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Horror in Madrid as mother leaps from tenth floor window with her three-year-old twins in her arms

A WOMAN died and her three-year-old twins were critically injured after she plunged off the balcony of her Madrid apartment on Saturday morning, holding the

11 Dec, 2025 @ 12:51

Lead·Madrid

Brazen squatters take over Madrid luxury chalet with their children – and even sublet rooms for extra income

THE owners of a luxury chalet in Madrid said they were driven to their wits’ end after a family of squatters moved into their one-million-euro

8 Dec, 2025 @ 11:31

Lead·Madrid·Property

Sky-high rents are driving workers out of Spain’s big cities and into commuter towns on the high-speed train lines

RISING rent is driving workers out of Spain’s big cities and into commuter towns that sit on the high-speed train train lines. Sky-high rent prices

3 Dec, 2025 @ 17:15

Barcelona·Madrid·Property

WATCH: Shocking moment Spanish reporter is harassed by abusive far-right protesters on live TV

THE president of Spain’s public broadcaster has slammed a group of anti-government protesters as ‘fascists’ after dozens angrily harassed a reporter on live television. Laura

2 Dec, 2025 @ 16:05

Lead·Madrid·Politics

Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez responds to Donald Trump's threat to raise tariffs

Spain’s housing crisis is squeezing renters in Madrid to bursting point – can Pedro Sanchez’s government build their way out of it in time?

FAMILIES in Madrid’s lowest-income district are spending more than half of their annual earnings on rent, new data has shown – as experts renew warnings

1 Dec, 2025 @ 15:15

Lead·Madrid·Property

OP INVESTIGATES: Inside the sinister force calling for a ‘second reconquest’ to banish Muslims from Europe – as Spain’s far right celebrates 50th anniversary of dictator Franco’s death

IT was a weekend in Madrid when it seemed that almost every nationalist and right-wing Vox supporter was out in the streets united by one

28 Nov, 2025 @ 18:55

Lead·Madrid·Politics

OP INVESTIGATES: Inside the sinister force calling for a ‘second reconquest’ to banish Muslims from Europe – as Spain’s far right celebrates 50th anniversary of dictator Franco’s death

IT was a weekend in Madrid when it seemed that almost every nationalist and right-wing Vox supporter was out in the streets united by one

27 Nov, 2025 @ 08:30

Lead·Madrid·Politics

Travel chaos in Spain: Fuming passengers are ‘trapped' on stifling hot AVE train outside a station in Madrid

Train journeys between Madrid and Barcelona will take UNDER two hours after Spain agrees to bump up top speeds to 350km/h

TRAVELLING by train between Spain’s two biggest cities will soon take less than two hours, according to plans unveiled by the government earlier this week.

23 Nov, 2025 @ 13:30

Barcelona·Lead·Madrid·Olive Press Travel·Travel News

‘Try putting a Spanish ad up in Barcelona’: Catalan-language billboard in Madrid backfires on 50th anniversary of Franco’s death

A GOVERNMENT billboard in Catalan on Madrid’s Gran Via main street has triggered a political row as Spain marks 50 years since the death of

21 Nov, 2025 @ 14:00

Lead·Madrid·Politics

Opportunistic thief used April blackout to steal 2,200 items of jewellery worth €1m from Madrid shop

Opportunistic thief used April blackout to break into Madrid jewellery shop and steal items worth one million Euros

A MAN who stole 2,200 items of jewellery worth €1m from a Madrid area store during the April 28 nationwide blackout has been arrested by

19 Nov, 2025 @ 14:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Madrid

Acting Valencia president Carlos Mazon ‘roasted’ by Spain’s parliamentarians over his response to 2024 flood disaster

THE outgoing Valencian president, Carlos Mazon, told a Congress committee investigation into the October 29 floods that authorities did not know that people were drowning.

