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.
Both the Dolphins Youth Club and the Youth Centre took part in one of Gibraltar’s longest standing and popular community events, ‘Clean up the World 2013’. This year, the combined group tackled the Northern Defences, locally referred to as “The Jungle”.
Officers of HM Customs challenged a group of men at the northern end of Eastern Beach on Thursday. Several large holdalls were seen to be taken from two Spanish registered cars on Eastern Beach Road and then two men ran towards the frontier fence at the northern end of the beach carrying the holdalls.
The Marisquería Mara, which is owned by the same company that operates the Modelo cafeterias in La Linea and Gibraltar, has clinched this year’s prize for best tapa during La Linea’s annual Ruta de la Tapa food festival. The restaurant’s “rollitos de rosada en langostino a la crema” was chosen by judges as the city’s best tapa.