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The team at First Class Villa Services ensure that your second home in Lanzarote is safe, secure and always ready for your arrival. Whether you’re away for months or just a few weeks, their expert team prevents risks like unwanted guests, checks for vulnerabilities, and keeps everything in perfect condition – so you can step straight into relaxation.

Your second home on Lanzarote taken care of and ready for your arrival

The team at First Class Villa Services ensure that your second home in Lanzarote is safe, secure and always ready for your arrival. Whether you’re away for months or just a few weeks, their expert team prevents risks like unwanted guests, checks for vulnerabilities, and keeps everything in perfect condition – so you can step straight into relaxation.

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Costa Teguise is 50

On 2nd September 1972, the Partial Special Plan for Residential Tourist Use, a construction project promoted by the Spanish explosives company Rio Tinto, was approved.

Bike Sensations new Playa Blanca shop

If you frequent Playa Blanca, you may have noticed that Bike Sensations’ shop opposite the taxi rank has been empty recently. What you might not have known is that they were working hard to open their brand new, and improved, shop in the THB Tropical Island hotel.

Give us a kiss!

What's got gigantic yellow eyes, huge red lips and has just won Arrecife's Tourism Award for 2022?

Dimás back to prison

Dimás Martín will return to Tahiche prison at the age of 74 after a seven-year sentence for fraud was confirmed by the Supreme Court yesterday.

Adislan strike

Workers at Adislan, the day centre for people with special needs, have announced indfefinite strike action starting from October 3 in protest at the continued failure of the Cabildo to pay funds that would guarantee their wages.

Papagayo rescue

An 80-year-old man was rescued by emergency services yesterday after injuring himself on rocks near a cave at the beaches of Papagayo.

New plants in stock!

Cacti, succulents, olive trees, dragon trees, sterlizias, dracaenas and much more – all of which can be found at the Flower Power garden centre. Here’s how to find them:

12 containers burnt

Vandals burnt 12 containers in Puerto del Carmen last night, in yet another episode of arson against municipal property.

Plan annulled

Yaiza's General Plan – the document that governs current and future planning in the southern municipality – has been declared null by the Canarian Supreme Court.

Migrant treatment criticised

The Citizens' Network of Support for Migrants has strongly criticised the facilities provided for arriving pateras that saw several migrants forced top remain on Arrecife's pier because the temporary holding camp behind the capital's police station was flooded.

“Unprecedented rainfall”

“Hermine has brought levels of rainfall that are unprecedented for this time of year,” stated Enrique Espinosa, the chief of Lanzarote's Emergency and Security Consortium, referring to the heavy rainfall brought by the passage of Tropical Storm Hermine over the weekend.

Pateras located

Two more boats containing 81 migrants have been intercepted off Lanzarote's coasts this morning.

Remembering César

Cabildo President María Dolores Corujo remembered César Manrique yesterday on the 30th anniversary of his death. “It's three decades since we lost the genius, our favoured son, but his light and his arguments are more important than…

200 rainfall incidents

The heavy rains caused by the passage of tropical storm Hermine caused more than 200 incidents yesterday, the vast majority in Arrecife.

Metal masters

Lanzarote metal workers have changed the face of the island and continue to do so.