Follow Olive Press News Spain, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/olive-press-news-spain Tue, 03 Oct 2023 01:56:47 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/GJma3U32DoR881QFAsGPsqgzzHWHxDTV SPAIN’S National Weather Agency (Aemet) has recorded October’s highest ever temperatures with many areas of Southern Spain reaching over 37C over the weekend.  Cordoba took the top spot, reaching 38.2C. It was closely followed by Badajoz at 38C, Sevilla at 37.5C and Jaen at 37.3C.  Marbella, which only reached 27C on Sunday, formerly held the […]]]> Mon, 02 Oct 2023 18:45:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/GJma3U32DoR881QFAsGPsqgzzHWHxDTV https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/GJma3U32DoS3XF5-6yxkseGrEXdXG_66 VALENCIA’S oldest market was reopened on Monday by mayor Maria Jose Catala after being closed for five years. Located near the port on the Plaza del Mercado Nuevo, the Grau Market started trading in 1916. It has seen €2.8 million spent on its renovation which should have taken just 12 months but a combination of […]]]> Mon, 02 Oct 2023 17:50:04 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/GJma3U32DoS3XF5-6yxkseGrEXdXG_66 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/GJma3U32DoRYC6vDpBXo16gHTd9OkkKt A NEW witness claims he saw Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner running from the rape of a young Irish expat in Portugal. The hotel worker on the Algarve claims he saw the man dressed in black fleeing the apartment block in Portimao at dawn. He was reportedly able to identify him as blonde-haired German expat […]]]> Mon, 02 Oct 2023 16:52:26 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/GJma3U32DoRYC6vDpBXo16gHTd9OkkKt https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/GJma3U32DoQY8RP33cIN07myhX6zo8SW PLANS to expand a health centre serving 30,000 patients on the Orihuela Costa have been shelved in favour of seeking a site to build a second centre, but a politician claims that’s not going to happen. The decision was taken by Orihuela’s Partido Popular-Vox council which overturned a proposal to extend the current facility at […]]]> Mon, 02 Oct 2023 15:57:11 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/GJma3U32DoQY8RP33cIN07myhX6zo8SW https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/GJma3U32DoRwvSmncmPgWXMq2h3ehXEp AN anti-tourism campaign in Marbella is targeting cars with UK number plates by slashing their tyres and daubing them with graffiti – as fed-up locals tell the English to ‘go back to your country’ in a string of online posts. At least four vehicles have been targeted on the resort’s exclusive Golden Mile, with photos […]]]> Mon, 02 Oct 2023 14:52:29 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/GJma3U32DoRwvSmncmPgWXMq2h3ehXEp https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/GJma3U32DoSu4ocCuLDmMNKEpFgimKzx ONE OF the nightclubs that went up in flames early on Sunday morning in Murcia did not have a licence and was ordered to close in January 2022. That’s according to the local council’s town planning chief, who spoke to reporters at a press conference on Monday. La Fonda Milagros was one of three establishments […]]]> Mon, 02 Oct 2023 14:35:26 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/GJma3U32DoSu4ocCuLDmMNKEpFgimKzx https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/GJma3U32DoSCfjAh_OosVxeIF_fEM9tn A THREE-DAY party extravaganza organised by a British tour company ended in violent knife fights and multiple arrests in a resort town on the Costa Brava. Four people were wounded in the street brawls that broke out among the young British revellers, with one getting stabbed in the neck, another in the back and a […]]]> Mon, 02 Oct 2023 14:15:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/GJma3U32DoSCfjAh_OosVxeIF_fEM9tn https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/GJma3U32DoQBosplqKPL6kTXPGaG87AR A FIGHT in a football stand between teenage groups forced police to suspend a match in Javea on Saturday, with two boys arrested and several dangerous objects seized. Groups from Benissa and Javea had been threatening violence via social media leading up to Saturday’s clash between the 14 to 16 year-old boys teams from CD […]]]> Mon, 02 Oct 2023 13:53:50 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/GJma3U32DoQBosplqKPL6kTXPGaG87AR https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/GJma3U32DoQsm75Xec52G7b9ICM-PHur SPAIN’S disgraced former monarch Juan Carlos I left the Galician municipality of Sanxenxo on Monday morning, concluding his fourth visit to his home country since he went into self-imposed exile in Abu Dhabi back in 2020.  After spending a week in the home of his friend Pedro Campos, Juan Carlos, 85, was quizzed by reporters […]]]> Mon, 02 Oct 2023 13:00:23 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/GJma3U32DoQsm75Xec52G7b9ICM-PHur https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/GJma3U32DoSvKIWokqv2Pc4HQhe4ZUzd Pass the Keys is currently seeking Franchise Partners in Spain to meet the growing demand from homeowners in need of a comprehensive short-let property management service. Founded by Alex Lyakhotskiy in 2015, Pass the Keys has revolutionised the UK’s short-term rental industry by offering a hassle-free, fully managed solution for homeowners who are unable to […]]]> Mon, 02 Oct 2023 12:16:24 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/GJma3U32DoSvKIWokqv2Pc4HQhe4ZUzd https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/GJma3U32DoQH2_mi9u6dx4vmyuk5fxzE SPAIN’S King Felipe VI on Monday began a new round of meetings with Spain’s political leaders, ahead of the nomination of a new candidate for prime minister.  