UK 'sorry' for shooting at 'Spanish flag' buoy

Opps we are color blind... Sorry  " The UK has apologised to Spain after the Royal Navy used a buoy with the Spanish colours for target practice. The exercise took place off the coast of Gibraltar earlier...

Jason Biggs Gets Attacked By Monkey While On Vacation

Jason Biggs was attacked by a monkey while he was vacationing in Gibraltar with American Pie co-star Eddie Kaye Thomas. The American Pie acting duo were going for a hike in the woods when a monkey leapt from a...

Online gaming leaving UK shores

Ladbrokes have added their name to the list of companies taking their online gambling operations overseas and thus depriving the UK treasury of millions of pounds in taxes.A terse statement from their chairman...

Gibraltar- Shipwreck of the Liberian Cargo-Hauler Freda

This is a very interesting story and reinforces the axiom that it does not pay to mess with Mother Nature!! We landed in Gibraltar about 3 weeks after this happened. It was calm and beautiful when we arrived,...

Did British double agent Kim Philby murder Polish war hero General Sikorski?

" General Wladyslaw Sikorski, the leader of Poland's wartime government in exile, died 65 years ago this month when his plane plunged into the sea off Gibraltar. A British inquiry in 1943 found that the...

Gibraltar to cull Barbary apes that terrorise tourists

I visited Gibraltar when I was about 7. The only thing I remember from the visit is the apes. Gibraltar is famous for their apes. There is a theory that if the apes were to ever leave Gibraltar, then the territory...

Ooh-Ooh-Baby: Why Monkeys Are Screamers

A burning question finally answered... but when they counted thrusts, did they record the acts and count off video playback, or was a white-coated scientist standing there with a clicker, counting in...

Black hiding $60-million offshore, court told

"Black hiding $60-million offshore, court told Fraudster can't return to Canada for now PAUL WALDIE From Thursday's Globe and Mail August 2, 2007 at 4:01 AM EDT CHICAGO — Conrad Black's legal saga took a new...

Lulu Enterprises to launch a most unusual book.

After three years of research, the early summer of 2007 will see the publication of  an entirely revised  version of Double-Edged: a Change of Heart, ISBN: 978-1-84753-471-2, a novel written by Tony...

First Ever In-Flight Casino!!!

888.com, is set to break boundaries as the first online casino to enter the booming in-flight entertainment industry, as it joins forces with in-flight entertainment (IFE) software developer DTI and announces today a partnership bringing the casino games experience to...

British wreck could yield $1bn in treasure

"Up to a billion dollars worth of gold and silver on a sunken 17th-century English warship may soon be recovered following an agreement with Spanish authorities."

Ahoy Captain! 14 year-old crosses Atlantic alone ...during Christmas break

Michael Perham, an ambitious and very talented young sailor has gone at it alone, that is the Atlantic.  He has become the youngest person to sail across the ocean by himself.  Read his blog...

British teen lands in Antigua after record-breaking solo sail across Atlantic

"British teen lands in Antigua after record-breaking solo sail across Atlantic"

City said to be terrorist breeding ground

"TETOUAN, Morocco, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- A Moroccan seaport 3,000 miles from Iraq has become one of the world's most fertile recruiting grounds for jihadists, U.S. officials say. In the past eight months a group of young men, all worshippers at the same mosque, have left their...

Spain, Britain Reach Accord on Gibraltar

"Spain and Britain have reached a historic deal to resolve side issues stemming from their 300-year-old dispute over Gibraltar, but sidestepped the main one — their claims to the Rock's sovereignty."

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