Houses that sprang up between 1930s and 50s were once welcomed by authorities but are now blamed for erosion

For almost a century, the beach-houses of Guardamar del Segura have held out against time and tide, change and development, offering a living snapshot of the early stirrings of tourism on Spain’s Costa Blanca.

For decades, families from inland areas of Alicante province have come to the modest dwellings on Babilonia beach to spend the summer months together, eating, drinking, swimming and chatting. Enduring friendships and relationships have begun on their verandas and under their roofs.

Investor jitters follow report by IPPR and lead to more than £6bn being wiped off the sector’s market value

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UK bank shares tumbled on Friday, cutting the combined stock market value of some of the biggest companies in the sector by more than £6bn, as fresh calls for a windfall tax on large lenders in the autumn budget spooked investors.

Calls for a tax grab, in a paper written by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) thinktank, took a toll on some of the UK’s biggest high street banks.

Lionesses’ third-choice goalkeeper on helping Hannah Hampton prepare for penalties and her stress-free NWSL life at Orlando Pride

“We were like: ‘If Chloe scores this, we win, right? Wait a second – this is it!’” That is what went through Anna Moorhouse’s mind as she stood alongside her teammates while Chloe Kelly stepped up to take England’s decisive penalty in the Euro 2025 final. Suddenly it was “just running and pure emotion” for the goalkeeper and her fellow substitutes. Moorhouse was the third-fastest to reach Kelly in the ensuing sprint, after Esme Morgan and Maya Le Tissier.

The delirious celebrations continued all the way to the Mall in London two days later but by Wednesday that week Moorhouse had landed back in Florida to rejoin Orlando Pride and play a National Women’s Soccer League fixture on Sunday. The 30-year-old says she slept for the whole of her transatlantic flight before receiving a joyous welcome from her teammates at the club, where she was soon signing a contract extension to stay with the defending NWSL champions until the end of 2027.

Veteran rocker characterises US administration as fascistic in song recorded at Chicago sound check

Neil Young has released a new song lambasting Donald Trump, entitled Big Crime.

The Canadian-American rocker has long been a critic of the US president, suing him (but later dropping the lawsuit) over the use of his songs at campaign rallies and calling him “the worst president in the history of our great country”.