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RTE's crime correspondent Paul Reynolds has been awarded €60,000 in damages at the Circuit Civil Court, which found that he was seriously defamed by an editorial in the Garda Review six years ago.

Mr Justice Matthew Deery found that the article printed in September 2001, written by the GRA's PJ Stone, depicted Mr Reynolds as a person who did not understand the requirements of due process or the presumption of innocence.

The action arises out of a report by Mr Reynolds on the detention of a Garda in Tenerife in connection with a rape.

To continue with our effort to provide an effective, modern and rofessional delivery service, we are issuing the following guidance on the notarial services we offer at our premises at the British Consulate in Santa Cruz de Tenerife and provisionally, at our Consular Surgery South located in San Eugenio, Costa Adeje.

We are also taking this opportunity to inform you about the fees charged for these services which can be paid by credit/debit card (Visa, Visa Electron and MasterCard) or alternatively in cash (Euros only).

The Tenerife Tourism Corporation has looked back on 2007 and what it has meant for travel to the Canary Island, with some 1.3 million visitors welcomed already this year.

Tenerife receives 45 per cent of the total number of British tourists that holiday in the Canaries and a 31 per cent rate of visitor return, with 80 per cent of these people staying in five-star hotels.

This year the island will host the Association of British Travel Agents' (Abta) Travel Convention, which the tourism corporation said would be a "major highlight" of the year.

The Canary Islands, seven volcanic islands and six smaller islets lying in the Atlantic Ocean off the north west coast of Africa, came under Spanish rule in the late 15th century.

Fuerteventura is the closest Canary Island to the African coast, at a distance of 108 kilometres.
The archipelago is one of several groups of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean which make up the Macaronesia, together with the Azores, Madeira, the Savage Islands, and Cape Verde.

Garda Representative Association chief PJ Stone denied in court yesterday he had libelled RTE's crime correspondent Paul Reynolds in an article in the 'Garda Review' magazine.

Mr Stone, author of an editorial in the magazine which was critical of Mr Reynolds, claimed he had a right on behalf of his rank and file members to criticise RTE coverage of a garda's detention and questioning six years ago about an alleged rape in Tenerife.

A number of arrests have taken place in Santa Brígida where two former Mayors and a number of municipal technicians were amongst the six people taken into custody for alleged corruption. The operation has been named ‘Brisanta.’ The two ex Partido Popular Mayors are now both councillors for independent parties. Those detained are: Carmelo Vega, who was elected this May as a councillor for the party, Independientes por Santa Brígida, and Antonio Díaz, from Agrupación de Amigos Demócratas.

RTE's crime editor Paul Reynolds is taking a libel action against the Garda Review magazine and the general secretary of the GRA arising out of an editorial written in September 2001.

The piece was written by PJ Stone following a report by the journalist about a 26-year-old Garda who was arrested while on holidays in Tenerife in connection with a rape.

The court heard that, in the article, Mr Stone said that he seriously doubted there would have been a camera outside the RTE offices if a person within the state broadcaster had been facing charges.

When large quantities of data need to be transmitted rapidly back and forth between satellites, a team from Oerlikon Space had demo’d the feasibility of a laser link with an effective distance of 1.5 million kilometers—for the first time, ever. Links such as this will be able to transmit data across huge distances through the universe. This data transmission will be done more rapidly and efficiently than is possible using conventional radio links in use today.

Families are booking more luxury holiday packages according to online travel agency Freedom Direct. The broader availability of cheap holidays in hotspot locations and great luxury options available across many hotels has led to a rush in booking more luxury holidays in resorts like Sharm el-Sheikh

Travel specialist Freedom Direct advise on luxury holidays for families, with a particular focus on resorts all around the Mediterranean and the Canary Islands, which offer luxury facilities at really cheap prices.

Value It Espana SL, the Santa Ursula, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, based publisher of The Tenerife Property Price Guide, today releases average property costs for each of the regions of Tenerife, and the island as a whole.

Based upon its database of property costs (in euros) per square metre, the average cost per square metre for Tenerife as a whole is 2099 euros per square metre of constructed space. This contrasts with the official figures from the Ministry of Housing´s figures for the Canaries at 1797 euros per square metre (as of half way through this year).