Spain is the destination of choice for British travellers, but the government says more and more British citizens are spending time in Spanish jails.
His name doesn’t appear on any ballots, but when Britain’s voters go to the polls on Thursday, Prime Minister Tony Blair will be facing the electorate for the last time. Many see the local elections as a final popular verdict on Blair’s premiership, which is expected to end in the coming weeks.
A preliminary hearing was set on Monday in the inquest into the deaths of Princess Diana and her lover Dodi al-Fayed. Diana (36) and Fayed (42) were killed along with chauffeur Henri Paul when their Mercedes crashed in the Pont d’Alma tunnel in on August 31 1997.
A giant Royal Standard flag over Windsor Castle heralded the 80th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II on Friday, the focus of a week of celebrations in Britain. The queen has received more than 20 000 cards and 17 000 e-mails wishing her a happy birthday, Buckingham Palace said.
A three-week long trial that has swung from the religious mysteries in The Da Vinci Code to the more humdrum world of copyright law approaches its climax in a British court on Monday. Lawyers for Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, authors who claim novelist Dan Brown ”appropriated the architecture” of their non-fiction book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, are to begin their closing arguments.