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Baby Cable Car takes top prize at Gibraltar’s National Day fancy dress competition

A small baby sitting in his car seat within a replica of the Cable Car, complete with a monkey hanging off the side, won this year’s National Day fancy dress competition. There was not a peep from Owen Cross as his father wheeled him onto stage and only smiles as the crowd applauded. Twelve children...

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King Charles calls Gibraltar ‘a treasured member’ of UK family, as PM vows ‘no compromise’ on sovereignty

King Charles III on Tuesday described Gibraltar as “a treasured member” of the UK family, in a National Day message read to the crowd at Casemates by Chief Minister Fabian Picardo, who also read a letter from Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer underscoring the UK’s double-lock sovereignty commitment to the Gibraltarians. Against the backdrop of...

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RG fires Royal Gun Salute to mark anniversary of King Charles III’s accession to throne

The Royal Gibraltar Regiment’s Thomson’s Battery fired a Royal Gun Salute on Monday to Mark the 2nd anniversary of King Charles III’s accession to the throne. The salute was fired from the Naval Base at midday, in tandem with Royal Gun Salutes conducted across the Uk. Gemma Arias-Vasquez, the Minister for Health, Care and Business,...

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Visiting UK parliamentary delegation briefed on treaty talks and no-deal planning

The newly appointed Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group [APPG] on Gibraltar, Amanda Martin, said on Monday that the UK remained optimistic a deal could be reached for a UK/EU treaty on Gibraltar. Ms Martin is visiting the Rock for National Day, part of a group of 11 MPs and peers who spent much of...

UK/Spain News

UK/Spain News

Spanish prosecutors urge Madrid to follow Gib’s lead and criminalise fuel logistics for drugs trade

By Maria Jesus Corrales Spanish prosecutors have called for tougher laws to crack down on the storage and transportation of fuel for drug smuggling launches, citing Gibraltar’s Petroleum Act 2021 as the model to follow. After Spain banned large rigid-hulled inflatable boats in 2018 – Gibraltar had taken that step in 1995 - drug gangs...

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Commons parliamentary group on Gibraltar holds first meeting

The All-Party Parliamentary Group [APPG] on Gibraltar held its formative and inaugural meeting of the new parliament at the House of Commons on Wednesday. Amanda Martin, the Labour MP for Portsmouth North, was elected as the new Chair of the APPG, succeeding Conservative MP Sir Bob Neill who stood down from frontline politics ahead of...

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UK Government will ‘take decisions’ on potential outdoor smoking ban, Starmer says

By PA Reporters Sir Keir Starmer has said the Government will “take decisions” on a potential outdoor smoking ban in an effort to curb preventable deaths and alleviate pressures on the NHS. Industry leaders have warned that the proposed plans to ban outdoor smoking, including in beer gardens and outside stadiums, would be another “nail...

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‘Painful’ Budget is needed for ‘long-term good’, says Prime Minister

By PA Reporters Sir Keir Starmer warned that the Government’s forthcoming Budget will be “painful” as he asked the country to “accept short-term pain for long-term good”. In a speech in the Downing Street rose garden, the Prime Minister claimed his Government has done more in seven weeks than the Conservative government did in seven years. But...