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Autumn Festival entertainment planned for Main Street

Gibraltar Cultural Services will stage a programme of music and entertainment in the town centre on Saturday, October 24, as part of this year’s Autumn Festival. The programme, organised on behalf of the Ministry of Culture, will run from 10.30am to 3pm and feature local DJs, performers and other entertainment at locations along Main Street...

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Business group reviews first ten weeks of treaty arrangements

The Minister for Health, Care and Business, Gemma Arias-Vasquez, chaired a meeting of the Business Transition Advisory Group at No.6 Convent Place to review the first ten weeks of the new customs and border arrangements under the UK-EU treaty. It was the group’s second meeting since the treaty began provisional application on July 15 and...

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Nautilus launches free Gibraltar Ocean Observatory

The Nautilus Project has launched a free online Gibraltar Ocean Observatory bringing together daily information on sea conditions around the Rock, with some records stretching back more than 40 years. The website combines measurements collected by public science agencies and presents them in a single place, allowing users to track changes in Gibraltar’s marine environment...

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Nautilus intern presents environmental research in Potsdam, Germany

German Geoecology student Kai Henning-Kotschmar has presented the results of his summer internship with The Nautilus Project to an audience in Potsdam. Mr Henning-Kotschmar spent part of the summer working with the local environmental organisation as part of his academic and professional development. During the internship, he gained practical experience in environmental research and contributed...

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Britain should ‘rejoin EU within a decade’ says report by Blair think tank 

By Harry Taylor, Press Association Political Staff  Britain should commit to rejoining the European Union within a decade, according to the think tank chaired by Sir Tony Blair, as the former Labour prime minister said the country needed a “new approach” to post-Brexit relations.  Sir Tony, who left office in 2007, said Andy Burnham’s Government...

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Burnham insists UK will ‘stand firm’ over threats to Falkland Islands

By David Hughes, Press Association Political Editor in New York Andy Burnham said the UK “will stand firm in the face of any threats” to the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands after Argentina’s president Javier Milei escalated tensions over the South Atlantic archipelago. The Prime Minister raised the issue with US President Donald Trump, an...

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Chagos agreement ‘a terrible deal’, Trump tells Burnham

Donald Trump told Prime Minister Andy Burnham the UK’s agreement with Mauritius to hand over the Chagos Islands is a “terrible deal” and “ridiculous”. Asked by reporters about the deal after a bilateral meeting on the fringes of the United Nations General Assembly, the US president said: “I don’t support it. I think it’s a...

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

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...