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Gunfire on board Vueling flight from Ibiza to Madrid

PLENTY of passengers around the world are nervous about the risk of terrorists attacking aircraft and when a gun is heard to be fired inside an aircraft, it is understandable if they fear the worse.
It...Read More

New high value polymer banknote for Gibraltar

AS announced at last August’s commemoration of the birth of Sir Joshua Hassan, the government of Gibraltar is to issue a new polymer £100 banknote featuring an image of Sir Joshua.
Not only will...Read More

Urgent plea after driver fled scene

A BRITISH pedestrian was killed when he was hit by a car on the N-332 at Guardamar del Segura on the Costa Blanca.
The 61 year-old Robert Sneddon lived in Guardamar and was hit by a UK-registered car...Read More

Moroccan middle classes march on Malaga

MALAGA province has transmogrified into the Mecca of shopping tourism for northern Morocco’s burgeoning middle class, with figures released by the Costa del Sol’s major shopping centre validating...Read More

Shell to supply LNG for new Gibraltar power plant

IN order to ensure that Gibraltar is able to offer residents cleanly produced, safe and reliable electricity, it embarked some time ago on the production of a gas-fired power plant which will eventually...Read More

North Korea accuses defecting diplomat of numerous crimes

FOR centuries following the lead of Ancient Rome, countries who entered into peace agreements with those that they had defeated in battle required that the leaders of those countries should often surrender...Read More

Brits busted in clandestine Basque country drugs laboratory

TWO Britons have been arrested by the Guardia Civil in the town of Leioa in the Basque country for allegedly producing large volumes of synthetic drugs which they then posted around the world.
Seized...Read More

Hungarian MEP suggests pigs’ heads along border might repel refugees

A MEMBER of the European Parliament has suggested that pigs’ head impaled on sticks along the border might be a useful way of dissuading refugees from entering Hungary.
Gyorgy Schopflin, a member...Read More

British woman allegedly raped near Bilbao

REPORTS have been received that a British woman in her 20s, thought to be an au pair has been raped and left alone in a car park at Arrietara Beach outside of Bilbao in the north of Spain.
She was seen...Read More

Another attack with a machete in Brussels causes alarm

UNDERSTANDABLY there was a huge police response when news came in that a woman had attacked people with a machete on a bus in the Uccle suburb of Brussels on the afternoon of August 22 as it was feared...Read More