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25th October 2018

Tuesday night proved a night of real nostalgia as the group The Odds reunited after 51 years. The occasion was the launch of a new book on Gibraltar titled ‘A Boy from Red Sands’ written by local musician and singer Henry Valerga. Grand Battery House was packed with friends and family who enjoyed renditions of...

25th October 2018

By Lynsey Bews, Political Reporter, Press Association Scotland A no-deal Brexit may be the "most likely outcome" of the UK's negotiations with the EU, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has told MSPs. The Prime Minister said that while the terms of Britain's withdrawal from the bloc are 95% agreed, there remains an "impasse" over the...

24th October 2018

By Andrew Woodcock, Press Association Political Editor The head of the civil service, Sir Jeremy Heywood, has announced his retirement in order to concentrate on his recovery from cancer. Prime Minister Theresa May has appointed acting Cabinet Secretary Sir Mark Sedwill, who has been standing in for Sir Jeremy since he took leave of absence...

24th October 2018

By Jennifer McKiernan, Elizabeth Arnold and Harriet Line, Press Association Political Staff A Bill aiming to modernise abortion law is unlikely to win the Government support it needs to become law, Downing Street has indicated. Labour MP Diana Johnson won support for her Abortion Bill by a majority of 85 MPs, including Conservative ministers. But...

23rd October 2018

As part of its annual fostering campaign, the Care Agency has set out to make people aware of the importance of a person’s childhood. The campaign was launched earlier this month by the Minister for Health, Neil Costa, and aims to find suitable alternative homes for children in care. In a statement the Care Agency...

23rd October 2018

Royal Gibraltar Police, HM Customs and Gibraltar Defence Police launches foiled suspected drug traffickers operating in the Bay during a combined anti-smuggling action in the early hours of yesterday morning. In the course of a dangerous high-speed sea chase off Europa Point, the four drug traffickers on board a 12 metre black Rigid Hulled Inflatable...

23rd October 2018

Independent MP Marlene Hassan-Nahon has called on the GSD and the Government to “leave aside petty political games and deliver a serious and proper debate” on abortion. In a statement released to the press yesterday, Ms Hassan-Nahon said: “It is with regret and sadness that I now see that the abortion debate, an important and...

23rd October 2018

- Picardo says ‘common sense has prevailed’ by Brian Reyes in London The Gibraltar Brexit protocol will “herald a new era” in relations between Gibraltar, the UK and Spain, Prime Minister Theresa May told the House of Commons yesterday. The Prime Minister made the statement during a statement updating parliament on last week’s EU Council...

22nd October 2018

By Aine Fox, Press Association Plastic straws, stirrers and cotton buds could be banned in a year's time. Environment Secretary Michael Gove has launched a consultation on the Government's plan to ban the items, which he said can devastate the world's oceans and wildlife. The ban could be put in place at some stage between...

22nd October 2018

By Andrew Woodcock, Press Association Political Editor Theresa May has slapped down anonymous MPs who used violent imagery to describe a possible coup to unseat her. Weekend newspapers reported Tory backbenchers saying the Prime Minister would be "knifed" and that she should "bring her own noose" to a meeting with MPs to discuss her Brexit...

22nd October 2018

Gibraltar will mark the 100th anniversary of the end of World War One with an exhibition which will be opened by the Deputy Chief Minister Dr Joseph Garcia on Thursday. The exhibition has been compiled by the National Archives, under the direction of Archivist Anthony Pitaluga. The material on show includes photographs, films and artefacts...

20th October 2018

Organisers claim more than 500,000 anti-Brexit campaigners have joined a central London protest calling for a fresh referendum. The People's Vote march set off from Park Lane and is expected to end in a rally in Parliament Square. Celebrity cook Delia Smith, Dragons' Den businesswoman Deborah Meaden and London Mayor Sadiq Khan are among the...

19th October 2018

By Jennifer Cockerell, Press Association Health Correspondent Around half of women over the age of 50 in the UK will experience a fragility fracture due to osteoporosis, yet nearly three-quarters (73%) said they have little or no knowledge of the condition. Two-thirds (66%) of the women polled believed that fragility fractures in older age are...

19th October 2018

By Michael McHugh, Press Association Women in Northern Ireland are still using illegal abortion medication even though the procedure is freely available to them in England, a study found. Northern Ireland outlaws terminations in almost all cases. Abortion pills are illegal but can be bought over the internet. The NHS funds the procedure in England...

18th October 2018

By Kalyeena Makortoff, Press Association Chief City Correspondent The woman tasked with attracting City workers to Paris as Brexit rolls on is stepping up her charm offensive, with plans for a new private English school to cater for the wealthy. Marie-Celie Guillaume, the chief executive of La Defense - the business district in the west...

