If bringing your UK registered car to Spain after September 28th thought you might like this bit of info -

Displaying number plates: Flags, symbols and identifiers - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

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Seen yesterday and made me chuckle so thought I'd share:

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from Noticias:

Subsidies for renewables and purchase of electric vehicles.
[color=#000000][size=small][font=asap-regular, Arial, sans-serif][color=#555555][font=asap-regular, Arial, sans-serif]The Ministry of Industry, Energy, Commerce, Crafts and Classified Activities directed by Domingo Pérez, "opens the call for subsidies for energy self-consumption in private homes, as well as the p

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Arrested for seven robberies of cars in Puerto del Rosario.

Agents of the National Police have arrested, in Puerto del Rosario, a 45-year-old man as the alleged perpetrator of seven crimes of robbery with force in vehicles.



The National Police began an investigation at the end of October this year, with a first report of a robbery with force in a vehicle, the Police force said in a statement.



For the robbery, a sharp tool had been used to make a hole next to the l

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Three more cars burned in Costa Calma.

They were burned after being burned this morning

Three cars were burned this past morning in the town of Costa Calma. At this time, the circumstances and facts surrounding the authorship are unknown.



They were parked in front of the town's Football pitch and were burned overnight.


There is concern among the neighbors, there is that after burning a car in Morro Jable last week and another in Costa Calma, everything points to

The La Oliva City Council continues with the campaign to remove abandoned vehicles in the municipality. The Departments of Environment and Traffic, headed by David Fajardo and Christian Rodríguez respectively, have managed to initiate a total of 77 files on unused cars on public roads since the beginning of the project in November 2023 to date. The objective of the campaign is to tackle the abandonment of vehicles on the streets, to achieve a better urban environment for the residents of the mu

The Canary Islands' vehicle fleet, one of the oldest in Spain with an average age of more than 15 years


The car continues to be a fundamental actor in mobilisation, but it also involves many expenses that throw the Spaniards' budgets out of place. According to data from the Canary Islands Institute of Statistics (ISTAC), there were 1,835,680 vehicles in circulation in the Archipelago last July compared to 1,791,230 in the same month of 2023 and 1,706,838 in March 2019, that is, in pre-pande

Hi all,

We are hoping to fly to Tenerife in March but visit La Gomera and El Hierro. The easiest way to get around (and the cheapest as residents) is to hire a rental car for the 5-6 days.

3 questions:

1. Do CICAR/others allow you to take the car to different islands (I suspect yes?)
2. Are all ferry companies happy to take hire cars? (I suspect yes, again)
3. How can you book a ferry in advance if you don't have the registration/exact make of hire car in advance?

Thanks folks.
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A man has died and another was seriously injured in an accident early on Friday morning, 18th July. The incident took place on the FV-20 road near kilometre 23 in Antigua, Fuerteventura.

The emergency services were alerted to the collision at around 7:50 am, which involved three vehicles. Two ambulances were dispatched to the location given, along with firefighters and Guardia Civil officers.

An off-duty paramedic who happened to be nearby was the first to attend to the victims. Tragically