December 2023

IT was on Valentine’s Day four centuries ago that Arriate won its freedom. On February 14, in 1630, the villagers clubbed together to pay 352,739 Maravedies, the currency back then, in order to buy their independence from Ronda.  An auspicious day, it meant the attractive white village of 5000 souls finally came of age to […]

THE only thing surprising about the epic tale of Chris O’Hare’s constant scamming is that he got away with it for so long. What we have written in our story on his escapades is only scratching the surface. The more we dug, the more dirt we found – endlessly. Because the tale of O’Hare is

THERE is a little corner of Portugal that has been thrust into the spotlight by British royals. Melides, on the Alentejo coast, about 130 km south of Lisbon, is the hidden gem where Prince Harry and Meghan stopped off for a ‘romantic’ break after attending the Invictus games in Germany. There they are said to

Penthouse Casares, Málaga   2 beds   1 baths € 485,200 Floor 2nd, penthouse apartment total surface area 244 m², usable floor area 95 m², single bedrooms: 1, double bedrooms: 1, 1 bathrooms, wheelchair-friendly, air conditioning (hot and cold), age ebetween 10 and 20 years, built-in wardrobes, lift (sí), state of repair: reformed, car park

THE Vietnamese investor at the heart of some of the largest construction projects in Gibraltar’s history picked up awards at the 2023 Bank of the Year awards with Gibraltar ministers. TNG Global Foundation founder Tuan Tran insisted on having Chief Minister Fabian Picardo and Financial Services Minister Nigel Feetham at the event. The businessman got

BRITISH destroyer HMS Diamond has stopped in Gibraltar on its way to the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean on a mission to protect merchant shipping. The Type 45 Royal Navy destroyer stopped for 72 hours on the Rock before refuelling and setting off once again to join up with HMS Lancaster as part of Operation

A BRITISH merchant ship sailing back to the UK rescued 54 migrants on an inflatable boat that was on the verge of sinking off Gran Canaria. The vessel called Hartland Point picked up the travellers, including several pregnant women and children, some 185 kilometres south of the island. They were taken to the port of

HE had to pinch himself when he read the Olive Press story last month. It only made a column on our food and drink page, but it was an honour that needed noting: an obscure meat restaurant in Ronda’s industrial estate had made Spain’s Top Ten best restaurants, according to Trip Advisor. “I guess we

A FEMALE squatter could lose her arm after putting it into a barrel of cement during a police raid in Catalunya. Mossos d’Esquadra officers entered the Lakasa Estudinou building in Santa Coloma de Gramenet (Barcelona province) on Thursday morning to clear out the occupiers. Eight Mossos units and two drones were deployed in an extensive

NOVEMBER temperatures in parts of Spain were the highest for years with the Valencian Community reaching average figures not seen since 1950. In Malaga province, last month was also one of the warmest and driest Novembers for 73 years. State meteorological forecaster Aemet attributed the trend to global warming ‘induced by human activities’. Between November