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MPs don’t care about Gibraltar EXCLUSIVE

by Joe Duggan

LORD Ashdown has condemned British politicians who ‘don't appreciate the gravity of Brexit for Gibraltar’.

Describing Westminster as ‘isolationist’, he told the Olive Press he was extremely concerned for the future of the Rock.

Speaking after his sold-out Gibunco Gibraltar Literary Festival talk, the former Liberal Democrat leader said the UK had done enormous ‘self harm’ in voting to leave the EU. The firm Remain supporter said: “I don't think politicians in Westminster appreciate the gravity of Brexit for Britain, but I think in particular they don't appreciate the gravity for Gibraltar.”

The firm Remain supporter added: “I fear there is a huge spirit of isolationism in Britain led by people who should know betTOUGH ter.

TALKER: “For most Ashdown ordinary politicians I don't think Gibraltar is much concern. Which is a shocking thing because Gibraltar has served our nation so well and remains one of the crucial, vital strategic points in the world.

“You can't let Gibraltar suffer without everything we stand for suffering.”

He added: “I think Brexit was the most telling example in modern history of a nation doing self harm to itself. I bitterly regret it.

“We are a divided nation. The prime minister's first steps should be to bring the nation together.

“I fear what she has done may have more of a tendency to Continues on page 4

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BANGED UP: Sammon bundled into police car and (inset) his campervan

EXCLUSIVE: Expat tip leads Olive Press team to snare one of UK’s most wanted paedophiles EAGLE-eyed Olive Press readers helped snag one of Britain's most wanted fugitives in Spain, just hours after he had been named.

Following a tip off to the paper, suspected paedophile Matthew Sammon was dragged from his campervan in a dramatic nighttime raid and whisked away in an unmarked police car.

Working closely with informant Daniel Reid, we were able to firstly track down Sammon to Fuengirola, then call in the Guardia Civil to arrest him.

On the run for two years, Sammon - a blackbelt in Jujitsu - was wanted in the UK for sharing indecent images of children.

His seizure came just 10 hours after he was named in Operation Captura and is the quickest recorded arrest in the joint UK and Spanish police operation.

“It was a fantastic result,” said Steve Reynolds, from the Nation-

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al Crime Agency, who arrived at the scene after the arrest.

“Well done Olive Press and thanks to the expat community for tipping us off, this is the reason we run these campaigns.”

The dramatic day had started when Crimestoppers issued its annual list of most wanted fugitives in Torremolinos on Thursday morning.

Leading to hundreds of press stories around the world and on national television, the hunt was immediately on.

But, it was to popular local newspaper the Olive Press that expat plasterer Reid, 40, reached out to, trusting us to ‘do the job properly’.

In a series of Facebook messages, he announced that Sammon, 45, had worked for him

SUCCESS: Reid, Horgan, Reynolds and Brunt as a labourer and was currently living in a campervan around the Mijas and Fuengirola area.

Within an hour, the Olive Press

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team scrambled to Fuengirola, learning from another builder that he was currently camped out at the feria ground.

After a day working nearby, the Londoner duly arrived in his English-plated cream Moncayo campervan.

Parking up, he looked relaxed as he took his dog for a walk around the feria ground and spoke with neighbours.

Once identified, we called the Guardia Civil and Crimestoppers and so began a tense threehour waiting game, with Reid sitting in the car beside us.

Sky News crime reporter Martin Brunt was soon there too.

Eventually, as night had well and truly fell, an unmarked black BMW arrived and two plain clothes detectives swiftly moved in for the arrest, confiscating his passport and phone.

Frisking him at the side of the car, Sammon covered his face and remained silent when questioned by the Olive Press.

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He was then bundled into the BMW and taken to Madrid to be fingerprinted and prepared for extradition.

Following the arrest, father-oftwo Reid said he was ‘relieved’ to see Sammon taken away.

“As soon as I saw his face among the most wanted I felt sick,” said Reid, from Blackpool.

“I let him hang around my children, we took him in with open arms and at first were none the wiser.

“But we always thought he was a bit weird, he’s a real loner and never talks about his family.

“He creeped my family out so much that I fired him.”

Incredibly, police did not take any evidence from his campervan including his computer and other possible incriminating evidence.

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Fraudster with Gibraltar links suspected of global investment con A NOTORIOUS British conman with close links to Gibraltar is thought to be the mastermind behind a huge global investment fraud.

Marbella-based Brett Jolly, 56, who is behind a number of companies in Gibraltar, is believed to be the head of Privilege Wealth (PW), exposed this week as an al-

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Jolly bad leged multi-million pound scam.

The multi-national operation, which is part-registered in Gibraltar, has allegedly raised hundreds of millions of pounds from investors, including British pension schemes.

But David Marchant, a USAbased investigative journal-

EXCLUSIVE

by Joe Duggan

ist, has uncovered evidence that the scheme has ‘no substance’ and is simply ‘a vehicle to swindle investors’, with Jolly at its head.

The Olive Press assisted Marchant in his investigations, which the Mail on Sun-

day also ran this weekend.

It’s not the first time Jolly and other PW directors have been suspected of financial skulduggery.

In 2013, Jolly’s Gibraltar-registered Green Planet Investment Limited was wound up by the UK High Court after 300 investors lost life savings totalling £14million buying non-existent

Rape defendant cleared of sexual offences A MAN has been found not guilty of attempting to rape a disabled woman.

Karim Rudge, 27, was also cleared of trespassing with

intent to commit a sexual offence.

He will be sentenced on November 17 after pleading guilty to possessing a knife in public.

Chief Justice Anthony Dudley ruled Rudge would receive a ‘significant’ custodial sentence.

Rudge has been on remand for seven months.

Brazilian properties.

Two years ago, former PW compliance director, Minette Compson, was banned by the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission (GFSC) after an investigation into a £7.7 million investment fraud.

The GFSC described Compson as ‘not a fit and proper person to carry out the aforesaid functions’.

In the latest project, PW was offering annual returns of up to 12%, profits it claims are possible because it achieves 50% returns on payday loans to high-risk American borrowers.

Members of Jolly’s team are said to include Andrew

Sweeney, Mark Munnelly, Simon McGarrigle, Martin Sampson and Robbie Roche, with many of them based in Marbella.

When Marchant put it to Jolly that he was in charge of PW he denied all accusations.