The talks come after the Popular Party (PP) leader Alberto Nuñez Feijoo failed to find the support from lawmakers in the Congress of Deputies to take power at […]]]> Mon, 02 Oct 2023 12:11:19 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/GJma3U32DoQH2_mi9u6dx4vmyuk5fxzE https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/GJma3U32DoQH2_mi9u6dxy1Ly282xAAw A BRITISH man, 43, has been arrested in Javea and charged with setting fire to several municipal rubbish collection bins and parked cars. The Guardia Civil says the Brit, who lives in the Costa Blanca municipality, has a criminal record for similar offences. The man went on a rampage in the early hours of August […]]]> Mon, 02 Oct 2023 11:58:49 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/GJma3U32DoQH2_mi9u6dxy1Ly282xAAw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/GJma3U32DoQ8af_nwJkBayoxzwoq1nFt POLICE have confirmed that 13 people died in a nightclub fire in Murcia City on Sunday morning with 14 guests sill unaccounted for. It was Spain’s deadliest nightclub fire since 1990 when 43 people lost their lives in a Zaragoza venue. In December 1983. 81 people were killed in a nightclub blaze in Madrid, with […]]]> Mon, 02 Oct 2023 11:08:13 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/GJma3U32DoQ8af_nwJkBayoxzwoq1nFt https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/GJma3U32DoQFqSgzQBKDU1w3HFUzDTIP THE NUMBER of abortions carried out in Spain during 2022 came in at 98,136, which represents a 9% increase on the year before.  That’s according to the latest data published by the central Health Ministry, and reported by news agency EFE. The figures also show that there were 11.68 abortions for every 1,000 women aged […]]]> Sun, 01 Oct 2023 18:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/GJma3U32DoQFqSgzQBKDU1w3HFUzDTIP https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/GJma3U32DoTtFBsTHwp48KgHTd9OkkKt A DRONE that was being flown by a foreign tourist crashed this week into the Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba. Fortunately there was no damage to the world-famous temple, which is a Unesco World Heritage Site.  Sources from the cathedral told Spanish news agency EFE that the incident took place at around 10am on Thursday, when a […]]]> Sun, 01 Oct 2023 16:30:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/GJma3U32DoTtFBsTHwp48KgHTd9OkkKt https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/GJma3U32DoREAeQgO0UQEVLv-B9hV9S2 A 30-YEAR-OLD HGV driver from Warrington was scalped and left with other serious injuries as the result of a horrific car crash on the Balearic Island of Ibiza.  The accident happened on September 8 when the hire car in which Vincent Brodie was travelling crashed and turned over three times.  Brodie was sitting in the […]]]> Sun, 01 Oct 2023 14:15:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/GJma3U32DoREAeQgO0UQEVLv-B9hV9S2 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/GJma3U32DoQIuTTgLod4xf9M7fKGWt0o THE LOCAL council in the town of Motril has taken the first steps toward stripping disgraced former football chief Luis Rubiales of the ‘gold medal’ that it awarded him as a former resident of the Granada locality.  Councillors unanimously voted in favour this week of beginning an investigation led by its Honours and Distinctions Commission […]]]> Sun, 01 Oct 2023 12:45:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/GJma3U32DoQIuTTgLod4xf9M7fKGWt0o https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/GJma3U32DoStcLs1g-MmbGZMehmtHS8- FIREFIGHTERS have discovered the bodies of seven people killed when fire ripped through a disco in Murcia in southern Spain this morning during a birthday celebration. And as the emergency services carry out the grim task of sifting through the charred wreckage of the Teatro nightclub in the Atalayas district they are fearful of finding […]]]> Sun, 01 Oct 2023 12:29:17 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/GJma3U32DoStcLs1g-MmbGZMehmtHS8- https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/GJma3U32DoQprJQmgGA2mX-fx8LWuXng THE unexpected surge in loggerhead turtles nesting along the beaches of Andalucia which has so delighted turtle enthusiasts is driven by climate change, conservationists believe. This summer, an astonishing 27 nests were recorded, marking the highest number since the first loggerhead turtle nest was documented on the Spanish coast back in 2001. This unusual nesting […]]]> Sun, 01 Oct 2023 10:30:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/GJma3U32DoQprJQmgGA2mX-fx8LWuXng https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/GJma3U32DoS_Qbkz2fZnpeGrEXdXG_66 A ‘GROUNDBREAKING’ new book charting the lives of 25 women who lived in Gibraltar hopes to reshape traditional views on the gender divide. Caretaker Minister for Equality Samantha Sacramento said Women of Gibraltar, Forgotten Narratives would ‘lift women from Gibraltar’s past from obscurity’. Chief Executive of the Gibraltar Heritage Trust Claire Montado wrote the book […]]]> Sun, 01 Oct 2023 09:13:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/GJma3U32DoS_Qbkz2fZnpeGrEXdXG_66