British police have arrived in Malaga to question the parents of Ashya King, the five-year-old boy with a brain tumour who was taken out of a hospital in the UK on Thursday without doctors’ consent.

A BBC commentator was forced to apologise to tennis prodigy Laura Robson today after pointing out her “puppy fat” on live television.

A major investigation was tonight under way into a blaze which continued to burn in the heart of one of the world’s most historic cities, causing widespread destruction running into millions of pounds.