One person has died, two others suffered burns and more than 4,000 people were forced to evacuate their homes today as a wildfire fanned by strong winds devoured hillsides around the luxurious southern Mediterranean resort city of Marbella.

Some 4,000 people were evacuated from their homes as a wildfire fanned by strong winds spread rapidly through hills around the popular southern Spanish tourist city of Marbella.

A Spanish lawmaker’s hardship tale of barely scraping by on €5,100 a month has prompted a deluge of derision in recession-hit Spain.

THE outlawed political wing of Basque separatist group ETA said yesterday it would reject violence in its drive to be legalised, but the government said it must go further to be able to participate in elections.

Spanish police said today that they were investigating whether Basque separatist group ETA still has an active unit on Majorca after two small bombs exploded on the popular tourist island yesterday.

A ship damaged in a collision off Gibraltar was expected to split in two and sink, releasing its cargo of 27,000 tons of scrap metal, officials said today.

Spanish police have found a car containing 100 kilos of explosives, the Civil Guard said today.

Five people were killed and at least 10 others injured in a gas explosion at a block of apartments in the northern Spanish coastal town of Laredo, authorities said today.

The International Tennis Federation has dismissed reports linking tennis players to the drugs scandal engulfing cycling.

A section of a highway bridge under construction in southern Spain collapsed on workers today, killing at least five, officials said.

Spain’s fisheries department today signed an agreement over fuel subsidies with fishermen who have blocked many ports across the country for the past four days.

MORE than 300 Africans tore through a razor-wire fence separating Morocco from the Spanish enclave of Melilla yesterday, clashing with police in the latest wave of undocumented immigrants seeking a foothold in Europe.

Police arrested five suspected members of the Basque separatist group ETA in northern Spain today, news media reported.

Spanish police today arrested six suspected members of the outlawed Basque separatist group ETA and seized explosives, submachine-guns and handguns in early morning raids.