ONCE upon a time, Spain’s Costa del Sol was a simple string of fishing villages.

US first lady Michelle Obama and daughter Sasha went for lunch with Spain’s king and queen at the royal family’s holiday retreat on the resort island of Mallorca in the Mediterranean.

THE search for missing 15-year-old Dublin girl Amy Fitzpatrick will resume this morning for a second day and will concentrate on the area where she was last seen in the Costa del Sol.

THIS MORNING I woke to find light filtering into the bedroom and when I opened the shutters, I did so cautiously. Outside, the sunlight was almost blinding.

THISTLE, ragwort and dock — noxious weeds according to the old posters which pointed out that all landowners on whose lands they were ‘in evidence’ were liable to prosecution.