England's lockdown ended at 12.01 this morning, as much of the country entered the new tier system. Fortunately for Lanzarote's tourist sector, the UK government will still permit travel for holidays abroad from all tiers.

Monthly local news roundup! A rundown of everything that has happened during the past month that you need to know; written in a brief and easy to understand format.

Heavy rains once again took Lanzarote by surprise yesterday , rendering some roads unpassable and flooding several streets in the capital Arrecife.

This weekend saw the 42nd anniversary of the Cruz del Mar massacre, when seven fishermen from the fishing barrio of Valterra were murdered on their fishing boat by unidentified assailants. Just like every year, the dead were honoured with a floral wreath and a service attended by families of the victims, Arrecife Mayor Astrid Pérez and other representatives of Arrecife Ayuntamiento.

Lanzarote currently has 59 active cases of coronavirus, exactly the same number as last Sunday, and ten fewer than it started the month with.

Lanzarote's Water Consortium has fined the island’s water supplier, Canal Gestión, for three beaches of contract, and the island’s water minister has said that the Cabildo is “very worried” that Canal is “starting to be a problem rather than a solution.”

Tourism from England is still on course to start up again when the current lockdown ends on December 2nd, after the British government confirmed that people in all three tiers were permitted to travel to airports.

With a long bank holiday followed by the even longer Christmas break, Spanish authorities are preparing for a December that could potentially undo much of the progress the country has made in recent weeks.

At least six people have died and one remains missing after a boat carrying migrants capsized off the rocky coast of Órzola last night.

Spain's meteorological agency AEMET has placed a yellow warning for rain on Lanzarote for tomorrow afternoon, Wednesday 25th November, from 3pm to 9pm.

This week, Lanzarote hosts the international conference on plastic waste, MICRO 2020, for the third year running. For obvious reasons, this year's conference is now being conducted virtually from “Lanzarote and beyond” , and will feature contributions from scientists and researchers from five continents.

Las Palmeras is the oldest and largest Golf Society in Lanzarote, writes Jean-François Crinquand.

From today, the new Spanish law demanding negative PCR test results from all visitors to Spain comes into effect. An area at Lanzarote's airport had already been set up to check the certificates.

A day after Spanish President Pedro Sánchez announced a mass vaccination programme commencing in the New Year, Salvador Illa, the health minister, confirmed that vaccination would not be compulsory