November 2023

ANOTHER Spaniard has conquered the world – this time it was a Catalan ascending the stage to collect her prize. Like men’s winner Lionel Messi, there was little surprise when it was announced that Aitana Bonmati had clinched the Women’s Ballon d’Or in Paris on Monday night. The 25-year-old FC Barcelona midfielder scooped up the […]

PETER Dinklage is the official face of Andalucia’s flashy new tourism campaign. The Game of Thrones star, 54, has appeared in a video produced by the Junta warning of the ‘Andalucian crush’. The actor says in the one-and-a-half minute clip: “This is not an ad… this is a warning. “I know a place, a place

POLICE are investigating a gang rape suffered by an 18-year-old woman in the Malvarrosa beach area of Valencia last Saturday morning. The teenager was assaulted at around 5.00am in the car park by the Akuarela Playa club- just a few metres from the Guardia Civil barracks. The woman went to the nightclub that night with

A LETHAL painkiller is STILL being given to northern Europeans five years after it was banned, the Olive Press can reveal.  It comes after an Irish reader contacted us to sound the alarm after he was given the potentially deadly drug while receiving treatment at HCB Hospital in Denia, Alicante.  Nolotil, also known as Metamizol,

GERMAN tourists set a new beer drinking record in Mallorca last week, guzzling 1,234 beers in less than three hours.  The group spent €2,838.20 to break the record for largest round ordered, with each beer costing €2.30 each.  The 2 and a half hour drinking session beat previous records. Photo: Kazuend/Unsplash The 55 person team,

A VALENCIA doctor has been convicted of refusing to go to a patient’s home- just 50 metres from her medical centre- with the man dying over an hour later. She has been struck off for 18 months and fined €4,500 for crimes of an omission of duty to help. The medic was on night duty

SOCIAL media giants Facebook and Instagram will be launching an ad-free subscription tier across the European Union in 2024, including Spain. That’s according to an announcement made on Monday by the companies’ parent group, Meta Platforms.  The monthly plans will be available to users in the EU, as well as those in the European Economic

Villa Lo Pagan, Murcia   3 beds   2 baths € 369,000 This beautiful modern villa, built in 2016, in perfect condition and ready to move into. A house spread over two floors, with 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and large terraces. The ground floor has an open plan design, combining kitchen, dining room and living

POLICE in France have arrested two men who are suspected of shooting up a cafe in Spain’s Marbella back in May of this year. The detainees were wanted in the neighbouring country for other alleged crimes committed there.  The incident in Spain took place on May 17, when two masked gangsters opened fire on two