Former teacher and Scout leader who preyed on teenage boys jailed 14 years 

36 students complete GHA summer placement programme

22nd September 2026

Thirty-six A Level students from schools across Gibraltar have completed the 2026 Gibraltar Health Authority Summer Placement Programme, aimed at encouraging young people to consider careers in healthcare. Students from Bayside, Westside, Prior Park, the Hebrew School and Gibraltar College took part in the two-week placements. A certificate presentation ceremony was held at St Bernard’s...

Gibraltar launches Nature Positive Tourism pilot

22nd September 2026

The Gibraltar Tourist Board and the Department of the Environment have launched a Nature Positive Tourism pilot with consultancy ANIMONDIAL to examine how Gibraltar’s tourism sector can develop while protecting the natural environment. The project will explore the relationship between tourism and Gibraltar’s natural assets, including where the sector depends on healthy ecosystems, where visitor...

Apprenticeship delivers 10 new qualified bus drivers

22nd September 2026

Ten participants have completed the Government’s D Licence Apprenticeship Programme, with all obtaining their full D Licence and progressing into employment with the Gibraltar Bus Company as supply drivers. Some have already gone on to secure full-time driver roles. The programme was launched in August 2025 by the Ministry of Equality, Employment, Culture and Tourism...

Blue plaque recognises British divers’ underwater war

22nd September 2026

A blue plaque has been unveiled in Gibraltar, at Rosia Bay, honouring the 15 divers of the Under Water Working Party (UWWP) who safeguarded Allied shipping in the Bay of Gibraltar during the Second World War.  This joins two other blue plaques, sited at Brixham and Appledore in the UK, which recognise the efforts of...

Cross-border worker Seila Pavón to stand as PSOE candidate for La Línea

21st September 2026

Cross-border worker Seila Pavón Guerrero will be the PSOE candidate for La Línea in the municipal elections due to be held in May 2027. The PSOE Provincial Executive Committee in Cádiz approved her nomination on Monday morning. Ms Pavón is a law graduate from the University of Cádiz and is living in La Línea since...

La Linea museum launches third edition of previously unseen Cruz Herrera paintings

21st September 2026

The Museo Cruz Herrera is exhibiting 23 paintings by the prolific portraitist that have never had a public showing as part of the third edition of its Ineditos initiative which aims to bring his little-known works to greater prominence.  The museum has previously displayed collections of its prolific namesake’s work, such as an exhibition in January featuring portraits exclusively of blonde women.  Director Mercedes Corbacho said that around 40% of the museum’s Cruz Herrera paintings have never been exhibited publicly and...

Drugs-related offenders increasingly using military-grade weapons, Spanish prosecutors say

21st September 2026

The representatives of Fiscalía de Andalucía, Andalucía’s prosecution service, have all expressed “alarm” at the increasing number of military-grade firearms being discovered by police officers when raiding drugs caches.  The service’s latest report, Memoria de la Fiscalía del Estado which was published last week and covers the year 2025, also highlights a rise in the numbers of people arrested...

Interest rates held at 3.75% but Bank warns Iran war could mean future hike

17th September 2026

By Anna Wise, Press Association Business Reporter The Bank of England held interest rates at 3.75% on Thursday, but policymakers warned that pressure to raise rates is building as the Iran war goes on. The Bank’s monetary policy committee (MPC) said global energy prices were volatile and likely to push inflation higher by the end of the year than...