Jolly said: “I do know the company, and have had dealings with them...I hadn’t heard of them until about three years ago, possibly a little longer. I can assure you I’m not a shareholder, director or employee, although I have invested some cash, as have a few of my associates.”

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In the bag

ticket from Cork, Ireland, to Roscoff, France, dating back to October 2014, when Sammon first went AWOL. His name was one of 10 issued on the 10th anniversary of Operation Captura in Spain.

Among the group were two Ambassador Manley said: “The UK and Spain face similar challenges from terrorism, organised crime, drug rings and human trafficking.

“The best way we can face these challenges is to work together, and we will continue to develop our close working relationship to fight international crime.

“We cannot allow these people to flourish.”

If you have seen any of the most wanted, contact the Olive Press at newsdesk@theolivepress.es.

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STEPHEN Lawrence murder suspect Jamie Acourt is on a hit list of Britain’s 10 most wanted fugitives thought to be hiding in Spain.

Acourt is now wanted for drug dealing and is thought to be laying low in Spain’s British expat community.

The National Crime Agency and crime-fighting charity Crimestoppers have revealed the identities of suspects wanted for a range of crimes including murder, child sex exploitation and drug trafficking.

It comes on the tenth anniversary of Operation Captura, a collabaration between British and Spanish law enforcement agencies which has so far seen 77 out of 86 suspects apprehended.

The British suspects being hunted by police are:

Jonathon Kelly, 36, from Glasgow: Wanted by Police Scotland to serve remaining sentence of nine years 10 months for a number of serious assaults. Kelly, who is extremely violent, was convicted at various courts of a number of offences between 2002 and 2010. He is described as 180cm tall, heavy build, blue/grey eyes, short brown hair, Scottish accent, and occasionally has a beard.

Also has scars to the left and right side of the face, on his arms and his right hand.

The hunt is on

Shane O’Brien, 28, from London: Wanted by the Metropolitan Police on suspicion of murder. In October 2015 O’Brien was in a wine bar in Middlesex with several friends. It

is alleged that O’Brien approached a man called Josh Hanson who was with his girlfriend at the bar, removed an item from his coat pocket and plunged it into the his neck.

Mark Quinn, aged 52, from Liverpool: Wanted by Police Scotland on suspicion of supplying amphetamine. Between August 2013 and April 2014 Quinn was allegedly involved in an organised crime group concerned in the production, transportation Jamie Acourt, 40, from and distribution of am- South London: Wanted phetamine with a street on suspicion of conspiracy value of over £11m. He to supply cannabis resin is described as 5ft 9ins between 1 January 2014 and by 1998 he served two years for a fraud tall, large build and has and 1 February 2016. He short brown hair. involving unpaid hotel rooms. is described as 173cm tall, He was arrested again six years later in athletic build, pale comBenidorm for a con in which he posed as Simon McGuffie, aged plexion, dark brown hair, the head of a real estate consortium, when 41, from Liverpool: brown eyes, and somehe did not own the land he said he would Wanted by The North times wears glasses.

West Regional Orbuild on.

He was later locked up for a €14 million ganised Crime Unit property scam and again in 2013 for con- (Titan) on suspicion Dominic McInally, aged of being a member 25, from Liverpool: Wantning two brothers out of €225,000.

When he next appeared in court in Switzer- of a Merseyside or- ed by Merseyside Police on land he claimed to be married to Spaniard ganised crime group suspicion of conspiracy to Maria Yolanda Ros Rodriguez, who was involved in the large- supply cocaine. McInally scale supply of Co- is the alleged leader of a pregnant with his child.

An investigation has tracked her down to caine, Heroin and drug trafficking gang that Murcia, where locals told the Olive Press Cannabis across the she has recently launched a luxury estate North West. He has expected to bank £1.25m agents, which also operates in Madrid, af- a scarred right arm every month. He is deter leaving her sales post at La Manga golf and distinctive 2” scar scribed as 178cm tall and has blond hair. to the right cheek. resort.

It is not clear to what extent she was involved Sarah Panitzke, 42, from Fulford: Wantin the fraudulent behaviour of Acklom.

Acklom vanished after being released in ed by HMRC for conspiracy to acquire March of this year and there is now a Euro- criminal property. Panitzke was a senior pean Arrest Warrant on his head, as well as member of a crime group involved in a VAT fraud. Panitzke travelled extensively a €22,000 reward for his arrest.

A source told the Olive Press he has good to further the fraud to places including Dubai, Spain and Andorra. She was rereasons to bes hiding out in Spain.

“Mark bought gold bars as a form of insur- sponsible for laundering approximately ance. They’re buried under a friend’s gar- £1billion. She is described as 170cm tall, den in Spain - so if he loses everything he slim build with mousey straight hair, blue can dig them up.” eyes and has a Yorkshire accent.

On the gold trail of Don Mark

AN Olive Press investigation has found traces of most wanted fraudster Mark Acklom in Murcia.

The 43-year-old lothario has been involved in a series of property scams around the area, alongside his Spanish wife Maria Yolanda Ros Rodriguez.

Using the names Marc Ros, Mark Ross, Zack Moss, Dr Mark Ros and Don Marc Ros, he is believed to be behind numerous scams, mostly in Murcia and on the Costa Blanca.

But now his time is apparently running out, after being named on a list of Britain’s Most Wanted fugitives.

The conman is being sought over his defrauding of a an ex-girlfriend in the UK out of €950,000.

According to Crimestoppers, he convinced Carolyn Woods, from Gloucestershire, he was an MI6 agent before persuading her to lend him an initial €29,000.

“He told me he had never felt this way about anyone and that we must get married,” said Woods, 55, “In the end, I lent him everything.”

Privately-educated Acklom is said to have started his fraudster lifestyle as a child, when he stole his mother’s mink coat to sell for a fast buck.

At 16, he stole his father’s American Express card and racked up a €12,000 bill be-

SCAMMER: Mark Acklom fore posing as a stockbroker in a €1.2 million fraud.

Despite spending more than ten years of his life behind bars in the UK and Spain, Acklom, from Bromley, hasn’t been able to change career paths.

He first came to Spain in the late 1990’s,

Stephen Carruthers, 43, from Bury: Wanted by Cumbria Police on suspicion of 18 offences of making indecent photographs of a child. Carruthers was arrested by police, who recovered a computer containing 5,332 indecent images of children. He is described as 172cm tall, medium build, short brown hair or shaved head and has blue eyes.

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Sweet symphony ALBERT Hammond has released his new album, In Symphony.

