WORLD youth racewalking champion Kate Veale (West Waterford), finished third in the junior women’s race at the prestigious McCain UK Cross Challenge in Bristol over the weekend.

Overall leader Igor Anton crashed out of the Vuelta a Espana today as Joaquin Rodriguez raced to victory on an action-packed 14th stage.

British twin sisters have died in a car crash while on holiday with their family in Spain, sources said today.

Two British toddlers have been killed in a car crash in northern Spain, police said today.

Two small bombs blamed on Basque separatist group ETA exploded on the Spanish island of Majorca today.

The leaders of Spain’s main political parties have paid tribute to two police officers killed in an explosion as security forces guarded against a fresh attack on the 50th anniversary of the founding of the armed Basque group Eta.

THE leaders of Spain’s main political parties paid tribute to two slain police officers as security forces guarded against a fresh attack on the 50th anniversary of the founding of the armed Basque group ETA.

A CORK family was caught up in a horror bombing on the Spanish resort island of Mallorca which killed two police officers and led authorities to block all outgoing flights and ships from leaving as part of a manhunt.

Spain's security forces were on maximum alert today for the 50th anniversary of the armed Basque group ETA, blamed for bombings that killed two police officers and injured scores of people this week.

Police sealed off the holiday island of Majorca today after two officers were killed in a suspected ETA bomb attack.

A bomb attack near a police station on the Spanish island of Majorca killed two officers and injured several people today.

DOZENS of women and children escaped a massive bomb attack by Spanish separatists ETA which destroyed a police barracks yesterday.

Dozens of people were injured when a powerful car bomb exploded early today in northern Spain outside a barracks housing police officers and their families.

A car bomb exploded early today near a police barracks in the northern city of Burgos, injuring dozens of people, the Interior Ministry said.

The Spanish Interior Ministry says a suspected car bomb has exploded near a Civil Guard barracks in the northern city of Burgos.

Spanish police have arrested six people suspected of recruiting Islamic fighters for Iraq and engaging in other terrorism-related activities, authorities said today.

A small bomb exploded on a road in northern Spain today after the armed Basque separatist group ETA made a warning call about four bombs.

A Spanish court sentenced two members of the armed Basque group ETA to 2,775 years in prison each for planting a bomb on a train packed with holiday travellers heading to Madrid on Christmas Eve of 2003.

An explosion killed seven workers at a warehouse today in the northern Spanish city of Burgos.

A bus went off a road in northern Spain and crashed before dawn today, killing five people and injuring 29, 10 of them seriously, officials said.

Spain vowed today to crush the Basque separatist group Eta following the arrest of its alleged leader and seizure of a vast weapons arsenal in raids in France described as virtually decapitating the organisation.

Two of Spain’s most wanted alleged terrorists and at least 16 other suspected members of the armed Basque separatist group Eta were captured today in a vast French-Spanish police operation, authorities said.

Police in France and Spain arrested 21 suspected members of the armed Basque separatist group Eta today in a series of raids that authorities described as a blow to the organisation’s logistics unit.