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Gibraltar has become Uefa's 54th member nation after the European ruling body voted for its inclusion at its congress in London.

There had been opposition from Spain but the Gibraltar FA won a case at the court of arbitration for sport obliging Uefa to accept the British overseas territory as a member.

The Uefa president Michel Platini said that Gibraltar would be kept apart from Spain in qualifying for Euro 2016. "Gibraltar will not play qualifying matches with Spain – we also have this situation with Armenia and Azerbaijan,'' he said.

"This is a momentous occasion for football in Gibraltar," said Gareth Latin, president of the Gibraltar Football Association. "Uefa membership means that we can begin the next chapter of Gibraltarian football."

He added: "At last we'll be able to show the whole of Europe that we can match the best with football of a high standard and entertaining style.

"It will open up a whole new world of opportunities for our highly skilled young footballers. This is one of our greatest ever sporting moments."

Gibraltar's first application, in 1999, had been rejected in the face of intense opposition from Spain, who feared that that if Gibraltar were to be admitted to Uefa, it would set a precedent that could inspire similar claims from separatist Basque or Catalan teams.

The last vote was in 2007 when only three countries supported Gibraltar's application and Spain threatened to withdraw all its teams from Uefa competition if Gibraltar were admitted.

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Newly released documents reveal secret services paid out fortune in bid to stop Franco joining war on Hitler's side

MI6 spent the present-day equivalent of more than $200m bribing senior Spanish military officers, ship owners and other agents to keep Spain out of the second world war, files released today disclose.

More and more money was delivered, mainly via a Swiss bank account in New York, as Sir Samuel Hoare, Britain's ambassador in Madrid, warned London that unless it was paid, there was a real and immediate danger of Spain abandoning its neutrality and of Franco joining forces with Nazi Germany.

In June 1940, Hoare was demanding an initial $1m. "I personally urge authority be granted without delay, and that if you have doubts, the prime minister be consulted," he told the Foreign Office in London. "Yes indeed," Churchill initialled on a copy of Hoare's deciphered telegram in red ink.

One file names "Senores Jose Jorro Andreo and Rasado Silva" Torres as recipients of British funds sent, in their case, to the Bank of Portugal in Lisbon.

"It may well be that Spain's entry in the war will depend on our quick action," telegraphed Hoare in another urgent plea for MI6 cash to spend on agents. The situation was "cricial", he insisted: "I cannot spend spare time to explain the position in detail."

Hoare claimed that British money was responsible for the arrest of people plotting to persuade the Spanish dictator to join the war on Germany's side. Hoare succeeded in persuading ministers in London. A top secret message from Lord Halifax, the foreign secretary, referred to British contact with guerrillas in the event of Spain being invaded by Germany. "Please burn this letter when you have read it," he told Hoare.

British agents later made contacts in Lisbon with an unnamed Spanish Republican leader and representatives of the Allianza Democratica Española. Churchill's concerns that British agents were "contacting 'Reds' with the object of stirring up a revolution" were allayed by Hugh Dalton, the minister for economic warfare, the files show.

At least $14m, some $200m in today's value, from MI6's secret vote was spent on Spanish agents during the second world war, according to the documents. At one point, British ministers persuaded the US to unblock cash for Spanish agents held in banks in New York.

Franco seemed determined throughout the war to remain neutral, though was on close terms with Germany behind the scenes.

Spaniards were not the only beneficiaries of MI6 money approved by FO ministers. "We recently put forward to our ambassador in Baghdad a suggestion for the adoption of large-scale bribery of politicians and other leading personalities in Iraq," says a file dated January 1941. The file suggests that Britain had to keep up with the Italians and Germans, placing an initial £100,000 at the embassy's disposal. The document then adds: "We have been trying by hook or by crook to dislodge the Iraqi prime minister" – a reference to the pro-Axis Rashid Ali al-Gaylani.

The spy who cross-dressed

An MI6 officer was arrested by police in Madrid during the second world war dressed "down to a brassiere, as a woman", a file disclosed today recalls. Dudley Clarke, masquerading as a Times journalist, said he told Spanish police he was a "novelist and wanted to study the reactions of men to women in the streets". He later explained that he was taking the "feminine garments to a lady in Gibraltar and thought that he would try them on "for a prank".

An anxious report to C, the head of MI6, in London reported that among the items in his suitcase was a "roll of super fine toilet paper, which particularly excited the police, who are submitting the sheets to chemical tests".

Communications intercepted by the British revealed that German officials described the case as a "first class espionage incident".

But Clarke was released, and quickly made for Gibraltar. "Please keep him under strict surveillance and despatch to Middle East by next plane," C told Gibraltar's governor. "If he shows signs of mental derangement, he should however be sent home by first ship."

He did not. Clarke "went on to have a brilliant career in deception", wrote Keith Jeffrey in his official MI6 history.

