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Swimming pools latest: Malaga province would lose €4.8bn in tourism income if private pools are banned this summer, warn industry leaders

INDUSTRY leaders have warned Malaga province could lose €4.8bn in tourism revenue if private pools are banned this summer. The Andalucian Association of Tourism Apartments

25 Apr, 2024 @ 17:39

Andalucia·Lead·Malaga·Travel News

Tourist drops dead at Malaga Airport: 64-year-old suffers heart attack in the arrivals area

A 64-year-old tourist has died after suffering a heart attack in the arrivals area of Malaga airport. The incident took place this Wednesday in the

25 Apr, 2024 @ 17:18

Andalucia·Lead·Malaga·Travel News

Warning: Town on Spain’s Costa del Sol will cut off water and issue fines of up to €600,000 to people who disobey drought measures

BENALMADENA City Council has provisionally approved fines of up to €600,000 for people flouting drought measures if they are imposed in a serious situation. Supplies

25 Apr, 2024 @ 17:15

Andalucia·Costa del Sol·Lead

GIVEAWAY: Win a free day out at the stunning Bono Beach club in Marbella – including a bed for four, Moet champagne and a Surf and Turf platter

The Olive Press is thrilled to announce an exclusive giveaway in partnership with the stunning Bono Beach club in Marbella. Simply click this link here

25 Apr, 2024 @ 16:59

Lead·Marbella

Spain’s Prosecutor’s Office calls for investigation into Pedro Sanchez’s wife to be scrapped

THE Madrid Provincial Prosecutor’s Office has asked a judge to drop the investigation into the wife of Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, for peddling influence and

25 Apr, 2024 @ 14:35

Lead·Madrid·Politics

What is Manos Limpias? The organisation in Spain which accused the prime minister’s wife of ‘influence peddling’

DESPITE being officially registered as a trade union, the Manos Limpias group at the centre of the corruption scandal engulfing Spain’s Prime Minister would perhaps

25 Apr, 2024 @ 14:22

Lead·Politics

Spain’s Airbnb craze sparks row after 27,000 businesses are turned into flats: ‘Guiris go home’ stickers appear on tourist lets in Valencia – but local in Malaga says ‘thanks to them we all have jobs’

FIGURES released this week show that more than 800 shops, bars and other local businesses in Malaga have been turned into homes over the past

25 Apr, 2024 @ 14:10

Lead·Malaga·Property

This green ‘paradise’ has been named the best rural destination in Spain for 2024

SPAIN’s best rural destination for 2024 has been named and it’s this green paradise found in the north. In recent years, destinations across northern Spain

25 Apr, 2024 @ 14:09

Lead·Olive Press Travel·Travel Asturias

Acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez says he will seek parliamentary majority in Spain's Congress

Manos Limpias organisation admits its criminal complaints against Pedro Sanchez’s wife ‘may have been based on fake news’

THE far-right trade union which filed legal proceedings against Begoña Gomez, the wife of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, has admitted that its complaint may

25 Apr, 2024 @ 13:38

Lead·Politics

Tap water warning in Spain: Supplies are 'not fit for human consumption' in these areas on the Costa Blanca

Drinking water supplies ‘are guaranteed for the next five years’ in Spain’s Andalucia – following series of downpours in March

DRINKING water supplies have been ‘guaranteed’ for ‘four or five years’ for Andalucian water networks linked to the Guadalquivir Basin The pledge has come from

25 Apr, 2024 @ 13:30

Andalucia·Lead

Pedro Sanchez latest: PP leader accuses the PM of ‘playing the victim’ while Pablo Iglesias says he ‘knows what it’s like to see your partner cry’ as a result of the job

ALBERTO Nuñez Feijoo, the leader of the conservative Partido Popular (PP), has accused Pedro Sanchez of a ‘dereliction of duty’ after Spain’s Prime Minister announced

25 Apr, 2024 @ 12:42

Lead·Politics

Rent control in Spain: Catalunya cracks down on landlord ‘loophole’ amid surging prices – all you need to know

THE Catalan regional government has approved an amendment to its housing law which will close a key ‘loophole’ that allowed landlords to evade the introduction

25 Apr, 2024 @ 11:42

Catalunya·Lead·Property

Is your cash FAKE? Police in Spain issue warning about counterfeit Euro coins – this is how you spot them

A GANG making fake two-euro coins has been brought down by the Policia Nacional in a joint operation with Europol and Catalunya’s Mossos d’Esquadra. It

