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Las Palmas - 12.03.2010 - Searchers have resumed the hunt for Sara Morales, the teenage girl from Las Palmas missing for over three years, following pressure from her family. Wasteground next to the shopping centre where she was last seen in July 2006 was cordoned off on Wednesday to allow a bulldozer to begin shifting earth after a renewed plea from the girl's family to check the area again. 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...

Oltra 'safe' promise

Tenerife - 12.03.2010 - The chairman of Tenerife football club has reassured manager José Luis Oltra that his job is not on the line even if the side loses the crucial game at the week-end against Español. more...

Fog brings airport chaos

Tenerife - 12.03.2010 - Yesterday's thick fog in the La Laguna area brought chaos to Tenerife North Airport, which was forced to cancel several flights during the evening. more...

Sara search area revisited

Raquel Toledo released

11.03.2010 - The 37 year old woman, Raquel Toledo, originally from Tenerife, who was jailed recently in Texas accused of failing to abide by custody orders, has been released.
more...

Good news on airport charges

Berlin - 11.03.2010 - At the inauguration of the Berlin Tourism Fair regional Canarian president Paulino Rivero announced that he had reached an agreement with the national minister for development on a reduction in airport charges, something seen as vital to the tourism market for these islands. more...

Canarian hopes pinned on German market

Berlin - 10.03.2010 - The Berlin Tourism Fair, which opens today, is seen as crucial by the Canarian Department of Tourism in its bid to recoup almost 300,000 German holidaymakers 'lost' last year. 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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