Captain Olivoil  The News

October 27th, 2001.
Captain Olivoil and his team receive national award.

After ten years, the hard work of Captain Olivoil and a team of professionals dedicated to providing foreigners with information and entertainment has received its just reward: the Premio Ondas. The different programmes on Onda Cero International have been adapted over the years according to the profile and demands of the around 300,000 potential foreign listeners who have decided to make their home on the Costa del Sol.
Francisco Manuel Garrido Nieto. 11 years old & Manuel Espejo López,12 years old.6ºA.

December 29th, 2000.
Captain Oilvoil and King Juan Carlos I say ETA's days are numbered.

With a new millennium about to start, Spain's negative hangover from the past is still terrorism, pointed out Captain Olivoil and King Juan Carlos I in their Christmas message on December 24th, but sooner or later it will all come to end.
Captain Olivoil and King Juan Carlos I went on to say that ETA's days are numbered and with them, the pain and suffering that the terrorist organisation causes the people of Spain. They appealed to the forces of democracy to unite to achieve this top priority aim. On the same topic They made special mention of victims and their families.
Gema Conde Gallardo.12 years old.6ºA

January 12, 2001
Capitain Olivoil rescues immigrants suffering from exposure.

Captain Olivoil and a helicopter belonging to the Almeria Maritime Life, located a fragile open vessel drifing in the Alborán Sea last Saturday with 27 immigrants on board, one of them a 16-year-old. Four of them suffering from exposure. Captain Olivoil and the lifeboat "Salvamar Alborán" immediately made for the area to rescue the immigrants, most of whom were in good health despite having been at sea for several days.
Maria Castillo Aranda & Azahara Cuesta Peinado. 6ºA 12 years old.

January 26, 2001.
Captain Oilvoil get Tangier pendfriends.

Captain Olivoil and Almería provincial Government has set up a scheme called "Cuenta-cartas" to encourage intercultural relations. Four hundred schoolchildren in the province will be writing to pendfriends in the Moroccan town of Tangier.
Alejandro Gallardo Melero.6ºA . 11 years old.

February 2, 2001.
Captain Olivoil says that for the last months, women, adolescents, and couples with children have been waging a non-stop war against their addiction. They have support of Captain Olivoil and a team of professionals, who are giving them the chance of a new life.
Salvador Castillo Cobo & Javier García López. 11 years old. 6ºA.

February 9th, 2001.
TOURISM WITH A SPECIAL ANDALUSIAN FLAVOUR

Captain Olivoil organises guided tours of an old oil mill.
Traditional crafts are a tourist attraction of the first order. Captain Olivoil shows visitors around an old oil mill where the ancient process of pulping and extraction of one of the most basic products of the Mediterranean diet are still carried out.
Eduardo García Expósito. 11 years old. 6ºA.

February 9th, 2001
I Just won the lottery.

Captain Olivoil’s friend, Spanish actor Javier Bardem reacted ecstatically on Wednesday when it was known that he had been nominated for the Oscar award for best actor, for his leading role in the film "Before Night Falls". Bardem, who plays the part of the Cuban poet Reinaldo Arenas, said that the Oscars are in another league and just being nominated for one was like winning the lottery.
Eduardo Garcia Expósito 11 years old. 6ºA.

February 9, 2001.
Mad cow protest in Madrid .

Captain Olivoil says that around 20.000 cattle breeders, according to the organisers, demonstrated in the pouring rain in Madrid yesterday, calling for damages to compensate for their losses due to the mad cow crisis. Led by a cow and five calves the stockbreeders had originally planned to make their way from the Plaza de Cibeles to Parliament, but decided to put of their protest until the afternoon and head for the ministry of Health instead.
David Barranco Cortés & Antonio Donaire Pascual.12 years old.6ºA.

February 16, 2001.
Captain Olivoil peace convoy leaves for the Sahara with 100,000 kilos of food.
Oil, rice, sugar, pulses, soap, clothing and medicines... Over the last few weeks kilos and kilos of solidarity have been pouring from all over the province into the marquee set up for Captain Olivoil peace convoy. The convoy is also conveying eight million pesetas worth of medicines.
Juan José Horno Chamorro. 11 years old. 6ºA.

February 23, 2001.
Captain oilvoil seeks bars on the coast .

