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Spain threatens oil companies as filling station prices continue to spiral upward
SPAIN'S Finance Minister, Nadia Calviño, has blasted a warning to oil companies who are hiking petrol pump prices despite a 20 cent per litre...
Tragedy averted as passengers are rescued from sinking pleasure boat in icy waters off Spain’s Murcia coast
A popular tourist boat, the Ole catamaran, sunk off Cartagena on Sunday afternoon with 33 passengers, including six children, on board.
A Red Cross rescue...
WATCH: ‘Reckless’ driver in Spain ‘races’ AVE highspeed train at 220kph as police launch investigation
The speed limit was 120 kph
Spain’s conservative PP party funds ‘Cambridge Analytica-style’ dirty ad campaign targeting left wing voters in run-up to election
Advertising was ‘distributed in neighbourhoods that traditionally support the PSOE or United Podemos’
WATCH: First episode of new Olive Press TV show rounding up biggest news stories across Spain and Andalucia
Every fortnight Olive Press journalists break down the biggest news stories of the last two weeks across Andalucia and Spain
OPINION: It’s taken weeks, but finally our investigation into Nadine Dijkman, a shady expat on Spain’s Costa del Sol,...
We obviously hope a police probe will eventually lead to justice, but either way we’re pleased that our readers have now been warned about entrusting their money to this pair.
Almost 30 suspected drug traffickers who hid hashish in trucks arrested in Spain’s Andalucia
The rest of the trailers were filled up with ordinary merchandise to avoid suspicion.
INVESTIGATION: Shady expat estate agent denounced after taking €300,000 into her personal account for property purchase in Spain’s Andalucia
In the shocking claim filed with police, the couple, from Berlin, believe she is now shutting her company and intends to leave Spain, ‘predictably to Dubai’.
Woman in Spain who put boyfriend’s head in a box and gave it to friend claiming it was sex...
She allegedly used his phone to text his family saying he was fine and staying in Asturias and Galicia.
Hunt for dead baby ‘thrown into river’ by 16-year-old father
Police indicated that a minor attempted to bury his child before opting to throw the boy into the mouth of the Bosos river. police indicated that a minor attempted to bury his child before opting to throw the boy into the mouth of the Bosos river.
Man stabbed to death and girlfriend hospitalised in car attack in Spain’s Andalucia
Medical professionals rushed to the scene but they were unable to save the man’s life.
Mum shot dead with shotgun on Spain’s Costa del Sol before police arrest her ‘schizophrenic’ son
At age 14 the man is believed to have obtained a weapons license and had several firearms in the house
Manhunt launched after dog KILLED by ‘poisoned’ food at popular dog beach on Spain’s Costa Blanca, with four other...
Whilst police investigate who may be responsible, council workers are combing the area and the neighbouring beaches of Cobaticas and Playa Gachero for further traces
WATCH: Secret filming reveals Goldcar staff ‘BULLY’ tourists and charge ‘€300 for scratch’ on Spain’s Costa del Sol and...
In Europe, customers are not required to buy additional insurance when renting a car and are covered with ‘basic’ insurance by law
Pop star killed after being hit in stomach by exploding pyrotechnic ‘rocket’ at festival performance in Spain
"There were two rockets, one that went in the right direction and the other hit the singer in the abdomen"
Third elderly victim confirmed dead in Spain’s largest ever listeria outbreak as 200 still infected in total
Listeriosis is a bacterial infection that can cause sepsis, meningitis and encephalitis and can be fatal
Elderly British hiker dies in cliff fall after getting separated from group in southern Spain
An investigation is now underway and the results of a post-mortem are expected today
Ex-soldier shoots wife dead with rifle from terrace before killing himself outside ex-wife’s home in Spain’s Andalucia
One neighbour said: ‘I do not understand how a human being can do such a thing’
Police probe in Spain’s Andalucia after ILLEGAL zoo with turtles, ostriches and porcupines BUSTED
It comes after cops found fake permits for at least 14 animals at facilities in Villafranca de los Barros in February
Andy Murray’s Spanish doubles partner named in Wimbledon match-fixing investigation by police
Feliciano Lopez has denied all allegations against him, and said he had never met those at the centre of the probe
Mum on holiday in Spain kills only son by accidentally running him over in car park
After another couple’s car broke down and was being towed, the mum offered to move her vehicle, an SUV
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
Man in Spain dies of heart attack during hair transplant just moments after receiving anaesthetic
The clinic, which has been giving men their hairlines back for over five years, said it was ‘affected’ by the tragedy
DEAD BODY washes up on tourist beach on Spain’s Costa del Sol (WARNING: distressing image)
THE rotting corpse of an unidentified man has been found on the beach of Calahonda de Mijas this morning.
At 8:15am the Guardia Civil got...
Manufacturers of ‘lethal’ drug Nolotil face €500 million lawsuit
A €500 million lawsuit is launched and there are already 200 claimants, following an Olive Press investigation
Lethal painkiller Nolotil BANNED for Brits visiting Spain
The Spanish Medicine Agency has finally issued a directive to ban the drug for British and Irish tourists and regulate it for expats in Spain
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Revamp for Love Island villa on Spain’s Mallorca
THE Mallorcan villa which is to be the new setting of British reality TV sensation Love Island is getting a revamp.
Builders have been spotted...
