Don’t forget to put your clocks and watches forward an hour tonight, which is when Western European Summertime begins. Unfortunately, this means you’ll lose an hour in bed unless you make plans for a lie in.

Mariano Zapato, the Canarian Government’s Minister of Ecological Transition, and Lanzarote Cabildo’s councillor of Public Works, Jacobo Medina, met yesterday to discuss the topic of dead and dying palm trees by Lanzarote’s roadsides.

It may not seem like it with the cool weather, clouds and fresh winds, but levels of ultraviolet rays are abnormally high for the time of year, prompting the Canarian Health Service to issue advice to residents.