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Spain’s coronavirus lockdown exercise times will no longer apply in these 84 Malaga municipalities

PEDRO Sanchez has announced that municipalities with less than 10,000 inhabitants can abandon the specific timetables for outdoor individual exercise and walks from tomorrow. The

17 May, 2020 @ 19:42

Lead·Malaga

What can you do in Phase 2 of Spain’s coronavirus de-escalation plan?

WHILE Malaga, Granada and parts of Valencia are looking forward to entering Phase 1 of the COVID-19 de-escalation plan tomorrow, other areas will be passing

17 May, 2020 @ 18:04

Lead·National News

Plenty of Brits will be committing to Spain post-coronavirus lockdown, predicts property expert Campbell Ferguson

WELL, well, well. Demand, no surprise, has virtually ceased in the Spanish property market, though a few committed buyers are hanging in there and there

17 May, 2020 @ 18:00

Campbell Ferguson: Survey Spain·Property

COVID-19: The wrong camera angle on your Zoom call could leave you looking like Jabba the Hutt and don’t forget the bookcase behind you, warns Giles Brown

THERE seem to be several ways of dealing with the current coronavirus crisis. One option – sadly is no longer open to me – is

17 May, 2020 @ 16:00

Giles Brown: Loud and Clear

Spanish airports see 99% drop in passengers in April

AIRPORTS belonging to the AENA Group suffered a 99% year-on-year drop in passengers in April, figures have revealed. Just 141,000 people travelled through its network

17 May, 2020 @ 15:11

Coronavirus·Costa Blanca

EXCLUSIVE: British expat chases refund for cancelled flight to Spain, with Vueling refusing to accept it was cancelled

A BRITISH expat has been left chasing a flight refund for a cancelled flight that the airline refuses to accept was cancelled.

17 May, 2020 @ 15:00

Barcelona·Lead·Travel News

WATCH: Huge 8-metre shark spotted in Spain’s Andalucia in second such sighting in two weeks

DEEP sea divers have managed to film a ‘giant’ shark off the coast of Andalucia this weekend. The creature was spotted yesterday by the Guardia

17 May, 2020 @ 14:53

Granada·Lead

Olive Press columnist Lisa Burgess finds strength in heroes to keep on going through coronavirus lockdown and finally gets those vital cancer tests

I SAW with awe the sheer will and determination that 100-year-old Colonel Tom Moore showed when he began his 100 laps of the garden for

17 May, 2020 @ 14:00

Lisa Burgess: Diary of a Restaurateur

EXCLUSIVE: Chinese expat on Spain’s Costa del Sol claims vet assaulted her after she blamed him for cat’s death

A CHINESE expat has slammed a vet after she claims her cat died in mysterious circumstances at the clinic overnight.

17 May, 2020 @ 13:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Chartered Financial Planner Jonathan Holdaway explains the Spanish tax compliant bond

Article by Jonathan Holdaway HAVING recently completed the purchase of our first home in Spain – thankfully we were able to move just before lockdown

17 May, 2020 @ 12:00

Business & Finance

OPINION: Claiming summer 2020 is ‘dead’ is the pessimism we don’t need from our Andalucia leaders right now

WITH Semana Santa cancelled, the feria season binned and a day at the beach a distant memory, what could possibly come next? The scrapping of

17 May, 2020 @ 11:13

Lead

COVID-19: Donkeys in Costa del Sol’s Mijas are being well cared for, exercised and fed during Spain’s coronavirus crisis, insists council

The town hall added that their ‘burro taxi’ owners are also being given sizeable tax breaks this year to make up for the huge loss

17 May, 2020 @ 11:00

Lead·Malaga

BREAKING: Spain’s coronavirus death toll drops below 100 in lowest figure since March 12

SPAIN has seen a new low in daily COVID-19 deaths after recording just 87 in the past 24 hours. The figure was revealed by Pedro

17 May, 2020 @ 10:52

Lead·National News

How are Spanish Compliant Investment Bonds Taxed?

Sam Kelly DipPFS, EFA, BA (Hons)Managing PartnerChorus Financial MANY of you will have explored your options for investing as residents here in Spain. In the

17 May, 2020 @ 10:00

Business & Finance·Costa Blanca

GAZPACHO: When life gives you squishy tomatoes left in the boot of your car during coronavirus lockdown, make Spain’s signature summer soup!

FOR the last two months they have been holed up in Granada following a coronavirus travel nightmare (see Olive Press Issue 340). But now British couple

17 May, 2020 @ 09:00

Food & Drink·Lead

Amanda Butler is hoping Spain’s Balearic Islands can be a leader in eco-construction after coronavirus

I implore our governments, and our developers and builders, to learn from this

17 May, 2020 @ 08:00

Amanda Butler: Keys to the Island·Mallorca·Property

Public warned to keep social distance or face new COVID-19 wave in Gibraltar

The virus is still out there and a new wave of infections could paralyse Gibraltar again if people do not respect the new normal, said

16 May, 2020 @ 20:32

Coronavirus·Gibraltar·Lead

Over half-a-million new mortgages approved during 2025 in Spain- the highest number for 15 years

Mortgage enquiries are still coming in, but the Spanish market cannot sustain coronavirus lockdown much longer, warns the Finance Bureau’s Tancrede de Pola

THE mortgage market has still been functioning during the current crisis (albeit at a slightly slower pace), supporting the property sales that are still taking

16 May, 2020 @ 18:00

Tancrede de Pola: Mortgage Think Tank

COVID-19: We don’t all support the Spanish Government and don’t dare tell me ‘if you’re not happy go home’, writes Bill Anderson

I WAS surprised to read in an Spanish newspaper last week that Brits in Spain support the measures taken by President Sanchez regarding the COVID-19

16 May, 2020 @ 16:00

Bill Anderson: Mijas Matters·Politics

Number of coronavirus related deaths in Spain’s Malaga increase, but new infections drop dramatically

THE number of deaths in Malaga province have risen, but the number of new infections has decreased dramatically.

