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25th March 2021

Internet service provider u-mee has launched its 'Clean and Green' initiative and updated its main vehicle fleet to electric vans installed with vehicle trackers for logging journey distances, alongside electric scooters and motorcycles. The Minister for Environment, Sustainability and Climate Change, Dr John Cortes, was at the launch of the new e-fleet in the company’s...

24th March 2021

A (Foreign Objects Debris) FOD plod took place on the runway this week with over 50 people carrying out a manual inspection of the airfield. The volunteers picked up anything that could be a hazard to aircraft, regardless if it was big or small. Usually there is twice the number of volunteers but due to...

24th March 2021

By Liz Connor In the first few months of the pandemic, health experts believed Covid-19 was generally a mild infection that would pass pretty quickly for the majority of people, with a small percentage of patients needing serious hospital treatment. However, in recent months, research has revealed that a growing number of people who contracted...

24th March 2021

This article is the fourth in our series Impressions of Italy and will dwell on our visit to Siena. It’s a crisp, clear spring morning and we are sitting on a cold, stone bench opposite of the Duomo of Siena. I have a napkin resting on my guide book, trying to sketch the extraordinary facade...

24th March 2021

By Emily Beament, PA Environment Correspondent Environmental campaigners have reacted angrily to reports of delays to a long-proposed scheme to pay people to recycle drinks bottles and cans. A “deposit return scheme”, which charges customers a levy on for drinks containers that is paid back when they return them for recycling, may not happen until...

23rd March 2021

By Mark Walker, PA Dillian Whyte insists victory in Saturday’s rematch against Alexander Povetkin should earn him a mandatory shot at the world heavyweight title. Brixton fighter Whyte, 32, is bidding for revenge in Gibraltar after falling victim to a stunning knock-out by the 41-year-old Russian in August. Whyte had dominated the first four rounds,...

23rd March 2021

Los Glacis, a painting by local artist Karl Ullger has made it through to the second round of the UK’s Jackson Painting Prize 2021. The work which was highly commended in last year’s Gibraltar 47th International Art Competition is one of 400 works selected for the second round of the Jackson Painting competition which saw...

23rd March 2021

By Kim Pilling, PA An RAF flypast over the Lake District “spiritual home” of Donald Campbell has marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of the speed legend. Campbell died on January 4 1967 aged 45 when his hydroplane Bluebird K7 flipped into the air and disintegrated as he attempted a new water speed record...

23rd March 2021

By Sam Blewett, PA Political Correspondent Boris Johnson has said coronavirus restrictions are being eased “once and for all” as the UK marks the anniversary of the first national lockdown. The Prime Minister offered his “sincere condolences to those who have lost loved ones” and praised the “great spirit” displayed ahead of the nation pausing...

23rd March 2021

By Carmen Anderson The Rotary Club of Gibraltar will today begin providing free online workshops for job seekers left suddenly unemployed during the Covid-19 pandemic. They will be providing a series of seven free workshops via Zoom, hosted by a variety of business professionals and life coaches who have volunteered their time to support this...

22nd March 2021

A selection of new pieces and new artists have to been added to the current Kitchen Studios exhibition at GEMA Gallery at Montagu Bastion following a closure of an exhibition late last year due to Covid-19 restrictions. There are now 20 artists taking part and include works by new artists to the exhibition with Mark...

22nd March 2021

By Sherna Noah Douglas Adams’ frustration with his most famous work – The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy – has been revealed in his archive. The writer, who also penned stories for Doctor Who and served as script editor for the show, died of a heart attack, aged 49, in 2001. A book, titled 42,...

22nd March 2021

AstraZeneca's new trial data gives vaccine a boost AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine received a major boost on Monday after data from a large trial showed it was safe and effective, potentially paving the way for its emergency authorisation in the United States as countries in Asia accelerated its rollout. The trials in the United States, Chile...

20th March 2021

Gibraltar’s size often dictates, as we have often read on these pages, our weekly guests wearing a variety of hats and having interests in wide-ranging subjects. I guess, living in a small community such as ours, we all delve into many areas over the years not just in our work environment but also in our...

19th March 2021

By Grandmaster Stuart Conquest Life gets us all down sometimes, none of us is immune, but there are people who seem better at bouncing back, always busy with new projects, new challenges, finding new paths to tread. Carl Portman is such a person. Although we don’t know each other particularly well on a face-to-face basis...

