The Spanish prime minister is making an emergency visit to the Canary Islands today to assess raging wildfires that have forced the evacuation of 14,000 people.

Oil leaking from a sunken ship has broken through floating barriers off the Balearic Island of Ibiza, threatening a series of tiny islands that make up a protected bird sanctuary, officials said today.

TOURISTS heading for the beaches of Spain this month should watch out. The authorities have warned that a massive invasion of jellyfish on the country’s east coast.

Rescue teams today recovered the bodies of 11 firefighters who died while trying to douse a forest blaze in central Spain – the deadliest in five years - believed to have been sparked by a barbecue.