9 h. ago Tourist in Majorca baffled by pool behaviour unlike anything she's 'ever seen in her life'

A woman could not believe what she saw at Majorca hotel at 10am one morning, finding it both hilarious and baffling.

Politics

26 h. ago Majorca counts the cost of rejecting tourists: Restaurants and bars say their season has been devastated after UK families took their cash elsewhere in wake of anti

Restaurant and bar owners in Majorca have said their season has suffered due to a plunge in visitors.

Society

6 d. ago Fire breaks out at popular Spanish hotel as tourists rush to balcony

A fire broke out at a popular Spanish hotel as guests rushed to their balconies to see what was going on.

Society

7 d. ago Mother Mary Comes To Me by Arundhati Roy review – brave and absorbing

In this remarkable memoir, the Booker-winning novelist looks back on her bittersweet relationship with her mercurial motherTwelve minutes into an interview with Allen Ginsberg for the BBC’s Face to Face, Jeremy Isaacs asks him about the extraordinary long poem he wrote about his mother: “In Kaddish, you mourn your mother. What was the effect on you of living with a mother who was mad?” Ginsberg’s answer, mildly inflected by a laugh, is: “It gave me a great sort of tolerance for eccentric behaviour.”Arundhati Roy, whose memoir is partly an account of her life with her mother Mary Roy, might recognise this insight. Arguably, all mothers appear to their children as mad: madness here meaning an unbounded force, at odds with what society imagines normal parenting to consist of. The manifestations of this madness are as disparate as those of love, and these two aspects – the abnormal, the overbearing, and the protective, the nurturing – can be, in our mothers, intimately intertwined (“She...

Politics

1 week ago Dark life of Akinwale Arobieke from boy's death to racist nickname and squeezing muscles

Bodybuilder Akinwale Arobieke was a modern day bogeyman who became infamous for his strange behaviour and as a larger-than-life figure in Liverpool who was engulfed in controversy after being jailed and then freed

Events

1 week ago British tourist robbed by 'Zimmerframe bandit' at Majorca Airport, loses £1700

A British woman was targeted by the elderly thief as she arrived at Majorca's Palma airport, with the 70 year old 'zimmerframe bandit' making off with £1700 worth of her belongings

Society

4 w. ago British tourist targeted by masked Rolex rippers in Majorca who snatch £35,000 timepiece in front of his wife and child after holiday meal

Three masked men robbed the 44-year-old holidaymaker near a hotel in Cala Egos, a resort close to picturesque Port d'Andratx on the island's southwestern tip.

Society