Jon Clarke is a Londoner who worked at the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday as an investigative journalist before moving to Spain in 2003 where he helped set up the Olive Press.
After studying Geography at Manchester University he fell in love with Spain during a two-year stint teaching English in Madrid.
On returning to London, he studied journalism and landed his first job at the weekly Informer newspaper in Teddington, covering hundreds of stories in areas including Hounslow, Richmond and Harrow.
This led on to work at the Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Mirror, Standard and even the Sun, before he landed his first full time job at the Daily Mail.
After a year on the Newsdesk he worked as a Showbiz correspondent covering mostly music, including the rise of the Spice Girls, the rivalry between Oasis and Blur and interviewed many famous musicians such as Joe Strummer and Ray Manzarak, as well as Peter Gabriel and Bjorn from Abba on his own private island.
After a year as the News Editor at the UK’s largest-selling magazine Now, he returned to work as an investigative journalist in Features at the Mail on Sunday.
As well as tracking down Jimi Hendrix’ sole living heir in Sweden, while there he also helped lead the initial investigation into Prince Andrew’s seedy links to Jeffrey Epstein during three trips to America.
He had dozens of exclusive stories, while his travel writing took him to Jamaica, Brazil and Belarus.
He is the author of three books; Costa Killer, Dining Secrets of Andalucia and My Search for Madeleine.
Contact jon@theolivepress.es
Jon Clarke (Publisher & Editor)
Bloody Sunday, Monday Tuesday Wednesday etc….
One should try to live in the valley (near finca El Maurel) above Macharaviaya when the chemical device which explodes like a regatta gun persists day after day, often night after night exploding up to 60 times an hour. Objective : to surpise and deter rabbits and rodents from eating vegetation.
The local town hall after notification sometimes seem to take action after several days, other times they are ignored or perhaps they do nothing.
Then comes the weekend and the arrival before dawn of the Sunday rabbit hunters.
I no longer invite friends to come to hear gunshot ricochetting off the walls and dogs and rabbits screaming. Every Sunday for months. Last year it persisted from June to January. Then someone set up a few weekends of clay pigeon shooting on Saturdays to reverberate round the valley.
I call them bloody Sundays, Mondays….. etc.
Guardia say this is all legal; other officials say it is not. Which is the truth?
I wonder who is right? They tell me that the Denuncia must go against the Town Hall who are responsible.
One tries always for peace and compromise but there comes a limit when tolerance is over.
Therein lie more of the trials which spoil and sadden living in Spain. And turn guests and tourists away.
Christine A. Ferguson