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Brits among 100 injured after cruise ship battles rough seas off Spain’s Canary Islands

PASSENGERS aboard a cruise ship have been injured off the coast of the Canary Islands with 100 affected and five in critical condition.  The Saga...

Crackdown on holiday homes in Spain: Canary Islands to limit tourist lets in ‘overcrowded areas’

THE CANARY ISLANDS government wants to slap a ban on building holiday homes in certain municipalities and tourist areas following an increase in what...

Benidorm refuses to host illegal migrants in its hotels as a part of Spain-wide proposal following a surge in...

HOTELS on the Spanish mainland have been approached to provide rooms for the wave of migrants arriving in the Canary Islands.  Human rights organisations are...

Three ‘mini earthquakes’ are registered in Spain’s Canary Islands: Experts brand activity ‘unusual’ near volcano which hasn’t erupted in...

THREE 'mini earthquakes' have been registered in the Canary Islands in what experts have branded 'somewhat abnormal'. According to the National Geographic Institute (IGN),...

Revealed: The regions in Spain which take in the highest number of boat migrants

THE ANDALUCIA region has the largest number of foreign immigrants housed by Spain's central government, accounting for 9,874 people. That's followed by the Canary Islands...

Islands’ scorcher: Canaries’ government closes down schools as students swelter in 35ºC heat

THE CANARY ISLANDS’ regional government announced on Tuesday that it would be cancelling classes for school students of all ages for the rest of...

Autistic ‘Irish’ boy, 11, ‘is sexually assaulted in front of his family’ at hotel in Spain’s Tenerife

THE POLICIA NACIONAL in the south of Tenerife have arrested a man who sexually assaulted an 11-year-old autistic boy- believed to be Irish. The youngster...

Forest fire on Spain’s Tenerife caused ‘€80 million’ of damage, authorities report

THE AUTHORITIES in Tenerife are estimating that the forest fire that broke out on the Canary Island on August 15, and that razed 15,000...

Popular Gran Canaria beach closed due to contamination from ‘poo bacteria’

A POPULAR beach has been temporarily closed by the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria city council after faecal bacteria was found to have contaminated...

BREAKING: Flight chaos as major fault in UK air traffic control systems means passengers in Spain are stuck on...

THE UK'S air traffic control system has experienced major problems on Monday- one of the busiest travel days of the year with the late...

Residents return home as forest fire on Spain’s Canary Islands stabilises

A FOREST FIRE that has been burning on the Canary Island of Tenerife for the last nine days was in a stable condition on...

Thousands return to homes in wake of Tenerife fire with police saying there is no evidence so far to...

MORE THAN 8,000 evacuees from a wildfire that has devastated forests on Tenerife for more than a week were able to return home as...

Arsonists blamed for devastating Tenerife wildfires in Spain as 12,000 evacuees could return home this Monday

POLICE have confirmed that the Tenerife wildfire on the north of the island was deliberately started, according to Canary Islands president Fernando Clavijo. Clavijo said...

TENERIFE FIRE: Canaries Government says up to 26,000 people may have been evacuated

UP to 26,000 people may have been evacuated as a wildfire continues to sweep across the Spanish island of Tenerife. Some 5,000 hectares across 11...

Firefighters and army battle to extinguish blaze on Spain’s Tenerife with Canary Islands president saying its the ‘worst in...

CANARY ISLANDS president Fernando Clavijo has said that the Tenerife wildfire which started on Tuesday was the 'worst in 40 years'. Firefighters are encountering soaring...

Fraudster arrested on Spain’s Costa Blanca for running fake property website and pocketing money from victims

A MAN who scammed €90,000 in just over six months from people using his fake real estate website has been arrested in Alicante Province. The...

Wildfire in Spain’s Tenerife Takes Toll on Animals: Over a thousand hens, 230 goats, and more than 200 dogs...

THE ongoing wildfire in Tenerife, which ignited in the island's mountainous terrain last Tuesday, continues to wreak havoc. Not only has it compelled the confinement...

HAVE YOU SEEN HIM? Spanish police seek new lead in case of missing Briton, 53, who vanished from Spain’s...

THE perplexing disappearance of a British man in Lanzarote back in March has prompted an ongoing police investigation to track down an individual he...

British woman, 39, dies while hiking on Spain’s Canary Islands during one of the hottest days of the year

THE BODY of a British woman was found on Fuerteventura on Sunday lunchtime as the area baked in high temperatures over the weekend. The 39-year-old...

Cops in Spain’s Tenerife arrest three after SMS bank phishing scam nets them €200,000 

THE CIVIL GUARD has made three arrests in Tenerife after detecting an SMS phishing scam that conned as many as 170 people across Spain....

Andalucia supports wildfire mitigation efforts in the Canary Islands as fire devastates community

ON Sunday, members of Spain's Military Emergency Unit (UME) left Andalucia for La Palma in the Canary Islands to help extinguish the island’s wildfire.  Since...

More than 4,200 residents of Canary Island La Palma evacuated as fire crews tackle blaze

FIRE CREWS were battling on Sunday morning to extinguish a blaze that broke out the day before on the Canary Island of La Palma....

Spain’s Maritime Rescue service pulls 187 migrants from waters off the Canary Islands’ coasts

SPAIN’S Maritime Rescue service last night pulled around 187 migrants out of the waters off the coasts of Canary Islands of Tenerife and El...

‘Spain has become a Greece’: 39 feared to have drowned trying to reach the Canary Islands after rescue services...

AS many as 39 people, including four women and a baby, are feared to have died en route to the Canary Islands after their...

British government warns of delays and travel disruption for holidaymakers heading to Spain’s Canary Islands

THE UK Foreign Office has issued a travel warning to Brit holidaymakers planning to visit Spain's Canary Islands this week due to the arrival...

Spain’s tourism minister predicts record summer for foreign visitors

SPAIN welcomed 7.2 million international tourists in April- a record for that month in figures published on Thursday by the National Institute of Statistics(INE). Tourism...

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