25 Apr, 2024 @ 11:37

Crime & Law·Lead·National News

Pedro Sanchez announces he could QUIT within days: Spain’s PM says he is tired of ‘mud-slinging’ by ‘far-right forces’ – after his wife is accused of ‘influence peddling’

SPAIN has been plunged into uncertainty after Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced he is considering his position this evening. The PSOE leader wrote in an

24 Apr, 2024 @ 21:13

Lead

Is Spain heading for another general election? This is what happens if Pedro Sanchez resigns on Monday

PEDRO Sanchez revealed tonight that he is considering his position following a ‘far right political attack’ against his family. In a dramatic letter just hours

24 Apr, 2024 @ 21:12

Lead·National News

Israel warns Spain and Ireland of ‘grave consequences’ after they agreed to recognise Palestine as a nation state

READ IN ENGLISH: Pedro Sanchez’s FURIOUS letter revealing why he may quit as PM of Spain on Monday

SPANISH Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez launched a scathing attack against right wing leaders in an open letter tonight – in which he revealed he may

24 Apr, 2024 @ 20:25

Lead·National News

British drugs fugitive arrested in Benidorm

British drug trafficker on the run for four years is arrested at Benidorm hotel on Spain’s Costa Blanca

A BRITISH fugitive wanted for drug trafficking has been arrested by the Policia Nacional in Benidorm after a four-year search to bring him to justice.

24 Apr, 2024 @ 18:04

Benidorm·Costa Blanca·Lead

Urgent appeal for two missing expat teens who disappeared in Spain 10 days ago: Latest sighting places them in Benidorm

AUTHORITIES are looking for two expat teens who disappeared in Spain 10 days ago. Fabian K, 17, and Niels B, 19, are orginally from northern

24 Apr, 2024 @ 17:42

Benidorm·Costa Blanca·Lead

This is how the Elche stadium in Spain’s Costa Blanca will look like after €40million makeover

ELCHE CF has announced plans for a €40 million revamp of their Martinez Valero stadium as the club battles to get promoted to La Liga’s

24 Apr, 2024 @ 17:15

Costa Blanca·Football·Lead

Alicante man kills his wife and then turns shotgun on himself during weekend of four domestic murders in Spain

Ferrari driver ‘waves a gun at people’ outside a school in Marbella: Bizarre behaviour sparks dramatic police response in San Pedro

SPAIN’S Policia Nacional have opened an investigation after a man described as of an ‘advanced age’ and driving a Ferrari ‘waved a gun’ at people

24 Apr, 2024 @ 16:56

Crime & Law·Lead·Marbella

Baby Reindeer tops the Netflix chart in Spain: British dark comedy series about a female stalker becomes a global sensation

A BRITISH dark comedy is topping the Spanish Netflix charts as Baby Reindeer, a show about a female stalker, goes viral. The series tells showrunner

24 Apr, 2024 @ 16:41

La Cultura·Lead

Ayuso President Of The Community Of Madrid Speaks About Accusations Of The Pp

Madrid president Isabel Ayuso is in hot water after her partner admits to tax fraud and offers to pay €520,000 in fines

SPANISH media outlets have managed to get their hands on documents showing that businessman Alberto Gonzalez Amador, who is the partner of Madrid regional premier

24 Apr, 2024 @ 16:36

Crime & Law·Lead·Madrid·Politics

Nazi symbol is spray-painted on bust of British merchant in Alicante: Archibald Dickinson saved Republican families at the end of Spain’s Civil War

AN ALICANTE bust of a Welsh hero who saved 2,638 people fleeing General Franco’s forces at the end of the Civil War in 1939, has

24 Apr, 2024 @ 16:30

Alicante·Costa Blanca·Lead

OPINION: Airbnb might be viewed as a menace in Spain – but if I owned a property it’s the first place I would list it!

AIRBNB and Booking.com are coming under fire for ‘forcing locals out’ of major cities across Spain. The problem, according to youngsters in Malaga, Barcelona, Sevilla

24 Apr, 2024 @ 15:58

Lead·Opinion·Property

Macklemore is coming to Spain: US rapper, 40, to perform on the Costa del Sol this summer

US rapper Macklemore is coming to Spain as the 40-year-old performs on the Costa del Sol. The ‘Can’t Hold Us’ and ‘Thrift Shop’ singer will

24 Apr, 2024 @ 15:57

La Cultura·Lead·Malaga

Plastic packaging overhaul in Spain: These are the new rules set to come into force after an EU ruling

THE European Parliament today gave the green light to new measures that are aimed at not only making packaging more sustainable from an environmental point

24 Apr, 2024 @ 15:32

Environment·Lead

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