Photo: Adeje mayor José Miguel Rodríguez Fraga. Updated 7.15pm: Adeje mayor José Miguel Rodríguez Fraga has just announced that the awful news is confirmed as a domestic violence killing of a woman and her ten-year-old son. He says “there are no words to express such rage and pain”. The mayor has called a full council meeting tomorrow morning at 11.30am, to be followed at midday by a minute’s silence in front of the Ayuntamiento at the top of Calle Grande in Adeje town “to condemn these terrible murders which have happened in our municipality”. The mayor invites everyone to attend the simple ceremony against thisREAD MORE

A new party will be standing against the traditional ones in the local elections which we can all vote in next month if we are on the padrón and census of our local Ayuntamiento. Alongside the PSOE, PP, Podemos, Coalición Canaria et al, the new party is Movimiento Del Pueblo, and its representative Colette Barton says that her role in it is to become the voice for the English-speaking residents since the party’s president Juan Hernández believes that many English-speaking residents are never heard and feel that their vote does not count when it is actually very important. The new party will be standing inREAD MORE

Photo: Adeje Ayuntamiento. Wherever you look over the next couple of weeks, and especially Friday next week, you’ll see floral crosses. They are symbols of the Fiesta de la Cruz de Mayo (May Cross Fiesta) which is celebrated on 3 May throughout Spain, but especially in Tenerife because it is the date on which, in 1494, Santa Cruz was founded. The best known celebration here is in Los Realejos, where a firework display that is now world-famous is part of the town’s Cruces & Fuegos fiesta (see HERE). There are also major celebrations in any town with Cruz in the name, indeed there is a municipalREAD MORE