Crisis talks on a debt deal for Greece will continue today after a five-hour meeting between the prime minister and coalition government party leaders failed to reach agreement.

Crisis talks in Greece for huge new debt deals will continue tomorrow, leaders of parties supporting the country’s coalition government have said .

Greece’s newly-elected socialist government won a vote of confidence in its programme.

A partial drop in gale-force winds early today offered hard-pressed Greek firefighters a brief respite from the wildfires which have raged for two days north of Athens.