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  1. A huge lorry overturned on the TF1 at Las Chafiras earlier this evening causing chaos on the motorway.
  2. Gang responsible for wave of forced robberies on Jewellery shops is broken up with arrest of eleven Rumanians in Operation Brasov
  3. Obama to come to Tenerife?
  4. Forty year old man in serious conditions after being knocked down in Los Cristianos
  5. The body has been found of a woman who disappeared six weeks ago in Tenerife
  6. Thieves caught red-handed trying to rob a church in Arico town
  7. Pedestrian seriously injured after being run over by a motorbike in Granadilla
  8. Police drugs operations Espada and Luna yield 23 important arrests, and 2,452 kilos of hash and 1.5 of cocaine.
  9. Man's body recovered from barranco near Eagle Park in Arona
  10. Residents of various Adeje areas complain of being abandoned and neglected by the Ayuntamiento
  11. The access road linking Las Chafiras with Amarilla Golf is to be resurfaced, signposted and provided with safety rails.
  12. Carnaval 2009 will have to be staged with half the budget of last year due to the current economic crisis
  13. Procedures to allocate works on the second TFS terminal will commence in 2011
  14. Arico wine harvest best in the bodega's history
  15. Pyramid-type gambling scam arrives in Tenerife from the mainland. Be careful.
  16. Valle San Lorenzo youth arrested for beating up his mother when she said she couldn't give him money for clothes
  17. Man arrested from childcare family for prolonged sexual abuse
  18. The Spanish goverment is to introduce tougher laws against terrorism, paedophilia, bribery etc.
  19. Spectacular accident on the TF1 at Parque de la Reina?
  20. Binter withdraws all connections between La Gomera and Gran Canaria, and reduces its flights between La Gomera and Tenerife
  21. Anaga residents try to shame their Ayuntamiento into giving them proper drains by posting the evidence of their complaints on youtube
  22. The TF5 will be widened to three lanes in both directions between Guamasa (La Laguna) and La Orotava.
  23. Candelaria man arrested for internet grooming and sexual assault of a minor
  24. Another successful police drugs bust, this time in Las Galletas
  25. Three arrested in south Tenerife for their involvement in drug trafficking via the UK by Scottish ex-pats in Spain
  26. Lookie Lookie man arrested in the Adeje area for selling pirated CDs and DVDs in bars
  27. The Ports Authority in Santa Cruz is alleged to owe 3 million Euros in rates to the Ayuntamiento
  28. Arico mobile telephone masts will be moved out of town before the end of the year
  29. Costas confirms that 67 dwellings in Agache are in public coastal territory
  30. Thirteen areas in Arico without mail because the Ayuntamiento won't put up street signs nor allow the residents to do it themselves
