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.

POLICE have arrested a second Irishman being hunted over the shooting of a British expat at his home on the Costa del Sol.

AN IRISH gangland criminal suspected of shooting a man outside a bar on the Costa del Sol has been arrested by Spanish police.

SUCH are the twists and turns of life that unheralded Skerries teenager Jeff Hopkins could easily be playing at centre half for the likes of Liverpool or Blackburn Rovers. Instead, a series of chronic injuries ended his dreams of a professional soccer career when he was just 14 years old.

Expensive Problem is proving to be the complete opposite to Jack Smith as he continued his invaluable contribution to the Epsom trainer's small stable by landing division one of the totetrifecta Handicap at Lingfield today.

THE estranged parents of Amy Fitzpatrick pleaded with their missing daughter on her 17th birthday today to make contact and end their nightmare.

The ISEQ climbed an impressive 67.87 points today to 7929.82, as most of the big names recorded gains.

A group of eight young Irish golfers have spent a week in a training camp at the La Cala Resort in Mijas in preparation for this year’s international championships.

Construction company McInerney Holdings has reported a mammoth pre-tax profit leap of 100% to €17.03m. Pre-tax profits for the same period last year (six months to end-June) were €8.53m.

More than 300 people were evacuated from homes and hotels in a Costa del Sol tourist resort today when a forest fire engulfed the surrounding hills.