Tag: Gibraltar

• Tuesday, August 3rd 2010 - 15:13 UTC

  Low fares airline has Gibraltar/UK summer flights fully booked

  

  Low fares airline Monarch is adding even more flights from Gibraltar to the UK this summer with an additional Friday service to London Luton, which will operate between 24 September and 29 October 2010, according to the Gibraltar Chronicle.

• Tuesday, July 27th 2010 - 02:33 UTC

  Gibraltar airport scheduled to become operational next May 2001

  

  Gibraltar's new airport terminal is scheduled for completion in May 2011 and will come into operation regardless of whether or not the works on the La Linea North Entrance have been completed, Chief Minister Peter Caruana has confirmed.

• Friday, July 23rd 2010 - 22:32 UTC

  British Deputy PM admits Gibraltar is a “sensitive topic” in the Cleggs’ home

  

  Britain's deputy prime minister, Nicholas Clegg, joked in the House of Commons this week that Gibraltar “is a sensitive topic” in his home, which he shares with his Spanish wife, Miriam Gonzalez Durantez.

• Friday, July 16th 2010 - 07:54 UTC

  New UK government retakes Trilateral talks with Spain and Gibraltar

  

  The first set of high level Trilateral technical talks involving a UK Conservative-Liberal coalition government are to take place in Gibraltar next week, it was formally confirmed.

• Thursday, July 1st 2010 - 21:05 UTC

  MP Laing, chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Gibraltar Group

  

  British Conservative MP Elainor Laing is the new chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Gibraltar Group, a House of Commons spokesman announced Wednesday night. Mrs Laing is no stranger to the Rock as she attended the main National Day rally when it was organised in Casemates Square.

• Thursday, June 24th 2010 - 04:24 UTC

  Spanish Parliament supports Gibraltar’s bunkering operations

  

  The Spanish Parliament voted Tuesday against a proposal urging a ban on the use of floating storage tankers in Gibraltar. The Popular Party motion before the Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Commission called on Madrid to ask the British Government to force Gibraltar to store all bunkering fuel on land.

• Saturday, May 15th 2010 - 04:29 UTC

  Gibraltar Celebrates: Hague and Fox “Could not be Better Choices”

  

  Gibraltar Chief Minister Peter Caruana gave the warmest welcome the Rock could give to a new Foreign Secretary as he described William Hague, former Tory leader, as a “safe pair of hands” from Gibraltar's perspective.

• Saturday, May 15th 2010 - 03:51 UTC

  “Nick and I Don’t Talk about Gibraltar at Home”

  

  Miriam González, the Spanish wife of recently appointed United Kingdom Deputy Prime Minister Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg, has captured the imagination of the media, especially in her native country.

• Friday, April 30th 2010 - 01:44 UTC

  Academic Analysis of the Gibraltar-Spain-UK Dialogue Process

  

  The book “Gibraltar y el Foro tripartito de Diálogo” that was recently published by the University of Cádiz, was presented in Gibraltar earlier this week. Gibraltar’s Minister for Culture coordinated the presentation at a press conference in the Mackintosh Hall.

• Tuesday, April 27th 2010 - 18:33 UTC

  P&O Azura Calls in Gibraltar on its Maiden Voyage

  

  The newest addition to the P&O fleet the magnificent Azura sailed into Gibraltar on Sunday. The 289.60 meter vessel with 17 decks high, carrying 2.816 passengers and 1.241 crew members arrived in port at 12:30hrs reports the Gibraltar Chronicle.