The Gibraltar legend, who has written hits for The Hollies, Whitney Houston and Diana Ross, recorded his new LP at London’s legendary Abbey Road Studios.

The record features many of Hammond’s classic songs such as The Air That I Breathe, It Never Rains In Southern California, Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now and One Moment In Time.

Hammond is currently on tour in Germany

Nick of time HE is becoming a true Rock regular.

Funnyman Nicholas Parsons joined Maureen Lipman, Tony Hawk and Pam Ayres for a special edition of his BBC radio show Just A Minute.

Part of the fourth Gibunco Gibraltar Literary Festival, it is the third successive year Parsons has travelled to the Rock for the event, which continues to go from strength to strength.

This year’s edition saw talks from politician Lord Ashdown, football writer Guillem Balague, author Nick Rankin and Louis de Bernieres (see culture for review).

ARSENAL legend Ray Parlour has shimmied his way onto the Rock.

The ‘Invincible’ Gunner cut the red ribbon for the new offices of Abacus, the Gibraltar financial services company.

Parlour, who won three Premier League medals with the north London side, was the surprise guest of Abacus CEOs Robert Guest and Chris Pitaluga.

“When I joined Abacus in 1995 I think I was the eighth person in the room. Today we are 54 which in just over 20 years is pretty good going,” said Pitaluga, before introducing Parlour.

“Bob you’re getting old. I hate to break it to you like this but I think I have found someone I think can take your place. Do

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Bad souvenir

BRITISH singer Foxes has revealed she was attacked by a monkey during her last visit to Gibraltar.

Foxes, AKA Louisa Rose Allen, said she was touring the Upper Rock following her Gibraltar Music Festival gig in September when a macaque ape went for her arm.

She described the incident as ‘weird’ but insisted she still loves monkeys despite the massive bruise on her arm.

“I was nowhere near the monkey, I was completely down the other side and wasn’t upsetting it,” she said, “I just kept my distance but a female monkey ran and bit me on my arm.

“It’s like I’ve got a really bad souvenir from Gibraltar, but I still love monkeys, it’s just unfortunate that happened but I feel it just wanted to get closer.”

Parlour games

Premier League and Arsenal star Ray Parlour opens Abacus doors you mind if I introduce him right now?' "Ray, Oi Ray." Parlour, a central midfield dynamo, regaled the audience

with tales of former Highbury heroes including Tony Adams, Arsene Wenger and Ian Wright.

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Missing woman THE RGP have launched an investigation into the disappearance of 53-year-old Philippino woman Rosemary Magno in Gibraltar.

Car crasher!

A 25-YEAR-OLD man has been arrested for drink driving after overturning his car on Line Wall Road.

New body THE bar council has welcomed the Rock’s new employment tribunal aimed at tackling unfair dismissal and employment discrimination.

Reshuffle CHIEF Minister Fabian Picardo has announced a cabinet reshuffle, with Deputy Chief Minister Dr Joseph Garcia becommin the new minister for Brexit and Europe.

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ANYTHING BUT HEALTHY Heated debate sparked after doctors leave GHA citing serious grievances and ‘corruption’

By Joe Duggan

ALLEGATIONS of ‘corruption’ within the Gibraltar Health Authority (GHA) have sparked a furious parliament debate.

Independent MP Marlene Hassan Nahon has been accused of setting an ‘ambush’ after pro-

WHISTLEBLOWER: MP Marlene Hasan Nahon ducing an email from doctors cently left the GHA, citing its making a number of allegations ‘arrogance, lack of respect to against the health service. doctors’.

Hassan claims the email is from They added it was not ‘respondtwo of three surgeons who re- ing to obvious red flags.’

Yes, Prime Minister (at last) IT is anything but the glowing mandate he would have wanted.

But, it finally looks like Spain’s acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is to become Prime Minister again.

The breakthrough comes after his bitter socialist rivals agreed to abstain in this week’s confidence vote, ending ten months of deadlock and after two general elections.

Spain has been in limbo with no party gaining a majority and was set to be heading to

the polls again in December.

The PSOE voted by 139 to 96 to smooth Rajoy’s attempt to form a government before October 31.

It shows the clear divisions within the party, which has been embattled by a leadership challenge following the resignation of former leader Pedro Sanchez earlier this month.

Party secretary Javier Fernandez claims the PSOE will continue as the opposition to a new conservative government.

In a heated debate, she told Parliament: “They consider the GHA doesn’t take advice from doctors, that they only take advice by, I quote, ‘corrupt, incompetent professionals with their own agendas’.

“They warn the system will fail, that Gibraltar is going to lose.”

She added they believed the GHA was not interested in their discontent or valuing its staff and there was ‘little hope’ for improvement.

The claims were firstly rejected by former health minister Dr John Cortes, who insisted the doctors left for other reasons… one retiring, another for ‘family reasons’ and the other for ‘private reasons’.

However, he later confirmed they were serious allegations and they needed to be ‘thoroughly investigated’, before adding: “We must be careful.

Did that doctor go because there was a certain grievance and he is trying to get his own back?”

Hassan Nahon alleged it was not the first time the issues had been raised by the doctors.

“Very good doctors have left with very serious allegations,” she said.

The government has so far failed to respond.

Army positions uncovered ROYAL Engineers have uncovered 18th century military positions while cleaning up the Northern Defences.

The soldiers made the incredible discovery while clearing debris and vegetation from Queens Line and Forbes Battery.

The gun and mortar positions range from the 18th century to World War Two.

Brexit nazis

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divide it. I don't believe a hard Brexit is in Britain's interest.

“If we must Brexit, do so maintaining a position as close to Europe as possible.”

The veteran politician, who has just released a book on spies during World War II, sparked fury last month when he compared Conservative Leave supporters to Nazi paramilitaries, labelling them ‘Tory Brexit brownshirts’.

Prime Minister Theresa May has indicated she will pursue a ‘hard’ Brexit, with no compromise on freedom of movement in return for access to the EU single market.

Ashdown said he ‘wanted May to succeed’, but expressed reservations about her opening negotiating stance.

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Serving society

IT is never more satisfying to see your hard work going to good use.

And when local expats pull together with the media AND police, it is little short of staggering.

So, we stand proud this week in the knowledge that one of our stories and a reader combined to get a dangerous paedophile banged up for the heinous crimes he had committed.

When we put up the mugshots of the UK’s Most Wanted fugitives in Spain we had no idea we would get a phone call within an hour.

