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Brits among hundreds evacuated from Malaga’s Benaojan as mountain ‘trembles’ amid fears defunct dam could burst
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DOZENS of Brits and other European expats are believed to be among 200 people urgently evacuated from a Malaga beauty spot this afternoon. Emergency ...

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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
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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 ...

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Andalucian mountain town soaks in an astonishing 500mm of rain in just 24 hours – obliterating 78-year record
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SPAIN’S wettest town has shattered its all-time rainfall record after Storm Leonardo dropped a deluge of biblical proportions. Grazalema, the picturesque ...

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

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‘We miss you’: Spain’s Pedro Sanchez says UK should rejoin the EU a decade on from Brexit
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SPANISH prime minister Pedro Sanchez said the should UK rejoin the EU – in what marked one of the clearest endorsements yet from an EU leader for a ...

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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!
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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 ...

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

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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
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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 ...

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How a shoot-out in the marshes of Spain’s cocaine superhighway led crack investigators to track down two narco hitmen living lives of luxury on the Costa del Sol
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LIKE so many of their neighbours on the Costa del Sol, the two men lived lives of comfort and luxury from their expensive villas. The one known as Swarthy ...

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New cancer cases in Spain are expected to exceed 300,000 for the first time in a single year
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NEW cases of cancer in Spain are predicted to go above 300,000 for the first time in a calendar year, according to the Spanish Society of Medical Oncology ...

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Syria’s Rifaat al-Assad, the ‘butcher of Hama’ with a €700m Marbella property portfolio, dies at 88
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ONE of southern Spain’s most infamous expats has died at the age of 88 in Dubai.  The uncle of exiled Syrian dictator, Bashar al-Assad, was accused of ...

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Estepona sold the lifestyle but forgot the infrastructure: How the rush to build luxury apartments saw basic needs go unmet
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ESTEPONA has become one of the Costa del Sol’s most frenetic property markets, with thousands of homes built or sold to local and foreign buyers in recent ...

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