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.
In response to the Chief Minister’s letter to David Cameron following last month’s jet ski incident, Mr Picardo has now received a reply from the Prime Minister.
In his letter, Mr Cameron says that he ‘was very concerned by reports of the incursion and that he raised this directly with the Prime Minister of Spain.
A man was found hanged by the “Barco Vikingo” ride in the La Linea fair yesterday evening. The man, believed to be a Romanian national who worked in the fair, was already dead when he was discovered at around 7:45pm. An ambulance and forensic teams arrived at the scene shortly after.
This morning an official announcement was made via the British Monarchy’s website and social media profiles stating that ‘ Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cambridge has been admitted to St. Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, London in the early stages of labour.’ The statement adds that the Duchess travelled by car from Kensington Palace, to the Lindo Wing of St. Mary’s, with The Duke of Cambridge.
The Sunday Express yesterday carried a story on Fabian Picardo’s call for a larger Royal Navy presence to combat the increasingly assertive Spanish incursions into British Gibraltar territorial waters. The report, with the title “Send Us Gunboats”, said that Mr Picardo had explained that, although Spain will not go as far as staging an invasion, there could nevertheless be “consequences to British sovereignty” if UK Naval assets weren’t beefed up in the near future. He said that the two small patrol boats stationed in Gibraltar were not sufficient to send the clear message that “these are very clearly British Gibraltar territorial waters.”