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Spain’s corrupt police chief ‘helped smuggle 58 tonnes of cocaine into Spain worth €2 billion’ while head of the Economic Crimes unit

FORMER head of Spain’s UDEF anti-money laundering unit helped a criminal network smuggle at least 58,000 kilos of cocaine into Spain, making more than €30 million in the process, police say. A new Internal Affairs report claims Oscar Sanchez Gil…

Red alert in Malaga province: Storm Leonardo forces mass evacuations as Costa del Sol faces torrential rains from Wednesday

FEARS of flooding have sparked urgent evacuations in Malaga province after Spain’s state weather agency issued fresh alerts for the Costa del Sol from Wednesday. Serrania de Ronda, northwest of Malaga, is now under a red warning as forecasters predict…

DON’T MISS: Spain’s train tragedies, weather woes and an Olive Press expansion – all on this week’s episode of The Rest is Spain podcast!

THE weather might be getting you down, but we’ve got just the thing to warm the cockles of your heart – the latest episode of the Olive Press’ flagship Rest is Spain podcast is out now!  This week, our crack…

FROM THE ARCHIVES: When the Olive Press caught up with the UK’s only ‘dwarf drag queen’ while on the Costa del Sol

STAR: Miss DQ is a household name on the drag circuit This story was originally posted on April 1, 2019 – we don’t think it was an April fool’s joke THE UK’s only dwarf drag queen has just completed a…

Estepona expat’s knee hell as Spanish private hospital and insurer’s ‘greed and rudeness’ leave her thousands out of pocket – and still in chronic pain

By Rod Usher Unlucky Angela still has disabling chronic pain a year after knee surgery. In a personal medical saga, her husband, seasoned journalist Rod Usher forensically asks some probing questions about healthcare and insurers in southern Spain FIRST, not…