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The world's greatest chef is looking for a dog. But Ferran Adrià, the 51-year-old who closed down his legendary El Bulli restaurant in 2011, is not seeking a four-legged companion for his retirement.

Adrià is now busy cooking up a new venture, with help from six top business schools: a cultural foundation designed to keep El Bulli's name alive for another century. In typically meticulous style, he knows what kind of dog he wants to be the model for its logo.

It must be a French bulldog, similar to the pets that, back in 1964, were the inspiration for Marketa and Hans Schilling's beachside bar, overlooking a charming Mediterranean cove in Spain's north-east corner, which Adrià later turned into a global legend.

"I will hold casting sessions in New York, London, Madrid and Barcelona if necessary," said the man who was voted the world's best chef by Restaurant magazine a record five times.

The global search for the perfect logo for a foundation dedicated to innovation, high cuisine and the pursuit of happiness is the sort of thing only a man as brilliant, barmy and wedded to perfection as the Catalan chef could think up.

Adrià is now entering this new phase of his life with the same high-octane approach that fuelled a gastronomic revolution. "I decided to get out of the restaurant star system," said Adrià, whose 2010 announcement came as El Bulli stood at the top of the world restaurant rankings. "But El Bulli never closed. It is simply being transformed."

Adrià is used to getting his way and has a canny ability to pull in free talent. His restaurant ran off the back of dozens of stagiaires – a form of advanced intern – from around the world who queued up for a chance to be in his kitchen.

He has now persuaded half a dozen of the world's best business schools to pitch ideas for the foundation project. Then he asked a group of number-crunching, marketing-minded students from Barcelona's IESE business school – one of the world's top 10 – to help him draw up his own plan, before raiding the others for ideas he might have missed.

Given that business school papers on El Bulli – from Harvard and elsewhere – regularly pointed out that it made little or no money, that seems especially daring.

Presenting the results at IESE, Adrià said the project's shape was now 95% settled – though the exhilarated but exhausted business students said it had changed radically from day to day.

A museum and visitor centre themed around his restaurant and the history of gastronomy is to be called El Bulli 1846. "This reflects both the 1,846 El Bulli dishes we have catalogued and the year that Auguste Escoffier, who is the most important chef in history, was born," he said.

He hopes that some 200,000 people a year will come, including gastronomes who have dined at the world's latest number one restaurant, El Celler de Can Roca, in nearby Girona.

Two separate projects will see him publish an ambitious online encyclopedia of gastronomy called Bullipedia, while the chef who famously blew up tomatoes with a foot pump, and continues to experiment radically, will broadcast his results on the internet in a project called El Bulli DNA.

"I have never stopped being a chef and I will get back to the kitchen with El Bulli DNA," he said. "El Bulli created a new way of looking at gastronomy and our idea is to keep that going."

Bullipedia will track the greatest developments in gastronomy. "We won't be putting up the 5,000 cakes you can find on Google, but the 30 cakes that have marked the history of the evolution of chocolate cakes," he explained.

For those lucky enough to have eaten at El Bulli – where Adrià refused to charge more than €250 (£200) a head, though many would have paid 10 times that much – the idea of it becoming a hybrid museum and research centre may be shocking.

It is housed in one of Spain's few protected Mediterranean beaches, the spectacular Cala Montjoi. Some would rather the spot remained a secret accessible to a few. "The great thing is that it will now be open to many more people," Adrià said.

That does not mean everyone will get a mouthful of Adrià's legendary food – previously available to just 8,000 diners a year at the 50-seater restaurant. Just as visiting FC Barcelona's museum does not involve playing football, so the eating at El Bulli will be minimal.

He will auction off meals to build up a multi-million-euro endowment designed to keep him, and his foundation, free from outside interference. "For the moment, we don't have to worry if income does not match costs, because I will cover it," he said. "Through donations, ticket income and other things, we will eventually build the endowment." A Japanese businessman recently bid €28,000 for one meal.

The El Bulli Foundation will draw inspiration, he says, from such varied sources as the Cirque du Soleil circus, fellow Catalan madcap Salvador Dali and his museum in nearby Figueres, and MIT's Media Lab.

Friends helping him set itup include former Tate Modern boss Vicente Todoli. "I don't believe in boards," Adrià said. "I believe in sitting down with friends and sharing ideas over food or beer."

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Overall revenues fell by 4.2% to £44.4bn, marking the first such contraction in the UK mobile phone company's history

Vodafone has recorded its first ever fall in annual revenues as the recession in southern Europe caused its takings there to dip by almost 17%.

With its finances under pressure, the British mobile phone giant said it would reinvest next month's £2.1bn dividend from US subsidiary Verizon Wireless in the business, rather than returning cash to shareholders.

Overall revenues at the British mobile phone company fell by 4.2% to £44.4bn, marking the first such contraction in the company's history.

