Jul 29 - Hague Contacts Margallo Following Weekend of Intense Queues
Following a weekend of intense frontier queues and questionable treatment of Gibraltarians and Spanish residents alike, the Foreign Secretary William Hague has insisted that he has spoken to Spanish Foreign Minister Margallo ‘to raise [their] concerns about restrictions at [the] Spanish-Gibraltar border.’
The BBC today relays Chief Minister Fabian Picardo’s message that Spain was using bullying tactics in response to work carried out in the bay last week, to lay an artificial reef that will not allow Spanish fishing trawlers to rake the seabed.
The Government would like to thank all the agencies, authorities and volunteers who assisted the thousands of people who have been stuck in the border queues this weekend.
"Policia Nacional who threw a Gibraltarian off his bike and treated him like an animal. As you can see when I shout im recording them they try to take him out of view to hit him. 
Government ministers, John Cortes and Steven Linares spent much of Saturday afternoon and evening distributing bottles of water to motorists who had been trapped in the border queue for nearly seven hours. 
