Category: Canaries

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 …

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 …

El Hierro is one of the Canary islands and recently the Mar de las Calmas just off the island has been subjected to a long term underwater volcanic eruption.

That eruption is now officially over according to the Scientific Committee of …

The Spanish Post Office ( Correos ) has announced that letters , postcards and parcels with an Easy Post stamp on them will not be delivered or returned to the sender.

The Spanish Post Office has said that Easy Post is …

In 2011 the number of illegal immigrants arriving on Spanish shores rose by 50% to over 5000 that are actually known about.There is an unknown number that will never be known about.

In the Canary Islands there were 340 known arrivals …

In 2011 almost 57 million international tourists visited the Spanish peninsular.Twenty four percent of these were British.These were figures released by the Frontur Spanish tourism institute.These figures indicate yet again just how important tourism is to the Spanish economy.

These figures …