  31. This week is Diabetes Awareness Week in Tenerife
  32. Grua driver gravely ill after collision with a car
  33. Unelco is to start billing domestic clients on a monthly basis
  34. A 30% drop in British airline places to the Canaries is expected in 2009
  35. Granadilla Ayuntamiento will give public works employment to 14 of the municipality's unemployed
  36. A man's body has been found on the La Fajana beach, Los Realejos
  37. Embarrassment at national level about the Santa Cruz councillor who didn't know what a Quango was
  38. Trafico is to run a campaign against the use of mobile telephones whilst driving
  39. Northern police arrest members of two burglary gangs
  40. Man found dead in a Citroën Berlingo in Arafo
  41. Mother and baby injured in car crash in west Tenerife
  42. Strike calls for TFS airport workers over the Christmas period
  43. Another drugs seizure in Fasnia
  44. Fixed radar cameras in operation in Tenerife from Saturday 8 November 2008
  45. Christmas shoppers to get six-month interest-free credit from CajaCanarias and Fedeco
  46. Pedestrian killed trying to cross the TF5 near La Laguna
  47. Drug traffickers detained with 2 kilos of drugs after arriving at Lanzarote in a Zodiac launch.
  48. Another victory for the Police against the drug trade in Tenerife as traffickers are arrested at Abades and 1600 kilos of hash is seized
  49. A second sudden uncontrollable nosebleed sees the President of the Canaries return to hospital just hours after being released
  50. The AQA Group will open the new 5 star San Blas Environmental Reserve next month
  51. National Police successfully carry out a huge anti-drugs operation in Guía de Isora municipality
  52. Woman stabbed by her husband in El Médano is gravely ill in hospital
  53. Man found burnt to death in Arico street
  54. Tourism budget for 2009 will be much more focused on renovation than advertising
  55. Recent Guardia Civil arrests include the thief of a tourist's bag containing 700€ in Costa del Silencio
  56. The works on La Enramada beach are to be finished in November
  57. Güímar man arrested on charges of sexual assault, kidnapping, and violent robbery
  58. Arrests made for an attempted bank robbery on La Caixa in Arona town
  59. Wave of moped thefts in Los Cristianos and Las Américas causes alarm
  60. Giant mushroom found in Tenerife
  61. Six British holidaymakers and a child rescued from a lift stuck between two floors
  62. The TEA, a new contemporary art space, has opened in Santa Cruz
  63. The body of a stabbed man thrown from a speeding car in La Laguna
  64. The body of a missing British tourist who drowned while on holiday in Los Gigantes has been found on the coast near Alcalá.
  65. Lance Armstrong comes to Tenerife next month.
  66. Tons of avocados, potatoes and mangos have been stolen in Valle de Güímar.
  67. The EU has demanded that Spain abolishes the preferential port taxes for the Canaries
  68. Youth arrested for throwing large stone at the TF5 and shattering the windscreen of a travelling car
  69. The Public is asked not to drive up Teide for the moment while roads are closed due to weather
  70. Canarian Government's junket to London for the World Travel Market is criticized for wasting 60,000€
  71. Garajonay Express announces the suspension of its service between Valle Gran Rey, Playa Santiago, San Sebastián and Tenerife due to the current economic crisis
  72. Spanair plane in the workshop after two failed take-off attempts
  73. CC El Marqués in Playa Paraiso is in breach of coastal law
  74. Christmas sales for 2008 in the Canaries expected to be half of last year's
  75. Workers protest outside hotel internacional, el Puerto de la Cruz.
  76. The route of the Southern Train through Arona has been published
  77. Lifer Inmobiliaria closes its 10 offices in the Gran Canaria Province and "disappears off the face of the earth"
  78. The new junctions for San Isidro will open in around a week
  79. Ryanair announces flights from TFS to Glasgow, Stansted and Liverpool, with an opening offer of €1 including taxes.
  80. Registration has started for Adeje's 2008-2009 People's University
  81. Adeje Ayuntamiento has announced that the main thoroughfares of San Eugenio and Torviscas Alto are to be resurfaced
  82. UFO sightings over Tenerife and the Canaries: Files are declassified by the Government and Armed Forces.
  83. Arona is to get a fire station by the end of 2010
  84. The end is in sight for the TF1 roadworks between Santa Cruz and Güímar
  85. The European Space Agency's "Lunar Robot Project" has carried out tests in the crater of Teide
  86. Guía de Isora is to get a new public car park
  87. A rubbish lorry has knocked down and killed a refuse collector in La Laguna
  88. Arona Local Police arrest a man for using stolen cards to withdraw money from cashpoint machines in La Camella
  89. The Canarian High Court proposes an investigation of organized crime involving Rumanians, Algerians, and Kosovans, the three main nationalities involved
