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22nd May 2020

Sports people started to see the first stages of a return to some sporting activity yesterday as the doors opened to facilities such as the 25m swimming pool and the Victoria Stadium’s running track. With facilities closed since the weekend of March 14 due to the spread of Covid-19, this Thursday signalled a return for...

22nd May 2020

By Gabrielle Fagan If you’ve been missing your outdoor floral fix, there are plenty of ways to ‘grow’ your own dazzling display of blooms at home. You can take your pick from wallpapers, fabrics, crockery, and a host of other home accessories all with blooming beautiful floral designs, which are bursting forth this season. No...

21st May 2020

By Tom Wilkinson, PA The RSPCA has praised firefighters who used an oxygen mask to save a baby deer after she almost died during a moorland fire. Fire crews from across Yorkshire have been battling the blaze at Hatfield Moors near Doncaster since Sunday after the environmentally-important peat bogs dried out. A Humberside Fire and...

21st May 2020

By Ben Mitchell, PA A 97-year-old woman has completed a month-long lockdown challenge battling Parkinson’s disease to walk the corridor of her home six times every day. Lily Barnett, of Lee-on-the-Solent, Hampshire, has walked the eight-mile effort to raise funds for Help for Heroes. And she has exceeded her target of £500 by so far...

21st May 2020

By Ryan Hooper, PA The boss of the UK’s busiest airport has signalled tacit support for the Government’s plan to quarantine anyone arriving into the UK from abroad. But he said a “risk-based” approach was needed to get people flying again. Heathrow chief executive John Holland-Kaye said he backed the idea of “air bridges” between...

21st May 2020

Clubhouse Gibraltar will be providing three new services once lockdown restrictions are lifted including drop-in sessions and a wellbeing café. The charity said the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown had brought many changes and disruptions to how people live their lives, in particular to those with underlying psychological or mental health issues. “This has created a...

21st May 2020

By Sarah Marshall It’s hard to pinpoint the origins of South America’s most misunderstood mammal. Clues lay buried beneath 15 million years of dusty, opaque history, with limited resources available to excavate. A tricky temperament also makes studies challenging; skulking in the shadows of dense forests by day – but mainly active at night –...

21st May 2020

Queue Wisely has donated £2,000 worth of advertising to GibSams on its app to help increase awareness as it marks Mental Health Awareness Week. Users can click on the GibSams banner while using the app that will link them to the GibSams website. The company said the idea came to them while thinking of how...

21st May 2020

It’s time for “bold” decisions. But the Gibraltar Government has chickened out. Just a few weeks ago it announced the closure of Line Wall Road in a radical transport and traffic plan. At the press conference where the Chief Minister spoke about it and emerging from lockdown he said: “The world into which we step...

20th May 2020

By Amy Murphy, PA A grandmother who won £5.4 million on the lottery weeks after she lost her brother to epilepsy is spending her lockdown training a disability assistance dog to help others with physical needs. Deana Sampson, 57, from Sheffield, began training six-month-old Regis, a golden Labrador, shortly before the UK went into lockdown....

20th May 2020

By Laura Elston The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are celebrating their second wedding anniversary. Much has changed for Harry and Meghan since they said their vows in St George’s Castle, Windsor Castle, on May 19 2018, in front of the royal family, celebrity guests and a worldwide television audience of millions. The Queen’s grandson...

19th May 2020

Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid Daisy Jones & the Six were the band that defined a generation of rock and roll in the late 1970s. They were the band that everyone was talking about. Come July 1979, at the height of their fame, the band inexplicably broke up, and no-one knew...

18th May 2020

A mammoth operation to repatriate over 300 crew members from two cruise ships docked in Gibraltar ran into problems on Monday after one of two British Airways planes chartered to ferry them from the Rock suffered a flat tyre. Some 154 crewmen had already boarded the aircraft when the problem was detected, leaving them as...

18th May 2020

By Douglas Barrie, PA Scotland Freshwater fish could end up with bigger brains because of climate change – but find themselves less able to carry out simple tasks, according to scientists. Aquatic life will need to adapt to warmer waters according to new research by University of Glasgow biologists, which suggests physiological changes could have...

18th May 2020

What a ride, what a journey, 2020 is truly out to finish us… and we’re just about halfway through it… That statement is both relieving and depressing. We’ve spent the good part of 2020 jumping from one depressing thing to another. Just in January, we had Australia getting rampaged by wildfires, the threat of more...

