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5th June 2018

Michelle Keegan, star of the military drama Our Girl and Coronation Street, establishes her family links with Gibraltar in the upcoming episode of Who Do You Think You Are?, the BBC's genealogy documentary series, screened tomorrow. Mancunian through and through, Michelle was already aware of a Gibraltar link to her family on her grandmother’s side...

5th June 2018

The UK will continue to “engage constructively” with Gibraltar and Spain on Brexit, Prime Minister Theresa May told Spain’s new Socialist leader, Pedro Sa´nchez, during their first telephone conversation yesterday. The Prime Minister congratulated Prime Minister Sa´nchez on his new role and noted that Spain was “a close ally” and shared a long history of...

4th June 2018

Spain’s new Socialist government is likely to adopt a “flexible” approach to Gibraltar that seeks consensus “as quickly as possible” on how best to mitigate the impact of Brexit, the PSOE’s international relations secretary, Héctor Gómez, said at the weekend. He was speaking to The Telegraph as PSOE leader Pedro Sanchez was sworn in as...

3rd June 2018

London's resolve against terrorism has never been stronger, Theresa May has said, ahead of a national minute's silence to commemorate the victims of the London Bridge attack. The words #LondonUnited were projected onto the bridge today, marking the one-year anniversary of an atrocity which left eight innocent people dead. Dozens more were injured during the...

1st June 2018

A leading Brexiteer faced claims of hypocrisy after it emerged he is applying for a French residency card. Conservative former chancellor Lord Lawson of Blaby, who chaired the Vote Leave campaign during the EU referendum, said he has just started the "tiresome" paperwork required for a carte de sejour although he insisted he is not...

1st June 2018

Gibraltar’s streets and tourist attractions are dirty and should be maintained to a higher level of cleanliness, the Chamber of Commerce said yesterday as it warned of a potential knock-on impact on public health and tourism. Many of the streets and pavements “appear not to have not been cleaned for months”, the Chamber said, calling...

31st May 2018

Gibraltarian Fernando Piere, the director of the Ivy restaurant and club, has been confirmed as one of the main speakers at this year’s Gibunco Gibraltar International Literary Festival. He is amongst the first names to be released for the sixth edition of the festival which will be held from 15 to 19 November. Mr Piere...

31st May 2018

The Calentita Food Festival and Mayor Kaiane Aldorino Lopez yesterday announced a joint initiative called ‘Dinner and Dialogue’ where strangers can share a meal and their ideas. The concept behind Dinner and Dialogue is to create an informal setting where the views of people whose paths might not ordinarily cross can engage in dialogue, and...

30th May 2018

‘There is a relationship between loss and identity that is very important, and when you are the child of someone in exile, and in exile yourself, this may soon find release in the creation of art’ - Firouz Farman Farmaian Artist Firouz Farman Farmaian, this year’s judge of the Gibraltar Spring Visual Arts Exhibition currently...

29th May 2018

World No Tobacco Day is a World Health Organization initiative that will be held on 31 May and this year will focus on raising awareness of the link between tobacco and cardiovascular disease (CVD). Tobacco is associated with around 7 million deaths worldwide every year, directly related to the consumption of and indirect exposure to...

29th May 2018

The Irish Cabinet will meet later to sign off the next steps in abortion reform. Health Minister Simon Harris is due to bring a memo outlining plans to fellow ministers, with laws expected to be passed by the end of the year. Ireland voted resoundingly to reform its strict abortion laws in Friday's referendum by...

29th May 2018

The Gibraltar Government has set out its commitment to the development of domiciliary care services having invested heavily in the area. In a statement the Government explained that one of the factors that impinge most on persons as they get older is the loss of independence. Being able to remain independent enables a sense of...

29th May 2018

Spurred by the result of the Irish referendum on abortion, the Equality Rights Group signalled this weekend that it will intensify its lobbying for a change in Gibraltar’s law too. In a referendum on Friday, Ireland voted to scrap a prohibition on abortion by a margin of two-to-one, a landslide victory that astonished campaigners as...

26th May 2018

Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said the country has voted resoundingly Yes to liberalise its strict abortion laws. Mr Varadkar claimed Ireland was united - with men and women, nearly every age group and every social class opting for reform in Friday's referendum. He campaigned for the change, which he said represented the compassionate choice for...

26th May 2018

A suspected killer who has been on the run for more than two years may have been spotted in Gibraltar early last year, the Metropolitan Police said yesterday as he was placed on a worldwide most wanted list. Shane O’Brien, 30, is alleged to have killed 21-year-old Josh Hanson in an unprovoked knife attack in...

