You may think you’ve tasted a melon, a tomato, or a banana, but until you’ve sampled the flavours of Lanzarote’s high summer season, you haven’t lived.

Teguise celebrated its annual pilgrimage to the lonely clifftop church of the Virgen de las Nieves for the first time in three years yesterday, with large queues of cars reported on the LZ-10 road and many pilgrims unable to enter the church to attend mass or pay their respects because of crowds.

Four suspected cases of monkeypox have been detected on Lanzarote and are awaiting confirmation.

If you’ve got hundreds of pounds stuffed under your mattress for a rainy day, you should be aware that British paper £20 and £50 banknotes cease to be UK legal tender on 30th September, giving you just under two months to change them. These banknotes will be exclusively polymer-based from October onwards.