Enter expat hero Danny Reid who not only fingered Matthew Sammon, but he gifted him to us on a plate… and even the police played ball!

Hook, line and sinker, the quickest arrest of a felon in Crimestoppers 10 year history here.

Coincidentally, this is not the first time we have tracked down and snared one of Britain’s most wanted.

We did it in 2008 with a bank robber Daniel Johnston hiding out in Pruna, near Olvera, and then we did it again two years later with Steven ‘The Pirate’ Pitman.

If you ever wanted to understand the necessity for a healthy, strong press, wherever you are in the world, then this is it.

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THE fourth Gibraltar International Literary Festival was another booming success. The stars of the literary and entertainment world poured onto the Rock for the four-day extravaganza. If you took a stroll up Main Street last weekend there was every chance you might bump into Maureen Lipman, Nicholas Parsons or Louis de Bernieres.

It was a world-class line-up that would have done any literary festival in the UK proud. With sales reportedly up again this year, it’s good for local business too. But the real prize is the gold spun by the raconteurs and writers, sportsmen and celebrities who left audiences with fond memories of experiences shared. And there can be no finer setting in the world for a literary event than Gibraltar’s grand Garrison Library.

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Margallo makes his move

OSE Manuel Garcia Margallo wasn’t hanging around for dessert.

Spain’s acting foreign minister exited his much-vaunted Hotel Guadacorte Park luncheon and headed for his royal-blue Ford limousine.

For the past two hours, he had regaled 250 Campo politicians and businessmen over beef and Navarra red. They had listened to - and occasionally applauded his grand plan for Gibraltar.

The British Territory’s Chief Minister, Fabian Picardo, and some 100 Gibraltarian politicos and organisations who were also sent invitations to lunch had declined.

They would have choked on it.

Now it was time for the PP minister to return to Madrid … and one last question.

“Mr Margallo, why are you persisting with a plan that so clearly won’t have the consent of the UK government or the GibralGibraltarian politicians were tarian people?” I asked the departing figure as a phalanx of officials ushered me conspicuous by their absence as their aside. public enemy number one travelled “Joint sovereignty will come with the consent of the Gibraltarian people,” he anto Algeciras to outline his joint swered.

“But they aren’t going to give their consovereignty plans for the Rock. Joe sent?”, I suggested.

Duggan was there “I think that will come,” he replied before disappearing behind a darkened car window. The words carried more than a hint of the same. the UK leaving means Gibraltar has to of menace.

First up was an Algeciras Town Hall recep- leave too,” he said.

Welcome to the new Margallo. Same as tion, where the city’s mayor - and Margallo “This is going to cause economic commothe old Margallo. supporter - José Ignacio Landaluce warmly tion for ‘the colony’ (sic) and it’s an historGibraltar’s public enemy embraced his fellow PP repre- ic opportunity for the Campo de Gibraltar. number one blew into Alsentative, “We are in new times.” geciras last Tuesday on a Gibraltar’s public Inside the Town Hall’s ornate Margallo went on to speak about wishgust of hard-nosed plans enemy number chamber, Margallo signed the ing to preserve the Rock’s wealth. But, and diplomatic bonhomie. book of honour. Landaluce of course, this is a man who has also exone blew into Fired up by the Brexit Leave pinned the city’s insignia onto pressed a wish to plant Spain’s flag on the vote, this was the day MarMargallo’s lapel. In return, Rock. So when Margallo issues fine words Algeciras last gallo planned to outline his Margallo presented a copy of about having Gibraltar’s best intentions at Tuesday scheme for joint sovereignty his 2015 political book All The heart, Gibraltarians are understandably, over Gibraltar to Andalucia’s Clouds Fly To Spain: Letters sceptical. At best. movers and shakers.

From An Aeroplane.

Margallo’s three-pronged assault on the It was supposed to signal the start of a He was soon outlining his vision of post- Campo de Gibraltar’s political class next more conciliatory approach from the conBrexit, cross-border relations. took him the short drive to the Mancomutroversial politician. In truth, it was more “Nothing is going to be the same because nidad de Municipios, which represents the Campo’s seven municipalities.

The media scrum circling the press conference lectern had a long wait. Inside, Margallo was hammering out his ideas to Campo politicians during his first visit to the area since taking office.

After an hour and 45 minutes, he finally reappeared (although not before passing the lectern on a quick nip out for a loo break - possibly the result of one too many of the lemon drinks he is so fond of).

Finally, he addressed the press corps.

“We are at an historic change,” he announced. “One of those changes that come along very few times in history.

From this moment, nothing is going to be the same.

“It’s the not the same, ‘the colony’ of Gibraltar with the UK in the EU and Gibraltar with the UK outside of the EU. “It’s true that it takes a long time to change mental habits,” he said, a tellingly derogatory phrase used to describe Gibraltarians’ strongly-held allegiance to British nationality. “And yet, in some minds there exists the illusion that because the UK is leaving the EU, the Gibraltar ‘colony’ can maintain the same status it has now, where the citizens of Gibraltar can be BritSAME OLD STORY: Margallo rants over co-soverignty plans

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ish citizens while enjoying the benefits of belonging to the EU. “But that can’t be, and is impossible.”

Margallo went on to describe the four ‘pillars’ of his plan.

“Joint sovereignty between Spain and the UK,” he continued.

“We have to resolve the problem of the Gibraltar military base. Thirdly, Gibraltarians to have joint British and Spanish nationality, a privilege that only they would have.

“Autonomous government as outlined in the Spanish constitution.”

When asked by GBC’s Jonathan Scott what he would do once Gibraltarians rejected his ‘deal’, Margallo was unequivocal.

“There are automatic consequences,” he intoned. “Gibraltar becomes a third party to the European Union. Therefore the frontier becomes an external frontier of the EU. “Gibraltar will be outside the single market.

The four freedoms will cease to apply. That’s exactly what the EU treaty says: it’s not what we say we will do, it’s what will happen.”

I then posed another question. “The UK government has told you very clearly that Gibraltar will stay British,” I say to him. “Why do you think they are going to change their position now?”

“The jurisprudence of the court of European justice says Gibraltar is a colony that doesn’t form part of the UK,” a clearly riled Margallo rapped back.

“What we are trying to do is search for a formula that allows Gibraltarians to continue being part of the EU without losing their idiosyncrasies.”

‘Idiosyncrasies’. Another carefully chosen, derisory word?

