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.
Members of Gibraltar’s Round Table were granted a special audience with HRH the Duke of Edinburgh at Buckingham Palace last week. This follows a ‘Cornerstone of the Community’ Award recently presented to Round Table Gibraltar by the Newcastle Building Society.
Round Table is a non-political, international professional young men’s networking and community service association that currently flourishes in the majority of European Countries.
Renowned African poet and storyteller Ben Okri will be delivering the recently formed ‘Gibraltar Lecture’ at the FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival 2014 on Saturday March 29th.
This morning the HMS Astute arrived in Gibraltar for a short visit as part of scheduled operational tasking. Astute is the leading nuclear-powered submarine of her class and is the largest attack submarine the Royal Navy has commissioned by the Royal Navy.