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1st March 2024

St Joseph will this weekend have a chance to regain the top place in the league as they see closest rivals Lincoln Red Imps resting. With St Joseph playing against a struggling Glacis United, and therefore equalling Lincoln on matches played, the Saints have a chance to leapfrog their rivals and take a one point...

1st March 2024

Two minutes into the match, St Joseph were defending a corner and kicking clear from their six-yard box, the first threat from Mons Calpe. The two were playing the quarter-finals of the Rock Cup. St Joseph, who had dropped to second place in the league although equal in points to leaders Lincoln Red Imps, already...

1st March 2024

By Thomas Hillman With North Westerly winds strong enough to topple the mighty pillars of Hercules themselves, Real Club Nautico Ceuta last Saturday saw host to the second Interclubs del Estrecho sailing regatta. It was not a day for the chicken hearted - At All. While the author of this little piece is totally biased...

1st March 2024

By Christopher McKeon and Pat Hurst, PA George Galloway has won the Rochdale by-election after a controversial and chaotic campaign. Mr Galloway’s campaign team claimed early on in the night that the former Labour and Respect MP would win “comfortably”, and so it proved. The Workers Party of Great Britain leader received just under 40% of the vote. In...

1st March 2024

Outline planning permission was granted for the proposed refurbishment and creation of an ‘Oceanic Display and Research Centre’ in Victualling Yard, Rosia Bay, during Thursday’s meeting of the Development and Planning Commission. Five members voted in favour, five against while one, Claire Montado from the Heritage Trust, abstained “because there is still a lot that...

1st March 2024

By Simon Warburton It’s fair to say whenever the concept of a Business Improvement District (BID) raises its head, it comes replete with a storm of controversy. They are designed to engage businesses in, as it says on the tin, improving the local area in which companies operate, maybe in terms of signage or street...

29th February 2024

“Under no circumstances was any money missing”, a former senior manager accused of hiding a £2m “hole” in the Royal Bank of Scotland International’s cash reserves told the Supreme Court on Thursday. Former RBSI senior manager Gillian Balban is accused of fraud and false accounting, after an alleged “hole” was found in the bank’s cash...

29th February 2024

Soldiers from the Royal Gibraltar Regiment have successfully completed a two-month deployment to Fort Irwin, California, as part of Exercise DIAMONDBACK, training alongside US and British forces. Members of the Regiment joined with X Company from the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers as part of the American 2-37 Armoured Battalion, who were conducting their readiness training...

29th February 2024

By Sophie Wingate, David Hughes, Patrick Daly and Christopher McKeon, PA Rishi Sunak has warned that the UK is descending into “mob rule” as he told police they must use the powers they have or risk losing public confidence amid fears about MPs being targeted by demonstrators heightened by the Israel-Hamas conflict. The Prime Minister discussed a...

29th February 2024

The UK has removed Gibraltar from its list of high risk jurisdictions, mirroring last week’s decision by the Financial Action Task Force, the global money laundering and terrorist financing watchdog, to move the Rock from its grey to white list. The UK list automatically reflects the FATF grey list of high risk jurisdictions, meaning the...