TODAY (December 22, 2022) marks the 20th anniversary of punk legend Joe Strummer’s death. He died just a few months after celebrating his 50th birthday with Paul Weller and Damien Hirst in a tiny Spanish village that had captured his love and where he had a holiday home for many years. His links to Andalucia […]
IT’S the season of office Christmas parties. Finding a more sustainable and sociable alternative to a boozy knees-up in a bar, the Olive Press team converged on the beautiful mountain village of Montejaque, in the Serrania of Ronda, inland from Malaga. Part of the Sierra de Grazalema Natural Park, which also borders the province of
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SPAIN’S DGT traffic department is predicting 18.2 million car journeys during the Christmas season this year, with ‘Operación Salida’, as the start of the rush is known, beginning at 3pm on Friday December 23. Traffic authorities will be stepping up their activities during this particularly busy time of the year, with the peak activity expected
A British woman died and a man- also British- suffered serious injuries in Palma on Wednesday when a vehicle hit them while waiting to use a pedestrian crossing. The accident happened at around 6.00 pm on Avenida Gabriel Roca in front of Palma Cathedral. The driver- said to be in her mid-thirties-has been arrested for
AFTER what feels like weeks of rain, there is some good news for residents of Spain this Christmas. The holiday season will be drier than had originally been forecast by the Aemet state weather agency. What’s more, the temperatures will be unseasonably high. That does, of course, rule out the chance of a white Christmas
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SEVEN flights, scheduled to land at Sevilla International Airport yesterday morning, Wednesday December 21, were diverted to Malaga airport due to unusually heavy fog around the city. The seven flights which were bound towards Sevilla but diverted at the last minute due to the dense fog have included flights from Palma de Mallorca (two), Valencia,
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SPANISH operator Renfe is adding more trains on the high-speed trajectory Malaga – Madrid. The operator plans 14 new services per week between the two cities, which represents a weekly supply of 160 high-speed trains. According to Renfe, positive response to the demand has led to an increase in the number of weekly services on
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MIGUEL RICART, who was convicted for the rape and murder of three teenagers from the Valencian municipality of Alcàsser, was arrested in a Barcelona drug den on Tuesday. Ricart was given 170 years in prison back in 1997, for the kidnap, torture, rape and murder of Miriam García, María Deseada Hernández and Antonia Gómez. He
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THE Guardia Civil is investigating the death of a 77-year-old hotel owner at her Guardamar del Segura home on Wednesday. Her son is claiming that she was the victim of a home invasion. Rita Ortiz was well known in the city as the proprietor of the family-run Hotel Guardamar, some 50 metres from the beach.
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