In April, Isobel Haldane from Gleneagles in Scotland contacted us to ask if we'd consider an article about César Manrique that she planned to write on her forthcoming Lanzarote holiday. Instead, we invited her to get right to the heart of the matter, at the lively, noisy demonstration in Arrecife on April 20th, where Manrique’s face and words were on the placards of many of the 9,000 marchers.

Canarian scientists have discovered a new species of crustacean in the black coral forests that lie off the shore of Playa Chica in Puerto del Carmen.