August 2023

GOT A STORY? Email us at tips@theolivepress.es MORE than half of Andalucia has been placed under red alert for extreme risk of forest fires during this first week of August. After an extremely hot July, where the firefighters of the Infoca Plan (a forest fire prevention and extinction plan created by the Junta) have had […]

ECOLOGISTS have hit out at ship bunkering safety measures as oil washed up on Camp Bay after a refuelling accident in the Bay of Gibraltar. In a late Monday evening update, the Gibraltar government said ‘the impact of the oil spill has been limited to the area of Camp Bay and Rosia Bay and its

HEATHROW airport staff removed several local people including a woman and a five-year-old from a British Airways flight to Gibraltar over concerns they needed a Schengen visa if the flight was diverted to Malaga. The mother of a child Enya States claimed on social media that BA staff were ‘awful and rude’ to her ‘crying

GOT A STORY? Email us at tips@theolivepress.es MALAGA faces the month of August with a dire water situation, holding only half the amount of water it had a year ago in its reservoirs. Currently, the seven reservoirs in Malaga have a combined capacity of about 165 cubic hectometres, which is nearly half of the close

GOT A STORY? Email us at tips@theolivepress.es SMOKE-FREE beaches are becoming the norm in Andalucia, with one in every five beaches now prohibiting smoking, with Cadiz leading the way. Andalucia’s commitment to safeguarding public health has seen a remarkable surge with its decision to prohibit smoking on a substantial portion of its sun-kissed beaches. This

A TOTAL of nine women have been murdered by their partners or ex partners in Spain in July.  The last two women, killed by their partners in Barcelona and Sevilla’s Utrera, bring the number of victims of gender-based violence to 32 in 2023.  The figures show an increase compared to July last year, when seven

GOT A STORY? Email us at tips@theolivepress.es MORE than 100 people have been arrested by the Spanish Civil Guard on suspicion of defrauding as much as €1 million by using an SMS banking scam. A total of 350 victims have been identified, with as many as a thousand police reports filed in the region of

GOT A STORY? Email us at tips@theolivepress.es THE SPANISH government’s delegate against domestic violence, Victoria Rosell, on Tuesday called on the public to be alert given a possible rise in ‘more extreme’ cases and said that citizens should show ‘zero tolerance’ to any kind of assaults on women.  “The summer is a time, and the

THE REGIONAL premier of Catalunya today took advantage of the stalemate after last week’s general elections in Spain to put pressure on the Socialist Party caretaker prime minister Pedro Sanchez in a bid to achieve greater independence for the northeastern region. Pere Aragones of the Catalan Republican Left (ERC) party said that Sanchez needs to

SPANISH football has been hit by another match-fixing scandal that has seen a number of arrests allegedly including a club president. Police swooped on 17 individuals, with 11 detained in the Spanish enclave of Melilla and six more in the province of Granada. The arrests were made after authorities received reports of suspicious betting activities