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 Gran Canaria - 27.01.2012 - Two British rowers who set out from Gran Canaria for Barbados to break the transatlantic pedal-power record have had to be rescued just 40 miles into their journey. more... News Features ::  27.01.2012 - Someone once said, “you are not fully dressed until you wear a smile”, and nothing could be truer. more... |  27.01.2012 - The Tenerife Cabildo has just opened a very user-friendly public office in El Verodal building in the centre of Los Cristianos.
more... |  27.01.2012 - Austerity is becoming the “new normal” in many European countries. Spain had actually been comparitavely better off when it came to tax rises, but this was never going to last. more... |
Archive News ::  | Canary Islands26.01.2012 - Their Royal Highnesses, Prince Felipe and Princess Letizia will visit the island of El Hierro on January 30th where they will celebrate the prince’s 44th birthday.
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 | Tenerife19.01.2012 - The fiesta de San Sebastián in La Caleta in Adeje has become one of the highlights of the religious as well as tourist calendar for Costa Adeje.
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 | Canary Islands18.01.2012 - At a meeting of the tourism chiefs of the Canarian Cabildos, headed up by Ricardo Fernández de la Puente Armas, deputy regional tourism minister, the advance figures for 2011 seem to indicate it was a record year for the industry in the islands.
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 | Tenerife13.01.2012 - Tenerife singer and songwriter Pedro Guerra has said, “no country is free from the curse of domestic violence…in China they practice selective abortion (to ensure boys are the ones going to full term), in Spain women are murdered daily”.
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 | Features13.01.2012 - Cycling along beside the sea in Valle Gran Rey one evening after sunset, I noticed the tops of three enormous masts twinkling with lights above the harbour wall and went to have a look. more... |
 | Tenerife12.01.2012 - It is reported that the minister for defence in the country’s last government, Carme Chacón, will launch her bid for leadership of the socialist PSOE party in Tenerife this Sunday (January 15th).
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 | Spain12.01.2012 - A series of new money-raising measures being introduced by regional and national governments are taking effect almost immediately.
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 | Tenerife02.01.2012 - The new Parque Central de Las Américas should be open to the public early next year – the council are hoping by February.
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 | Canary Islands30.12.2011 - If there was one story that placed Tenerife firmly in the international spotlight, and, from a tourism point of view, for all the wrong reasons, it was the quite horrific death of British resident Jennifer Mills-Westley in Los Cristianos.
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 | Tenerife30.12.2011 - “You are our best promotion” was how the mayor of Arona, José Alberto González Reverón, greeted the group of tourists who had been invited by the CIT Sur, the south Tenerife tourism initiative association to accept diplomas for their loyalty to the island as well as enjoying tapas and a glass of wine at the exceptionally lovely Bodega Reverón in La Escalona.
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 | Tenerife29.12.2011 - “My first inclination, when they told me, was to get on a plane to go and talk to my sisters, but this is where we live”, admits Gwen Bannister when the tests finally confirmed what she and husband Carl suspected – their precious six year old son Aaron had tested positive for Duchenne’s, a incurable form of muscular dystrophy. more... |
 | Tenerife28.12.2011 - We were delighted to hear from a long time friend of ours and Tenerife, Debbie Bliss, and even more thrilled when she told us that she has been chosen to be a torch bearer for the Olympic Games 2012, “I’m so over the moon”, she told us.
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| Gran Canaria - 27.01.2012 - Two British rowers who set out from Gran Canaria for Barbados to break the transatlantic pedal-power record have had to be rescued just 40 miles into their journey. more...
Lanzarote - 27.01.2012 - A Colombian living in Lanzarote has been released after two and a half years on remand following a jury's decision to acquit him of the brutal murder of a 69-year-old vagrant in 2009. more...
La Laguna - 27.01.2012 - Police in La Laguna believe the daring break-in at the Alcampo Shopping Centre, which netted an estimated 400,000 euros in jewellery for the perpetrators, may have been the work of a well-organised Eastern European gang. more...
Las Palmas - 27.01.2012 - A successful bid for quiet by city centre residents threatens to cause massive disruption to the Las Palmas Carnival just hours after the preliminary events got under way. more...
Puerto de la Cruz - 26.01.2012 - A Puerto de la Cruz bee-keeper is recovering after being attacked by a swarm of bees in the town on Tuesday evening. more...
Santiago del Teide - 26.01.2012 - Santiago del Teide's Los Guíos beach is back in the news today after an incident yesterday which triggered a scare among users. more...
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