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El Gordo draw begins
NewsChristmas has started in earnest in Spain this morning with the draw for the world’s biggest lottery, El Gordo.
El Gordo draw begins
NewsChristmas has started in earnest in Spain this morning with the draw for the world’s biggest lottery, El Gordo.
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Over and Out
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Three and a half years of uncertainty is over and the UK will be officially out of the EU on 31st January after Boris Johnson’s Conservative party won the 12th December General Election with a huge majority.
Johnson’s election campaign…
Goodbye, Flick
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Felicia Ann Schwind 1943 - 2019
Flick passed away peacefully on the 3rd of
December 2019 at Devonshire House in Sudbury,
Suffolk after a short illness. Born on the 25th May,
1943 during an air raid in Birmingham, Flick was
a model for…
Adiós, Juan!
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The Juan Brito Foundation, formed by family and friends of the multi- talented Juan Brito, who died two years ago at the age of 98, organised a moving celebration of his centenary year at San Bartolomé's theatre last month.
On stage…
A Decade of Turmoil
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The ten years since the start of 2010 have seen immense changes in the world, and they’ve affected each one of our lives here on Lanzarote as much as anywhere. We look back at a decade of conflict and turmoil.
When a Tunisian…
The Year Ahead
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As Lanzarote steps into the 2020s, its priorities are to maintain the levels of tourism of recent years, as well as to tackle urgent new environmental realities that could seriously affect a low-lying island.
At the time of writing…
Run For Their Lives
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In one of the most desperately poor areas of India, the Anantapur Ultramarathon has now become an annual event, bringing hope, joy and the promise of a future to thousands.
Anantapur is where the Spanish missionary Vicente Ferrer
established…
Free To Go
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One of the most worrying cases on Lanzarote has come to an end with the acquittal of the Guardia Civil officer Sergeant Gloria Moreno in a Las Palmas court. The court cleared Sgt Moreno of charges of falsification of documents and slander.…
Demolition Time
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The bulldozers rumbled into Yaiza just before Christmas as workers arrived to carry out the sentence of demolition on various buildings that had been constructed illegally by Dimas Martín.
Martín was ruled to have built bedrooms and…