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prospective employers pay more attention to age and “gaps in your cv” than whether you can actually do your job well
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The lender said prices were now 4.4% lower than a year ago, a drop of £8,000, which has taken the average UK house price down to £173,583.
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The Hola-Land has been suspended by Amnesty International in its annual report, saying that human rights are not respected here.
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More than half the sunglasses sold in the Canary Islands do not protect against ultraviolet rays.
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The Tenerife Island Corporation is to invest 748,726.58 euros in restoring the Casa de la Piedra in Garachico.
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The Foreigners’ Law in Spain is to be changed to allow undocumented immigrants to be held for a “moderately” longer period than the current 40 days.
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Unions in the Canaries denounce Europe and accuse them of waving the flag of racism and xenophobia, over new measures that allow the retention of immigrants for up to 18 months.
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25 beaches and 2 ports in the Canary Islands are awarded the blue flag for good management in 2008.
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Granadilla council plans to ban nudism on one of Tenerife’s best-known nudist spots are being challenged by Spain’s biggest Nudism Association.
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Only buy property in Spain if you fall into one of these categories:
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Greece’s inflation is seen as reaching a six-year high of more than 4.6 percent in May after rising energy costs pushed the price of numerous supermarket goods last month from 10 to 20 percent higher.
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Ryanair announced 14 new routes across Europe to be launched in October 2008, including 5 new UK routes: from Bournemouth to Milan and Paris and from Glasgow to Faro, Malaga and Tenerife.
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Shouldn’t we be technologically advanced enough here in the 21st Century to quit siphoning off the pus of the Earth?
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ISP access in Spain and the UK
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The number of passengers through the Canary Islands airports between January and April was more than 12 million; six times more than the region’s population of 2,025,000.
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Spain’s seven biggest developers reported last week that the number of sales in the first quarter of 2008 had plunged by almost 75 per cent compared with last year.
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Tenerife’s farmers complain that the regional Agricultural council talks a lot, but doesn’t do much.
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The president of construction companies’ federation in Tenerife says that the price of homes are not going to drop in the archipielago.
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I know, it seems impossible, but …
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Martin Wells join’s Tenerife’s fan club and writes of, “the “real” Tenerife, places that have never needed to adapt or change with the times – the sleepy mountain villages, tranquil hiking trails, and the alluring cafe culture in so many picturesque
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714,000 euros (about half a million quid) is to be destined to rural tourism in Tenerife, out of the agricultural council’s coffers to create alternatives. Maybe this will urge people to tidy land too?
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Permits issued for the construction of new homes in the Canary Islands were down 58.6% in the first quarter of the year. (Good for the planet, bad for business.)
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Immigrants who can no longer find work in construction are becoming waiters.
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So are expats, judging from the price I paid for my passport recently.
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More than 45% of families in the Canary Islands have trouble stretching the budget to the end of the month.
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Six out of every 10 pensioners over 65 in the Canary Islands lives below the poverty line.
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Poverty in the Canary Islands: 16% or one 6th of the population lives below the poverty line.
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Tourism in the Canary Isladns increased 4.4% in the first quarter of the year, with a 5.8% increase from the United Kingdom. (Crisis, what crisis?)
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We can’t give you the recipe (it’s secret), but here’s where to eat it …
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The number of tourists to visit Tenerife in the first 4 months of the year was up by 2.5%. (Crisis, what crisis?)
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Petrol to break the euro per liter barrier with a 0.013 euro rise on Monday. (That’s about £3.50 per UK gallon.)
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Unfortunately, the answer is death and misery now rather than heads in the sand and worse death and misery in the future.
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Logic or Reason and Intuition or Emotion
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European airlines are prototyping a Panopticon-in-the-sky: cameras trained on every passenger in flight, married to some kind of snake-oil “terrorism detection” software that will be able to tell if the guy in 11J is planning to rush the cockpit.
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Here’s how to do your keyword research, FREE and easy
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One of the biggest reasons to travel is to expose yourself to a new culture, to see how things are done in another place.
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Scientists have developed a method for reading a person’s mind using brain scans.
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The numbers are the end that will always justify the means; what those means may be is irrelevant — not when ad revenue is at stake. If you think it’s something bordering on tragic that the heirarchy within most news operations works like the Mafia — or
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