THE PRESSURE was rising on Tuesday for Spain’s Football Federation chairman, Luis Rubiales, to quit from his position after he forcibly kissed a female player after her team won the Women’s World Cup on Sunday. He was also seen making an obscene gesture after Spain’s victory, and the Federation has been accused of faking a […]
SPAIN’S King Felipe VI on Tuesday night proposed the leader of the conservative Popular Party (PP), Alberto Nuñez Feijoo, as the candidate for prime minister at an investiture vote in the Congress of Deputies. The move came after two days of talks between the monarch and political leaders, and despite the fact that Feijoo’s bid
Four runners from Gibraltar’s Carpe Diem Running Club appeared on the podium for this years XI Corruco Race in Manilva on Saturday. Stephine Campbell took first place in her catagory, Bridget Leonard and Georgina Anne Morello were both third in their categories and Tamara Tskilauri took third place in the overall women’s catagory. Image of
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A new website to provide support and resources to upcoming university students has launched today. Moving abroad for higher education can be a very challenging and daunting process through past student testimonials and experiences the website hopes to provide encouragement to aspiring undergraduates. With guides to scholarships, financial guidance and wellbeing strategies the website hopes
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AROUND a thousand would-be migrants have arrived on Spanish shores since Friday alone, most of them reaching the coasts of the Canary Islands. That’s according to a tally from news agency Europa Press, which reported that 138 migrants arrived in the Canaries on two craft on Tuesday morning. Fifty of these immigrants reached Tenerife, while
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UK Minister for the Armed Forces James Heappey has met Chief Minister Fabian Picardo and Deputy Chief Minister Dr Joseph Garcia in Gibraltar to speak about the military importance the Rock has in the UK. The meeting reaffirmed the relevancy of Gibraltar to the UK military and was used by Picardo to stress the commitment
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THE Ministry of Transport is coming together with the Ayuntamiento de La Linea to celebrate European Mobility Week this month. For the first time, Gibraltarian cyclists will join the bicycle ‘march’ which follows a 16-kilometre route across the city. The ‘march’ is free to take part in and will take place from September 16–22. Promoting
SPAIN IS currently suffering from the fourth heatwave of the summer season so far, with the extreme weather pushing the mercury up above the 45ºC mark. Monday was the second day of this current episode, and saw highs of 45.2Cº in the municipality of El Granado in Huelva province, as well as 44.5ºC in Cordoba
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DURING A meeting with Spain’s King Felipe VI today, caretaker Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez assured the monarch that he will count on the necessary support in Congress to be voted back into power. The king is this week meeting with political leaders before proposing a candidate for an investiture debate, in the wake of the
VALENCIA’S Supreme Court has cut four years from the prison term of a Dutch national who stabbed his girlfriend 15 times and dumped her body into a Moraira rubbish container. Former marine Arthur Karvink, 62, was jailed by an Alicante court for 22 years and six months in March 2022 for the brutal 2019 slaying
