THE heavy rainfall and strong winds on Monday evening, December 5, and early yesterday morning, Tuesday December 6, have caused around thirty incidents to be reported in the province. According to the 112 emergency line, most of the calls received on Monday night and early on Tuesday morning were due to flooding of houses, patios […]
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THE Guardia Civil believes a 20-year-old British man may have taken his life at Mallorca’s Can Picafort beach on Tuesday. He was said to be a tourist and a passer-by spotted his body floating in the water at around 10.50 am- in line with the Mar y Paz restaurant. Among his personal effects was a
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One of the stellar events in the English literature calendar returned at the end of November as a host of novelists, historians, politicians, academics and thinkers were welcomed back under the shadow of the Rock for the 2022 Gibunco Gibraltar International Literary Festival. An event like so many that had to take a two-year hiatus
A GIBRALTAR man who drove down a local road over the alcohol limit last weekend lost his licence in court. Magistrates banned David Pillinger, 37, of Laguna Estate from driving for 18 months and slapped him with a £500 fine. Police arrested him during their Christmas Drink Drive campaign, which sees officer make more checks
WITH the double bank holiday week upon us, the DGT traffic department has launched an anti-drink driving campaign. The ‘puente’ week is popular amongst businesses in which to hold boozy Christmas parties. But The DGT is warning people to leave their cars at home, stressing that there will be plenty of police checkpoints until Sunday
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That faithful pondlife inhabitant, the frog, is going extinct in Spain due to the ravages of climate warning and a pandemic of deadly amphibian-killing viruses. New figures show that the number of green croakers on the Iberian peninsula has declined by as much as a third in the past five years alone. The collapse has
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A coachload of Ukraine children arrives in Valencia on Thursday to spend a peaceful and safe Christmas holiday with local families. 54 youngsters aged between 6 and 12 years are making the journey after leaving communities in Ivankiv and Kharkiv. Their coach crossed into Poland early on Wednesday morning with the group posing for a
ENVIRONMENTAL authorities in Gibraltar have made a call-out to the public to report any pigeon nests over fears they could help spread deadly bird flu. While they wait for tests on the birds due back from UK next week, they have asked people not to feed pigeons or chickens as this could lead to a
THREE judges at the Appeal Court in London have ruled that the former mistress of Spain’s ex-king Juan Carlos cannot sue him for harassment during his time as monarch. The judges said in a written statement published on Tuesday that Juan Carlos was ‘immune from the jurisdiction’ in England and Wales until his abdication in
Trouble could be brewing around this afternoon’s Spain – Morocco World Cup match as Spanish football gangs issue a call to ‘defend Spain’ against acts of violence by Moroccan football fans. The usually fierce rivals of die-hard football fans from Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid, Ultras Ser and Frente Madrid respectively, announced they would ‘join
