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Govt submits plans to relocate GEA facilities to ex-SES site

The Gibraltar Government has filed an application with the Town Planner for the relocation of Gibraltar Electricity Authority facilities, including offices and warehouse, to the ex-SES site on Lathbury Road. These current facilities are located at a site known as 4 Dock, which is adjacent to the Rooke site and the Midtown development. A planning...

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Europa Point Café seeks permission to expand amid growing demand

Due to an increase in demand from tourist and locals, the owners of the Europa Point Café have filed a planning application seeking permission to extend their premises. Europa Point Express Ltd’s planned site is directly attached to the current site which had previously received permission for extension works in 2022. Currently the site is...

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Aspire Conference explores green issues from sustainable development to ‘rewilding the human spirit’

Over the past year, Gibraltar’s Town Planning Department has dealt with over 560 applications with a combined construction value of nearly half a billion pounds. The data was revealed by the Minister with responsibility for Town Planning, Gemma Arias Vasquez, during an address to the Aspire Conference, held on the Sunborn on Friday. Ms Arias...

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Joe Gingell calls on public to help piece together Gib’s evacuation history

Every Friday for the next few months Joe Gingell will be calling out to the public through this newspaper to put names to the faces of evacuees. For over 12 years Mr Gingell has researched the evacuation era, gathered more than 2,000 images, and has tried to put names to the people in the photos....

UK/Spain News

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La Línea edges closer to ‘leap into 21st century’ as new urban plan officially presented

by Maria Jesus Corrales La Línea city council officially presented its new urban plan (Plan General de Ordenación Urbana or PGOU, in Spanish) yesterday, replacing the previous one that has guided the city’s development for more than 40 years. Studied and drafted for over six years, the PGOU will allow the council to designate and...

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Gibraltar and OTs ‘a critical element’ as UK moves to 'war-fighting readiness'

Military bases in Gibraltar and other Overseas Territories “remain a critical element” in the defence of UK sovereign territory and interests, according to a long-awaited Strategic Defence Review published by the UK Government on Monday. In launching the review, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said the UK will move to “war-fighting readiness” and that all...

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UK to support ‘mutually-agreed solution’ to Western Sahara, 'respecting self-determination'

The UK Government will adopt a new UK policy position towards Western Sahara, supporting a “mutually-agreed solution” that respects the principle of self-determination. The policy was announced during a visit to Morocco by Foreign Secretary David Lammy, where a series of agreements were signed to boost trade and investment between the UK and Morocco, ahead...

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UK to build up to 12 new attack submarines and invest £15bn in warheads

By Helen Corbett, PA Political Correspondent The UK will build up to 12 new nuclear-powered attack submarines and invest £15 billion in its warhead programme, the Prime Minister will announce today as the UK Government unveils its strategic defence review. Significant investment in the UK nuclear warhead programme this parliament and maintaining the existing stockpile...