  90. The Canarian Government's 2009 budget will rise 2.4% over 2008's initial estimate
  91. Shoppers are entitled to cash refunds on returned goods, and do not have to accept vouchers.
  92. South Tenerife juvenile crime ring broken up
  93. Police manage to stop a street fight between gangs from Arona and San Miguel
  94. A two-year-old escaped from a Los Cristianos nursery and was taken to a bar by another child
  95. Arona town residents to hold their own night patrols in the wake of a burglary spree
  96. Gofio Conference in Candelaria
  97. New vehicle sales fall 35% in the Canaries
  98. A Guardia Civil plane will increase the patrols on the Canarian and African coasts in December
  99. Two people wearing hoodies have staged a violent attack on a bar in Abades
  100. Spain's Foreign Minister will propose to the EU that the Canaries should be the venue for a Euro-African business conference
  101. Three people have been arrested in south Tenerife for forging prescriptions
  102. A woman from the Adeje area has been arrested for the theft of 3,500 kilograms of watermelons
  103. Arona Ayuntamiento will make an in-depth study of Los Cristianos port to find possible reasons for the recent contamination
  104. Works are about to start on a new desalination plant for La Caleta
  105. Abama and Gran Palacio de Isora wine waiters are judged the best in the Canaries 2008
  106. Avenida José González Forte in Los Gigantes is to be resurfaced
  107. Loro Parque commits even more resources to environmental programmes
  108. Sofitesa expects there to be a deterioration in the tourist sector which will have a knock-on effect on the Canarian economy
  109. The number of foreigners making social security contributions in the Canaries has fallen during 2008
  110. There is to be a new park in Los Jardines de El Duque, Adeje
  111. Improvements for the area around the Square in Los Cristianos given approval
  112. A 44-year-old man has drowned at Playa de las Vistas, Los Cristianos
  113. The Tenerife South Hospital should be ready in 2011, the President of the Tenerife Cabildo confirms
  114. The ex-President of the Canarian Government, Adán Martín, is receiving chemotherapy for lymphatic cancer
  115. A New Health Centre for Llano del Camello will open in just over a year
  116. Ukranian estate agent arrested in the Adeje area on suspicion of pocketing the 256,758€ purchase price of a property he was selling
  117. Los Tarajales beach in Los Cristianos is given the go-ahead by the Dept of Costas
  118. Adeje Policia Local arrest two of four robbers while they were sharing out the proceeds of their crime in HiperTrebol carpark.
  119. New Resident and Tourist Information Centre opens in Las Chafiras
  120. Two injured in apartment fall
  121. OAPs demand return to blaze home
  122. Arico roads to be beautified thanks to a 1.3 million Euro investment
  123. A woman has been seriously injured after falling from her 3rd floor apartment in Adeje
  124. A man being called "the white van rapist" has been arrested for serial attacks in Gran Canaria: his possible victims include Sara Morales and Yeremi Vargas
  125. The TF1 junction with the TF2 will be closed tomorrow Wednesday 15 October
  126. Garajonay Express cuts its service by more than half
  127. "Tenerife Top Training" (T3 AthleticSphere), the first centre of sporting excellence in the Canaries, was inaugurated yesterday in the Costa Adeje
  128. Can you help the police to identify this bank robber who attacked a bank in Playa de la Arena on Tuesday 7 October?
  129. Armed raid on a jewellers in Avda Rafael Puig
  130. The Harlem Globetrotters will be in Tenerife on 2 November 2008
  131. A woman has been taken to hospital by Mountain Rescue helicopter after falling on a descent of Masca gorge
  132. The Chief Prosecutor in the Canaries says that the islands' prisons are at "saturation point"
  133. Spain will invest 306 million Euros in hydraulic works in the Canaries
  134. Residents of Cho Vito removed by force as bulldozers move in to demolish the coastal village
  135. 7,300 passengers will arrive at the capital of Tenerife off just 4 cruise ships this week, one of them, the Independence of the Seas, is the largest liner in the world
