Category: Islands

Tenerife is one of the Spanish Canary Islands and very popular with British holiday makers.

Last week a flight from Manchester to Tenerife was given a priority landing because two drunken passengers told cabin crew that they had a bomb in …

Last Sunday a British woman of 78 died while walking on the Canary Islands in Spain. She was out walking with friends on Gran Canaria when she suffered a heart attack which they thing was brought on by heatstroke.

The temperature …

Yesterday , in Magaluf on the island of Mallorca in the Balearic Islands a 23 year old woman fell to her death from a third floor balcony .The young woman was a British tourist and she had only been in …

A gang has been arrested in the Spanish capital of Madrid and the island of Tenerife in the Canaries .They are alleged to have been involved in people smuggling from Iran to Britain.The gang was based in Madrid and consisted …

The Spanish government and regional governments in Spain have a concern for the level of domestic violence in the country.

Last week there were three domestic violence deaths in Spain.One took place in seville in Andalucia on the Costa del sol.A …

Leishmaniasis is a disease which can affect many Spanish dogs.It is rare in humans in Spain.However an increase in humans has been noted in the Spanish capital Madrid.

The disease organism is spread by sand flies.It is a skin disease which …

Last week in Denia on the Spanish Costa Blanca , the local council had a visit from the Vice-President of the Valencia government , Jose Ciscar.

New port facilities at Denia , scheduled to open this summer , received the thumbs …

There were 9,200 homes sold to foreigners in Alicante province in 2011.In the Valencia region as a whole there were 10,730 houses sold to non-Spanish clients.In financial terms this was 1,515 million euros , more than any other region.

This figure …