Over lunch at Guadacorte Park, Margallo af-

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fected statesmanlike pomp, quoting Churchill and welcoming the gathered throng.

But the mask slipped as he took a series of questions submitted in writing by the lunch guests. Among them, was one on the Gibraltar national football team.

“We have done everything to stop Gibraltar having a national team, and every time they play we do everything to ensure it has the least impact possible,” he said, before shrugging his shoulders and flashing a smile at the audience, many of them applauding.

Football will always bring out a crowd’s partisan nature. But what Margallo has outlined is deadly serious. And it has to be asked if UK politicians - and the British electorate - really appreciate the gravity of what Margallo is proposing for Gibraltar.

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Prime time talks BRITISH Prime Minister Theresa May’s visit to Spain was as eagerly anticipated in Gibraltar as it was in Spain.

Gibraltar - and foreign minister Margallo’s obsession with joint sovereignty - was expected to feature heavily in the talks with Spanish PM Mariano Rajoy.

But depending on who you believe, it either didn’t come up, or didn’t work out the way May would have wanted.

While Spanish right-wing paper ABC claimed Rajoy stuck the boot in over Gibraltar, a spokesman for No.10 told the Olive Press that Gibraltar’s sovereignty was not discussed.

According to ABC, Rajoy told May that Gibraltar must abandon the single market if Britain exits the EU and that Spain ‘would not accept different conditions for Gibraltar’ once Britain leaves the EU. However, a Downing Street spokesperson told the Olive Press: “Gibraltar was brought up, but it was not a substantive part of the discussion.”

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Brit in dock over attempted murder MYSTERY surrounds the identity of a British expat on trial for attempting to murder his flatmate with a club 24 years ago.

Cadiz prosecutors are calling for the unnamed suspect to be jailed for 15 years following the incident, which left the British victim - named only as M.S.P - losing 80% of his IQ. The suspect is said to have

24 years after attacking his flatmate with a club, brutal British attacker is in the dock

and was left suffering seizures, speech impairment and difficulty in moving.

It is believed the suspect fled to Gibraltar following the incident before being arrested in Spain last year.

Prosecutors are demanding a 14 year sentence for attempted murder as well as a €275,000 compensation package for the victim.

beaten his flatmate around the head while he lay on the sofa of his flat in La Linea, leaving him ‘close to death’ according to prosecutors.

M.S.P spent 170 days in hospital following the incident

Watery grave A TRACTOR has been dumped in the sea off the shore of San Roque.

Police are searching for a group of men who were seen fleeing the scene after dragging the tractor into the sea.

Eyewitnesses claim the group drove the tractor to the shore before towing it into the water via a small boat.

After the vehicle was partly submerged they cut the rope and fled the scene.

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ENVIRONMENTALISTS have slammed Algeciras Town Hall for failing to deal with fly-tipping in the area.

Green group Verdemar-Ecologistas en Acción has denounced the town hall for environmental crimes.

The specific complaint relates to a rising amount of rubbish dumped outside the Algeciras CF football stadium.

“We do not understand how you can reach these extremes of incivility," a Verdemar spokesperson said.

“We expect an immediate and comprehensive clean up of the area.

“After which, we demand more frequent monitoring of popular fly-tipping areas.”

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THE joint sovereignty Spain’s acting foreign plans of eignty over Gibraltar. minister It comes are an ‘unhealthy obsession’, after , Margallo claimed border. the that Brexit would Picardo said: "It's time government has said. represent the saw that we a more best opportunity since Jose Manuel Garcia-Margall the 1713 the Spanishmature approach from slammed by Chief Minister o was Treaty of Utrecht for Spain to re- “This fancifulForeign Ministry.

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GREENLAND: A model

for EU deal? come to be called a ‘reverse Greenland’ – Practical England out and Northern difficulties of a reverse and Gibraltar in. After all Ireland, Scotland No doubt, although Northern Greenland? they have always braltar Ireland and Gibeen different jurisdictions with distinct land by are separated from the British mainlegal systems and the EU bodies of water as is Greenland from a legal construct. (Wales is nothing if not the rest of Denmark. may be a differ- Political ent matter since it has effectively issues been the land signal too; would a reverse Greensame legal jurisdiction the break-up of the United as England since Kingdom?

1536).

The 1982 referendum does not appear to have weakened Moreover, Gibraltar shows sible for the UK ‘member how it is pos- (‘Danskhed’) of Greenlandthe Danishness different regulation within state’ to have a Spain among others recoil but certainly the at Gibraltar has been part EU; although allowing for the creation of a the idea of of the EC since Catalunya precedent for 1973 and post the Maastricht and Treaty from Spain. the Basque country seceding in 1992, part of the EU, it has always Holyrood been outside the customs and No 10 Convent Place have VAT area and is exemptedunion and gone a wee bit quiet on the reverse GreenCommon Agricultural Policy. from the land option since July so maybe it has been Similar ex- discounted. amples can be found in Indeed, the latest the Agreement of which the Schengen Sturgeon is that she is looking from Nicola to influence UK and Ire- the Government land never ratified and of in London for what she has the single currency of course termed a ‘soft exit’ – time will tell. which Next issue: “Does several countries opted out.

Brexit need Parliamentary approval?”

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EU referenPoliticians on both sides liament's second debatinggave their thoughts on Brexit in parpower to change the law. chamber, which does not have the David Lammy from the Labour Party said the public had been "lied to" during the referendum campaign and that a second vote on the Brexit deal was the only way out of a "constitutional criTHE US has promised sis". that Brexit will not He added that the affect its close military meaning of Brexit alliance with the UK. was unclear, as were the US terms whereby Defence Secretary Britain would have Ash Carter said President access to the EuroBarack Obama will continpean single market. ue to count on a strong UK John Penrose, a to be a staunch ally.

Conservative Party “That was true the day belawmaker who opfore the Brexit vote posed the motion and it’s true today,” he said: "Brexit must Speaking alongsideadded. mean Brexit and it Carter ahead of an international is up to every redpeacekeeping summit blooded democrat, in London, the UK no matter which Defence Secretary Michael side they were on confirmed that the Fallon before the result was deploy F-35 fighter US will known, to accept the on board the Royal planes clear electoral vernew aircraft carrierNavy's dict and to pull toHMS gether to deliver it as Queen Elizabeth when it best we can." comes into operation Theresa May main2021 - while UK planes in are tains that ‘Brexit expected to do the same means Brexit’ and on US vessels ‘in the fullthat there will not ness of time’. be a second referendum.

