Amis’s mountain break
Bestselling author Martin Amis has been on holiday in Ronda after starring at this year’s Hay literary festival in Granada.
Inland fraud
It is one of the most inaccessible towns in inland Malaga. But this didn't prevent Valle de Abdalajís from suffering the malaise of urban corruption
Railway rescue
Over two dozen horses and donkeys have been rescued from a farm “perilously close” to a railway line near El Chorro
Orphans just a splash away from new pool
Children at Malaga's Ciudad de los Ninos hope to get new pool by the summer
Increased fine for whistle blowers
The couple whose illegal home featured in the Olive Press have had their fine almost doubled by the town hall
Cocaine haul foiled
A British man based on the Costa del Sol has admitted attempting to import 675 million euros of cocaine into the UK
Shot in self defence
Columbian ‘hitmen’ killed at finca where woman was found dead with her throat cut exactly a year ago
Burglars flee after realising home is Hollywood hardman’s
Armed robbers fled former movie hardman Dolph Lundgren’s home in Marbella after breaking in and tying up his wife
Raging Bull behind bars
Boxer Scott Harrison handed a lenient sentence after plea bargaining over attack on a policeman
Linekers Bar in arson attack
Linekers Bar in Fuengirola has become the target of a suspected arson attack
Village of the dead
Still no sewage works, but mayor of smallest district in Malaga wants to build thousands of houses and a golf course .... over the cemetery
Emails condemn ‘dodgy’ law firm
A SERIES of damning emails from a legal firm to its clients prove that its lawyers knew their house was illegal from the beginning
More legal vultures in for a killing
ANOTHER ‘tool shed’ owner has come forward to slam lawyers who left him with an illegal house and a 15,000 euro fine
My mobile home misery
A British woman who was told by lawyers that she could erect a mobile home on her land has been forced to move back to
500 and out
Traders and hoteliers are up in arms after Andalucia’s oldest agricultural fair has been cancelled
Lamborghini death plunge
A British businessman has been killed after his Lamborghini plunged off a cliff in Marbella
No help for Amy
The mother of missing Irish teenager Amy Fitzpatrick has criticised the Mijas mayor after he refused to help publicise her disappearance
Death threats over pet dog
English businessman claims to have been threatened by his ex-partner over the ownership of a pedigree Shih-tzu called Chico
Bounder returns
James Hewitt is set to open a top class restaurant and club in Marbella, catering for an international crowd
The costas he was not
At a memorial service to his life, dozens of environmentalists paid tribute – and even donated a poem to the man known as ‘Mister Boyd’
Police are helpless as mentally ill girl robs homes
Homeowners in the Guadalhorce valley are being terrorised by a mentally ill girl breaking into their properties
Job Done
Footpath reopened after fight from plucky pensioner and an Olive Press campaign
Mayor sued for protecting his town’s water supply from golf developers
Coin mayor Gabriel Clavijo is being taken to court for canceling a huge golf macroproject that could have damaged his town’s main aquifer.
Matador Row
A row has broken out after Spain's most popular bullfighter won an award from the Culture Ministry.
Dolores Vázquez in the clear
A woman sent to prison for the murder of a teenager has been completely absolved of the crime.
An ill wind
Residents slam secretive campaign that will see 75 ‘ineffective’ wind turbines destroy tourist industry and endanger rare birds around Antequera.