The once-ravaged Spanish construction industry is creating jobs at the fastest pace in almost three years.

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.

Spain’s experienced budget minister Christobal Montoro was the country’s first politician to admit that help was needed to bail out the banks and all eyes have now turned to what form that rescue will take, writes Kyran Fitzgerald