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Jon Snow
If you spend time in the Spanish region of Andalusia – awash with its Moorish inheritance, olive groves, and wineries – there are moments when it is easy to lose sight of the incredible pace of Spain’s development in the three and a half decades since Franco died.
Alex Thomson
Barajas Airport itself, one giant folly to Euro-borrowing on a grand scale against a dream that has never come true. Quite probably never could.
Flash floods kill at least nine in southern Spain and 35 are injured when a tornado sweeps through a fairground and knocks over a ferris wheel. A British woman is among those reported missing.
Facing backbench sniping over airport expansion and now a legal challenge to a decision on a railway franchise: Channel 4 News asks why transport policy is proving such a rocky road for the coalition.
More than three-quarters of motorists admit breaking the speed limit – and two-thirds want the national limit raised, according to a survey.
With today’s opening of the M4’s “Games lane” to accommodate an influx of Olympic athletes, motorists faced morning rush hour queues reportedly up to 32 miles long.
The first of the Olympics Games lanes comes into operation on Monday – on the M4, which has only just reopened following repairs.
Jon Snow
It is as if there is a quantitative disease in government; a quantitative collapse of leadership on visionary projects for the future.
As a picture emerges of serious problems with the provision of security at Olympic venues, pressure mounts on Locog to take action against security contractor G4S.
West Midlands police arrest seven men after weapons are found in a car. The operation follows the detention of six Londoners and a terror alert on the M6.
As six terror suspects are arrested in London, a bus brings the M6 motorway to a standstill for four hours in a response involving armed police, troops, firefighters and bomb disposal officers.
Staffordshire police have announced that the terror alert which closed the M6 toll motorway today was caused by a health improvement aid for smokers
Armed police have evacuated around 50 passengers from a coach on the M6 motorway near Lichfield, in the West Midlands. Reports suggest a man on the bus was seen pouring liquid into a smoking bag.
Liam Dutton
Given the heavy rain and flooding that has hit the UK during the past week, you’d be right in thinking that June is the new October.