Spain, Turkey and Greece saw the most requests for consular assistance

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Last summer's most fashionable Balearic backdrop? Not overhyped Ibiza, nor even its louche neighbour Formentera. No, in August, according to the pages of Grazia, there was only one place to be. After all, why else had Britain's top paparazzi magnets decamped en masse to our tiny stretch of Majorca's spectacular northern coastline, the one to which we'd reluctantly waved goodbye only days before?

It is only 12 days since Wiggins was knocked off his bike near his home

Spanish police have arrested a man on suspicion of planning to imitate the 1999 Columbine school killings by planting bombs around a university campus.

The tour operator Tui Travel has shown again how it is benefiting from the woes of it rival Thomas Cook.

An increased number of Britons needed consular assistance abroad last year.

A judge yesterday subpoenaed the son-in-law of Spain's King Juan Carlos to testify as a suspect in a corruption case, deepening a public relations nightmare for the royal family at a time of acute economic crisis.

The son-in-law of Spain's King Juan Carlos has been summoned to appear before a judge as a suspect in a corruption case.

1. Which catering establishment is immortalised in an 18-minute 1967 song by Arlo Guthrie (below)?

To the premiere of The Inbetweeners, the big screen adaptation of the Channel 4 comedy.

A young Briton has died in Ibiza after plunging from the balcony of a third floor flat.