17 Nov, 2025 @ 17:45

Lead·Madrid·Politics·Valencia

Renfe launches new high-speed rail route in Spain connecting Madrid with Alicante and Murcia|

Flash sale offers high-speed train tickets between Malaga and Madrid for just €7 — but you’ll have to move fast

RENFE has launched a flash sale on its Avlo high-speed trains, offering Malaga–Madrid tickets for just €7 — one of the cheapest prices ever seen

14 Nov, 2025 @ 18:25

Lead·Madrid·Málaga

Revealed: How conmen in Spain are targeting foreign arrivals with illegal €200 ‘address-for-cash’ service

REGISTERING on the local census has become a lucrative business in Madrid as foreign arrivals pay up to €200 for illegal ‘address-for-cash’ services. If done

13 Nov, 2025 @ 17:15

Lead·Madrid·Property

MADRID RULES THE NIGHT: Spain’s capital sparkles after dark and it’s got the stats to prove it

MOVE over Paris, New York, and Tokyo – Madrid is now one of the ultimate destinations for night owls. The Spanish capital has just been

11 Nov, 2025 @ 11:39

Lead·Madrid·Travel News

Madrid’s regional government hands controversial director Woody Allen €1.5 million for new film – but with strings attached

MADRID’S regional government has agreed to invest €1.5 million of taxpayer money into an upcoming film directed by Woody Allen – but the new flick

7 Nov, 2025 @ 16:16

La Cultura·Lead·Madrid

Seprona’s most shocking case: Woman in Madrid discovered living with over 50 dogs – six of which were dead

A WOMAN was found living in a substandard Madrid home with over 50 dogs – six of which were dead. A 68-year-old woman living in

3 Nov, 2025 @ 17:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Madrid

Amazing security breach as bogus police officer regularly visited military barracks to ‘recruit’ soldiers for fake spy jobs in Spain

A BOGUS Policia Nacional officer has been arrested in Madrid after trying to recruit soldiers to work for Spain’s intelligence service. The genuine Policia Nacional

31 Oct, 2025 @ 14:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Madrid

High-speed train link between Spain and Portugal’s capitals confirmed- but it could take up to nine years to launch

SPAIN, Portugal, and the European Commission (EC) have struck a deal for a high-speed train link between Madrid and Lisbon to launch by 2034 with a

30 Oct, 2025 @ 18:30

Business & Finance·Lead·Madrid·Olive Press Travel

Erasmus student speaks out over terrifying suspected spiking in Madrid night club

As the Olive Press relaunches our Smash the Spiking campaign, two foreign students tell of their terrifying ordeal in a Madrid nightclub A YOUNG exchange

27 Oct, 2025 @ 10:39

Crime & Law·Lead·Madrid·National News

Gang stole 1,100 bar and restaurant chairs from 18 terraces to sell them outside Spain

Devious gang stole over a thousand chairs from bar and restaurant terraces in Madrid to sell outside Spain during bizarre summer spree

A SEVEN-STRONG gang stole over 1,100 chairs from bar and restaurant terraces in Spain to sell on the black market. The crew were arrested in

22 Oct, 2025 @ 18:45

Crime & Law·Lead·Madrid

UN investigates Madrid landfill site after massive methane leaks are detected from space

A UN agency is probing a Madrid landfill after satellites detected massive emissions of climate-altering methane gas billowing from the site. The International Methane Emissions

22 Oct, 2025 @ 16:55

Environment·Lead·Madrid

WATCH: Eco-activists spray red paint in Madrid art gallery – leaving 133-year-old art work with ‘irreparable damage’

TWO climate activists linked to the notorious environmental protest group Just Stop Oil were arrested in Madrid on Sunday after causing ‘irreparable damage’ to a

17 Oct, 2025 @ 10:23

Crime & Law·La Cultura·Lead·Madrid

Welcome to Madrid’s only English-language comedy club – where a deadpan Turk and a rabble-rousing Chilean crack one-liners about the absurdity of life abroad

WHEN they met at an open mic night in 2023, Xavi Jallois and Abdullah Ozturk bonded over their shared disappointment with how their comedy acts

15 Oct, 2025 @ 10:30

Entertainment·Lead·Madrid

The big EES digital border system rolls out on Sunday to great fanfare… at just one airport in Spain

MADRID airport will this Sunday be the first place in Spain to use the new European biometric and automated border control system for non-EU citizens-

