44 h. ago ‘Football is not complicated’: Andoni Iraola on Bournemouth, birdsong and playing better

The travel-loving manager is staying put for now on the south coast after a record-breaking season – ‘I’m going to enjoy the years ahead of me’At Bournemouth’s uber-cool Canford Magna training base, a 57-acre site on a former golf course, Andoni Iraola is surrounded by bells and whistles. There is a hydrotherapy pool and an altitude chamber. “For me, those are like the extras,” says a manager used to getting his hands dirty from his days at AEK Larnaca in Cyprus and Mirandés in northern Spain.“I come from clubs where everybody has to do their job – and something else. I’ve needed to cut videos, make things, set up; we didn’t have goals with wheels so four of us would move them.” At Rayo Vallecano, even after promotion to La Liga, he explains how they happily made do with “training on one pitch and a third”. Continue reading...

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45 h. ago Summer holidays in Mallorca, Menorca and Ibiza face huge disruption as mass strikes to hit hotels

Mass walkouts by hotel staff threaten holidays in British tourist hotspots in Spain

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46 h. ago Crete earthquake: Brit tourist shares 'unsettling' ordeal as tremor rocks Greek island

Claire Gibson, 49, revealed her 'unsettling' ordeal while on Crete during Thursday's terrifying 6.1 magnitude earthquake - the British mum tourist said she was woken up by the tremors

Economics

65 h. ago Brit tourist dies in Costa del Sol 'drowning' after late evening swim

A British tourist has died while on holiday on the Costa del Sol, Spain - the man, 57, got into difficulties in the sea at the popular holiday resort of Fuengirola

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65 h. ago Germany boosts Nato’s eastern flank with new Baltic brigade amid threat from Russia – Europe live

Friedrich Merz visits Lithuania to mark the official formation of Germany’s first permanent overseas military unit since the second world warPortugal wants European energy regulators’ agency ACER to lead an independent investigation into the causes of the huge power outage that brought most of Spain and Portugal to a standstill last month, its acting energy minister told Reuters.Maria da Graça Carvalho said prime minister Luís Montenegro wants an independent investigation led by the European Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators to complement the technical report being prepared by the European network of transmission system operators ENTSO-E. Continue reading...

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67 h. ago British tourist who's visited Canary Islands for 34 years says she's 'embarrassed' to return

Tourist Leanne Daley has been visiting the Canary Islands for 34 years, but said she's never felt less welcome than during this visit with her partner, Matthew Booth

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3 d. ago British tourist, 65, is accused of molesting dozens of children from Namibia's San tribe after forcing them to strip at remote 'living museum'

The tourist was arrested by police on Sunday after allegedly telling San children at the living museum of the Ju'/Hoansi to undress (Illustrative image of San woman)

Society

3 d. ago Spain delivers ANOTHER blow to British holidaymakers by blocking cheap data roaming in Europe as part of Brexit reset deal

Millions of Brits visit Spain and Italy every year, with UK tourism significantly boosting the country's local economy.

Economics

4 d. ago Ange Postecoglou says 'I'm not a clown' in furious rant and admits his 'future is assured'

Ange Postecoglu was speaking in Spain the day before Spurs' Europe League final against Man Utd when he took offence to an earlier news report written about him

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5 d. ago Moment British tourist drinks a beer as he's swallowed by quicksand on beach in Brazil

Jensen Sturgeon, 22, got trapped in a massive eight-foot hole on a beach in Brazil and couldn't get out. Videos showed the Brit frantically trying to escape - and even having a beer.

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5 d. ago Moment British tourist drinks a beer as he's swallowed by quicksand in hole he had dug on beach in Brazil

Jensen Sturgeon, 22, was trying to dig into the sand as deep as he could but he eventually struck water and the hole quickly collapsed around him.

Society

5 d. ago Balearics hit back at ‘selfie tourism’ as sites become overwhelmed

Tourist authority backtracks on use of influencers after one tiny cove is swamped by 4,000 visitors a dayThe authorities in Spain’s Balearic Islands have said they will stop using social media influencers to promote popular destinations, saying “selfie tourism” is damaging some of its most beautiful locations.In an attempt to quell the effects of overtourism, the Balearics had hoped that influencers, many of whom have hundreds of thousands of followers, might relieve the strain on some better-known sites by directing visitors elsewhere. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Mystery as Brit tourist, 43, is found dead 'in suspicious circumstances' in bathroom of his Turkish hotel room

A British tourist has been found dead under 'suspicious circumstances' in the bathroom of his Turkish hotel room. 

Society

7 d. ago British tourist, 36, is left fighting for his life after being 'stabbed and thrown from a car' in horror attack at tourism hotspot

Andrew Joseph Cook, 36, from Manchester, was reportedly with two other foreigners and a Thai woman in a white Toyota Veloz that pulled over in Pattaya, Thailand, on Friday evening.

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7 d. ago British tourist fighting for life in Thailand after being 'stabbed and hurled from car'

A British man is fighting for his life after being attacked in Pattaya, Thailand, by three people who threw him from a car and left him for dead, bloodied and injured

Politics

8 d. ago Shocking moment British tourist is attacked by crowd wielding makeshift weapons after getting into a fight with a taxi driver in Bali

Brandon Joseph, 30, reportedly assaulted Herlindo Emmanuel Nino, 31, at a car park in the Badung district of the holiday island in the early hours of Thursday.

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9 d. ago Brit flies to sunny Benidorm for a night and it cost less than train to London

Carole Rees, from Rhondda, spent £200 on a trip to Benidorm in Spain compared to a day out in London, which she said would have set her back considerably more

Politics

1 week ago Dean Huijsen: Real Madrid reported to be closing in on Chelsea and Liverpool transfer target

The defender could return to Spain for the first time since his academy days despite fielding heavy interest from Premier League sides

Sport

1 week ago Readers reply: If you were prepping, what would your top five items be?

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts. This week’s followed the Spain/Portugal outagesIf you were prepping, what should be your top five things to hoard in light of the recent power outages in Spain and Portugal? Alina Ahmad, JohannesburgSend new questions to nq@theguardian.com. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Charts show Spain faces 35°C heatwave that could last for days

New weather maps show chances of a 35°C heatwave hitting Spain in time for May half-term

Politics