Spanish police are hunting a British man after his van was found abandoned at a viewpoint off the Mediterranean coast.

The 24-year-old was named locally last night as Matthew Chapman from Manchester, almost a month on from his family reporting him missing on April 30.

Earlier this week police launched a two-day search near the popular resort of Tossa de Mar involving a helicopter and drones before calling it off late on Thursday.

Mr Chapman had travelled to France on May 1 on the Eurotunnel and spent time in Portugal and Spain before his mobile phone signal petered out around 60 miles north of Barcelona.

A spokesman for the Mossos d'Esquadra regional police force confirmed a two-day search for the missing Brit was undertaken.