A 7.5 thousand year-old polished hand axe, from the Neolithic, was excavated by archaeologists working in Gorham’s Cave this Saturday. This is the first such hand axe recovered in context from a Gibraltar cave and is further testament of the presence of people on the Rock at the critical time when agriculture and farming were arriving in the west from the Middle East.
Customs officials this morning arrested two Spanish residents of Algeciras on Winston Churchill Avenue on the suspicion that they were in possession of a commercial quantity of cigarettes. The 37 and 22 year old were stopped and challenged in a Spanish registered vehicle. Following a search of the vehicle 11,000 cigarettes were found.
The Environmental Safety Group has called for the closure of Western Beach given the ongoing, general low standard of water quality.
Yesterday evening marked the final day of the increasingly popular Comic-con event that pulls in thousands of visitors every year. Now, a convention centered predominantly around a love of comic books, sci-fi and video game characters is generally more catered towards the international nerds of society, however, with the growing international acceptance of the five day convention, it seems to now cater for a spectrum of individuals with differing interests.
