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29th May 2020

Local group ‘The Calendar Club’ is gearing up to embark on a month long challenge in a bid to raise funds for Calpe House. The four men, Daniel Benitez, Andrew Yeats, James Noguera and Jamie Robba will attempt to run a combined total of 1860km during the month of June. “We decided we wanted to...

29th May 2020

The Leader of the Opposition, Keith Azopardi, has warned the Gibraltar Government against “mindlessly borrowing” Gibraltar out of the Covid-19 crisis and leaving future generations with a “chain of debt” around their necks. “We should be careful and only borrow what is absolutely necessary,” Mr Azopardi said as he also urged prudence with the use...

29th May 2020

By Claire Spreadbury When the stress of homeschooling starts to heighten, crack out the craft – easy, fun projects are great for encouraging kids to be creative, and can be relaxing too. Get involved if you can, as focusing on just one thing can be wonderfully mindful, while your children will love spending quality time...

28th May 2020

Local artist Kristel Turner scooped the top prize in this year’s Spring Visual Arts Competition for her photo of a vacant classroom in the old Westside School building. The photograph titled ‘Empty Register’ was taken on her last day teaching at the old school building as a way to commemorate special memories in that building....

28th May 2020

By Sarah Marshall It’s true, a trend for responsible travel has been gaining traction for the past few years, accelerated by climate change campaigners like Greta Thunberg and scenes of horrifying environmental destruction, undoubtedly caused by human activity. But now the topic has even greater urgency: there are more of us on the planet and...

27th May 2020

By David Hughes, PA Political Editor Boris Johnson will be questioned by senior MPs as he faces a growing Tory revolt and plummeting poll ratings over the Dominic Cummings row. The Prime Minister’s senior adviser drove from London to Durham to isolate with his family during the lockdown and says he subsequently took a trip...

27th May 2020

By Luke Powell, PA An online gambling firm has closed after regulators found serious failings around player protection and anti-money laundering processes. The Gambling Commission launched an investigation into PT Entertainment Services (PTES) after a 25-year-old customer took his own life having lost more than £30,000 through its sites www.winner.co.uk and titanbet.co.uk. Publishing its findings...

27th May 2020

Police officers intervened yesterday to rescue two young girls from rough seas in Eastern Beach, the latest in a string of such incidents over the past month. Warm weather has seen hundreds of people spend time on the beach, a welcome respite from eight weeks of lockdown. But the official bathing season has not yet...

27th May 2020

Online likes and comments flooded in as Christian Hook painted his celebrity sitter Will Young from his home in Gibraltar on a warm Sunday morning. Mr Hook was giving a demonstration in the lockdown edition of the Sky Arts competition ‘Portrait of the Year’ he won six years ago. The virtual competition called ‘Portrait Artist...

26th May 2020

By Tom Pilgrim Children and young people could be half as likely to catch coronavirus than adults, a scientific review of studies from around the world has suggested. Researchers found those aged under 20 had 56% lower odds of catching SARS-CoV-2, the official name of the coronavirus which causes the disease Covid-19, from an infected...

23rd May 2020

Joe Brugada shared with us his father’s story last week. Pepe el Catalan – barber and hairdresser – who ran one of the most popular, if not the most popular hairdressing salon following WWII, later in the 1960s taken over by his brother Albert. Joe is back at my table this week and tells me...

22nd May 2020

As the regulations underpinning the Covid-19 restrictions fell away at midnight last night, the Chief Minister Fabian Picardo called for the community’s support in keeping the virus under control, insisting he needed it now more than ever. “The sacrifices of the past ten weeks will mean nothing if you ignore our advice now,” he said,...

22nd May 2020

On the occasion of the 80th anniversary on Friday, May 22, of the evacuation of civilians from Gibraltar during World War II, Joe Gingell charts the events that led to that decision and its seismic impact on this community. The evacuees who had suffered insults on their way to the ships were made to wait...

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...