Blue lights, discount fines and other news

Flashing lights on priority vehicles in Spain are to be unified to BLUE in all cases. Until now, this colour had been reserved only for police vehicles. Fire engines, ambulances, civil protection and rescue vehicles will now cease to have yellow lights and the colour yellow will be reserved for secondary use, for vehicles that could be an obstacle in the road.

The Spanish government approved a draft bill on Friday that's set to reform the way that motoring offenses are handled in future. Among the measures anticipated in the bill are that fine notifications will be reduced to one only (doing away with the two further reminders), but that prompt payers will be awarded a "prize" - of a 40% discount.

 

Another, will be to bring "foreigners not resident in Spain" into the net, so you too will be able to be fined or banned from driving, even on your holidays.

Grupo San Isidro, BP Solar and Banco Santander inaugurate one of the largest photovoltaic plants in the Canary Islands, in Arico, Tenerife.

The Tenerife Island Corporation has voted unanimously to retire the obelisk dedicated to Franco at Las Raíces (El Rosario), where on the 17 June 1936, he met to make the final plans for the military coup of July of that year.

Spain's Public Prosecutor has presented a complaint against newspaper, "El Día", in Tenerife, over an article that covered the immigration that reaches the Canaries, considering that it could constitute an offense of "provocation to discriminate on the grounds of race."