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has held AN expat landlord one-man an unprecedented a tenant who protest against for two years. hasn’t paid rentDavid Lomas (left), 66, took to the streets over €10,000 in unpaid rent in at the home
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PRINCESS Cristina, VI come as part face an unprecedented of King Felipe 46, who allegand could now Inaki, against the sister The charges into her husband in public funds. of an investigation millions of euros edly embezzled
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THEY say good things come in 300! threes, or in this case In our fitting 300th issue we are packed exclusives and with English paper original content - more than ANY other Aside from thein Spain. probe, we have news and our ongoing TripAdvisor of the Basque food features on the culinary region, as well Andalucian weed as a missive on delights how an in Victorian times.helped boost the UK’s literacy rates Plus our in-depth dispatch from Fallen, where Franco the Valley of the is soon to be exhumed, exclusive commentary from three of Spain’s with Hispanists, Paul Preston, Ian Gibson leading Tremlett. and Giles And in a special we tell the story supplement to mark our 300th and where many of how the Olive Press came issue, to be work, with some of our former reporters currently in Russia and Yes, there is a lot inside. So sit America. or reach for your back, grab a coffee glass of wine and favourite fortnightly newspaper. relax with your We’re here for at least another be too. 300. Hope you’ll still
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they can trample Those who think the honest and over the elderly,- expat or otherthe vulnerable to find themwise - will continue by the Olive Press. selves exposed including Los are Corruption cases, the ERE scandal, voice Merinos and the open as the finally out in louder. of dissent grows set to be monumenNext year is political history, as tal in Spain’s threatens to a new party Podemos corrupt two-party blow apart the on state. shining a light We have been and injustices here we are the corruption decade and for nearly a attempt to breathe backing any Spanish politics and new life into country. the and up clean next 200 issues, Here’s to the fairer Spain! a better, cleaner,
Campilllos. by Followed his four children - aged six between and 12 - Lomas marched three-bedroom the to from the town hall property to ‘demand justice’. Middlesbrough, Lomas, from Continues
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and 200 issues IGHT years first Olive Press ago the very hit the streets. the travesty That issue exposed cutting off of greedy developers they began carving footpaths as and the obligatory a golf course on Unesco-pro1,000-plus houses Ronda. tected land near that has followed, In each issue and campaigned we have fought a greener, safto make Andalucia better place. ener and all round a desire to bring Born out of issues into the public vironmental Press has evolved Englisheye, the Olive number-one into Spain’s newspaper. to inlanguage one prepared It is the only expose evil and vestigate scams,– as various legal fight for justice shown. threats have
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“He was immediately aggressive. We are gay together, perhapsand he saw us it is discrimination. I don’t know,” he said. The British expat, who works in marketing, had been driving home having partner from workpicked up his at a hotel in Nerja. “He went absolutely berserk, pushing me so officer behind hard that the had to catch me,” added Jones. “He then grabbed Mario to one side.” and tossed him Eventually the officer was moved away who then gave by colleagues, badge number, the couple his file a complaint.so they could Civil spokesperson A Guardia confirmed the incident was ‘being investigated’.
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It was three degrees above the average as July temperatures soar to an alarming new record
THE heatwaves and drought are threatening this year’s wine harvest in Spain. An exceptionally hot summer has left grapes withering on the vines with many winemakers choosing to bring the harvest forward by at least a month. The vendemia (grape harvest) usually takes place during September but many have decided to start picking in August. Yields are expected to be down by an average of 15% to 25% depending on the region.
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COPING: Children in Madrid deal with the heat By Fiona Govan
and June were also the warmest on record, with AEMET warning that summer seems to be starting a month earlier than it did six de-
cades ago. As a result of the extreme heat and drought, Spain is suffering nearly its worst year of wildfires on record. Some 240,000 hectares had already been scorched in more than 370 blazes by the end of July.
Meanwhile, water levels in Andalucia’s reservoirs continue to drop at an alarming rate. The two main reservoir systems, the reservoirs of the Guadalquivir and those of the Andalucian Mediterranean Basin continue to hemorrhage water. The Guadalquivir basin lost 70 cubic hectometres in just a week Antiques – Jewellers - Pawnbrokers and sits at a capacity of 24%, while the Andalucian Mediterranean IS NOW BUYING Basin sits at 45% capacity. ALL TYPES OF In total, Andalucia’s reservoirs sit at 28% WATCHES AND capacity, some 7% beJEWELLERY IN low where they were this time last year. ANY CONDITION Nationally, reservoirs sit at 40%.
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SPAIN has suffered its hottest July on record. Official data shows the mercury soaring to nearly three degrees above the average of the last 60 years, when records began. The country’s temperature for the month was 25.6 degrees, according to AEMET, the national meteorological office on Monday. It makes it 2.7ºC higher than the average from records dating back to 1961. Predictably, the hottest place in the country was Moron de la Frontera, in Sevilla province, where the dials hit 46ºC on July 24 during the second heatwave of the summer. The period, which sizzled from July 9 until July 26, was described as ‘the most intense, the most extensive and the second longest’ in history. It has also been one of the driest July’s with the least rainfall in the last 15 years. Alarmingly, the months of May
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Grapes will be smaller but some winemakers believe this isn’t necessarily a bad thing. “We will have fewer grapes to pick but it will have a positive effect on the markets because the wine will be better quality and at a good price,” says Castilla La Mancha Agriculture Minister Francisco Martinez. Spain’s olive groves are also struggling with warnings that harvests will be massively reduced pushing up prices of oil. Meanwhile, the country’s corn, wheat and barley crops could fall by as much as 13% this year, with prices inevitably rising.
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