Tag: Gibraltar

• Monday, August 16th 2010 - 04:12 UTC

  Gibraltar/La Linea dispute triggers ample coverage in UK press

  

  Ashley Fox Tory MEP for South West of England & Gibraltar has written to the UK press about the current developments in La Linea, reports the Gibraltar Chronicle.

• Thursday, August 12th 2010 - 17:56 UTC

  Possible way out to Gibraltar/La Linea ‘car congestion tax’ controversy

  

  Spain's Public Works Ministry (Ministero de Fomento) has refused La Linea permission to divert traffic toward a toll gate, in a move that could scupper controversial plans to tax drivers heading to Gibraltar, reports the local press.

• Monday, August 9th 2010 - 07:26 UTC

  Gibraltar: Between a Rock and a hard place

  

  La Linea de la Conception is a small Spanish town on the North side of the border with Gibraltar. The fascist dictator Francisco Franco sealed the frontier in 1969 to punish Gibraltar for rejecting his offer of becoming part of Spain.

• 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.