26th May 2018

Counting is under way in Ireland's historic abortion referendum after exit polls reported a landslide win for those advocating liberalisation. The polling data, which suggests seven out of 10 voters backed reform, meant advocates for change were celebrating long before the first ballot boxes were opened at 9am at count centres across the country. One...

21st May 2018

The inquiry into the Grenfell fire disaster has begun with a 72-second silence to honour the 72 victims of the blaze. It marked the beginning of two weeks of poignant tributes from family and friends as the first phase of the public inquiry gets under way. Almost one year on, bereaved family and friends will...

21st May 2018

Shakespeare was brought to life for local school pupils over the week by a five piece acting crew from the Young Shakespeare Company. Loreto Convent pupils at the John Mackintosh Hall saw Macbeth plan the murders of King Duncan and Banquo alongside his wife. The tragedy that was written some 400 years ago showed it...

21st May 2018

Spain has nothing to gain by pushing for Gibraltar’s exclusion from the transition deal smoothing the UK’s departure from the bloc, the Deputy Chief Minister Dr Joseph Garcia has said. He was speaking at an evening reception for the visiting cross-party group of UK parliamentarians who arrived in Gibraltar last Wednesday for a two-day working...

19th May 2018

Sir Joe Bossano was knighted by Prince Charles at an investiture ceremony in Buckingham Palace yesterday, hours before Chief Minister Fabian Picardo announced plans to name him a Freeman of the City of Gibraltar. Sir Joe was accompanied by his wife, Lady Rose, and close family members as he was knighted in recognition of a...

18th May 2018

The love story of Harry and Meghan will be cemented in history with a Royal Wedding tomorrow and Gibraltar will be having its own celebrations to mark the special occasion. Tomorrow Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will say ‘I do’ at Windsor Castle while millions watch on and crowds line the streets. People locally will...

17th May 2018

The maximum stake on a fixed-odds betting terminal (FOBT) is to be reduced from £100 to £2. The move follows a lengthy consultation about the machines - branded the "crack cocaine of gambling" by critics - and will come as a major blow to bookmakers, who argued that a dramatic cut would lead to job...

17th May 2018

One in six Britons says that noise pollution has forced them to move home, it has been revealed. And there are growing fears that with so many people suffering from a disrupted night's sleep, we are building up potential health problems for the future. People who have suffered sleep disturbance say it can lead to...

15th May 2018

A former Catalan education minister has returned to a Scottish court as she continues her legal battle against being extradited to Spain. Professor Clara Ponsati "utterly refutes" charges of violent rebellion and misappropriation of public funds over her role in Catalonia's controversial independence referendum last year. If extradited and convicted of the charges in Spain,...

14th May 2018

An eight-year old boy enjoying a boat ride with his father died yesterday after their vessel was rammed by a speedboat. Last night, details of the incident remained sketchy but it appears a rigid-hulled inflatable boat [RHIB] collided at speed with the boat just metres off Getares beach in Algeciras. The RHIB passed over the...

10th May 2018

This is the text of a speech delivered by Sir Joe Bossano, the Minister for Economic Development, to the Aannual UN seminar of the Third Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism by Sir Joe Bossano There have been many false dawns, in the expectations of the Kingdom of Spain, the C24, Fourth Committee and General...

3rd May 2018

The UK Government has slumped to a 10th defeat over flagship Brexit legislation in the Lords as peers backed a move aimed at preventing a hard border being imposed between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Voting was 309 to 242, majority 67, for a cross party amendment to the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill...

3rd May 2018

Pupils from St Bernard’s School gathered together at Commonwealth Park yesterday donning hats and sunglasses to learn about sun safety. Public Health Officers Emily Lopez and Daya Dewfall gave the children a short lesson on the importance of protecting their skin. The pupils aged between five and six years showed off their knowledge and their...

28th April 2018

The seizure this week of nine tonnes of cocaine inside a container in the port of Algeciras, coupled to months of heightened drug trafficking activity across the Strait of Gibraltar, prompted a stark warning yesterday from an organisation rep- resenting Guardia Civil officers: some 30 criminal organisations could be joining forces in a cartel to...

27th April 2018

Two of the major contributors to Gibraltar’s gaming industry over more than a decade were honoured with life service awards by Commerce Minister Albert Isola at the opening of KPMG’s eighth annual gaming summit yesterday. Phil Brear, the Rock’s out-going Gaming Commissioner, and John Anderson – described by Mr Isola as an ‘unsung hero’ of...