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Islands gear up for St Patricks Day celebrations

Canary Islands - 17.03.2010 - Resorts throughout the Canaries can expect a green day today, not to mention a very busy night, as thousands of Irish ex-pats and tourists celebrate St Patricks Day. more...

News Features ::

Aponte award

25.02.2010 - The Adeje based bodega, Tierras de Aponte, were the recent winners of a gold medal for their Vendimia Seleccionada Cosecha 2008 wine. more...

Tasty potato salad

25.02.2010 - Ingredients
• 5 potatoes
• 5 very thin slices of good quality bacon
• 1 cucumber
• The juice of 1/2 a lemon
• Small green salad leaves such as lamb’s
tails, rocket or water cress
• 1 fully skimmed natural yoghurt
• 2 tablespoons of olive oil
• A sprig of fresh mint
• A pinch of ground white pepper
• Salt more...

Some ingredients to know

25.02.2010 - Ingredients to help with acne
Benzoyl Peroxide (Benzoyl and Oxygen)
Used to dry and peel acne lesions and prevent future breakouts in the skin.
Kills bacteria in the follicle which leads to acne. more...

Archive News ::

Tenerife

Financial cost enormous

21.02.2010 - The two days of heavy rain fall and wind that saw schools across the Canary Islands close and millions of euros of damage to homes and roads showed, yet again, the need for improved radar cover for the islands. more...

Tenerife

Second Hindu fair

Adeje - 20.02.2010 - Following last year’s success, a second Hindu Fair was held in Adeje on February 7th, with funds raised being destined towards helping the victims of the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti through the Red Cross and UNICEF. more...

Tenerife

Police threats

Santiago del Teide - 19.02.2010 - Inocencio Doble, socialist councillor for Santiago del Teide has ratified his official complaints in the Arona courts over allegations of violence and threats on the part of two local policemen from Santiago del Teide and one national policeman from the southern national police station. more...

Tenerife

Winning ways with food

18.02.2010 - The mayor of Santiago del Teide recently assisted in the presentation of the winners of the II Santiago del Teide Tapas Route. more...

The popular street theatre event may be cancelled

Tenerife

Street theatre threatened

Puerto de la Cruz - 17.02.2010 - The governing alliance in Puerto de la Cruz is in the difficult position of having to decide where to cut spending in order to protect the council’s fragile economic situation. more...

Arona and Cabildo representatives at the signing of the co-financing agreement

Tenerife

Urban bus for Arona

17.02.2010 - The mayor of Arona José Alberto González Reverón and Tenerife president Ricardo Melchior have just confirmed an agreement which will see the island authorities assuming some of the cost of the recently introduced urban bus route into Arona. more...

(L-R) Island president Ricardo Melchior and Felix Sierra, councillor for the south, in the new offices

Tenerife

Cabildo in the South

16.02.2010 - On Wednesday 27 January, the Tenerife Cabildo president, Ricardo Melchior, paid his first visit to the offices of the Cabildo’s Special Territorial Delegation for South Tenerife. more...

Many Canarians lost their lives in the tragedy

Canary Islands

Crash relatives dispute report

16.02.2010 - The families of victims of the Spanair plane tragedy say the recently-published crash investigation report fails to address the full causes of the accident and incorrectly lays the blame on the pilots. more...

Canary Islands

Gara & Jonay

15.02.2010 - The Canary Islands has its own tragic couple, evoking similar sentiments as Romeo and Juliet or Abelard and Heliose. more...

Canary Islands

Big switch off soon

15.02.2010 - Analogue television is to be progressively phased out across the islands of Tenerife, La Gomera and El Hierro from March 10 and 11, and La Palma from March 1, a process which will be finalised by April 3 when the installation of terrestrial digital television (TDT) should be complete. more...

People will have to work longer to qualify for a state pension

Spain

Retirement age proposal

14.02.2010 - Plans by the Spanish government to raise the retirement age by two years will be “opposed to the death” say the country’s main unions. more...

Air traffic controllers are to see their power reduced

Spain

Strike threats

14.02.2010 - Spain needs 1,200 more air traffic controllers to be able to move the number of planes that are currently using its airspace. more...

Islands gear up for St Patricks Day celebrations

Lanzarote hotels warning

Lanzarote - 17.03.2010 - Moves by the Canarian government to legalise several hotels built in Lanzarote in breach of planning regulations could open the floodgates to more problems, warns the island's PSOE party. more...

Deportation fears prevented abuse complaints

El Médano - 17.03.2010 - Friends of the 36-year-old Russian woman who was killed by her Peruvian partner in El Médano on Monday say she had been afraid to report previous violence suffered due to fears she would be deported. more...

Irish tourist commits suicide on holiday

Tenerife - 16.03.2010 - Police in Tenerife say they are not treating as suspicious the death of a young Irish tourist, who was found dead at the week-end. more...

Montelongo slams Coasts Law

Canary Islands - 16.03.2010 - Fuerteventura's tourism councillor and regional MP Agueda Montelongo has slammed Spain's legislation on coastlines as the main enemy of tourism on the island. more...

Domestic killing shocks El Médano

El Médano - 16.03.2010 - The brutal killing of a 34-year-old woman has put Tenerife in the national domestic violence headlines once again. The victim, a Russian living in El Médano, died after being attacked yesterday lunchtime by her partner, who then tried to commit suicide by slashing his wrists. more...

Interviews

The future of the species

Living & Lifestyle

Guttering or Waterfall?
Have you noticed how few houses in Tenerife have guttering? When it rains you get a waterfall blocking your front door. more...

Motoring

New Škoda - Superb Combi

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