A lightning strike killed two tourists on a Mallorca beach on Thursday. The double tragedy happened shortly at around 3.40 pm on Cala Mesquida in Capdepera. Just minutes before, the state meteorological agency Aemet had issued a yellow alert warning as a severe storm moved across the north-east of Mallorca. A 65-year-old Swiss man named […]
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From the Olive Press editor Jon Clarke THE harrowing photo of Prince William arriving at Balmoral yesterday evening told it all. We didn’t need any words to go with the snap of the future king driving his uncles Andrew and Edward into the royal Scottish residence. Their grim faces told it all. It was at
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THE summer of 2022 will go down in the books as the hottest summer recorded in Spain in 60 years. Spain has experienced the warmest summer since 1961, with an anomaly of 2.2 degrees above the average, which means having exceeded by 0.4ºC the year 2003, considered so far the warmest summer season since records
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THE autumn booster rollout for over 80-year-olds and residents of care homes will kick-start on September 26—with Spain due to start receiving the first doses of the ten million for the new Omicron variants today, Friday September 9. Extensive planning for the rollout is already underway with the Ministry of Health announcing that the vaccines
SPAIN’S King Felipe has sent a moving tribute to the British royal family on the death of Queen Elizabeth. Writing on behalf of he and his wife Letizia, who spent a number of days with the Queen in 2019, he sent ‘love and prayers’ to the remaining British royals. The Olive Press was the first
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YOU WERE A WONDERFUL WOMAN:Tributes pour in from Spanish politicians and the Royal Family to Queen Elizabeth SEVERAL leading Spanish politicians, including Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and the Spanish Royal Family have posted tweets with beautiful messages in tribute to Queen Elizabeth. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez posted on Twitter, “My condolences go to the entire
THE Alpujarra is a region known for its fantastic range of fauna and flora. Its cultivated slopes play home to everything from roaming Ibex (mountain goats) and jabali (wild boar) to farm animals, working beasts such as mules, and domestic pets. Sadly, like most of Spain, it has a problem with lost and abandoned animals
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THE Guájar-Alto area of Los Guájares, in Granada province, is battling a devastating forest fire that started at 1.55pm and is being attended by 200 firefighters, six fire engines, and 21 aircraft. A giant plume of smoke drifted across La Alpujarra, plunging some towns into what looked like early sunset, with a north westerly breeze
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THE Queen is dead. Official. British expats around Spain have been glued to TV screens and radio sets all day to hear the sad news: Queen Elizabeth has died at the age of 96. The British monarch passed away at her Scottish home of Balmoral peacefully today. She died this afternoon with most of her
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TODAY’S worrying news about the Queen’s health and the big gear shift among UK TV channels as they clicked into ‘rolling coverage’ reminded me of my three decades working for the BBC and their procedures for a royal death. When I started as a BBC reporter in the 1980s there was no non-stop news outlet
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