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Cardiac Association encourages support for World Restart a Heart Day

The Gibraltar Cardiac Association is encouraging people to wear their favourite football shirts this Friday, October 16, to raise awareness of the importance of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and defibrillators as part of World Restart a Heart Day. The association is inviting people to take part at home, at work or at school and upload pictures...

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Cancer Research UK Gibraltar Branch invites public to ‘Think Pink’

Cancer Research UK Gibraltar Branch is inviting families, friends and colleagues to wear pink on Friday October 16 as part of Think Pink Day in support of breast cancer awareness. The awareness day encourages the community to show its support by wearing pink and spreading the message among friends, family and colleagues. Members of the...

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Opposition presses Govt for ‘straight answers’ on cost of Rooke

Sir Joe Bossano, the Minister for Inward Investment and the Gibraltar Savings Bank, told Parliament that £30m remained owed to the bank in connection with the Rooke development, but said he could not confirm whether it would all be repaid until negotiations for a GHA acquisition of the building were completed. He was responding in...

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‘Christmas on Strings’ returns for third year

Gibraltar Cultural Services will stage ‘Christmas on Strings’ for a third year with two candlelit performances at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in December. The concerts will take place on Monday, December 14, and Tuesday, December 15, starting at 7pm. A string quartet will perform Christmas classics and popular favourites, with musical arrangements by Miguel Monge....

UK/Spain News

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Campo - PP tells Landaluce to resign as Algeciras mayor over sexual allegations

The Partido Popular (PP) in Cadiz has called on Algeciras mayor Jose Ignacio Landaluce to resign “immediately” following media reports of formal complaints made by two female party members alleging sexual assaults.  Following the publication of the reports in Europa Sur and El Mundo, the PP in Cadiz asked all serving PP councillors in Algeciras...

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UK will not stand by in Argentina’s ‘economic coercion’ of Falklanders

By George Thompson, Rhiannon James and Harry Taylor, Press Association political staff The Government will not “stand by” while Argentina uses “economic coercion” against the people of the Falklands, a Foreign Office minister has said. Setting out the UK’s response to “aggressive” Argentinian threats, Uma Kumaran pledged further “robust” measures if the situation persists, insisting...

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MI5 chief says ‘true whole-of-society effort’ needed to counter terror threats

The head of MI5 said a “true whole-of-society effort” was needed to build national resilience in the face of terror threats facing the UK. In a speech at Thames House on Tuesday, Sir Ken McCallum issued a rallying cry to the British public to be prepared to play a part in protecting national security and...

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Albares tipped to lead PSOE election list in Andalucia

Spain’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Jose Manuel Albares, looks set to lead the Socialist list in Andalucia in Spain’s forthcoming general election, Spanish media reported on Tuesday. Mr Albares, who played a critical role in the negotiation for the UK/EU treaty on Gibraltar. Was one of three potential candidates to head the list of PSOE...