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Exhibition explores Gibraltar’s unbuilt projects and urban ambitions 

Architects, planners and members of the Development and Planning Commission gathered at the Growing Artists Hub in Irish Town for the opening of “Unbuilt Gibraltar 2025”, an exhibition that explores alternative visions of Gibraltar’s urban landscape and projects that never made it off the drawing board.   The exhibition, which was initially planned for just two...

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Gibraltar Training Centre welcomes 2025 apprentice intake

The Gibraltar Training Centre has inducted 35 apprentices onto its 2025 intake for construction skills training, with a further group due to start an engineering programme on November 24. The new starters have enrolled on the City and Guilds Level 1 Extended Certificate in Construction Skills, a three-month foundation programme designed to equip candidates with...

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Bells of St Andrews ring out as The Rock Sanctuary starts to take shape

The bells of St Andrews Church rang out on Thursday this week as businessman Leslie Ratcliffe hosted a breakfast for workers engaged in refurbishing the heritage building to turn it into a hub for multi-faith dialogue and learning. The project, called The Rock Sanctuary, received planning permission from the Development and Planning Commission earlier this...

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Immersive 360 performance set for Christmas Festival of Lights tonight

Tonight the Christmas lights will be switched on at Casemates Square during an immersive 360 performance organised by Gibraltar Cultural Services (GCS) and the Gibraltar Academy of Music and Performing Arts (GAMPA). Two identical shows will be held at 6.30pm and 8.30pm this evening. The shows, described as an immersive 360-degree experience designed for audiences...

UK/Spain News

UK/Spain News

Port of Algeciras becomes main entry route for contraband tobacco into Campo 

By Maria Jesus Corrales  The Port of Algeciras now accounts for 55% of the contraband tobacco seized in the Campo de Gibraltar, according to data presented by the Guardia Civil at the tenth Congress on Combating Contraband in La Línea last week.  The figures show that only 10% of illegal tobacco enters Spain through the...

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Tax online betting games to reflect the harm they cause, UK MPs say

By Josie Clarke, PA Consumer Affairs Correspondent, and Chronicle staff The UK Government should not “cave in to industry scaremongering” and tax online betting games at a rate that reflects their harm, MPs have said in a report ahead of a UK budget statement later this month.  The report was met with disappointment in Gibraltar, amid concern a hike in UK...

UK/Spain News

Spanish police arrest fugitive wanted for murder as he tried to enter Gib

A Portuguese man wanted for murder and other serious offences was arrested by Spanish police in La Linea as he tried to cross the border into Gibraltar. Spain’s Policia Nacional said the man was the subject of four arrest warrants for murder, sexual abuse and wounding in different locations in Spain. The man was arrested...

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Spanish complaint over Eastside project sent back to La Linea court on appeal - report 

A criminal complaint lodged by Spain’s state environmental prosecution service over the Eastside project has been referred on appeal back to a La Linea court that had ruled it was outside its remit, according to Spanish press reports.   The complaint alleges that reclamation work for the Eastside project could constitute an offence under Spanish law. ...