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Strapped in tight

Driving with children on Lanzarote? Here’s what you need to know.

Playa Blanca’s Expansion

The sunny southern town of Playa Blanca has undergone some major construction projects in the past couple of years, from new sports facilities to the huge task of extending the town port. Puertos Canarios announced that the port will be operational in time for the summer.

Coat of arms controversy

A motion to return the original colouring of Arrecife’s coat of arms to official communications looks likely to be passed by the city’s Ayuntamiento shortly.

Impossible Dreams

Lanzarote has always inspired creative thinking. Over the years many projects have been dreamed up to transform the island, but only a handful have ever become reality. Here are some of the big ideas that never came true, or remain to be realised.

Tías crime figures criticised

The spokesperson for Coalición Canarias in Tías, Amado Vizcaino, has criticised the Ayuntamiento following statistics that show that Tías had the greatest rise in crime figures in the first quarter of 2022.

Fire at abandoned petrol station in Arrecife

Firefighters were alerted to a fire at the abandoned Fumergas petrol station in Arrecife on Saturday.

Stuck in a bathroom for ten hours

Emergency services were called to a home in Arrecife after calls that it was strangely quiet inside. They would later find that the inhabitant, a 90-year-old woman, had found herself stuck in the bathroom for ten hours.

Lamppost collision in Arrecife

In the early hours of the morning emergency services were called to an incident where a vehicle had collided with a lamppost and overturned in Arrecife.

Foreign population falls on Canaries

Lanzarote is the only Canary Island whose largest foreign population is British, according to statistics from the Canarian Institute of Statistics.

Canary and Balearic Islands work towards renewable energies

Yesterday, a meeting was held between the Cabildo president María Dolores Corujo, the Canarian Government’s Minister for the Ecological Transition, José Antonio Valbuena, and the National Commissioner for Promotion of Sustainable Energy in Island Systems, Marc Pons, to discuss an energy model based on renewable energies.