Feb 18 - Government Pushed for Later Norwich and Peterborough Closing Date
The Government of Gibraltar has noted with regret, the decision taken by the Yorkshire Building Society (YBS) to close its Norwich and Peterborough branch in Gibraltar.
A statement released by No.6 said, ‘this is particularly so given that Parliament enacted the YBS Act, at their request following representations received by the Minister that the passing of the Act would not impact on staff, operations and customers in Gibraltar. This, clearly and unfortunately, has turned out not to be the case.
Reacting to the sudden news that Norwich and Peterborough Building Society is to close down by the end of the year, the Gibraltar Social Democrats have said that this is very bad news for Gibraltar coming so soon after the announcement by Barclays Bank. 
Ahead of the recently formed Cross Frontier Group’s mission to present a dossier on Frontier issues to the European Commission today, lengthy border queues of over 3 hours for vehicles crossing into Spain occurred, yesterday evening.
This morning, the Cross Frontier Group (CFG), are attending several meetings in the European Commission, to present their dossier on the issues at the frontier that are affecting workers. The group consists of unions and associations from both Gibraltar and La Linea, including Unite, the Teachers Union NASWUT, the GFSB, UGT (Union General de Trabajadores) and various other associations.