Tuesday's results also marked the largest fall in organic service revenue, which counts income from calls but excludes handset sales, and takes into account mergers and disposals and changes in currency values, since the measure was introduced in 2003.

The company wrote down the value of its businesses by £1.8bn, bringing to £7.7bn the reduction in book value of its operations in Italy and Spain this year.

"We have faced headwinds from a combination of continued tough economic conditions, particularly in southern Europe, and an adverse European regulatory environment," said the Vodafone chief executive, Vittorio Colao.

Regulation has been gradually reducing the cost of connections to mobile phones in recent years, bringing down service revenues for operators.

Colao made no comment on Vodafone's discussions over selling all or part of the 45% stake in its US network to co-owner Verizon Communications.

Vodafone's ordinary final dividend will increase to 6.92p, a 7% increase this year and a 22% rise over the past three years. The firm said it would "at least maintain" the ordinary dividend per share at current levels.

With results slightly better than City forecasters had feared, shares remained flat at just under 198p during morning trading on Tuesday.

Operating profit was £12.3bn, comfortably above the top of the range set by the company last May. Vodafone guided that profit next year would be between £12bn and £12.8bn.

Revenue from internet connections rose 13.8%, while major emerging markets remained buoyant, with India up nearly 11% and Turkey up 17%.

Vodafone said it would continue investing to build video-quality networks across Europe so that it could manage the high demand for data from smartphones, and extend 4G coverage across 40% of its networks in its top five European markets by March next year.

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New square reverberates to Clash songs as musicians gather in Spanish city to celebrate

It is a small square, set away on the far side of the magnificent Alhambra complex, but friends say the Placeta Joe Strummer inaugurated on Monday evening in the southern Spanish city of Granada would have delighted the Clash frontman.

With its white walls, reddish sand, pine trees, carved drinking fountain and views of the spectacular Sierra Nevada, the square reverberated on Monday night to the sound of Spanish Bombs, London Calling and other Strummer songs as musician friends from Britain and Spain gathered to celebrate.

"He liked the city a lot," said Esperanza Romero, whose family first brought Strummer to what would become one of his favourite cities. "For me he was like a soul brother."

Romero and Strummer shared a west London squat when he was a struggling musician and her sister Paloma was the future Clash singer's girlfriend – sparking his interest in Spain and the city where their brother Fernando was studying, Granada.

"He was just one more of the crowd, but very charismatic. He always had time for people and was very warm and accessible," she said.

The Spaniards helped introduce him to the culture of southern Andalusia and the work of Granada's most famous poet, Federico García Lorca, who was shot by a rightwing death squad during the Spanish civil war and buried in an unmarked mass grave in the hills above the city.

Strummer later included both Lorca and Granada in his 1979 song Spanish Bombs on the London Calling album, and once tried to find and dig up the poet's grave. "He was very interested in anything that had the smell of freedom and of revolution," Romero said.

Paloma went on to become Palmolive, the drummer in the punk group the Slits, before moving to the US and becoming a committed born-again Christian.

Esperanza went out with Richard Dudanski, the drummer in Strummer's pre-Clash band, the 101ers, who later played with the former Sex Pistols singer Johnny Rotten in Public Image Ltd. The couple eventually moved to Granada.

After Strummer and his fellow band member Paul Simonon sacked the guitarist, singer and songwriter Mick Jones in 1983, the Clash began to fall apart and he sought refuge in Granada.

It took locals a while to recognise the by now internationally famous musician. "At first I thought he was some drunk," José Ignacio Lapido, whose punk-rock band 091 Strummer went on to produce, told the British film-maker Nick Hall. "He had his little notebook with him and he showed me the poems he had in English."

Strummer was in Spain when critics panned This is England, the single from the band's final album, Cut the Crap. "I just went, 'Well fuck this,' and fucked off to the mountains of Spain to sit sobbing under a palm tree," he said later. He eventually found a house in nearby Almeria, bought – and managed to lose – a prized Dodge car, and produced an album for 091.

A Facebook campaign to name a city square after him began last year, and it turned out that even Granada's conservative-run city hall contained some Clash fans. "It got into the local newspaper, the socialists made the proposal and finally all parties voted in favour," Dudanski said.

Monday night's acoustic jam session brought together family, including Strummer's daughters Jazz and Lola, and friends, including musicians from the Pogues, the 101ers, 091 and his backing group in the three years before his 2002 death, the Mescaleros.

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Sven Olaf Kamphuis is accused of global cybercrime, but Spanish police found him in a squalid flat with his name on the letterbox

The day Sven Olaf Kamphuis parked his huge orange Mercedes van with its German numberplates outside Bar Javis, in the Catalan town of Granollers, the owner's son snapped a picture with his mobile phone.

