Gran Canaria News & Information

A MAN who blackmailed over 40 little girls into sending pornographic footage to him and left a 13-year-old pregnant has been arrested in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

THREE British tourists have been arrested in Gran Canaria for constantly insulting a gay couple on their flight from East Midlands airport.

SIX tourists stuck in the snow in Gran Canaria had to be rescued last night (Friday), reports the Guardia Civil, whose officers took the photograph shown here (left).

THE CASE of missing Yéremi Vargas who vanished from his Canary Island village 10 years ago has been closed because of 'lack of evidence' to incriminate the number one suspect in his disappearance.

A CARGO ship loaded with ammonium nitrate is floating adrift off the coast of Gran Canaria with no crew, coastguard watchers report.

A FERRY carrying 140 passengers from Gran Canaria to Tenerife crashed into the pier in Las Palmas port last night (Friday) due to a 'technical fault'.

A CANARY Island bishop says the sight of a 'drag-queen Virgin Mary' being crowned at Las Palmas carnival 'saddened him more than the Spanair crash' of August 2008.

A FELLOW inmate of the only suspect in the disappearance of seven-year-old Yéremi Vargas a decade ago claims the accused described the child's death to him in detail.

A CONVICTED paedophile has become a key suspect in the disappearance of seven-year-old Yeremi Vargas, who was last seen playing outside his home in the village of Vecindario, near Santa Lucía de Tirajana (Gran Canaria)...

DISNEY is considering shooting the next episode of Star Wars in the Canary Islands.

ANOTHER coach accident on a winding mountain road has claimed a holidaymaker's life just 12 days after a Swiss man died when a bus overturned on the island.

The town council in Mogán, in the south of the island of Gran Canaria, has today approved a new by-law that reserves 75% of its beaches for non smokers, only allowing smoking on the remaining 25%.