With Barcelona and the Catalans on the precipice of achieving independence,

Two home-made explosive devices went off today outside the childhood home of Manuel Fraga, the last surviving member of the regime of General Francisco Franco, a Spanish official said.

Spain and the US have reached an agreement to clean up radioactivity in the Spanish farming village of Palomares, on Spain’s south-east tip, 40 years after two US atomic bombs fell in the area after a midair collision.

Manuel Fraga, the last political survivor of General Francisco Franco’s regime, has lost power in Spain’s Galicia region after an election decided by overseas voters.