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.
The GSD Opposition has today welcomed the Chief Minister’s insistence to both local and Spanish press that the Government is planning to amend the 1991 Nature Protection Act ‘in order to allow Spanish Fishermen to fish with nets in British Gibraltar Territorial Waters.’
The Government has today announced that a limited number of seated tickets for the Gibraltar Music Festival, are still available, as are general entry tickets. Parents are reminded that children aged 12 and under can get in for free and tickets are available to ticket-holding parents and guardians from the John Mackintosh Hall between 10am and 2pm, Monday to Friday.
YGTV has received an eyewitness report that a man dressed in blue and carrying a shoulder bag was asking tourists in this morning’s border queue to pay a toll to enter Gibraltar. The man was seen attempting to place stickers on cars and also approached pedestrians.
Officers of the Royal Gibraltar Police are investigating the circumstances that led to a 57 year old local man being found suffering from serious injuries at Laguna Estate at around 7.30am this morning. Investigations so far suggest that the injuries are consistent with a fall from considerable height.