11 Oct, 2025 @ 10:00

Lead·Madrid·Travel News

Four dead in Madrid after collapse of six-storey building that was being converted into a hotel

‘I genuinely thought it was a bomb’: Residents recall horror of deadly Madrid building collapse as council is accused of ‘ignoring risks’

MADRID residents have recalled their terror as a building under renovation collapsed in the city centre on Tuesday, killing four and injuring three others. The

10 Oct, 2025 @ 10:57

Lead·Madrid

Four dead in Madrid after collapse of six-storey building that was being converted into a hotel

THE bodies of four people have been recovered in the rubble of six-storey building that collapsed in central Madrid on Tuesday. The former office building

8 Oct, 2025 @ 11:29

Lead·Madrid

Madrid

Horror in Madrid as mother leaps from tenth floor window with her three-year-old twins in her arms

Brazen squatters take over Madrid luxury chalet with their children – and even sublet rooms for extra income

Sky-high rents are driving workers out of Spain’s big cities and into commuter towns on the high-speed train lines

WATCH: Shocking moment Spanish reporter is harassed by abusive far-right protesters on live TV

Spain’s housing crisis is squeezing renters in Madrid to bursting point – can Pedro Sanchez’s government build their way out of it in time?

OP INVESTIGATES: Inside the sinister force calling for a ‘second reconquest’ to banish Muslims from Europe – as Spain’s far right celebrates 50th anniversary of dictator Franco’s death

OP INVESTIGATES: Inside the sinister force calling for a ‘second reconquest’ to banish Muslims from Europe – as Spain’s far right celebrates 50th anniversary of dictator Franco’s death

Train journeys between Madrid and Barcelona will take UNDER two hours after Spain agrees to bump up top speeds to 350km/h

‘Try putting a Spanish ad up in Barcelona’: Catalan-language billboard in Madrid backfires on 50th anniversary of Franco’s death

Opportunistic thief used April blackout to break into Madrid jewellery shop and steal items worth one million Euros

Acting Valencia president Carlos Mazon ‘roasted’ by Spain’s parliamentarians over his response to 2024 flood disaster

Flash sale offers high-speed train tickets between Malaga and Madrid for just €7 — but you’ll have to move fast

Revealed: How conmen in Spain are targeting foreign arrivals with illegal €200 ‘address-for-cash’ service

MADRID RULES THE NIGHT: Spain’s capital sparkles after dark and it’s got the stats to prove it

Madrid’s regional government hands controversial director Woody Allen €1.5 million for new film – but with strings attached

Seprona’s most shocking case: Woman in Madrid discovered living with over 50 dogs – six of which were dead

Amazing security breach as bogus police officer regularly visited military barracks to ‘recruit’ soldiers for fake spy jobs in Spain

High-speed train link between Spain and Portugal’s capitals confirmed- but it could take up to nine years to launch

Erasmus student speaks out over terrifying suspected spiking in Madrid night club

Devious gang stole over a thousand chairs from bar and restaurant terraces in Madrid to sell outside Spain during bizarre summer spree

UN investigates Madrid landfill site after massive methane leaks are detected from space

WATCH: Eco-activists spray red paint in Madrid art gallery – leaving 133-year-old art work with ‘irreparable damage’

Welcome to Madrid’s only English-language comedy club – where a deadpan Turk and a rabble-rousing Chilean crack one-liners about the absurdity of life abroad

The big EES digital border system rolls out on Sunday to great fanfare… at just one airport in Spain

‘I genuinely thought it was a bomb’: Residents recall horror of deadly Madrid building collapse as council is accused of ‘ignoring risks’

Four dead in Madrid after collapse of six-storey building that was being converted into a hotel

Brit in Spain advises against going autonomo as crackdown continues – now Bizum payments will be inspected

How much does each Costa del Sol town hall spend cleaning invasive Asian seaweed – and can profit be made from it?

Orange alert in Spanish holiday islands for ’10 metre waves’ just one week after tourists were swept away at rock pool

Drivers in Spain MUST have V-16 light from January 1st – but will police ‘go easy’ in the early days?

Costa del Sol under yellow weather alert this weekend – Campo de Gibraltar on orange