The Latest Breaking News from Canary Islands

Defence officials have quietly travelled to the Canary Islands and bought a five-year-old ship for Pacific Ocean operations, angering the local industry which was expecting the ship to be built in Western Australia.

Police have seized nearly £60million worth of cocaine hidden on a boat off the coast of the Canary Islands.

Five people were arrested when a fishing boat carrying a reported two tonnes of cocaine was intercepted off the Canary Islands, Spanish police said.

The footage was filmed at La Aldea de San Nicolas, in the Canary Islands, which are part of Spain.

Hugo Healy, 25, from Hove, East Sussex, flew his drone through The Telamon which sank in 1981 while carrying tropical tree trunks from the Ivory Coast to Greece

A recently proposed aquaculture octopus farm in the Canary Islands would raise 3,000 tonnes of octopus a year, which means almost 275,000 individual octopuses will be killed annually.

Popular destinations from the Canary islands to mainland Spain and the Balearics have all been hit by the adverse conditions in recent days

The Canary Islands have updated their Covid restrictions and are now allowing people to 'socially dance'. However some rules still apply and there are entry requirements to follow.

Holidaymakers may be focusing on covid and the rules and restrictions for their selected destination - however what they may not think about is roaming charges and it's all changed after Brexit.

In September 2002, a number of beaked whales were stranded and killed in the Canary Islands during a NATO naval exercise. It was the first time we started to get a real understanding of the negative effects of sonar sounds on cetaceans, which includes whales, dolphins and porpoises.

Sterling has climbed three per cent in value against the euro since March 2020, when Britons were last able to visit the region without restrictions