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Witness appeal for British tourist injured after a tree collapsed in Costa...
A British woman has been transferred with serious injuries to a hospital in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, after a drago tree fell onto diners at El Patio Canario in Pueblo Marinero, Lanzarote on Friday...
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Lanzarote News In Brief - Week 30 2016
Political Party Gets Hot Under The Collar About Nudity LawsPolitical party Somos has criticised Teguise Mayor Oswaldo Betancort for “copying and pasting” a number of ordinances from other areas of...
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Update On Freddy The Cat Charity
Regular readers will recall I met with and interviewed Freddy three years ago, and you can read that article here.Since then, a great deal has changed for the organisation, and last week I met with...
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Lanzarote News In Brief - Week 31 2016
Tragic Death Of La Graciosa Fisherman26 year old Guadalupe Betancort died while spear fishing off the island, where he lived. Some 200 residents of La Graciosa, together with emergency services boats...
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Canary Islands tourist figures are expected to reach a new high of 14 million...
The Canaries have never been so popular as this year. In Lanzarote, although there are still flight seats departing from the UK in August, there are no beds available. This isn’t just the official...
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Lanzarote is the second biggest island for holiday rental properties
After Tenerife, Lanzarote is the Canary Island with the most properties for holiday rentals.Currently there are 6,148 properties for private holiday rental in Lanzarote, these villas & apartments...
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Watch All Of The Olympics With Ex-Pat Television
We’ve written about Ex-Pat TV before and you can find out all about it here: Watching television in LanzaroteWe use the service ourselves to enjoy occasional TV programmes from the UK, and we were...
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Lanzarote News In Brief - Week 32 2016
British Tourists Put Up in Haria After Aircraft Issue200 mainly British visitors were put up in the village of Haria, at the residencia, normally for school children. In total, 400 people were affected...
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Lanzarote News In Brief - Week 33
Possible Strike By Luggage Handlers At Lanzarote AirportThe CCOO union has filed a strike notice on behalf of baggage handlers employed by Swissport at Lanzarote Airport. A strike could begin on Monday...
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Campo Phoenix Sponsor Local Rally Driver
Campo Phoenix, who offer tours of the island in their very cool roadsters, have sponsored local rally driver Javier Gutierrez Rivero, who is also president of Pata Negra motorsport.Javier drives a...
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Lanzarote News In Brief - Week 35 2016
Spanish Kite Surfer Sails All 8 Canary IslandsKite Surfer Gisela Pulido has surfed all 8 inhabited Canary islands, covering a total distance of 380KM starting on the 11th August and finishing on the...
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Lanzarote News In Brief - Week 36, 2016
Immigration Ring Was Using Lanzarote HotelsAn immigration ring, based in Barcelona, has been broken up with the arrest of 57 people. The ring was charging Chinese nationals €8000 to get them residence...
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Lanzarote News In Brief - Week 37, 2016
Cabildo announces investment spend details for year so farIn a typically complex press release, The Cabildo announced this week that the central island government has allocated €42.2 Million of...
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Lanzarote Information News In Brief - Week 38, 2016
Airport Baggage Handlers Strike EndsThe Swissport airport baggage handlers strike came to an end yesterday (Monday) following a meeting between the union and the company where an agreement was reached....
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Free Diving World Record Broken
Jeanine Grasmeijer has been training here off the coast of Puerto del Carmen for the last two months, with locally based free divers Marianna, Nick and Elyoenai. read more »
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Lanzarote News In Brief - Week 39, 2016
Calle Princesa Ico WorksPuerto del Carmen’s Calle Princesa is to be modernised with a €450k investment from Tias Ayuntamiento. The works will include new pavements, asphalt, signage and street...
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Lanzarote News in Brief - Week 40, 2016
Contract awarded to refurbish cycle wayThe Cabildo has awarded a contract to refurbish the promenade and create a cycle path between Melia Salinas Hotel in Costa Teguise and the Port of Los Marmoles in...
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Monarch Update - 12 Day Extension
Tour operator and airline Monarch came back from the brink late last night when they were granted a 12 day extension to their ATOL licence, which was due for renewal at midnight last night.The Civil...
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Tenerife Quakes - The Truth
Tenerife Cabildo has slammed the British tabloid press for their reporting of the mini quakes in the island.Typical of the headlines was the Daily Express with “Panic on Tenerife amid fears huge Mount...
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Green Homes Project Seeks Crowd Funding
I met with Christophe last week, who is running a project on the island called Green Casa. The objective is to build four genuinely “green” properties on the island, complete with electric cars, for...
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