Critically ill baby resuscitated dockside after being rescued from migrant boat off Gran Canaria

Shocking moment critically ill baby is resuscitated on the dockside as six children and four adults are hospitalised with hypothermia after being rescued from migrant boat off Gran Canaria Spanish authorities rescue 52 African migrants from water south of Gran Canaria Ten people were rushed to hospital, including one child in a critical condition Five … Read more

Briton and his wife killed in Gran Canaria after their car falls off a cliff

British pilot and his wife are killed along with two other family members after their car plunges 245ft off a cliff edge on Gran Canaria A British pilot and his Spanish wife have died in a car crash in Gran Canaria   Pair were killed when car they were in plunged 245ft off a cliff late … Read more

Canary Island holidays: From Lanzarote to Tenerife and Gran Canaria, which is best for you?

Sunshine? Plenty. Average daily high temperatures are in the 20Cs throughout winter. Flight time? Four hours and 30 minutes — half the journey to Florida (and, anyway, you can’t go there due to travel restrictions). Are we welcome? Yes! The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has just made the Canaries a ‘travel corridor’.  So there’s … Read more

This Thomas Cook luxury break in Gran Canaria features swanky family rooms and catamaran excursions

All-inclusive holidays often come with something of a health warning. ‘It’s like a cruise,’ some say. ‘You are caught up with the same people every day and barely see anything of where you are.’ And it is true. It can be difficult to tear the kids away from the bottomless ice-cream bar and indeed the … Read more