August 2023

GOT A STORY? Email us at tips@theolivepress.es A POWERFUL gust of ever-changing wind frustrated the landing of a flight from Norway at Malaga Airport last Wednesday afternoon, August 2. The challenging conditions affected the Norwegian flight covering the Trondheim-Malaga route, scheduled to arrive at 3:30 pm. The skill of the pilot prevented the scare from […]

A BOAT waving a British flag that was transporting 2,000 kg of cocaine worth €70 million has been intercepted in northern Spain.  The white sailing boat was spotted 30 nautical miles from the Port of Santander, in Cantabria, by officers of customs services.  The capture of the boat, named Night Falls, was part of a

A MAN has been arrested for secretly filming a woman in a toilet at Malaga Airport.  The 27-year-old was allegedly caught by a woman he was filming inside a public toilet.  The victim, who was using the toilet, realised that someone had introduced a phone through the stall and that she was being filmed.  She

THE POLICE had to be called to a park in the northern Spanish city of Valladolid on Wednesday night, after two fathers got into a violent argument over the queue for a child’s swing. As well as throwing punches, one of the men involved used a baseball bat to beat his adversary.  The incident took

A BOY aged seven died on Wednesday after falling out of a fourth-floor apartment in Benicarlo in Castellon province. The Civil Guard told the Spanish press that the youngster was playing with his sister when he fell from a window into the building’s indoor courtyard. According to the account of the authorities, the neighbours were

MORE AND MORE American tourists are choosing Spain for their vacation destination, with the number of visitors from the United States arriving on these shores rising by 17.4% in the year so far compared to the same period in 2022.  That’s according to the latest figures from Spain’s National Statistics Institute (INE), and reported today

NOT EVEN on vacation can Spain’s caretaker prime minister, Pedro Sanchez, escape attacks from the country’s opposition parties. This time, the Socialist Party leader has raised the ire of his political foes for choosing Morocco for his family summer break.  Sources from La Moncloa prime ministerial palace have confirmed to the Spanish press that Sanchez

GOT A STORY? Email us at tips@theolivepress.es SPAIN’S Ministry of Consumer Affairs(Consumo) has opened disciplinary proceedings against several low-cost airlines for charging passengers for hand luggage that is transported in cabins. The list of companies that face sanctions has not been made public but when Consumer Affairs minister Alberto Garzon launched an investigation earlier this

GOT A STORY? Email us at tips@theolivepress.es A NEW express car park has opened in the arrivals area of Alicante-Elche airport allowing passengers to be dropped off or picked up safely. Free parking will be offered for ten minutes in the zone which houses the airport’s multi-storey car park. The new facility is in addition

AUTHORITIES have reopened Camp Bay and Little Bay to bathers in Gibraltar after managing to clean up a lot of the oil that damaged that stretch of coast after Monday’s spill. The Department of the Environment have been working with Brightside contractors and The Nautilus Project’s young volunteers to remove oil from the rocks over