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Mask Wars

Two women were booted off a flight from Lanzarote to Barcelona on 4th September when they refused to wear face masks.

Back to School

More than 25,000 Lanzarote kids headed back to school on 16th September after half a year without setting foot in a classroom. Their new school regime will feature regular hand-washing, mask use, distancing, bubble groups and many more new practices.

Lanzarote slowly comes back to life

The markets in Arrecife and Haría will reopen tomorrow for the first time since Lanzarote was given the “green light” last week. The markets will reopen under the same conditions that applied before closure in late August – with…

Weather Watch October

October in Lanzarote always feels like the secret end to summer. Whilst many people in the UK and Europe are hunkering down for autumn, we are lucky to still have around eight hours of sunshine a day. This was certainly the case last year as we started the month with plenty of blue skies and just a few wispy clouds. Temperature-wise we were above average with highs of 28 and lows of 20. The final week of the month we saw a change, with a little rainfall and clouds rolling in.

TUI tourists to be tested from November

Tourists travelling from Germany with TUI  will be subject to “selective and voluntary” screening tests from November, the Canarian Government announced yesterday. The initiative was agreed in a video-conference yesterday, in which…

Grand work by The Boat Yard

Congratulations to The Boat Yard, which managed to raise an immense €952.50 for SARA with two charity evenings on the 19th and 26th September. Not content with organising the quiz and the video race night, and offering plenty of enthusiastic…

ERTEs extended for four months

The furlough schemes that have supported tens of thousands of Canarians through the coronavirus crisis will be extended until the end of January, Spain's Employment Minister Yolanda Díaz  announced yesterday after Spain's Council of Ministers…

TUI plan to return to Canaries

German’s main tour operator says customers can make their own minds up, as rapid tests promise to make flying safer. The world’s biggest tour operator, German giant TUI, has announced that it wishes to recommence flights to the Canaries from the 3rd October.

Madrid Standoff

An extraordinary political stand-off has developed between Spain’s socialist-led coalition government and the regional government of Madrid, which is governed by a conservative coalition led by Isabel Díaz Ayuso of the PP (People’s Party). Madrid…

Second wave takes its toll

Nine deaths in the Canaries from coronavirus yesterday highlight that the second wave of the virus could still have more bad news in store for the islands.