"Not a lot happens in this street," Maria Cruz, the bar's owner, explained. "And it was so huge, with all those funny antennas and solar panels poking out of the roof, that it blocked the light to the bar."

Even stranger was the 35-year-old Dutch man who parked it in this narrow street after renting a small attic flat with windows made of glass blocks in the poorer end of this nondescript town 15 miles from Barcelona.

Even on hot early summer days, Kamphuis wore a woollen hat. And he spoke no Spanish, answering "yes, yes" in English to everything people from this friendly neighbourhood said to him.

Kamphuis, 35, is one of the most controversial characters in the murky world of spam and hacking – deemed the internet's public enemy number one by some, though others believe his reputation has been blown out of proportion by the grandstanding of his foes.

Capable of rigging up sophisticated computer systems anywhere, including the back of a van, he allegedly masterminded a flurry of March internet attacks that the security company CloudFlare claimed "almost broke the internet", plunging the world into digital darkness. When Spanish and Dutch police arrested him they found the flat occupied by a tangle of cables and computer gear. A copy of the science fiction writer Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver lay on the unmade bed.

Kamphuis displayed a Napoleonic sense of grandeur. "He claimed he had diplomatic status," said the Spanish police officer who led the operation, but asked not to be named. "He said he was the telecommunications minister and foreign minister of a place called the Cyberbunker Republic. He didn't seem to be joking."

"The request to arrest him came from the Netherlands," said the police officer, who heads the cybercrime unit in Barcelona. "But Britain, the United States and Germany were all affected by the massive denial of service attacks that he launched.

"The van was fitted out as a mobile office from which he could launch his attacks. Amongst other things we found the IP addresses of his targets and that is part of the evidence we are sending to the Netherlands."

Kamphuis has yet to be tried, but Spanish police believe they know his modus operandi. "He brought together hackers from around the world to launch the attacks. It is obviously not all over yet, because the Dutch have been under attack again in recent days – presumably as revenge by his friends.

"Some of them have networks of zombie computers, having spread viruses that let them control others people's computers. They all agree to launch the attack and they do millions of requests to the server at the same time."

The result was what the New York Times called an attack of previously "unknown magnitudes", producing a 300bn-bits-per-second data stream that targeted the British and Swiss-based anti-spam operator Spamhaus and its allies. This had reportedly blacklisted his CB3ROB/Cyberbunker company, which claims its servers are housed in an old Nato nuclear bunker near Rotterdam, for hosting hundreds of spam and malware websites. Kamphuis happily claimed to be punishing Spamhaus for "abusing their influence".

"Nobody ever deputised Spamhaus to determine what goes and does not go on the internet," he told the New York Times in an angry message. He later denied involvement. "We want to be absolutely clear that the DDoS [distributed denial of service] attacks are not and have not ever been orchestrated within CB3ROB/CyberBunker, nor are they conducted under the supervision of Sven," he wrote on his Facebook page.

But the huge number of spammers he hosts has led even hacktivists sympathetic to his pro-Pirate party, Anonymous and Julian Assange's stance to question his real activities.

Several other mysteries remain. If this was one of the most successful spammers in history, why was he living in a squalid flat and a camper van?

"If you get paid a few cents for each spammed email and you send out million emails every day, then you can make a lot of money," said the Spanish police chief.

Kamphuis certainly did not behave like a criminal on the run. "He seemed too relaxed to be a crook," said Cruz. "And he certainly didn't hide away. He had even written his name on the letterbox."

"He wasn't really trying to hide," agrees the Spanish police chief. "I think he thought that we wouldn't track the attacks to him or that we would leave him alone because he was not attacking Spanish targets."

His attacks were widely reported to have slowed the entire internet down, but internet speed trackers such as Internet Traffic Report barely registered a blip.

Some point to publicity-seeking grandstanding by CloudFlare, an internet security company called in to protect Spamhaus. It claimed this was "the DDoS [attack] that almost broke the internet".

"The record-breaking attacks were initially directed at Spamhaus infrastructure such as websites, mailservers and nameservers. Then, over the course of the following two weeks, the attacks escalated to targeting Spamhaus's supporting networks and services including various internet exchanges," Spamhaus's British founder Clive Linford said on his blog, describing the attacks that started in the middle of March. "While the DDoS caused disruptions to our organisation and its hosts and partners, the flow of the Spamhaus anti-spam data that protects over 1.7bn mailboxes worldwide was never interrupted."

Kamphuis was last week taken to the Netherlands – a country that recently announced plans to let police hack into computers located abroad, installing spyware, reading emails and deleting files. He is being held in jail while investigators decide what charges to bring.

A spokesman for the Dutch public prosecutor's office said he would appear before a court in Rotterdam again this week to have bail conditions reviewed after the "unprecedented heavy attacks" on Spamhaus and its partners in the US, Netherlands and Great Britain.

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