Gibraltar’s representation at the Labour Party Conference continued yesterday evening with the Gibraltar Reception hosted by the Chief Minister Fabian Picardo and featuring a keynote speech by the UK Minister for Europe and the Overseas Territories Stephen Doughty MP.
As part of today’s Commonwealth Games activities, Gibraltar athletes 10,000m runner Emma Montiel, sprinter Jerai Torres and marathon runner Allison Edwards joined the Queen and other representatives of 71 strong Commonwealth Games family for lunch.
The GSD has welcomed today’s report that the EU Commission’s Directorate-General on Environment has dismissed the Spanish Government’s complaints that EU environmental legislation has not been infringed in relation to Gibraltar’s bunkering activities, the Eastside project and the laying of the artificial reef.
The EU Commission's Directorate-General on Environment has ruled that, following complaints received from Spain, it is unable to identify any breach of EU environmental legislation in respect of bunkering activities, the Eastside or Sovereign Bay project and, in particular, the Artificial Reef System in North-West BGTW.
Whilst on a school cruise aboard the MS Devonian in 1964, Alan Russell, who was 15 at the time, visited Gibraltar. He was a pupil at the John Neilston Institution in Paisley, Scotland, and a chance encounter with a kind stranger who gave him a sketch of the Rock has lingered in his memory all these years.