19th March 2021

Despite Covid-19 precautions in place nothing could spoil the Passing Out ceremony for the latest RGP and GDP’s recruits. These police officers marked the end of their of their 22- week training course at New Mole House Police Station on Friday. Due to social distancing regulations, no family and friends could attend the event and...

18th March 2021

By Prudence Wade After a year of various stay-at-home orders, many of us have picked up new hobbies to help pass the time – such as painting, sketching or sewing. Creating art isn’t just a way of filling up your weekends – it could also have a positive impact on your mental wellbeing. A new...

18th March 2021

By Emily Beament, PA Environment Correspondent The UK is halfway to cutting its greenhouse gas emissions to net zero after a record annual fall in pollution during the pandemic, analysis shows. But emissions are likely to increase as the economy recovers, highlighting the challenge in cutting carbon in areas such as transport and housing to...

17th March 2021

The 130th anniversary of the shipwreck of the SS Utopia in the Bay of Gibraltar will be marked today with an online seminar that seeks to ensure the memory of this tragic incident is kept alive. The seminar will bring together public authorities, academics, journalists, researchers and students in Italy and Gibraltar to mark the...

16th March 2021

The Equality Rights Group has called on the Gibraltar Government to set out a timetable “for the restoration of full democracy” including the right to assembly as the Rock emerges from lockdown. In a statement, the ERG welcomed the Gibraltar Government’s management of the pandemic and the restrictions that were introduced in response to the...

15th March 2021

By Sam Blewett, PA Political Correspondent The European Union has accused the UK of breaching international law for a second time as it formally launched legal action against the UK Government for unilaterally extending the post-Brexit grace periods on trade in Northern Ireland. In an escalation of tensions, the European Commission on Monday took the...

15th March 2021

While the Covid-19 pandemic has been disastrous for the retail and hospitality sectors in Gibraltar, new businesses have used this time to establish themselves and step into the market over the past year. Using a slick marketing campaign, local “influencers” and a robust social media presence, some of these new businesses have already made a...

13th March 2021

I am always captivated by live music. It takes me to another plane. I always find that whatever is happening around me comes to a standstill and I am absorbed by the music and the performance. No matter the style of music or the performer – whether good, bad or indifferent, I know I always...

12th March 2021

Manchester 62 keeper Ayden Vinales seemed to be the only thing between Bruno’s Magpies forwards and the back of the net after performing heroics which kept the score down. Although conceding four goals, three in the second half, Vinales received praise from even his opponents after producing a string of dramatic saves, including saving a...

11th March 2021

In the hills of Los Barrios, where the sierras meet the La Janda wetlands, the naturalist Simón Blanco discovered a sandstone rock shelter in October 2014. The find, now known as the Montaraz prehistoric site, contains something never before found within the boundaries of the Campo de Gibraltar, “a striking cosmic iconography” alongside prehistoric art...

11th March 2021

By Eli Gottlieb Big Ben was stolen from Palestine. So claimed an elderly woman, in Arabic, in a retweeted clip I received recently. Yes, that Big Ben: the great bell in the iconic clock tower of London’s Palace of Westminster. The British took it, she said, from a tower they demolished at Hebron Gate in...

11th March 2021

The role of the BEAT Covid app during the pandemic could have been more extensive, the Minister for Digital and Financial Services has said. Due to the BEAT Covid app’s tight security, no records were kept of how many people received exposure notifications, meaning that it has been tough to gauge its impact. This, compounded...

10th March 2021

The fallout from the Harry and Meghan interview continues for Buckingham Palace. But beyond the allegations the broadcast achieved something remarkable. The world over has been speaking about it and few have been left indifferent. It doesn’t matter what side of the fence you sit on, this TV interview will be in the history books....

9th March 2021

A Spanish national who was caught with 65g of cocaine while entering Gibraltar was yesterday jailed for three years and four months at the Supreme Court. The court heard how Luis Espinosa Estevez, 36, was to drop off the drugs, with a street value of £4,000, in exchange for £400 which was to be used...

9th March 2021

Over £20,000 has been raised for an animal shelter in Los Barrios by local foundation Animals in Need following severe flooding of the kennels last weekend. Members of both Animals in Need Gibraltar and Maroc Atlas Gibraltar 4x4 helped rescue over 400 dogs and 100 cats from the shelter SOS Perrera de Los Barrios. Gill...