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Biting back!
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Ape attacks September 28th - October on the11th rise2016
Sep 28th - Oct 11th 2016
in Gib as resident is left dripping with blood following savage atttack
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What a Steel! A LEADING comic has borrowed TWICE from the Olive Press for his smash-hit comedy show on Gibraltar. Mark Steel used two articles during his popular BBC Radio 4 show, filmed last week. The funnyman firstly waxed lyrical about our hilarious story about a tourist being ‘molested’ by a macaque in 2015, before referencing a feature on a visit by legendary Rolling Stone Brian Jones. During the award-winning show Mark Steel’s In Town, w h i c h pokes fun the at local olive press customs, Cheeky monkeys he asked: “Do people know this story from the O l i v e To us it’s not just a box... Press? A it’s Your Life woman from Macclesfield went to the local station to report she was sexually assaulted by an ape. Just Call Jack “While the policeman said he was ‘sorry’ for her ordeal, he told her monkeys are wild animals and asked: ‘Do you think you can pick the monkey in a line-up?’” Steel later used our feature about Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones playing a gig to the Rock’s Barbary macaques while high on drugs. The article about that 1967 encounter can be found in our new quarterly magazine Gib Rocks out this month. EE
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Dr Suarez will see you now
Mothers meeting
SPANISH women have their first child at 30, placing them next to Italians as the oldest firsttime mothers in Europe, according to Eurostat.
FINAL WORDS
That’s your lotti
quote or just some friendly advice
THE most coveted job in sport is up for grabs, after Real Madrid dismissed boss Carlo Ancelotti after a trophyless season.
Lord knows
AN initiative to get Spaniards pronouncing ‘Ogilvy and Mather’ has been launched by Agency Spain to get Spanish students speaking English ‘like a lord’.
Blurred vision
BLONDE bombshell Edurne failed in her quest for Eurovision glory. Taking 15 points the Spaniard underperformed as Swede Mans Zelmerlow was victorious.
HURLING: In action
Game on
ANDALUCIA’S first ever game of hurling took place in Marbella on May 23. Players from Gaelic football sides Costa Gaels, Eire Og Seville and Gibraltar Gaels swapped football for hurleys at the historic event. Hosted at the Marbella rugby club, brand new hurling side Andalucia Vandals gave a glimpse of things to come.
Mountain Hi
A TEAM of seven members of HiFX, including Spanish boss Jose Ivars-Lopez, are to take on of the toughest mountains in the Nepalese Himalayas. Led by Everest mountaineer Tim Mosedale, the team will be trekking and scaling the Ama Dablam mountainside peak up to a giddy 6,812 metres in the name of charity. For more info visit: www. amadablam2015.comt
Tourist calls in police after Gibraltar apes ‘sexually assault’ on the Rock
A BRITISH tourist claims to have been ‘sexually assaulted’ by monkeys while visiting Gibraltar. Melissa Hart, 23, (pictured above) travelled to the Rock on a day trip from Marbella, excited to see the famous Barbary Macaques. But when two began to pull at her clothes and hair atop the Rock, she began to panic while other tourists close to
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her laughed. “I felt totally helpless as these two monkeys grabbed and pawed me in my most intimate areas,” she revealed. “Then, with a yank, one of them pulled my bikini top straight off.” Hart, a baker from Macclesfield, continued: “I was being sexually assaulted and these people all thought it was a great joke.” Luckily, her screams quickly grabbed the attention of a warden, who ran in and freed her. However, she was so angry she insisted in filing a police report, which also failed to go to plan. When she revealed to the po-
liceman on duty she had been attacked by the monkeys, he was unable to take her claim seriously. While the policeman told her he was ‘sorry’ for her ordeal, he added that monkeys are ‘wild animals’ and cannot legally commit a crime. “And if they could, do you think you could pick out your attacker in a line-up?” added the officer, evidently struggling not to laugh.
CARING: Suarez
SWAPPING his football boots for a stethoscope, Barcelona superstar Luis Suarez played doctor in a heartwarming video call to a young Uruguayan cancer patient. Just days before winning his first La Liga title with the Catalan giants, Suarez took time out to surprise an adoring fan. Diagnosed with cancer two years ago, Mateo thought he was having a consultation with a Spanish doctor. After initially chatting to a blank screen, Suarez appeared on screen and Mateo burst into tears when his ‘doctor’ turned out to be his idol.
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ICON: Sir Elton John
ROCKET man Sir Elton John, 68, is set to touch down on the Costa del Sol this summer. Appearing in Andalucia for the first time in a decade, Sir Elton will be thrilling fans at the Palacio de los Deportes Martin Carpena in Malaga on July 15. In his five-decade career Elton John has sold more than 300 million records, and his doubled-sided single Something About the Way You Look Tonight/ Candle in the Wind is the best-selling single of all time, selling 33 million copies worldwide.
INSPIRED: Steel’s OP nod
days since Brexit vote
Look back
We examine the first 100 days since the EU referendum
Rolling Stone San Pedro
Read our Gib Rocks special feature on Brian Jones’ ape gig
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Check out this edition’s cracking new supplement
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On the whistle
Gibraltar Premier Division football season kicks off
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Medieval
tar more than anyone else.” A British government spokesperson, added: “We will never enter into arrangements under which the people of Gibraltar can pass under the sovereignty of a state against their wishes.” The flames were further fanned when King Felipe labelled Gibraltar a ‘colonial anachronism’ at New York’s UN General Assembly, last week, and called for the Rock to be handed back to Spain. His comments were described by Gibraltar as showing how ‘official circles in Spain remains stuck in the eighteenth century’.
Spanish newspaper cover adds to ‘18th century claims’ that Gibraltar will lose sovereignty over Brexit By Joe Duggan
CHIEF Minister Fabian Picardo has slammed Spain’s ‘medieval’ government and accused it of acting ‘against the spirit of Europe’. In a damning outburst, Picardo savaged foreign minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo, who is reportedly lobbying EU members to demand joint sovereignty over Gibraltar. In a letter to his European counterparts, the controversial minister insisted Gibraltar should be barred from Brexit negotiations and become a bargaining chip in exit talks. The tub-thumping led to Span-
Never
‘LYING’: Fabian Picardo attacks Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo
ish newspaper ABC provocatively using an image of Gibraltar on its cover with the Spanish flag under it (see right). The pro-PP paper claimed the deal was a no brainer, as Gibraltarians would ‘enjoy’ dual nationality under Margallo’s plan. This is despite prime minister
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Theresa May stating clearly that Gibraltar’s government will be ‘fully involved’ in future talks. “It seems to me that Mr Margallo can’t work out the simple meaning of the simple word ‘no’,” Picardo told the Olive Press this week. “The mendacious manner in
which Spain are lying to the international community about Gibraltar and trying to push an advantage is short sighted, medieval and undemocratic.” He added: “It runs against the spirit of Europe and the threats with which they back it up will hurt Spanish workers in Gibral-
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“Madrid has still not come to terms with having lost Gibraltar over 300 years ago. It’s time they realised they are never going to get it back - and never means never,” said a spokesman. On Sunday in a BBC interview, foreign secretary Boris Johnson stated Article 50 should be triggered by May 2017, signalling a two-year countdown until Britain leaves the EU.