Feb 20 - Bayside Students to Compete in UK Coding Challenge

Written on 20 February 2015.

coding A team of Bayside students have gone through to the final of the 2015 CyberCenturion Schools Challenge against stiff competition from schools across the UK.

CyberCenturion is the UK arm of the Cyber Patriot competition in the US, organised by Northrop Grumman. Northrop Grumman partnered with Cyber Security Challenge UK last summer to launch the competition in the UK for the first time. The competition is designed to inspire young people towards careers in cyber security and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics), helping build a bigger UK cyber talent pool.

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Feb 20 - Police Investigate Death of British Senior Citizen

Written on 20 February 2015.

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Officers of the Royal Gibraltar Police’s Crime and Protective Services are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a 69-year-old British man residing on a motor yacht at Queensway Quay.

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Feb 20 - Volunteer Reserves Service Medals and Clasps Awarded

Written on 20 February 2015.

vrsm Newly appointed Chief of Staff for British Forces Gibraltar, Colonel Frank Green RE presented two Volunteer Reserves Service Medals. The VRSM is awarded after 10 years’ service in the Reserves in recognition of long and efficient service. A Clasp is awarded for each addition five years of service.

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Feb 20 - Drama Festival 2015 Line Up Revealed

Written on 20 February 2015.

news The 2015 Gibraltar Drama Festival will feature 12 productions to be performed between Monday 23^rd and Saturday 28^th March 2015. The first night with feature two original dramas by Julian Felice. ‘To Touch the Face of God’ and ‘Utrecht’ will be performed by the Bayside and Westside Drama Group at Bayside Comprehensive School.

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Feb 20 - Raising Further Funds for Ebola

Written on 20 February 2015.

easter bunnies The Action4Schools supported concert, presenting Nathan Payas & Friends raised over £5,000 recently to go towards the ‘ebola orphans appeal’. The total raised for the appeal since early December 2014 in over £17,000, with funds being used to build a home for orphans who have lost their parents to ebola in Sierra Leone with the charity’s partners, Heaven Homes UK.

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Feb 20 - "Spiderman En Tu Fiesta": What I've Learnt From 50,000* Hours Of Surfing

Written on 20 February 2015.

By Stefano Blanca Sciacaluga

It's no mystery that for years my parents kept complaining I was spending too much time in front of a computer and asked whom I was talking to for so long. I didn't sit in front of a screen other than a television until relatively late; I must have been about eleven or twelve. Of course, for me that was quite early on, but considering children are practically born with an iPad under their arm these days, twelve was quite late to get involved. In the late 1990s and early 2000s kids my age were playing outside, socialising and doing their homework on paper; and at the time, on a rubbish dial-up modem (with the busy phone line, cheaper phone bills after certain hours and the screechy, horrible but adorable dial-up sound, that to some will sound like gibberish), only fast enough to run a little chat program called mIRC and very little more, it's understandable that my parents would complain that I was spending too much time in front of the computer. But I'm pretty sure a lot of people of my generation would agree, it was revolutionary, absolutely crazy and what has determined the way we use the Internet today.

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Feb 19 - Government Says Margallo Needs To Understand That "A Veto Is A Veto. No Means No"

Written on 19 February 2015.

The Government has said that members of the public who had an opportunity to hear the statements of Sñr Margallo today at the joint press conference with Foreign Secretary Hammomd “will have been as disappointed as ever to have heard him repeat, during the course of the joint press conference in question, the same lies, defamation and nonsense about all matters which are relevant.”