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10th May 2021

By Thomas Hornall John Logie Baird, the inventor of the first working television, will be celebrated with a new 50p coin, said the Royal Mint. The life and work of the Scottish engineering pioneer will be honoured by the commemorative piece as part of the national coin maker’s tribute to innovation in science. It was...

10th May 2021

Cancer Relief Gibraltar is marking Dying Matters this week, a Hospice UK-led initiative that helps open up the conversation on death, dying and bereavement. As part of this awareness campaign, the charity is sharing testimonials from its members of staff and service users on the hospice service it offers. Today’s testimonial is from Ray Osborne,...

10th May 2021

By Ella Pickover, PA Health Correspondent The Covid-19 alert level in the UK has been downgraded after a “consistent” fall in cases, hospital admissions and deaths. The four chief medical officers of the UK have said the threat level should be lowered from “level 4” to “level 3”, thanks to the success of the vaccination...

10th May 2021

By PA Reporters A small whale freed after it became stranded along the River Thames is on the move again – but is still in the London river hours later. Hundreds gathered at Richmond Lock and Weir in south-west London on Sunday after the whale, a Minke between three to four metres long, became stuck...

10th May 2021

Nine out of 10 of people have said they would like to be told if they were facing a terminal illness in response to a Dying Matters survey currently being carried out by Cancer Relief Gibraltar. The survey is being conducted as part of Dying Matters week ,which the charity is marking as from Monday...

10th May 2021

By Carmen Anderson Gibraltarian artist and teacher, Tina Rodriguez, is showing her Covid inspired works in the Kitchen Studios’ exhibition at the GEMA gallery in Montagu Bastion. A passionate artist, Ms Rodriguez takes inspiration from challenging boundaries and drawing attention beyond the merely visual to the tactile, beyond the 2D to the 3D. Ms Rodriguez...

10th May 2021

The Ark Royal Sea Scouts and The Duke of Edinburgh Nautilus bronze participants collected 120kg of rubbish in the 61st Great Gibraltar Beach Clean on Wednesday. The Nautilus Great Gibraltar Beach Cleans initiative started back in February 2017 and over three tonnes of refuse have been retrieved from the Gibraltar coastline by volunteers from all...

9th May 2021

By Ana Sharma Today Clubhouse will mark the start of Mental Health Week virtually, continuing their work to raise awareness and remove the stigma of seeking help. Clubhouse Gibraltar aim to support and inspire members to get their lives back on track and this week the charity will be hosting events daily. This morning the...

7th May 2021

By Michael Drummond, PA South East Correspondent A Jersey fishing leader has called for a “show of good faith” from France after dozens of French vessels descended on the island’s capital on Thursday. The hours-long protest saw about 60 boats approach the port of St Helier in an escalation of a row over post-Brexit fishing...

6th May 2021

Bridging World Earth Day on April 22 and World Ocean’s Day on June 8 the Chronicle aims to run a series of articles that hope to help address the various ways people can ‘Restore Our Earth’, this week its growing plants at home. Chronicle reporter Eyleen Gomez spoke to Gibraltar Botanic Gardens Education Officer Shawna...

6th May 2021

By Catherine Wylie The Earl of Wessex has visited two schools opened by his father and spoken to students about the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award scheme. Staff from Christ’s College and Pond Meadow schools in Guildford, Surrey, recalled memories of Philip’s visit in 2009. Edward also watched students from Christ’s College perform a short piece...

6th May 2021

By Gavin Cordon, Emma Bowden and Aine Fox, PA The EU has complained to Britain that the terms of its post-Brexit trade deal are being ignored in the deepening dispute over fishing rights off Jersey. The European Commission said French fishing boats were facing “additional conditions” if they were to carry on operating, in breach...

6th May 2021

By Gavin Cordon, Emma Bowden and Aine Fox, PA France has despatched two patrol boats to Jersey as tensions continued to rise in the dispute over post-Brexit fishing rights. Agence France-Presse reported the two police vessels had been sent after Britain deployed a pair of Royal Navy vessels to the Channel Island. Earlier, dozens of...

6th May 2021

The GSD has called on the Gibraltar Government to deal with issues affecting the elderly after the Gibraltar Senior Citizens’ Association discontinued their newsletter out of frustration. But in response the Government said these concerns should not be taken advantage of by political parties and politicised. For years the Association had been producing a monthly...

5th May 2021

We finally found out. The identity of ‘H’ has been revealed. Of course if you do not watch Line of Duty you may have no idea what I’m talking about. But given it’s the TV drama that has gripped the nation with record viewing figures and mounting speculation everywhere from TV and radio to Twitter...

