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The police on Tenerife have issued a warning about counterfeited 100 euro notes circulating on the island during the carnival season. You are warning to check carefully any 100 euro notes you receive.

The notes have several security features including a hologram, watermark and hologram. Here is link showing how to check if the notes are genuine.

Indentifiying Genuine Banknotes

This years Santa Cruz carnival queen gala on Tenerife has ended in tragedy. One of the contestants for the title of carnival queen has been severely burnt when her elaborate costume caught fire as she was about to go on stage. The fire is alleged to have been started by another contestant’s costume that had fireworks attached to increase the dramatic effect on stage.

The victim is 25 year old Saida Maria Prieto who has been transferred to the burns unit in Seville on the Spanish mainland, with 42% second and third degree burns to her body and is reported to be on life support. Saida was trapped inside her costume due to belts around her waist to hold it in place.

The mayor of Santa Cruz has been criticized for playing down the seriousness of the incident by insisting on live TV that the show 'had gone wonderfully' except for a 'small problem with one of the girls’. Carnival organisers have admitted they knew a pyrotechnic device was to be used but did not carry out safety checks.

Two footballers from Tenerife, Pedro Rodríguez who plays for Barcelona and Vitolo for Panathinaikos FC, have offered to pay for Saida’s long stay for treatment in the burns unit.

Saida María Prieto Hernández

The worst aviation disaster in history happened at Tenerife's north airport of Los Rodeos in 1977 when two Boeing 747 jumbo jets colided on the runway with the loss of 583 lives. The accident prompted the construction of Tenerife south airport in the municipality of Abona close to Los Abrigos.

The live flight radar shows live flight data recieved from the aircrafts transponders as they are approching the Canary Islands in real time. You will notice the aircraft are actually moving.

You can zoom the map in and out to get a closer view or a broarder view, or drag the map and move its location. Hovering your mouse over the aircraft will show the flight number, if you click on the aircraft it will display more live flight information about that flight.

Also available are the Tenerife airport arrivals and Tenerife airport departures live information boards.

A video of Canary Islands from the sky. A trip on the Canary Islands off the charts. The seven islands, one by one. Images taken from japroducciones.com and edited.

A look at the beautiful Atlantic island of the Canary Islands. Silvia was there in December and has gathered these spectacular images of the sea and mountains.

This years Santa Cruz carnival in Tenerife gets started this year on 6^th February and the festivities continue until February 17^th. This year’s theme is Bollywood as chosen by voters in Tenerife and will be the inspiration for costumes and songs and carnival acts.

Tenerife has had a large Hindu population from India for generations the mayor of Santa Cruz, José Manuel Bermúdez, has shown his support for the choice of theme.

The Bollywood theme was chosen by 42 per cent of the voters with the theme for cartoons coming second, followed by ‘Carnivals of the World, ‘Africa’, ‘The Sea’ and ‘The Olympics’.

A man from Wigan has claimed that he was forced into smuggling by Gangsters on Tenerife. The 20 year old man, who was caught smuggling 60 000 cigarettes into the UK, said that he was pressurised by the criminal underworld on Tenerife in to acting as a mule, after borrowing money he couldn’t repay.

Wigan magistrates were told that he was first caught with 15000 cigarettes in December 2010 at Newcastle airport. He was caught again two weeks later repeating the same offence with another 15000 cigarettes and then at Manchester airport with 17500 cigarettes in April 2011. On these three occasions he was issued with a caution.

He was caught again with 16 000 at Exeter airport in May 2011 and tried to convince officers that he was a heavy smoker, but eventually admitted to planning to sell them on. The cost in lost taxes for the 3 offence was in the order of £13000. The maximum cigarette allowance from Tenerife is 200.

The man moved to Tenerife in 2009 and worked in bars but lost his job due to bad health and ran into financial trouble, this led to him borrowing the money he couldn’t pay back.

He was given a 12 week jail sentence suspended for 12 months.

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The Tenerife carnival gets started tonight with the opening ceremony and a show in the Plaza de Espania, Santa Cruz. The show will give a first glimpse of the contestants for the Carnival Queen competition and to decide the order of appearance in the contests. The competition starts with 14 hopeful contestants, from which the carnival Queen will be chosen and four bridesmaids.

Althought the main events are the Carnival Queen Parade and fancy dress parades the featival actually goes on for a month.

The Santa Cruz Canaval is the largest carnival on Tenerife, it is also regarded as the second largest carnival in the world second only to the Rio de Janeiro Canaval.

Tonight here will also be some of the singing and dance groups performing. The event begins at 8.30pm for which the organisers are expecting big crowds.

This year's theme is 'Bollywood'.