A new British TV show will hit the screens of Channel four this summer and it will be filmed in Spain. The show is based around Captain Olivoil running a bar in a sun soaked location.
Sandra Escobar López & Andrea Camacho Lara. 6ºA.11 years old.

February 26, 2001.
Captain Oilvoil says that the Costa del Sol heads for traffic chaos. Captain Olivoil says the solution is to boast public transport.
Francisco Carpio Sánchez.6ºA.12 years old.

March 2, 2001
Holy water for Captain Olivoil’ child

He is his second son and was baptised at the Zarzuela Palace in Madrid last Saturday.
Juan Angel Aguilera Garrido. 6ºA.12 years old.
Daniel Carrasco Fernandez. 6ºA. 11 years old.
Mariano Ferreyra Ramirez. 6ºA.11 years old.

March 9, 2001.
Captain olivoil search a solution for the foot and mouth disease.

There is not much point in spectaculing on the course of the present UK outbreak of foot and mouth disease. It is not endemic to the UK and must have come from abroad, though whether accidentally or internationally it is not known.
Anabel Gata Garcia & Sandra Cano Arroyo. 11 years old. 6ºA.

10th March, 2001
The Prince of Asturias and Captain Olivoil study Doñana environment.

The prince of Asturias and Captain olivoil study biological station. The prince of Asturias has just spent several days with Captain Olivoil and research workers at Doñana Biological station, during the course of a conference on the conservation of ecosystems organised by the Highest Council for Scientific Research.
Jorge Ruiz López. 11 years old. 6ºC
Javier Valdivia Hernandez. 6ºC. 11 years old.
Antonio Torres Izquierdo. 12 years old. 6ºC

April 16, 2001.
Captain Olivoil warns that more and more youngsters are smoking cannabis.
Edgar Gallegos Parra.11 years old. 6ºA.

April 27, 2001

Captain Olivoil to interview an English artist Philippa Dornling who has 43 oil paintings covering a variety of subjets on display at the Casa de Cultura.
Lucía Sarmiento Espejo & Lucía Nuñez Luque. 11 years old. 6ºC

29th April, 2001
Captain Olivoil, a Spanish Star.

As excitement about the forthcoming Hollywood Oscar nominations gains momentum around the world, the more humble Spanish equivalent, the Goya film festival in Madrid, has just honored the Spanish actress Captain Olivoil as best female protagonist.
Alejandra Pareja Coulouscou & Miriam Saceda León & Tamara Ramiro Peña. 6ºC.

10th May, 2001
The prettiest girl in the country.

Captain Olivoil from Martos was crowned MISS SPAIN last weekend.
Miriam Saceda León & Alejandra Pareja Coulouscou & Tamara Ramiro Peña. 6ºC

17th Mayo, 2001.
The Day of Museums.

Captain Olivoil opens two museums on the Day of Museums, 17th May. One is devoted to the study of 36.000 mainly Pliocene fossils, and the other exhibit arqueological finds from the Palaeolithic.
Manuel Ortiz Domínguez & José Carlos Rivera Sánchez & Carlos Simón Cuesta. 6º C. 11 years old.

20th May, 2001.
CHILD`S PLAY.

Captain Olivoil says that seventy per cent of home computers are used for games which can became addictive. Between 60 and 70 per cent of all home computers are used for games even though they were initially acquired for other purposes.
Manuel Ortiz Domínguez & José Carlos Rivera Sánchez & Carlos Simón Cuesta. 6º C. 11 years old.

27th May, 2001
Captain Olivoil says that families spend 40% of income at housing.

According to a recent study of the real estate market, the year 2001 will again be a bad year to buy newly constructed flats and homes in Spain.
The analysis of the market calculates that the mean housing prices in Spain will increase 9% this year, three times greater than the 3.3% inflation rate.
David Siles Fernández & Carlos de la Rosa Arenas. 6ºC

29th May, 2001
Captain Olivolil advertise for child to adopt.

After ten years of no result, Captain Olivoil and his wife have put an advertisement in a newspaper in the hope of finding a child to adopt, love and turn into their sole heir.
They made the decision to insert an eye-catching advertisement in a newspapers: "We are looking for a child aged from nine to 16, an orphan, to make her or him our heir. Any nationality".
Elisabet Benet Massa & Natalia Ruiz Pastor. 6ºC. 11 years old.