18th May 2020

In a corridor inside his home in Gibraltar on a recent Wednesday, Christian Hook shares the first glimpse of his new collection ‘Sahara’ to followers from across the globe. In a first for the artist brought about by the coronavirus pandemic and the lockdown, he sits in his home filming a live stream and answering...

16th May 2020

You have often read on these pages about my childhood link to Wellington Front – the days when GBC was based there, and the area which was once my playground. There were many names I grew up with; the early stars of Radio Gibraltar, presenters and newsreaders on GBC television, but there were many other...

16th May 2020

Mr Brin-Jonathan Butler, a forty year-old Canadian journalist and author, punches above his weight when it comes to employability: to the income accrued through his various writing projects can be added the monies his pupils pay him for his services as a personal boxing instructor. The ‘New York Times’ ran a profile on him in...

16th May 2020

The recently-announced road closures for Line Wall Road, Chatham Counterguard and Europort Avenue were discussed at a Transport Advisory Committee meeting on Friday. The closures ad restrictions will come into effect as from June 1. The Minister for Transport, Vijay Daryanani, who chaired the meeting welcomed the positive and objective comments and advisory observations tabled...

15th May 2020

Art enthusiasts will be able to visit the Mario Finlayson National Gallery online and from the comfort of their own homes in a new project led by Gibraltar Cultural Services. Viewers will be able to enjoy a Gallery tour with special interviews and commentary. Head of Cultural Development, Davina Barbara, invites you to join her...

15th May 2020

The Minister for Commerce, Albert Isola, has called on applicants to the BEAT Covid-19 scheme to take more care with their applications, as he lambasted the “clumsy” mistakes made by some applicants who in turn have complained about the processes put in place. Speaking at the daily press briefing from No.6 Convent Place yesterday Mr...

14th May 2020

Fourth-placed Lynx FC, who were still in with a chance to obtain third place in the Gibraltar National League, with the potential of a Europa League spot have come out in support of the Gibraltar FA decision to terminate the league based on public health advice. The club, which has this season performed well whilst...

14th May 2020

Gibraltar basketball has taken the first step in its aim not to lose players to the sport as the impact of the Covid-19 virus pandemic takes its toll on contact sport. Just twenty-four hours after the official announcement by the Gibraltar Government publishing its Unlock the Rock document revealed that none of the contact sports...

14th May 2020

Local artist and teacher Alan Perez believes the current Covid 19 Pandemic is strongly influencing his work. “I cannot stop thinking about it and this is transforming into a need to develop my inner creative thoughts,” he says. He has now started to develop a project which will need the collaboration of other artists and...

14th May 2020

By Priya Gulraj and Eyleen Gomez Two weeks after the Gibraltar Government eased lockdown restrictions and allowed Gibraltar to reopen, Main Street has edged slowly back to life. Shops are back in business, but there is little usual about it. Once teeming with people, many now restrict entry to a limited number of customers at...

14th May 2020

'Summer is cancelled'. It seems almost offensive to be worrying about it when some countries are still struggling with the number of deaths due to Covid-19. But as “unlock” plans are published and Boris Johnson announces a 14-day quarantine for air passengers arriving in the UK the question is being asked repeatedly. Matt Hancock told...

14th May 2020

Together Gibraltar welcomed the Government’s Unlock the Rock document, describing it as a guide to what Gibraltarians “must do to minimise risks while living with the virus”. The party added that Gibraltarians will have to take a significant part of the responsibility in managing life with the virus, adding it considers it to have the...

14th May 2020

By Sarah Marshall During times of difficulty, arts and culture can help us make sense of a confused reality, offering refreshing perspectives and sharing lessons from the past. With Covid-19 people have been advised against non-essential travel, so here we bring you international museums you can visit virtually during this pandemic. Perhaps it will bring...

13th May 2020

With Gibraltar having “won the first round” in the fight against Covid-19, the Gibraltar Government will continue to gradually and carefully strip back restrictions against freedom of movement over the next 12 weeks. The route out of lockdown is set out in a 75-page document published yesterday, even as the Chief Minister Fabian Picardo underscored...

13th May 2020

By Jenny Stallard From ‘virtual drinks’ to, ‘I’ve earned a G&T’, drinking has, for many of us, become synonymous with lockdown. And even if you drank alcohol to some extent before coronavirus, you may well be among those drinking more right now. A survey by Alcohol Change has found that one in five of us...