5th May 2021

“Culture is back, music is back, Gibraltar is back, Gibraltar is open for business and we are ready to have some fun too.” That was the message from the Chief Minister, Fabian Picardo, as he officially opened the Culture v Covid exhibition at the John Mackintosh Hall on Tuesday evening. In a change from the...

5th May 2021

The Gibraltar Senior Citizens’ Association has decided to discontinue its monthly newsletters as they feel their calls for the needs of senior citizens remain largely unanswered. In the last of their monthly newsletters the Association said they have been “unable to convince government of the needs of senior citizens.” The Association details that, for years,...

5th May 2021

The Commander British Forces, Commodore Steven Dainton, recently hosted a Spring Fair at Helm Point in Four Corners Estate for the MoD community. The event was held following the lifting of Covid-19 restrictions and was organised by the Community Support Team and a supporting committee with representatives from the Royal Gibraltar Regiment, British Forces Broadcasting...

4th May 2021

By Elena Rodriguez and Cristina Galan Voters formed long queues at polling stations in Madrid on Tuesday to maintain social distancing in a regional election centred around unorthodox Covid-19 policies that could shake the nation's political landscape. The unusual mid-week vote in Spain's wealthiest region is poised to return Isabel Diaz Ayuso, from the conservative...

4th May 2021

By Carl Markham, PA The Football Association has called on the Government to introduce legislation to compel social media companies to do more to stop online abuse. At the end of a four-day boycott which saw football organisations, clubs, players, other sports starts, major businesses and media outlets fall silent in protest, the drive has...

4th May 2021

Gibraltar has recorded nearly six weeks without any new cases of Covid-19 among residents, as expectation grows that the Rock’s tourism sector will spring back to life this summer after a difficult year. According to the Gibraltar Government’s data, the last positive resident case of the virus was detected on March 23. By April 8,...

30th April 2021

Last week we met Bertina Garcia… teacher and soprano. Today we meet one of her sons. Someone who is no stranger to these pages, or as a writer himself, or as a man about town, or as one of our most colourful local personalities. I have known Richard Garcia throughout my life both at a...

29th April 2021

An employment tribunal was wrong to find that Dr Daniel Cassaglia, the then Medical Director at the Gibraltar Health Authority, bullied a hospital pathologist in 2017, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday. In an 84-page judgement overturning the tribunal’s decision, Puise Judge Liam Yeats said a one-off incident of that nature could not be classed...

29th April 2021

By Jane Kirby A single dose of a Covid-19 vaccine can slash transmission by up to half, according to a new study from Public Health England (PHE). The breakthrough findings offer further hope that the pandemic can be brought under control as vaccinated people are far less likely to pass the virus onto others. The...

29th April 2021

By Ben Mitchell, PA The commander of the UK’s “Premier League” Carrier Strike Group which is set to sail on its first operational deployment next month has said the mission shows the Royal Navy’s “ambition to be active on the global stage”. Commodore Stephen Moorhouse said that final preparations are being made as the aircraft...

29th April 2021

By Laura Elston, PA Court Reporter The royal family has congratulated the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on their 10th wedding anniversary. A message on the monarchy’s official social media accounts marking William and Kate’s milestone decade of marriage said: “Wishing The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge a very happy wedding anniversary. “Today marks ten...

29th April 2021

By Sam Blewett and Emma Bowden, PA Political Staff Boris Johnson has criticised questions over the lavish refurbishment of his Downing Street flat as a “farrago of nonsense” as he vowed to comply with the Electoral Commission investigation. The Prime Minister said on Thursday that “I don’t think there’s anything to see here” despite the...

27th April 2021

By Lisa Salmon Most of us have found an excuse not to exercise at some point, despite knowing how good physical activity is for our health. But now there’s even more reason to knock those excuses on the head, as new research has found regular exercise cuts the risk of dying from infectious diseases –...

27th April 2021

If you glance quickly at a map of Italy, you will probably not spot San Sepolcro. This is a small, quaint town to the east of Florence and north of Arezzo. If you draw straight lines joining up the three places, you will end up with an almost perfect triangle with San Sepolcro as the...

27th April 2021

Proud and emotional. Whether you are religious or not there was a collective feeling of affection in Gibraltar as Mark Miles was ordained an Archbishop at the weekend. He could have chosen Rome for the ordination ceremony. Instead, he opted for his hometown of Gibraltar, where he started life as a parish priest in 1996....