Walter Finch
Deputy News Editor, and Editor, Olive Press Gibraltar at The Olive Press
Video Journalist / Investigative Reporter, Marbella and Gibraltar @theolivepress Previous @mailonline
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4 days ago |
theolivepress.es | Walter Finch
VISITORS to Spain can enjoy their holidays with a clearer conscience by choosing accommodation that doesn’t contribute to the country’s growing housing crisis. As protests against tourist apartments continue to rock major cities across Spain, savvy travellers are being urged to try a guilt-free alternative: university housing that would otherwise stand empty during summer months.
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1 week ago |
theolivepress.es | Walter Finch
BRITS are increasingly shunning Spain in favour of alternative European destinations following months of anti-tourism protests and tightening regulations, new research reveals. Amsterdam has now overtaken Spain as the most sought-after holiday spot for UK travellers, with the Dutch capital attracting 42,000 flight searches per month from British tourists, according to analysis by One Sure Insurance.
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1 week ago |
theolivepress.es | Walter Finch
BRITISH holidaymakers heading to Spain this Easter face a double whammy of disruption, with strikes threatening to derail plans both in the air and on the ground. Thousands of hotel workers across Tenerife, La Palma, La Gomera and El Hierro will walk out today and tomorrow (17 and 18 April) after pay talks broke down. Around 80,000 staff are expected to take part, raising fears of delays and reduced service at hotels across the islands.
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1 week ago |
theolivepress.es | Walter Finch
THE family of a Brit who died under mysterious circumstances in an Andalucian holiday town last summer is set to launch a protest against the local authorities’ handling of the case. Brett Dryden (pictured above), 35, from County Durham, was found dead with a gash to the head at his seaside apartment in Mojacar, Almeria, last July.
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1 week ago |
theolivepress.es | Walter Finch
ORCA season is returning to the Strait of Gibraltar and scientists are already working on ways to mitigate their interactions with sail boats amid rising anger from the region’s skippers. A new campaign to track and protect the endangered Iberian orcas has kicked off from the Cadiz town of Barbate after the first pods were confirmed to have arrived in the Strait.
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Vucic will bring in the thugs. It’s when the police and payroll security services stand down and ignore orders that he’ll be toppled.
Tears of joy & excitement in Belgrade 🇷🇸 as thousands of Serbian students arrive from all over the country to take part in the largest anti-govt protest since the Milosevic overthrow in 2000. https://t.co/Mjg7yQT02r
This is it
Hungary: Mass protests against dictator Orban in Budapest. Orban shut down public transportation to prevent people from across the nation from gathering in the capital. "The spring is here. The spring of the Hungarians. And we, together will end Orban's winter!" https://t.co/PFMCCSgCm6
The problem is governments can always shut the windows and turn off the telly till they go home. Vucic will never leave voluntarily.
Another video from Belgrade showing the huge scale of the protests taking place against President Vucic tonight. They are demanding the resignation of the Serbian president. Hundreds of thousands people are out on the street 🇷🇸 https://t.co/32Uwnltufe
