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OLD HACK IN THE SUN: Benny Davis with the ramblings of an 80-something expat in Spain

OVER the centuries, us Brits have maintained our traditional stiff upper lip through a multitude of catastrophic situations. Don’t panic, keep calm, keystone foundation words

28 Feb, 2021 @ 11:15

Columnists

DEAR JENNIFER:- Why do I need to get insurance and funeral plans urgently sorted now?

I personally am feeling very upset about Brexit as no lorries seem to be getting here and English supermarkets are getting emptier and emptier. Let

27 Feb, 2021 @ 19:15

Business & Finance·Columnists·Costa Blanca·Sponsored·Valencian Community

The Zen of The Rona: Dealing with the virus involves lots of navel gazing

AS you may or may not be aware, I spent most of last month recovering from what my more streetwise friends refer to as ‘The

14 Feb, 2021 @ 17:27

Columnists·Giles Brown: Loud and Clear·Lead

Changing times: Coping with the pandemic in Marbella needs ingenuity

AN old proverb says ‘a wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it’. This pandemic has been

7 Feb, 2021 @ 13:42

Columnists·Lead·Lisa Burgess: Diary of a Restaurateur

Just wish it was over – a miserable start to 2021 in Spain

WHEN I flippantly mentioned in my last column that I didn’t see many people writing that 2021 would be their year, I didn’t actually think

7 Feb, 2021 @ 11:56

Columnists·Giles Brown: Loud and Clear·Lead

It’s a New Dawn, it’s a New Day…

NORMALLY when we head into a New Year, my Social Media feeds are full of posts claiming ‘This will be my year’!, ‘Moving on up’!

17 Jan, 2021 @ 14:22

Columnists·Giles Brown: Loud and Clear·Lead

Justice needed – the problems we face in Spain

By Lisa Burgess GLADSTONE said ‘justice delayed is justice denied’. I say this because I have heard of so many stories of injustice recently British

14 Jan, 2021 @ 11:50

Columnists·Lead·Lisa Burgess: Diary of a Restaurateur

‘The best of times, the worst of times’: a look forward to 2021 in Spain by expat councillor on the Costa del Sol

By Bill Anderson, local councillor in Mijas WHAT a year! Are you an optimist, a pessimist, or a realist? As we enter 2021, I think

3 Jan, 2021 @ 12:16

Bill Anderson: Mijas Matters·Columnists·Lead

All I want for Christmas, ain’t you

YOU may have noticed that we are in December and, as John Lennon famously wrote ‘And so this is Christmas, and what have you done?’

26 Dec, 2020 @ 11:45

Columnists·Lead

Requiem for the Christmas card

I DON’T know about you but I’ve got three solitary Christmas cards to display on my mantelpiece this Christmas. It’s nothing like ye old yuletide’s

20 Dec, 2020 @ 11:45

Belinda Beckett: Mistress of Sizzle·Columnists·Lead·National News

ON THE UP: Why are property prices in Marbella still rising?

WHEN the Covid-19 pandemic first hit, homeowners and property developers braced themselves for a drop in housing values, but in the end this didn’t materialise.

16 Dec, 2020 @ 21:06

Adam Neale: Property Insider·Columnists·Other News·Property

Spain and Marbella’s underlying property market is inherently solid

TO some, it may seem like we’ve been here before – a serious economic crisis that halts growth and progress and little more than 10

16 Dec, 2020 @ 14:15

Adam Neale: Property Insider·Columnists·Other News·Property

BREXIT: No news is bad news

By Anne Hernandez THIS past week, apart from the excitement of a vaccine becoming available for use in the UK, intense talks between the EU

6 Dec, 2020 @ 14:45

Columnists·Lead

Christmas comes early in Spain

TINY turkeys, trimmed-down Xmas puds, Rule of Six-sized boxes of crackers … Mini-mas, as COVID Christmas 2020 has pessimistically been coined, was shaping up to

22 Nov, 2020 @ 17:45

Belinda Beckett: Mistress of Sizzle·Columnists·Lead

How much more does Marbella have to take?

A TEENAGER was fatally stabbed on a street that I used to live near. It’s a busy road that divides a popular commercial centre and

20 Nov, 2020 @ 14:48

Columnists·Giles Brown: Loud and Clear·Lead

Salute to Sir Sean: Connery was central figure to expats on the Costa del Sol

EVERYONE lucky enough to live in Marbella between the 60s and 80s has a Sean Connery story. The Bond star lived in his beachside villa

15 Nov, 2020 @ 15:00

Columnists·Giles Brown: Loud and Clear·Lead·National News

Trump, COVID restrictions and Brexit – a view from Spain

By Anne Hernandez IT’S certainly been a couple of weeks of twists and turns. First we had the US elections and Trump making a fool

15 Nov, 2020 @ 13:30

Columnists·Lead·National News

Knight in a Safari Suit: Sir David Attenborough’s soothing voice doesn’t overcome his stark message

HE’S too modest for shining armour but Sir David Attenborough is a true hero of our times writes Belinda Beckett I WAS looking forward to

8 Nov, 2020 @ 17:41

Belinda Beckett: Mistress of Sizzle·Columnists·Lead

Bears do it

THE dental check-up, check. The farmacia for winter meds, check. The Gibraltar shop for Marmite, mint sauce and Coleman’s Mustard Powder, check. Six months supply

25 Oct, 2020 @ 09:18

Belinda Beckett: Mistress of Sizzle·Columnists·Lead