Travel association ABTA predict massive 2016 for Spanish holidays
A SUMMER holiday bookings bonanza is on the cards for Spain this year according to the UK’s leading travel trade association. ABTA’S Travel Trends 2016
Greece is the word
As predicted five years ago, Greece is still a country to watch when it comes to the euro’s future, writes Ian Le Breton, Managing Director
Colmenar restaurant El Olivo takes Axarquia by storm
New restaurant El Olivo is a modern take on Mediterranean food and has already pioneered creative combinations such as pasta with pear
Spaniards live longer with a life expectancy of 82
People are living longer worldwide, with average life expectancy up from 65 in 1990 to 71.5 in 2013
Price of a life: 5,000 people drown in Europe each year
Lifeguards on Spain's beaches are hard to be found outside of peak season
Oil prospecting in Alboran Sea scrapped
The Alboran Sea project had already been rejected because of environmental risk, but this will be the official termination of a project that started in
Environmental agencies call for a crackdown on illegal fishing in the Mediterranean
91% of the Med is now heavily overfished
Rubbish endangers Mediterranean marine life
The deep blue dump?
Killer olive grove disease could spread to Spain
Olive oil production in the Mediterranean is taking a hit from a bacterium that has already wiped out a million trees in Italy
Spain ends search for missing migrants – including eight babies
The estimated 23 missing people were swept from their boat in stormy weather
Spanish students shun the Mediterranean diet
Students across Spain are failing... to get enough Med in their diets
In Gibraltar, too many cooks is a good thing
The Rock is famous for its multicultural menu
Mediterranean Group ministers meet to discuss ‘burning issue’ of immigration
The seven Foreign Affairs ministers have met for the first time in Alicante in Spain
Spanish border guards banned from firing rubber bullets
Melilla and Ceuta have seen mass migration attempts from Morocco in recent weeks
‘Mediterranean’ diet should include avocados, says expert
After all, they did arrive in Spain around the same time as the tomato
Don’t play it just once
Andy Chapell discovers all is not what it seems at Alhaurin golf and that the challenging course takes some getting to know…
Obesity: Public enemy number one
Battle against obesity goes belly up as Spanish children are third most overweight in world
Destination China
A 17th century galleon named 'Andalucia' set off for Shanghai from Sevilla on Sunday
Gibraltar rocks
Forget sunburned ex-pats and cheap booze, Jon Clarke discovers that the Med's little Britain has had a makeover
Schadenfreude: A review of the Olive Press by A.N. Maier
The Olive Press is pleased to announce a new addition to its growing team of writers and bloggers. In "Schadenfreude", A.N.Maier will be issuing his
I am the Med
Writer Bob Maddox imagines what it has been like to be the world's greatest body of water