay a 60 million euro bond by a Marbella judge
Out of the sewers
All Andalucian sewerage to be treated by 2015
Anarchy in Spain
Europe's strongest libertarian movement turns 100.
Ballet exciting
Malaga hosts international ballet companies this winter
One way ticket to Romania
Authorities have smashed a gypsy shantytown and gave its occupants bus tickets to Romania
Brit busted for illegal Sierra bike tours
A British man was taking large groups of fellow countrymen on motorbike trips to the Sierra without permission.
Marbella socialite shells €1.8mn on car
Marbella dealership has turned the largest car sale in Spanish history
Slippery slope for eel catchers
Eel fishing has been outlawed for the next decade to help the species survive
Slow recovery for Marbella’s hotels
Marbella's hotels begin to fill up again after a worst year in living memory
Third time lucky for Axarquia oil
Olive growers of Axarquia are stepping up the efforts to gain an international trademark for their olive oil
‘Pirate’ Pitman snared
EXCLUSIVE: One of the UK's Most Wanted drug dealers has been snared in a routine dragnet operation.
Measles outbreak rocks Andalucia
Some two dozen people – the majority children - have contracted the potentially-lethal disease measles
Anarchist bomb pair in double trouble
Activists handed seven years for sending letter bomb to fascist group
Fraudulent animal refuge left thousands of animals to anguished death
A donations-funded animal sanctuary condemned pets to a "slow and painful death" to cut costs.
El Horrible in trouble
Supreme court rules that Algorrobico should not have been built
My God! What have we done?
Are you awake? Yep. Can’t sleep. Me neither. Are you thinking what I’m thinking? Probably... My God! What have we done?
Nerja remembers
A poetry recital is to be held to commemorate those who fought in the two world wars
Daily Mail faces trouble over 10-year-old mum
The Spanish Attorney General hopes to prosecute the British daily newspaper for printing photos of the young parents
Coast to coast
Forget the Ruta de Santiago. Linking key archaeological sites Barbastro and Baelo Claudio and crossing six of Andalucia’s Natural parks, Guy Hunter-Watts new book The
A to Z of Andaluz
There’s a very good reason why you can’t understand the locals
Bars galore in AndalucÃa!
AndalucÃa has more bars than any other region of Spain. But did you know that there are 53,046 of them down here in the south