Who loves a greasy kebab and chips with lashings of cocktail sauce after a night on the tiles?
Tributes from across the globe have poured in for the man who is reportedly the "inventor" of the doner kebab. Kadir Nurman, a Turkish immigrant, passed away this weekend in Berlin at the age of 80.
The Government has issued the following statement on the recent GSD press release regarding Barbary Partridges:
In the latest Opposition press release, Jaime Netto has shown a complete lack of understanding and a worrying lack of knowledge of ecology and Gibraltar’s natural history. It is near impossible to comprehend how a Member of Parliament with an environmental portfolio could have got his facts so wrong and interpreted the Minister’s statement so incorrectly.
A Madrid-based British journalist described the Chief Minister and the Spanish Foreign Minister as having been engaged in “megaphone diplomacy” over the summer. William Chislett, who delivered a talk during this weekend’s Literary Festival entitled “Spain: What You Need To Know” was responding to a question from the audience. He also said that, in his opinion, the problem that Gibraltar represented for Spain would “never be resolved.”
A conference which has been organised by The Gibraltar Hearing Impaired and Tinnitus Association and which is supported by the Ministry of Equality, Social Services and the Elderly will take place on Wednesday 30th October at John Mackintosh Hall from 9.30am to 1.30pm.
The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month marks the signing of the Armistice to signal the end of World War One “the War to end all Wars”, on the 11th November 1918.
The Gibraltar Amateur Drama Association will be staging their new play, "Bang Bang Beirut", by Ray Cooney and Tony Hilton, as part of the Autumn Festival. Performance days will be Wednesday 30th and Thursday 31st October and Saturday 1st November.
Commenting on the performance, a GADA spokesperson noted, ‘again GADA is sticking to their tried and tested formula of offering its audience its usual hilarious evening with this play. An outrageously funny farce set in the lobby and courtyard of a small hotel in the Middle East, where a group of British undercover agents (in a variety of unlikely disguises) are trying to weather a local military coup, while devising a plan to smuggle a young native prince out of danger.
Vine Trust Gibraltar’s six-strong volunteer work party have returned from their trip to northern Tanzania. During their two week stay in the African country, they helped to build a 3 roomed home for a disabled father and his family, helped to build a children’s home for 32 orphans who attend a nearby school and created a covered eating and play area at another school.
Following the unlawful incursion into British Gibraltar Territorial Waters on Friday of last week, by Spanish oceanographic survey vessel Emma Bardan accompanied by three Guardia Civil vessels Rio Tormes, Bernesga and Cedena, a Foreign Office Spokesperson insisted, ‘the survey and GC vessels were monitored throughout during both incidents and warned by Royal Navy Gibraltar Squadron’.
