A new and updated website for the Gibraltar Fire and Rescue Service marks their 150th Anniversary. Although they have had a web presence since 1998, the new 2015 site is based on the WordPress Version 4.1 open source platform.
A local man has been sentenced to 250 hours of community service after he admitted assaulting a man with a plastic glass.
By Stefano Blanca Sciacaluga
I love pictures. I love them so much I make them, look at them, go crazy over them and can’t get enough of sharing them with people. It’s probably the oldest form of communication if you consider most people didn’t really know how to read until fairly recently. Pictures make everything easier; in fact, there are people who refuse to read books if there are no pictures. And that makes total sense to me. I mean, I read books without pictures and I sometimes even read them more than once! In a book I recently re-re-re-read, full of life tips there was one that, as a “picture-maker”, stuck with me. It was something along the lines of “pick things you like looking at and look at them”. We all work with visuals, we choose colours we like and make them our favourites, choose things and people that just look good and stop talking when the person on the other side of the table is yawning. Visual cues are a better communicator than anything. Even typographers, whose obsession is lettering, work with the way the lettering looks to convey the message.
The US continues to show its support for the Rock, with US Congressman George Holding, a Republican member for North Carolina leading a group of Congressmen in filing a formal Resolution recognizing Gibraltar’s right to self-determination, in the House of Representatives.