  136. The Tenerife Port Authority has activated emergency procedures after an oil spill in Santa Cruz
  137. A woman had a nasty accident today while paragliding from Taucho
  138. The Canarian Government introduces measures to deal with the current economic crisis
  139. The Canaries lead the way for kidney transplants
  140. Sara Pérez Concepción is the new Miss Tenerife 2008
  141. The Canarian Tourism Minister has presented the new Canarian logo for International Tourism Day
  142. Ópera de Tenerife's 2008 season begins tomorrow
  143. Conservation teams in La Gomera and El Hierro will collaborate to ensure the survival of the Canarian Giant Lizard
  144. Spain to invest money in Canarian airports.
  145. Fuel is to go down in Tenerife by around 10 cents a litre in the next few days.
  146. The first photo ever taken of the moment of birth of a dolphin was taken in south Tenerife recently.
  147. Long tailbacks right now on the TF1 at Güimar after an accident in one of the tunnels
  148. A young woman is in hospital after nearly drowning at Abades
  149. Police Brutality in Santiago del Teide ?
  150. 1,000 loggerhead turtle eggs arrive in the Canaries from Cape Verde
  151. Humphrey the seal is released back to the sea after 9 months recuperating at Loro Parque.
  152. A Los Rodeos to Madrid Barajas flight had to return to Rodeos 25 min after takeoff.
  153. Missing teenager found dead
  154. There was an armed raid on a Jewellers in the Bahía del Duque Hotel on Wednesday 3 September 2008.
  155. The Public Health Alert ban on swimming at Los Cristianos beaches has now been lifted.
  156. Spanair changes an airplane for a flight from Tenerife South
  157. Cajacanarias manager in Gran Canaria arrested for embezzling one million Euros from the Bank.
  158. Bomberos called out to a fire in Altamar Apartments, Playa de las Américas
  159. A man drowned today snorkelling off Los Tarajales beach in Los Cristianos.
  160. Elderly lady knocked down in Las Americas
  161. partial eclipse of the moon tonight
  162. watch your driving
  163. Typhoid in Tenerife
  164. An 80-year-old woman drowned today at Playa de las Américas
  165. Tenerife Tourists are getting younger
  166. Tenerife gets 400 million Google hits
  167. Around 14% of Fred Olsen staff to be laid off, and routes reduced, for the company to weather the economic crisis.
  168. There will be major roadworks on the TF1 during August.
  169. this is how to deal with Telephonica
  170. Gloria Estefan will be performing in Tenerife on 19 September 2008.
  171. Spanair to lay off 1100 workers, ground 15 planes, and cancel loss-making routes.
  172. Spain ratifies the Lisbon Treaty
  173. Biggest Spanish construction company Martinsa-Fedesa has gone out of business.
  174. British passenger's panic attack causes London-Tenerife flight to divert to Madrid.
  175. Body found on the Playa de las Américas coastline
  176. TF1 refinery entrance to Santa Cruz closed for Roadworks
  177. Ex-mayor of Granadilla in court on corruption charges.
  178. Dodgey Doggy Makeovers
  179. A bather has drifted out to sea from Las Galletas.
  180. Binter summer flights programme
  181. The Police are asking for help in identifying the body found in the sea near La Caleta.
  182. Missing Pensioner
  183. Heatwave alert in Tenerife and the Canaries weekend of 26-30 June 2008.
  184. Illegal buildings cannot be demolished unless a demolition notice has been served within four years.
  185. A mechanic has died in Reine Sofia airport after being sucked into the engine of the plane he was repairing.
  186. Business confidence hits four-year low
  187. Road haulage strike action over rising fuel prices
  188. Electricity goes up and Butane comes down in the Canaries from 1st July 2008.
  189. There will be Drink-Drive checkpoints throughout Tenerife betwen 2nd and 15th June 2008.
  190. Crime in Tenerife
  191. Granadilla Council says that the ban on nudism in La Tejita was a mistake, and that the practice is allowed after all.
  192. fines imposed on businesses employing illegal immigrants
  193. Young Scottish lad dead after falling from a balcony at the Hotel Columbus.
  194. From Thursday 15 May 2008, there is a Canarian Police Force.
  195. Drought in Barcelona
  196. Small earthquake Tuesday 13th May 2008 in Northern Tenerife.
  197. Blue Badge Mobility / Tenerife Transfer hold meeting with Taxi companies to help and assist get rid of illegal airport transfers
  198. Chimp smashes up bar in La Orotava !
  199. Cayucos and pateras in the Canaries 2008
  200. Fires in Tenerife 2008.
  201. Fires in La Gomera
  202. Spanish Ministry of health have issued a warning about Sun Flower Oil
  203. Fires have just been banned in recreational areas in the forests for the duration of the calima and heatwave.
  204. Bomb threat hoax call today in University of La Laguna
  205. Important Announcement from K9 Tenerife
  206. The Canaries had the highest rate of inflation throughout Spain in February.
  207. Zapatero's Spain.
  208. Drop dead boring - Santa Cruz fails as a passenger pleaser
  209. Irish holidaymaker missing on Tenerife
  210. Never a dull moment here
  211. Costa Adeje Hospital Evacuated (4/4)
  212. Paedophiles banned from Facebook.
  213. Warning to all Parents in Tenerife
  214. great news i´ve just heard: Jamiroquai playing Tenerife 14th June 2008
  215. Guanche Wedding
  216. Tenerife online newspapers.
  217. Quick tip for finding info on Tenerife