17th October 2018

The Gibraltar Government and the GSD exchanged barbed statements on the issue of abortion yesterday, accusing each other of misrepresenting core positions in this delicate, sensitive debate. The first salvo came from the Gibraltar Government in response to a policy statement from the GSD, which earlier this week said it would not back the government’s...

17th October 2018

The fourth annual fostering campaign was launched earlier this week in a bid to drum up local interest. The campaign that was launched by the Minister for Health, Neil Costa, coincides with the UK National Adoption Week. There are currently seven foster families in Gibraltar and through this campaign the Care Agency aims to find...

17th October 2018

Gibraltar created its own football history this October 16 when they claimed victory over Liechtenstein coming from 1-0 behind to win 2-1 in their fifth group 4 match in League D. The second consecutive victory in the same week was Gibraltar's first official competitive win on home soil in front of a sell out crowd....

16th October 2018

By David Wilcock, Press Association Political Correspondent Online trolls should face up to 10 years in prison if convicted of the most serious cases of intimidating politicians at elections and referendums under beefed up laws, the Electoral Commission has said. The watchdog backed Government proposals to bar those those who target parliamentary candidates or their...

12th October 2018

By Aine Fox, Press Association and Joe Gammie, Press Association Thousands of households have been left without power and dozens of flights grounded after Storm Callum hit the UK and Ireland in the early hours of this morning. Winds of more than 70mph have buffeted the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and the west coast...

12th October 2018

The Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party has announced the launch of the ‘GSLP Students’ movement aimed at giving young people a platform to voice their opinions. The ‘inclusive youth movement’ is aimed at those within the 16-24 demographic, and in particular those in tertiary education. The primary objective is to ensure that that particular demographic have...

11th October 2018

By Press Association Political Staff Tory Brexiteers are bullying Theresa May and behaving intolerably, Sir John Major has said. The former prime minister famously branded rebellious Eurosceptics during his premiership "bastards", but said those making life difficult for Mrs May were even worse. It comes as former prime minister Tony Blair also made a fresh...

11th October 2018

Local artist Paul Bush is progressing on his street mural piece he is paining on the tunnel leading to the Alameda. Mr Bush’s mural was selected from a number of entries by a panel including Government representatives, Town Planning and the Gibraltar Heritage Trust as part of a street art initiative for urban regeneration and...

10th October 2018

The Gibraltar General and Clerical Association (GGCA) has committed to focusing on mental health in the workplace and will lead on a campaign to help reduce the ‘stigma’ of it. In a statement the GGCA explained that the campaign, which will be rolled-out over the following year, aims to not only reduce the stigma of...

10th October 2018

Spain used its address to the UN Fourth Committee yesterday to underscore its historical aspirations over the Rock’s sovereignty, but also to signal its hope that Gibraltar could enjoy a relationship of shared prosperity with the neighbouring Campo de Gibraltar after Brexit. The bulk of the address by Agustín Santos, Spain’s recently-appointed permanent representative to...

7th October 2018

The Belarusian Noble prize winner Svetlana Alexievich relates a curious story in her book Chernobyl Prayer. She talks about a Ukrainian man called Nikolai who, in the spring of 1988, entered the Chernobyl exclusion zone on a motorbike and rode up to his old house in the abandoned town of Pripyat. On the way there, he...

3rd October 2018

A new stroke and rehabilitation unit was opened in the Captain Murchison’s ward of St Bernard’s hospital yesterday. The new unit was made possible with donations from the International Lions Club of Gibraltar, who were presented with a plaque from the Minster for Health, Neil Costa, and thanked for their contribution. Leslie Bruzon from the...

2nd October 2018

Save Gibraltar Street Cats has welcomed the recently-announced overhaul of Gibraltar’s animal welfare legislation, which was more than 50 years old. The group had lobbied government for some time to implement many of the changes contained in the proposed legislation. It said the Animals and Birds (Amendment) Bill 2018 marks “a sea change” by increasing...

30th September 2018

This article was first published in print in November, 2017 I received an anonymous letter recently, typed out and addressed to me personally but otherwise unmarked. It was posted to our newsroom in Casemates. The Chronicle has a policy of not publishing anonymous letters. We read them, naturally, but nine out of 10 end up...

29th September 2018

In a tin of keepsakes which I inherited from my grandmother, there is an old photograph of my father standing together with his mum at el Valle de los Caídos. It must have been taken by my grandfather in 1966 or 1967, when the family of three went on a coach tour of Spain. My...