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.
This morning, the Sunday Express published a full page article about Gibraltar's current situation with excessive frontier queues to travel into Spain. The UK national paper titled the article "Spain's road rage attack".
For the second day in a row this week, the Frontier Queues to leave Gibraltar have been horrendous. The RGP's latest tweet at around 13:40 states that the queues are "Tail end by Winston Churchill Avenue. Estimated time: 4 hours".
Yesterday evening, around 19:00 there was an incident in Morrison's Supermarket here in Gibraltar. The Royal Gibraltar Police were called to the scene to try to resolve the issue, and reportedly several individuals were arrested at the time.
A spokesperson from the RGP has issued the following statement:
At 1040hrs today as a result of a fire reported to police, officers of the Royal Gibraltar Police together with the City Fire Brigade attended to Portmore House, situated in Glacis Estate.