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Bad Lieutenant: local police chief behind bars amid drug trafficking allegations

IN events likely to cause local uproar, the senior Captain of the Guardia Civil in Coin has been taken into custody in connection with a narcotics ring operating throughout the Costa del Sol, during the...Read More

Prime Minister to visit Gibraltar on June 16

IF the interim Spanish Government was upset by the recent visit to Gibraltar of Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond then Mr Margallo is going to be incandescent following the news that David Cameron will...Read More

Alligator pulls two-year-old into lagoon at Disney World resort in Florida

UPDATE: THE body of the young boy has now been recovered by divers, and he has been identified as Lane Graves, who was on holiday from Elkhorn Nebraska, with parents Mike and Melissa.
Sheriff...Read More

In Memoriam, two murdered officers of the Guardia Civil are honoured

THE Director General of the Guardia Civil, Arsenio Fernandez de Mesa, headed a delegation to Capbreton (France) on June 15, to attend the inauguration of a monument to Guardia Civil officers Raul Centeno...Read More

Spanish police thwart drugs gang who laundered money

A GANG of nine who laundered more than €2 million obtained through drug-trafficking through the purchase of real estate, luxury cars and financial products have been brought to justice by the ever-busy...Read More

River Thames takes centre stage in Brexit debate

JUST as it appeared that things couldn’t get more surreal with the referendum, opposing fleets met on the River Thames outside the Houses of Parliament on June 15. The pro-Brexit factor, made up...Read More

Stunned British couple film migrants arriving to the Costa del Sol

FOOTAGE captured by a British tourist (see below) shows around twenty migrants arriving to the Spanish coast in a crowded boat, before crossing a busy road and scarpering in different directions.
The...Read More

Interview training for the unemployed

HAVING identified no fewer than 113 employment opportunities for the registered unemployed, the Gibraltar Ministry of Business and Employment and the Employment Service launched a training course on how...Read More

New-look port

THE Port Authority of Alicante has reached an agreement with the company that manages the carousel of the Plaza del Puerto to continue at its current location until the end of summer.
It was initially...Read More

250 schools to go continuous

TWO out of three schools in Alicante Province have already presented their project for the continuous day.
Around 250 of the 380 public schools have prepared plans with the firm intention of presenting...Read More