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What I like about April Fool’s Day: one day a year we’re asking whether news stories are true. It should be all 365.
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AskApache Password Protect adds some serious password protection to your WordPress Blog’s admin directory.
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Sorta like Tenerife, only not as strange (i.e. fiction) The success of this hoax is widely credited with inspiring the British media’s enthusiasm for April Foolery in subsequent years.
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First EasyJet arrives at Dalaman Airport
EasyJet, one of the world’s leading low-cost airlines, has kicked off its flights between London and Dalaman, a town on Turkey’s southwestern coast.
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Cheaper Abroad (From The Bromsgrove Advertiser)
A visitor says they have “just returned from visiting a friend in Tenerife and was amazed at the difference in charges over there” and quote council tax, car tax, petrol and parking costs.
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Se multiplican los robos en Adeje
Robberies multiply in Adeje. An estate agent, a supermarket, two bars and a restaurant are among the premises affected by an increase in delinquency.
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Vía libre para iniciar el puerto de Granadilla
Way is cleared to start on Granadilla port. The Canarian Government eliminates the last legal obstacle and it is predicted that work will commence in the next two weeks. (I’ll bet the protests will too.)
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Smart little buggers.
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El número de desempleados en Canarias aumenta un 3,07% en marzo, mientras en España baja
The number of registered unemployed in the Canary Islands rose by 3.07% to 158,842 in March, while in Spain overall, the numbers dropped. In Santa Cruz de Tenerife (province), the number of unemployed registered in March was 69,201, 3.03% up.
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The Kitchn offers tips on how to not waste food
Wasted food happens [not in my house, it doesn’t, with a canine waste disposal unit who will even clean spills off floors], but you can take steps to minimize what gets thrown out.
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Clearly, money is not everything. Empathy and kindness are not yet lost.
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Pulling your social media together to form a social map
Loic Lemeur discusses the different social media services and tools he uses as he takes us on a tour of his social map:
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España seguirá necesitando inmigrantes, a pesar de la desaceleración
Spain needs immigrants, despite the deceleration. According to a study by the Fundación Empresa y Sociedad, the Spanish economy demands 150.000 new immigrants annually until 2020.
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La comisión antiviolencia declara de alto riesgo el encuentro de fútbol Las Palmas-Tenerife.
The anti-violence commission (didn’t know we had one) has declared this coming weekend’s football derby between Las Palmas and Tenerife to be “high risk.” They hardly need to be clairvoyant!
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BBC NEWS | Health | Lots of water ‘is little benefit’
Food Standards Agency is sticking to its recommendation to drink six to eight glasses of fluid a day.
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