OPINION: Like turkeys voting for Christmas, Britain has dished up Brexit into Boris Johnson’s greedy hands
Britain's Christmas number one!
OPINION: Spain may be hosting the pivotal COP25 climate conference, but Madrid may need to rethink its approach to sustainability
“People are lazy about not using their cars,” says volunteer Cristina Gomez. “There’s no excuse. We have a very good public transport system”
OPINION: British conman David Klein moved to Spain’s Costa del Sol but couldn’t move on from his criminal past
And like any stray mutt, it seems you couldn’t teach ‘David the dogman’ new tricks
OPINION: Diners at THIS restaurant in Spain knew about its underwhelming food, but not about its ‘slave labour’ and owner’s arrest
Why then did it take until just over a month ago for someone to finally tip off police?
OPINION: Predictions that Spain’s far right Vox party could become kingmakers in today’s elections are worrying for expats and Spaniards alike
In 2016, their current leader controversially unfurled a giant Spanish flag on the rock of Gibraltar, an act he was willing to be arrested for
OPINION: ‘Stick to plagiarism and prostitutes, leave the actual journalism to real newspaper groups like ours’
When it comes to an issue as serious as killing pets improperly, fraud and worse, it takes a proper paper to understand the issues.
News round-up: Oct 23rd – Nov 5th 2019
Our journalists break down our biggest news stories from Andalucia and the rest of Spain during the last two weeks. Subscribe to Olive Press TV
OPINION: Franco’s last day in the spotlight let Spain breathe clearly again
Finally a mass murderer has been moved away from the 30,000 he killed.
After a 30-year hiatus, it’s time to get the band back together for a birthday party in Marbella, writes Giles Brown
In the meantime, I struggled to fret a B chord.
Belinda Beckett reveals the jargon which makes her stomach turn
Had Shakespeare himself been around today, he would be having a Twelfth Nightmare trying to fit sayings like ‘the feel-good-factor’ into a rhyming couplet.
Expats’ healthcare should be a right not a privilege
Many expats have paid their taxes for years and rightly expect affordable care as they age.
Thomas Cook’s collapse shows the sun has set on the golden age of package holidays
Clean but bland hotels, a little extra legroom and the convenience of airport transfers were not enough.
OPINION: Britsh expats would have made the difference if given choice to vote in Brexit Referendum
The burning truth is most of us could not vote despite the fact we stood to be most affected.
OPINION: Answers needed over Spain’s ‘werewolf’ drug contamination scandal
It is also incredibly worrying how such a contamination could have gone unnoticed for so long
OPINION: Something is clearly wrong at the sushi restaurant that infected over 50 people
THE poisoning of at least 51 people from just one restaurant is both shocking and scary
OPINION: Unmaintained pool pumps are an ‘accident waiting to happen’
In many urbanization, they leave this job to a gardener, left in charge of the pool with little understanding of how powerful these pumps can
OPINION: Government plans to demolish Gibraltar’s Queen’s Cinema building mark the loss of a cultural hub on the Rock
This latest attempt to encourage car use on Gibraltar’s already congested roads will leave a bitter taste in the mouths of many
OPINION: We need answers on why British vet was denied hospital trip – on 3 occasions
TOWN halls need to break their silence on why a British war veteran was denied a trip to the hospital on three separate occasions. The
OPINION: Anti-tourism groups in Mallorca need to drop the spray can and talk to holidaymakers
Holidaymakers are essential to Mallorca’s economy, and don’t let Government officials or the media tell you otherwise
OPINION: The ruling that Javier Sanchez is Julio Iglesias’ third-born son is about more than money – it’s about vindication
“For so long, hiding the truth with lies.” These are the words to one of Julio Iglesias’ most enduring anthems, ‘Se Me Olvide de Vivir’.
OPINION: Justice at last!
British engineer Robert Mansfield-Hewitt has been released from prison this month
OPINION: War on Terraces
As the Olive Press highlighted last year the stark truth is up to 42% of all the 1,650 terraces in Palma are at risk
OPINION: Is it any wonder racism flourishes in Spain, when a teacher of all people, feels she can call black men ‘monkeys’?
With a teacher now caught on camera peddling the same old racist stereotypes of ‘monkeys’, is it any wonder racism continues
OPINION: Vulnerable people being robbed in hospital beds on the Costa del Sol is an absolute disgrace
The hospital also make it more difficult to report thefts to the police as they have refused to document the crimes
OPINION: After it emerged taxi rapist John Worboys is learning Spanish in prison, we must not let him into Spain
Worboys would be among the sickest and most dangerous expat criminals to have ever inhabited this country
OPINION: The Junta de Andalucia’s budgets which benefit residents are a welcome sight after decades of corruption
This could go some way to undermining the grip of the local drug cartels, who benefit from grinding youth poverty and a lack of opportunity