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16th July 2019

As news that Alan Turing will be the next person to feature on the UK £50 note, we look back at his life. Alan Turing was a wartime hero whose later life was overshadowed by a conviction for homosexual activity, which was later considered unjust and discriminatory. Often considered to be the father of computer...

15th July 2019

Environmental protesters are taking action across five UK cities to call on the Government to halt wildlife losses and cut greenhouse gases to net zero by 2025. Extinction Rebellion, which brought central London to a halt earlier this year with protests calling for environmental action, has launched a "summer uprising" in Bristol, Cardiff, Glasgow, Leeds...

15th July 2019

RAF Gibraltar recently hosted a visit of eight former Women’s Royal Air Force (WRAF) veterans who were visiting the Rock as part of their annual reunion. The WRAF veterans had travelled from the UK, America and Canada. The WRAF was initially formed on 1 April 1918, supporting front line operations in the UK, Germany and...

14th July 2019

By Laura Elston A casket filled with the baby teeth of Queen Victoria's children and casts the monarch had made of her offsprings' arms and legs are among the unusual items going on show at Buckingham Palace. The summer exhibition at the royal residence in London this year looks at how the 19th-century sovereign turned...

13th July 2019

The Gibraltar Parliament last night approved an amendment to Gibraltar's crimes legislation that will allow abortion under certain circumstances. The legislation was approved by 10 votes in favour and seven votes against, but will not come into force immediately. Instead, the legislation will be put to the community in a referendum on March 19, 2020....

13th July 2019

It is always hard to imagine that we are living history every day. But the fact is that what just happened a moment ago is already history. In everything you see, one could say, there is a little bit of history. I know of one else who believes this to be the case more so...

12th July 2019

In this week's travel feature Paul Moody explores the Silk Roads. I finally retired in May and set off on a Madventure along the Silk Roads on an overland truck which was en route from London to Sydney. I only hopped on for five weeks… many were on board for six months! As we get...

11th July 2019

The GSD on Thursday said it would vote against the abortion Bill, accusing the Gibraltar Government of “misrepresenting” the effect of the proposed legislation. The government says the legislation would permit abortions only under specific circumstances in line with a UK Supreme Court judgement on abortion in Northern Ireland. In that case, a majority of...

11th July 2019

By Dave Higgens, PA The parents of a three-year-old boy have described their horror when he vanished down a hole while walking in the Peak District, leaving him with life-threatening injuries. Sam Tuckett was enjoying a family day out when he suddenly disappeared as he was walking with his six-year-old brother Oscar, just a few...

10th July 2019

By Nina Massey, PA Science Correspondent Human social organisation may have evolved far earlier than previously thought, a study on the behaviour of gorillas suggests. Western lowland gorillas have more intricate social structures than once thought and forge lifetime bonds between distant relations. They also develop social tiers with striking parallels to human societies, researchers...

10th July 2019

By Ahmed Eljechtimi and Ulf Laessing Senegalese migrant Ismail, 26, is back in the forests around the northern Moroccan port of Tangier, not long after being stopped there by authorities and bussed 872 kilometres south in an attempt to stop him reaching Europe. But his desire to get to Spain is unrelenting, and so the cat-and-mouse game...

10th July 2019

Boris Johnson was forced to defend his plans to cut taxes for high earners in a fractious TV debate with rival Jeremy Hunt. The Foreign Secretary accused Mr Johnson, the favourite in the battle for the Tory leadership, of sending out a signal that the Conservatives were a "party of the rich". The former London...

10th July 2019

MPs in the UK have voted to force the UK Government to liberalise access to abortion and allow same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland if devolution is not restored. Gay marriage is illegal in Northern Ireland, while terminations are only allowed in cases where a woman's life is at risk or if there is a danger...

9th July 2019

Theresa May has referred to the detention of the supertanker Grace 1 as she praised the UK armed forces as the "guarantors of British life" in her final military speech as Prime Minister. The outgoing leader reassured service personnel that she expects her successor will continue to commit to the Nato spending target. She met...

9th July 2019

When I was studying English at the University of Leeds many years ago, I had a little hobby. I used to spend my spare time in the Brotherton Library searching for references to Gibraltar in nineteenth-century travelogues and memoirs. I quickly learned two things: Gibraltarians were either ignored in these texts or – if by...

