August 2023

GOT A STORY? Email us at tips@theolivepress.es AS August sets in with scorching heat engulfing Spain, Malaga is bracing for its third consecutive day of heat alerts, with Coin recording the nation’s highest temperature yesterday, Wednesday August 2, at a sweltering 42.8ºC under a red warning. However, a much-needed relief is on the horizon as […]

GOT A STORY? Email us at tips@theolivepress.es THE Fuengirola City Council has once again bolstered beach security by implementing a coastal aerial surveillance service using drones. Over the course of this summer so far, the four drones operating along the Fuengirola coast have conducted nearly 2,500 missions, totalling 326 flight hours. The initiative to use

MIJAS Town Hall has forbidden the use of drinking water in golf courses to tackle the current drought.  The local government has announced a series of measures to reduce the use of drinking water to combat the drought that ‘continues to seriously affect the Costa del Sol.’  The institution aims to reduce the consumption of

GOT A STORY? Email us at tips@theolivepress.es AN ELDERLY resident in Vall d’Uixo(Castellon province) kept so many illegal drugs at her home that she could not breathe due to vapours given off by them. Guardia Civil officers were passing the woman’s house when she they saw her shouting for help from a window. The woman,

GIBRALTAR’S Minister for Sport has met his counterpart in Azerbaijan after travelling to the central Asian country for a European junior basketball championship. Minister Steven Linares travelled with Gibraltar’s Under-18 national basketball team ‘on his own volition’, a government statement said. He took time off to meet Azerbaijani Minister Farid Gayibov and discussed the possibility

GOT A STORY? Email us at tips@theolivepress.es SMOKERS can light up again on bar and restaurant terraces in the Valencian Community after regional president Carlos Mazon announced he was ending the restriction. The measure was introduced in the region over three years ago as part of a package of Covid-19 pandemic restrictions and was maintained

FIREFIGHTERS from Spain’s Andalucia are finally in control of the bush fire near the Santa Margarita residential complex 15km north of Gibraltar. The blaze started in an undeveloped plot of land in the La Linea urbanisation Tuesday and quickly spread as far as Venta Melchor and El Burgo beach. Six groups of Cadiz firefighters used

GOT A STORY? Email us at tips@theolivepress.es SPAIN welcomed 8.3 million foreign tourists in June- 10.9% more than in the same month last year according to the National Institute of Statistics. Visitors from the United Kingdom accounted for almost two million tourists- 23.8% of the total. The Balearic Islands were the most popular destination followed

GOT A STORY? Email us at tips@theolivepress.es A NEW agreement between Spain and the UK allowing students to access universities and other higher education institutions in both countries came into force on Wednesday. The deal was signed on July 3 by the British Ambassador to Spain, Hugh Elliott and the Spain’s Education Minister. Pilar Alegría,

GOT A STORY? Email us at tips@theolivepress.es THREE of Europe’s ‘Most Wanted’ criminals have been arrested by the Guardia Civil in Calpe on the Costa Blanca. The Hungarian men were members of a drug gang in their native country focusing on growing cannabis and distributing it. Seven members of the organisation were identified with plantations