Our football correspondent Ian Lane sent us this photo of Lanzarote veteran Ayoze Pérez and in-form winger Adrían Machín posing with the latest issue of Gazette Life.

Arrecife's April Fair attracted 15,000 people over the weekend, filling the Parque de José Ramírez Cerda on the capital's seafront.

Yaiza Mayor Óscar Noda has proposed the purchase of properties on Montaña Roja to address the housing crisis in southern Lanzarote.

Arrecife police arrested a man who was illegally fishing for octopuses on Thursday. 12 kilos of octopuses were confiscated and returned to Arrecife bay, and the man will be charged with illegal seafood collection.

A councillor for Nueva Canarias has called for Playa Honda to be declared a “stressed zone” in terms of housing, which would allow measures such as rent freezes to be introduced.

A Tik Tok influencer and “mermaider” from Gibraltar has been criticised after posting a video of herself getting into serious difficulties in the rock pools of Lanzarote.

Lanzarote's Official Language School (EOI) will shortly open its registration period for the 2024/25 academic year. New students will be able to sign up for courses in Spanish, English, German, French and Arabic from the 9th to the 23rd of April.

Jet2 has announced that it plans to make 95 workers based on Lanzarote redundant, as part of a plan that will see the airline’s workforce on the Canaries reduced by 35%.

Cabildo President, Oswaldo Betancort, met with the Mayor of New York yesterday to talk about tourism on Lanzarote.

The Lanzarote Data Centre have released tourism figures for February this year.

Singer-songwriter Alejandro Córdoba, from Murcia, has released a new music video for his song “Las señales que no vi” that has been filmed on Lanzarote.

The British press has responded to the news of anti-tourism demonstrations on five Canary Islands on April 20th by printing headlines “warning” tourists travelling to the Canaries. Warning headlines appeared in the Mirror, the Express, the Daily Star and several other media sources. However, no official warning has ever been issued, because tourists are not being threatened at all.

High temperatures that could hit the 30s are forecast for this afternoon as a calima arrives on the island.

In a week when demonstrations against mass tourism have been announced on five islands, Lanzarote's Cabildo has approved the construction of a 624-place hotel in Playa Blanca.