9th July 2019

Experts have warned a "childhood crisis" is on the way as youngsters face unparalleled social pressures amid UK Government cuts to children's services. A survey of 5,000 youngsters and adults carried out by leading charity Action for Children and YouGov found that two thirds of parents and grandparents felt childhoods were getting worse, and a...

8th July 2019

Pope Francis said on Monday that "no one is exempt" from helping migrants, in an indirect rebuke of Italy's hardline interior minister Matteo Salvini who has tried to shut the country's ports to non-governmental migrant rescue ships. Francis celebrated a closed-door Mass especially for migrants in St. Peter's Basilica on the sixth anniversary of his...

7th July 2019

Boris Johnson has insisted he is not bluffing over his commitment to take the UK out of the European Union on October 31 - with or without a deal. The Tory leadership frontrunner said the EU had to "look deep into our eyes" and realise that the UK was prepared to walk away. His campaign...

6th July 2019

A Gibraltarian man underwent surgery last night after arriving in St Bernard's hospital with gunshot wounds, according to the Royal Gibraltar Police. The man's injuries are not life threatening, but he remains in hospital in a critical condition. "We can confirm he had three gun shot wounds," a spokesman for the RGP told the Chronicle....

6th July 2019

By Tamsin Suarez A year and a half after the Gibraltar Women’s Association expressed that the long awaited sexual health clinic should include access to safe abortion for the emancipation of women at home and in the workplace, the debate still goes on, on social media, within families, and on the streets. Only a small...

6th July 2019

Last Saturday I went to what was my first same-sex wedding. It was a beautiful ceremony at the Alameda Open Air Theatre – made all the more beautiful by the fact the love between two people - in this case a man and another man - could be celebrated openly (and legally). Love wins. Everyone...

6th July 2019

RAF Gibraltar recently host a visit of eight former Women’s Royal Air Force (WRAF) veterans who were visiting the Rock as part of their annual reunion. The WRAF veterans had travelled from the UK, America and Canada. The WRAF was initially formed on 1 April 1918, supporting front line operations in the UK,Germany and France....

5th July 2019

The Gibraltar Health Authority has recruited a Resuscitation Officer for its Cardiac Rehabilitation Services. As part of their role, the Resuscitation Officer will provide Basic Life Support training to members of the public to increase the awareness of cardiac health, cardiac disease, and also to create a greater level of life support trained individuals in...

3rd July 2019

By Alan Jones, PA Industrial Correspondent A four-day working week could save UK businesses more than £100 billion a year, a new study suggests. Henley Business School said its research indicated that a shorter working week, on full pay, could lead to increased productivity and improve workers' physical and mental health. Cutting down would also...

3rd July 2019

By Sam Russell, PA A seal who was found with a plastic frisbee ring stuck around his neck has been nursed back to health and released into the wild. The severely injured adult male grey seal was rescued by volunteers at Horsey beach in Norfolk in April and taken to an RSPCA centre at East...

2nd July 2019

The Ministry of Equality are reminding the public of the different accessibility facilities available at Gibraltar’s beaches. Beach improvements have been introduced since 2012 and are making the Rock more inclusive said a statement from the ministry. “Many people, who once were unable to enjoy the traditional family summer day out at the beach are...

1st July 2019

By Flora Thompson, PA Home Affairs Correspondent Singer Sir Cliff Richard and DJ Paul Gambaccini have made calls to "redress the balance" in the legal system as they launched a petition so that those accused of sexual offences remain anonymous until charged. Both men were falsely accused of historical sex offences and have joined forces...

1st July 2019

State authorities should be held responsible for the death of a 24-year-old gambling addict who killed himself after being "past the point of controlling myself", his family has argued during his inquest. Jack Ritchie, who had been fighting an addiction to gambling since the age of 17, took his own life in Hanoi, Vietnam, in...

29th June 2019

What? No phone in hotel room? A triple-family room? How did I end up here? I have to assume all the right boxes were ticked when I made the booking but with ‘dinosaurs’ who knows? A mile from Wembley Stadium and the Underground just 200 metres away was the clincher. Not the price per night...

29th June 2019

In this week’s travel feature Louise Anne Mañasco and Max Pizarro meet a tribe in Sapa, Vietnam. By Louise Anne Mañasco and Max Pizarro During our stay in Hanoi we opted for a guided tour of Sapa, one of the town’s most north of Vietnam. We were quite excited about this as we hadn’t really...