A boat caught up in a court battle over sunken treasure has been cleared to leave a Spanish port.

SPANISH Civil Guards heightened a battle over a £250 million (€369m) treasure of gold and silver coins from a shipwreck when they seized a vessel belonging to a Florida-based company.

A couple accused of trying to extort money from Madeleine McCann’s family will appear in court today, Spanish police said.

FROM PURPLE woods to purple plains. Last week, I was in a West Cork wood, marvelling at the almost overnight transformation as, suddenly, all together, the bluebells opened in flower.

Twenty tons of hashish were seized and 11 people arrested in a raid by Spanish police today.

DOZENS of African illegal immigrants who charged across the border into the Spanish enclave of Melilla have been deported to Morocco after a week of deadly clashes, officials said yesterday.

Spanish police today stopped 49 North Africans trying to reach Spain illegally in a small boat.

A CRUISE ship carrying some 500 people collided yesterday with an oil tanker in fog-shrouded waters off southern Spain, causing damage to both vessels but no injuries or environmental damage, officials said.

Claudio Reyna has been left out of the Sunderland party for their trip to Spain after picking up a groin injury.

Five people, including three foreigners, were killed and 22 others injured when a Spanish bus drove off a motorway into a ditch today.