Jay Slater: British man still missing in Tenerife after eight days of searching

Search teams from Tenerife are still scouring the Spanish island for missing British teenager Jay Slater.

The 19-year-old, from Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire, disappeared without a trace while on holiday last Monday.

Police hoping to find him on Sunday focused on a few small outbuildings in a village at the bottom of a ravine, near where his phone was last found.

Mr Slater has not been heard from since he called one of the friends he had traveled with eight days ago, telling him he was lost, his phone had run out of battery and that he needed water.

Specialist dog teams are also searching for him, with the bulk of the search focusing on an area near a national park in the northwest of Tenerife.

Crews are working in difficult conditions in rural Teno National Park, Mr Slater's last known location.

Canary Islands Guardia Civil officers were seen searching two structures at the bottom of a ravine in the park on Sunday.

Efforts appeared to be focused primarily on a single area after days of searching the nearby village of Masca and the surrounding landscape.

One man who had flown from the UK to help described his role in the ravine search operation as “looking for a needle in a haystack”.

Climber Paul Arnott, 29, from Flitwick, Bedfordshire, said: “You don't believe how steep and vast this area is until you get here.

“But I thought there would be more people looking.”

Mr Slater's friends and family said he had left the group he was traveling with in the tourist area of ​​Playa de las Americas in the south of the island.

After leaving the NRG music festival at Papagayo nightclub, the apprentice bricklayer got into a car with two men he had met to drive to the national park in northwest Tenerife.

Lancashire Police said last week they had offered to help Spanish police search for him, but were told their counterparts in Tenerife believed they had enough resources.

Mr Slater was on his first holiday without family and had gone to the festival with two friends.

One of them, Lucy Law, was reportedly the last person to speak to him. She allegedly told him on the phone that he had missed a bus and decided to make the 10-hour trip home, but that he was lost, needed water and only he stayed 1% battery.

A fundraising page set up by Ms Law to help find him has raised more than £30,000 in donations.

Teno Rural Park is about a 40-minute drive from where Mr Slater and his friends were staying.

A remote and wild national park, it's a world away from Los Cristianos and Playa de las Americas, the seaside resorts on the island's south coast.

Deep ravines and huge, intimidating mountains make the national park a difficult place for Spanish search teams to navigate.