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In a powerful address, Picardo savaged Jose Manuel GarciaMargallo’s ‘defamatory and obsessive’ stance to Spain.

Attacking Spain’s refusal to have its claim over the Rock tested at the International Court of Justice, Picardo laid in to the PP’s acting foreign minister.

“Why has the Spanish government chosen to continue Franco’s policy of political defamation and economic sabotage instead of testing its case in FIRM: Picardo the International Court?” said Picardo.

Spanish sovereignty, in return “Margallo has insisted that he for preserving Gibraltar’s links believes the Gibraltarians can with the EU. be blackmailed into accepting “He has written to EU foreign

On track to unity

Gibraltar leader Picardo shoots down Spain’s offer of joint sovereignty

ministers making his medieval case for the transfer of our sovereignty over our heads.

“When it comes to the question of whether we will transfer all or any part of our sovereignty to Spain our answer will never change. It is: “NO WAY, JOSE!” Picardo also offered trilateral talks between Gibraltar, the UK and Spain.

“Spain and Gibraltar could once again be cooperating in the Trilateral Forum as good neighbours to address the presentday challenges we face,” he said.

“We could once again be acting together to maximise the economic and labour opportunities on both sides of the frontier.”

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THERESA MAY has called on Britain to ‘seize the day’ as the UK prepares to invoke article 50 and withdraw from the EU. Speaking at the Conservative party conference in Birmingham, the Prime Minister labelled Brexit a once-in-a-generation moment to ‘reshape our nation once again’.

She said Britain had been handed the ‘rare chance to write a new future upon the page’ as the Government ends Brussels’ rule and begins to ‘bring power home’.

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“As the Brexit negotiations evolve, our legal team keep abreast of all the will latest developments are once again facing relating of losing their jobs in the prospect to events occurring in the these veiled threats. Gibraltar by Spanish territory and those to which Spanish legislation “History will be a stern judge of is applicable,” a spokesman Mr Margallo's record as the un- said. “Should you require diplomatic head of Spanish an diplo- immediate legal consultamacy." tion, which due to the gravity A GSD spokesperson claimed of the matter in hand cannot Margalo had ‘lost grip on reality’. wait, we offer a 24-hour legal advice service.

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HE poet William Blake was England, not Greenland, extolling when he wrote of a ‘green and pleasant land’.

But I plan to look at both in the context of the Brexit referendum, as well as Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Gibraltar.

Firstly, why is Greenland been part of the Kingdom relevant? It has of Denmark since 1397. Of course the Danish kingdom that joined the European Community in 1973 included this huge icy territory but in a referendum in 1982 the Greenlanders voted to withdraw from the EC, so part of the Danish realm is in what is now known as the EU and the larger part is outside.

Thus the question asked by some since June 23 is why should similar provision not be made for the United Kingdom with England exiting from the European Union and the countries sometimes referred to as the ‘Celtic Fringe’ and Gibraltar which voted to remain, remaining?

It was certainly an idea which land’s First Minister Nicola ScotSturgeon and Gibraltar’s Chief Minister Fabian Picardo discussed when they spoke as early as June 27 and again since.

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A LULL in enthusiasm for the EU after Brexit has inspired the bloc to consider free InterRail tickets for youngsters.

The plan is to grant a free continental rail pass for every EU citizen on their 18th birthday, in hopes it will rekindle appreciation for the bloc and counter the rising nationalism in Europe.

InterRail tickets are typically month-long passes that allow for young people to travel across Europe at will.

“People all around Europe must get to know and learn to cherish each other. Our wish is that as many youngsters as possible get to know other countries and make new friends,” said Manfred Weber, an ally of German chancellor Angela Merkel.

He added that it would not be easy and would require cooperation with rail operators.

The commission is looking into the cost and potential funding sources.

The usual cost for a ticket is €479 for a full month, but with some five million Europeans turning 18 each year, the drain on rail systems could be colossal, meaning a lottery system might be more realistic.

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Some of the enquiries have related to legal advice unconnected to Brexit which I and other members of my team have been delighted to answer. However the bulk of the interest has been to do with implications of Brexit for Gibraltarians and other British citizens residing in Spain.

Brexit is very much terra incognita but there is a great deal of information out there which should allow one to predict likely outcomes.

As I said in a talk in Rabat, Morocco last week, the economic data does not support the doomsday scenario painted by many people who voted to remain.

On the one hand the UK economy continues to present itself as much more solid than those of its European neighbours. So much so, that in late September the Organization for European Cooperation and Development (OECD) which continues to prescribe austerity for most other countries in the EU recommended an increase in British public spending. This is not a turn of events which can be ignored.

Internally, the Office of National Statistics reports that the impact of Brexit on consumer confidence has been ‘negligible’.

On the other side of the fence, prognoses for the rest of the EU appear to be less bright.

Ex-Greek Finance Minister Yannis Varoufakis says that the EU is ‘disintegrating’ because it is ‘badly constructed’ and has failed in terms of the banking union, the economy, public debt and migration.

Varoufakis highlights the failure of European leaders to recognize that there is a crisis. Of course, the ways of the ostrich (think head and sand) are always a precursor for disaster but I

for one stop short of his conclusion that the collapse of the EU will be as "quick and painful" as it was in Greece.

So, is the EU really in a position to face down the UK? For ‘EU’ many read ‘Germany’ and the powerful Frau Merkel in particular. Will Germany support Mr. Hollande's and Mr. Juncker's threats to make Brexit as painful to the UK as possible?

The figures suggest otherwise. The UK accounts for 20.5% of Germany's entire trade surplus (€51bn). This at a time when Germany's losses in loan interest to the European Central Bank are said to amount to €125bn and the costs of its immigration policy have been estimated as €400bn from 2016-2036.

Logic dictates that Germany will want to protect its trading advantage and one does not need to be a Nigel Farage to conclude this.

Closer to home, the Spanish economy continues to be fragile. Despite recent improvements, the unemployment rate of 21.4% (2015) is a whopping twice the size of that of Turkey.

One of Spain's traditional major industries is, of course, tourism and long-term visitors to the country. Would Madrid want to prejudice this?

Recent reports from the Gibraltar Chamber of Commerce and organizations in nearby parts of Spain have suggested that the Gibraltarian economy accounts for up to 25% of activity in the Campo de Gibraltar. Would Madrid want to prejudice this?

