Guardia Civil officer was left with arm injuries after two boats collided as the Gibraltar forces tried to snatch Moroccan suspects from his ship.

Guardia Civil officer was left with arm injuries after two boats collided as the Gibraltar forces tried to snatch Moroccan suspects from his ship.The incident, which saw the Spanish customs boat surrounded by seven Royal Navy and police vessels, stoked existing tensions between the two countries.Reports in the Spanish media said the situation was “five minutes away from a clash of incalculable consequences”.The Unified Association of the Guardia...

DJ Maurice Boland: 'If people want to take a pot shot at me, I've an open line -- they can ask whatever they want...'

Irish celebrity DJ Maurice Boland is returning to the airwaves for the first time following his inappropriate relationship with a 16-year-old teenager in Marbella. Known as 'Mr Marbella', the former Irish nightclub boss, who has been married for 40 years, has been absent from public...

Spanish Civil Guard discovered explosives, detonators and private communiqués from ETA

Spanish Guard found explosives in the Guipúzcoa town of Legorreta where brothers Aitor and Igor Esnaola Dorronsoro were arrested on On Tuesday morning, the Spanish Civil Guard discovered explosives, detonators and private communiqués from ETA in searches carried out during an investigation following the arrests of two suspected members of the armed Basque group in the Guipuzcoan town of Legorreta.According to sources within the antiterrorist...

protest against Basque separatists.

Thousands of people, including mourners of victims of terrorism, marched with Spanish flags in a rally in Madrid called by the AVT (Victims of Terrorism Association) on Saturday to protest against Basque separatists. Last Saturday, tens of thousands on the other side demonstrated in Spain’s troubled Basque region, calling for the government to legalize a new pro-independence party, Sortu, that says it rejects violence by armed separatist group ETA....

David and Samantha Cameron have used the budget airline easyJet to return from their mini-break to Spain.

The Prime Minister and his wife arrived back in the UK at Luton Airport at lunchtime on Saturday 9 April 2011.  They had been pictured in the national press two days earlier waiting at Stansted for their outward Ryanair flight to Malaga, where they celebrated Samantha's 40th birthday.Their three children had stayed at home. Nancy, 7, Ewen, 5, were still at school while 7-month old baby Florence was being cared for by a nanny.To board the flight...

Cineworld, which operates 78 sites in the UK, said it is buying the fifth biggest cinema group in Spain.

Britain's only listed cinema group is making its first foray overseas 16 years after it was founded. Cineworld, which operates 78 sites in the UK, said it is buying the fifth biggest cinema group in Spain. Cinesur, which is the largest operator in the Andalucia region of Spain, runs 11 multiplexes and has a total of 136 scree...

World number 14 Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia continued to impress tennis fans by winning her second round clash against the unseeded Agnes Szavay of Hungary at the Andalucia Tennis Experience at Marbella

World number 14 Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia continued to impress tennis fans by winning her second round clash against the unseeded Agnes Szavay of Hungary at the Andalucia Tennis Experience at Marbella, Spain on Wednesday noon. The second seeded Russian booked a berth in the quarter-finals of the WTA (Women’s Tennis Association) tournament by winning the three-set matchup 6-7(2), 6-1, 6-2, in two hours and twenty one minutes.25-year-old Kuznetsova...

Dinara Safina continued her resurgent form with an impressive 6-3 6-4 victory over fifth seed Tsvetana Pironkova at the WTA Marbella event.

The former world number one was as low as 117th in the rankings last February but she has been showing signs of life in recent weeks.The Russian, now ranked 81, qualified for her first quarter-final since Seoul last September and she admitted that she is slowly starting to find her feet again."I am very happy. I think it's the first time in a while that I have won two matches in successive days," Safina told the WTA website."However, I could have...