Exercise Rocky Pigeon 13 will take place today. This test of the Nuclear Emergency Response Plan in Gibraltar will be carried out jointly by the Government and British Forces Gibraltar and will take place within the Naval Base and inside No 6 Convent Place.
Officers of the Royal Gibraltar Police have arrested a number of Spanish Nationals for tobacco offences following three separate incidents:
Officers of the Royal Gibraltar Police’s Serious Crime Unit today arrested 33-year-old Michael Gideon Cuby of Jumper’s Building following a local investigation into offences of false accounting.
The local inquiry arose following a fraud investigation in the United Kingdom conducted by the Metropolitan Police.
With the Spanish Oceanographic Vessel RV ‘Ramon Margalef’s surveillance of the bay lasting over 20 hours, despite warning from the Royal Navy for the ship to leave BGTW, both the Gibraltar Government and Europe Minister David Lidington have insisted that the incursion was intolerable.
The Minister explained that when challenged by radio the vessel responded that it was conducting survey work with the permission of the Spanish authorities and in the interests of the European Community. ‘This comes only two weeks after dangerous manoeuvres by a Spanish Guardia Civil vessel in the vicinity of Royal Navy vessels in British waters put lives at risk and resulted in a minor collision,’ he added.