We live in strange times. Politicians in many countries appear to have become detached from the realities on the ground but, wherever one looks the hard facts tend to show that it is in everybody's interest to ensure that Brexit is carried out in an orderly fashion and in a spirit of continuing cooperation.

What do you think?

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LORD Ashdown’s new history book contains a passage set in Gibraltar, he revealed to a packed Gibunco Gibraltar Literary Festival crowd.

The Lib Dem peer’s The Game of Spies:Download The Secret Agent, our app now the and LOUIS de Bernieres’ new Traitor and the Nazi isthe a meticubegin enjoying best Spanishnovel is partly inspired by lously researched tale of wartime Gibraltar, he has revealed. newsand on the go. skulduggery derring-do.

The book features a British SEO The author of worldwide secret agent who escapes a Span- smash Captain Corelli’s ish concentration camp to cross Mandolin visited the Githe Gibraltar border, a French- braltar Museum to buy man who betrays him and a ge- ‘two very nice collections of photos and a military book’ stapo officer.

Ashdown told the Convent au- as part of his research. dience he was planning to carry Speaking at his sell-out out more The researchOlive on the book’s PressGarrison Library talk, de real-life characters while in Gi- Bernieres said Dr Ianbraltar. nis from Captain Corelli’s TOP for news in Spain!

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“This couple are sailing back from Ceylon and stop here in Gibraltar for a couple of days,” he said.

“I have been walking the streets of Gibraltar trying to work out what it was like in the 1920s.”

During an entertaining talk, de Bernieres said ‘it

was a bit of a shock’ seeing the film of his most famous book.

“I didn’t think Nicolas Cage was Captain Corelli,” he said. “But the whole thing was worth it to meet Penelope Cruz. Nic was locked in his caravan being miserMandolin would appear in able.” his new book as the doctor He also revealed he dated on a boat stopping at the WRITER: De Bernieres a ‘violent, French lesbian’ during his University of Manchester TWO artists from the Royal Academy of Edinburgh-based Rae’s painting and days, leaving Art have donated three of their works to printmaking has been on display at one party bethe Ministry of Culture.

Mexico’s Franz Meyer Museum as well cause ‘she had Barbara Rae and Anne Desmet made as the Royal Academy of Arts. been snogthe donation after their paintings were Desmet, a former editor of Printmakging musiexhibited at this summer’s Lines & Co- ing Today, has won over 30 internacian and poet lours exhibition at Gustavo Bacarisas tional awards for her wood engravings, John Cooper Galleries. linocuts and mixed media collages.

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Short and sweet Art-felt donations for ministry THE Gibraltar Museum has won an award at the Twickenham Alive Film Festival.

The five-minute film was submitted after Gorham’s Cave was made an official UNESCO World Heritage site in July.

A Gibraltar Museum spokesman praised director/ producer Eugenio Robles.

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IBRALTAR Museum’s scientist Geraldine Finlayson stops at a painting of the SS Utopia.The passenger ship sunk off Gibraltar en route to New York in 1891. Its Italian immigrant passengers were dreaming of a new life. Instead, 90% of them perished in just 10 metres of water.

“In Gibraltar when we want so say something was a long time ago, we say, ‘That’s from the time of The Utopia,” she says.

“It was so close to land people could hear the screams.”

Every piece in the museum is suffused with such extraordinary detail. Stories and characters swirl around this old military building, and Geraldine effortlessly summons them to life as she guides me round.

The Rock’s multi-layered history incorporates Neanderthals, Romans, Moors, Spanish and British.

And its two oldest inhabitants, Nana and Flint, are the first you meet.

“We know that they spoke, although what they said we don’t know,” says Geraldine of the muse-

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um’s two Neanderthals, who date back 60,000 years.

If they could speak to us, Nana and Flint would have some terrifying tales. In their day, Leopards, rhinos, wolves, hyenas and wild boars stalked Gibraltar. No wonder Nana and Flint stuck to the caves.

In the museum courtyard, excavations have unearthed water conduits from medieval and Moorish times as well as one sabotaged by the British military in the early 1700s.

“We found somebody had gone to great lengths to poison the water,” says Finlayson. “We found a dead dog in there to poison the water for their

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“But the fact that all these water conduits are here tells us that something about this part of town collects water.”

(Indeed, the museum hopes to cure its own rising damp problem by using one of the 200-year-old drainage systems it has uncovered.)

In 1930, the museum’s founder, General Sir Alexander Godley, called for donations from Gibraltar’s population. Many are incredible. Two Egyptian mummies washed up from a sunken ship.

Trophies from the Royal Calpe fox hunt. A Maltese horse carriage used by Gibraltar’s Martinez family until the 1970s.

“There was only one horse in Gibraltar and it belonged to the owner of this carriage,” says Finlayson.

“It was used as a taxi and to ferry newly-weds down Main Street.

“There is a link with the museum and the Gibraltar people because of these donations. That’s very special for a community museum.”

Other discoveries have come from the museum’s own work, which includes dives around the Rock.

A size-five shoe sole from 1820 was plucked from the Seven Sisters muck just off Gibraltar’s dry dock. Its owner’s footprint, and the sole’s waxed thread, are still visible in the leather.

But the booming construction around the Rock has also unearthed hidden delights.

“Whenever there is any type of construction in Gibraltar the museum is consulted to see if there needs to be an archaeological brief,” says Geraldine.

Even the building, on Bomb House Lane, holds clues to Gibraltar’s past. The fireplace carries the insignia of the British Army’s Principal Ordinance Officer (the man in charge of Gibraltar’s entire ammunition supply) who lived there.

The museum’s Moorish Baths bear the scars of a shell that exploded during one of the 18th century sieges.

The baths, built around the 14th century, were once the personal domain of Gibraltar’s king.

“Apart from the Alhambra there is nothing in Spain to compare with the site,” said James Ed-

ward Budget Meakin, an expert on Moorish history, in 1906.

Details are everywhere, from thimble-sized Moorish whistles to Roman ship anchors made out of lead.

Royal Engineer Charles Warren painstakingly recreated every road, building and window on the Rock when he crafted the museum’s eight-metre scale model of Gibraltar in 1865. (Interestingly,Warren later resigned as Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police after failing to crack the Jack the Ripper case).

“This is a wonderful place to work,” says Finlayson. “Even the building is steeped in history.

“Wherever you dig in Gibraltar you find something. There is another city underneath us.” y l Da na l tio ecia Na sp

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Ronda, however, is one of those places.

