Sep 09 Rescue at Sea
Officers of the Royal Gibraltar Police Criminal Marine Section have rescued two Spanish Nationals at sea. The two men were adrift in a small vessel fourteen miles east of Gibraltar in the early hours of Monday the 9th of September.
At 2.30am on Monday 9th September the RGP’s Command and Dispatch unit received a call from a Spanish national claiming to be adrift off Gibraltar’s eastern seaboard in a small fishing vessel. The caller informed the RGP control room that the vessel’s engine had stopped and that both he and a companion were adrift. The vessel and its occupants had put to sea from La Linea de La Concepcion, Spain, in the afternoon of Sunday the 8th September.
The Care Agency and Royal Gibraltar Police are conducting an alcohol awareness campaign ahead of next week’s National Day Celebrations. The theme of the campaign is ‘Enjoy your day...Stay safe’ and it will follow last year’s campaign which was so well received.
The Mayor Anthony Lima will be paying a short courtesy call on those members of the essential/emergency services who will be on duty on National Day.
An Algeciras fisherman has written to Queen Elizabeth pleading with her to remove the artificial reef because it is preventing him from earning a living to feed his family. The letter has also been sent to David Cameron and Fabian Picardo.