16 May, 2020 @ 14:19

Health·Lead·Malaga

COVID-19: The Carrefour carers saved Belinda Beckett’s bacon when she was down to limp lettuce and her last drop of Larios

EVERYONE else may be box set bingeing, social notworking or writing their novels. I wish. We spent the first week of lockdown watching a matchstick

16 May, 2020 @ 14:00

Belinda Beckett: Mistress of Sizzle

BREAKING: Number of coronavirus related deaths in Spain drop to lowest number since March 18

BOTH the number of new coronavirus related deaths and number of infected patients in Spain has decreased in the last 24 hours.

16 May, 2020 @ 13:30

Health·Lead·National News

Coronavirus will rip a few roof tiles off Spain’s property market but it’s resilient enough to escape structural damage, writes Adam Neale

CORONAVIRUS AND ADVICE FOR SELLERS A crisis always creates opportunities. For real-estate buyers, this can be good news. For sellers, it may mean lower expectations,

16 May, 2020 @ 12:00

Adam Neale: Property Insider·Property

Spain lifts further restrictions for Phase 1 of coronavirus de-escalation plan, including hunting and fishing

THE Spanish government has lifted further restrictions for provinces which find themselves in Phase 1 of the de-escalation plan from Monday. Announced by Health Minister

16 May, 2020 @ 11:09

Lead·National News

Jon Clarke tracks the Nazi Gold Trail to Madrid and Gibraltar, hot on the heels of our expose on a Nazi U-boat base in Spain’s Canary Islands

HOW could a stockpile of looted Nazi gold larger than some country’s bullion reserves disappear without trace? The macabre mystery has been the subject of

16 May, 2020 @ 11:00

La Cultura·Lead·National News

COVID-19: As Spain’s Ministry of Labour uncovers fraudulent redundancy schemes, Lawbird’s Antonio Flores explains ERTE

SPANISH ERTE schemes, following the trend of most European countries, allow employers to lay off or temporarily suspend workers in crisis situations. This can be

16 May, 2020 @ 10:00

Antonio Flores: Legal Problems·Business & Finance

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Spain’s coronavirus lockdown exercise times will no longer apply in these 84 Malaga municipalities

What can you do in Phase 2 of Spain’s coronavirus de-escalation plan?

Plenty of Brits will be committing to Spain post-coronavirus lockdown, predicts property expert Campbell Ferguson

COVID-19: The wrong camera angle on your Zoom call could leave you looking like Jabba the Hutt and don’t forget the bookcase behind you, warns Giles Brown

Spanish airports see 99% drop in passengers in April

EXCLUSIVE: British expat chases refund for cancelled flight to Spain, with Vueling refusing to accept it was cancelled

WATCH: Huge 8-metre shark spotted in Spain’s Andalucia in second such sighting in two weeks

Olive Press columnist Lisa Burgess finds strength in heroes to keep on going through coronavirus lockdown and finally gets those vital cancer tests

EXCLUSIVE: Chinese expat on Spain’s Costa del Sol claims vet assaulted her after she blamed him for cat’s death

Chartered Financial Planner Jonathan Holdaway explains the Spanish tax compliant bond

OPINION: Claiming summer 2020 is ‘dead’ is the pessimism we don’t need from our Andalucia leaders right now

COVID-19: Donkeys in Costa del Sol’s Mijas are being well cared for, exercised and fed during Spain’s coronavirus crisis, insists council

BREAKING: Spain’s coronavirus death toll drops below 100 in lowest figure since March 12

How are Spanish Compliant Investment Bonds Taxed?

GAZPACHO: When life gives you squishy tomatoes left in the boot of your car during coronavirus lockdown, make Spain’s signature summer soup!

Amanda Butler is hoping Spain’s Balearic Islands can be a leader in eco-construction after coronavirus

Public warned to keep social distance or face new COVID-19 wave in Gibraltar

Mortgage enquiries are still coming in, but the Spanish market cannot sustain coronavirus lockdown much longer, warns the Finance Bureau’s Tancrede de Pola

COVID-19: We don’t all support the Spanish Government and don’t dare tell me ‘if you’re not happy go home’, writes Bill Anderson

Number of coronavirus related deaths in Spain’s Malaga increase, but new infections drop dramatically

COVID-19: The Carrefour carers saved Belinda Beckett’s bacon when she was down to limp lettuce and her last drop of Larios

BREAKING: Number of coronavirus related deaths in Spain drop to lowest number since March 18

Coronavirus will rip a few roof tiles off Spain’s property market but it’s resilient enough to escape structural damage, writes Adam Neale

Spain lifts further restrictions for Phase 1 of coronavirus de-escalation plan, including hunting and fishing

Jon Clarke tracks the Nazi Gold Trail to Madrid and Gibraltar, hot on the heels of our expose on a Nazi U-boat base in Spain’s Canary Islands

COVID-19: As Spain’s Ministry of Labour uncovers fraudulent redundancy schemes, Lawbird’s Antonio Flores explains ERTE

Two disruptive passengers who forced Ryanair flight from London Stansted Airport to Ibiza to divert fined thousands

Spain’s only nuclear manufacturer misses out on global boom due to crippling brain drain of Spanish engineering talent

Malaga city finally breaks 600,000 population milestone – after adding just 30,000 people in 10 years

Rosalia takes Zendaya to the cleaners in HBO swear-off – but is Spanish really so superior to English when it comes to dishing out insults?

Spain’s most famous matador will return to the bullring in Andalucia this month – just weeks after brutal 10cm rectum goring left him in hospital