Celebrating a recent promotion with friends in quintessential bar El Porton, an olé away from Spain’s oldest bullring - Spanish Legionnaire Carlos Velo is eager to include me in the party.

After introducing me to the town’s signature tapa - jamon and quail eggs - Carlos (above) regales me with tales from tours to Iraq, Afghanistan and Bosnia before explaining why Ronda is the ‘best place in the world’.

“I have been all over the world and seen many things,” he says, taking a swig from his cana and pushing his glasses back into his face. “But Ronda is the best place I have ever been to.”

Originally from Madrid, Carlos moved to Ronda some 35 years ago when he joined the Spanish Legion, which has one of its two national bases here, counting on around 800 legionnaires at present.

“The quality of life in Ronda is like nowhere else in Spain. I can live like a gentleman here, in Madrid I would just be like everyone else.

“Everything is affordable, if you like you can spend the day going from tapas bar to tapas bar and you will still have change in your pocket.

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around Ronda are spectacular. I used to walk for hours on end around the Serrania. Nowadays I leave the walking to the youngsters.”

Visitors are drawn to Ronda for its iconic El Tajo gorge alone, a fearsome crevasse plummeting 120 metres down to the river from the Puente Nuevo bridge above.

This 18th century causeway, which took 42 years to build, connects the sleepy historic Old Town to the bustling new town which is always jam- DREAM WEAVER: Ronda artisan packed with scores of tourists skipping between bars, restaurants and top retailers such as Frik- happy to see the influx of tourists, as British exing and Zara. pats Elaine and Malcolm Moore tell me.

Once described as a ‘cono moment’ by celebrity “Ronda is one of these places where everyone is chef Jean Christophe, the gorge has had more welcome,” says Londoner Elaine. pairs of eyes on it this year than ever before after “We moved here 16 years ago after nearly 20 a bumper tourist season. years on the coast and we have loved every day.

One hotel manager, Jaime Coro“In fact, we wish we had moved nel, tells me that he has been here sooner.” full every day this summer.

She adds: “It is great to see so “Summer no longer lasts for July many people here at the moRonda retains the and August, this year the summent. It has given the bars a charm that enticed mer season has been going since new lease of life. the likes of Ernest April and it is still going now,” he “We go out to live music events Hemingway and says. “Compared to last year we three or four nights a week, the Orson Welles are up 11% and that goes for all town is absolutely buzzing.” the hotels and restaurants here.

But despite the tourist invaRonda is booming.” sion, Ronda retains the charm It’s the same story at the stunthat enticed the likes of Ernest ning Al Lago hotel and restaurant in nearby Za- Hemingway and Orson Welles and inspired a hara de la Sierra where owner Stef tells me that whole library of literary figures, including James he has been overrun with bookings this year.

Joyce and German poet Rainer Maria Rilke.

Rightly named one of the top outdoor terraces by More recently, US first lady Michelle Obama and Dining Secrets of Andalucia, Al Lago is still bus- ex-Prime Minister David Cameron have toured tling with guests in October as the rush to Ronda Ronda’s sights. spills out beyond its historic centre.

Even Bill Gates came on a secret visit two years But it is not just the hospitality industry that is ago and Madonna infamously shot her music

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Arriadh Hotel is situated in the beautiful ‘Serranía de Ronda’, just a 10 minute drive from Ronda’s city centre. The village Arriate, undiscovered by mass tourism, is within walking distance and offers a wide variety of restaurants and tapas bars.

Arriadh Hotel is the perfect ‘home away from home’ to rediscover Ronda and the area.

Or just to relax and take in the breath taking views and sunsets from one of the terraces, the garden, the swimming pool or your own balcony. If you want to stay in, don’t worry. Your hosts John and Wilbert always have a variety of tapas available and on request they will prepare a lovely dinner.

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video, Take a Bow, in the bullring on a windy, wet November day in 1994.

The plaza de toros is on everyone’s agenda - a distinguished classical building that was home to Spain’s first corrida some 231 years ago.

Outside, a statue of local lad Pedro Romero (born 1754) stands in welcome.

Dubbed the ‘father of the corrida’ for introducing bullfighting on foot and the matador’s balletic style, he killed over 5,000 bulls and passed his skills down the line. The Romero family has provided Spain with over three generations of bullfighters.

September’s annual Goyesca bullfight in 18th century costume pays tribute to Romero and Goya’s matador paintings and is famous the world over. During the festival the bullfighters are led out into the street on the shoulders of their cuadrillas (assistants).

The bullring and its museum showcasing etchings by Goya is one of Ronda’s top 30 sights.

The cathedral-sized 15th century Santa Maria church is another, and you’ll never tire of wandering Ronda’s sepia-toned cobbled streets to discover them.

And when you’ve ticked those boxes, there are three natural parks to explore. Ronda is encircled by the Sierra de las Nieves, the Sierra de Grazalema and the Alcornocales, where you can indulge in rugged outdoor pursuits like hiking, horse riding or a 4x4 romp.

The A-397 up from San Pedro is the quickest route to the City of Dreams, as writer Rilke once christened Ronda. It snakes through rugged ‘cowboy country’ to the vertiginous mountain town which pierces the clouds at 750 metres above sea level – giddy limits that have been an inspiration to so many.

En route, a trip to Juzcar - the white village that was famously painted blue for The Smurfs movie - is well worth a visit.

But to truly appreciate the Serrania de Ronda, a trip up the old road through the Genal Valley is well worth the extra time for the views, as Harley Davidson owners will testify. This is their favourite mountain track for a burn up so keep an eye on those rear-view mirrors.

Every curve and bend reveals another cluster of white-washed houses stacked on top of each other like Lego cubes. Surrounded by verdant green oak trees and glimpses of bright orange cliff face, a patriotic Irishman might say the tricolour had been plastered on the side of Andalucia’s mountains.

My first stop along ‘Ronda’s backstreet’ - and everyone else’s too, as it turns out - is the mountaintop village of Jubrique. On a sunny Sunday afternoon in autumn I am joined by lycra-clad cyclists, bikers in leather and daytrippers by the

Syrian prince Abu’l-Fida (1273-1331) “Elegant and lofty city in which the clouds serve as a turban and its towers as a sword belt”

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The word on the street from some of Ronda’s famous visitors…

Irish novelist and poet James Joyce (1882-1941) “Ronda with the old windows of the houses, the eyes which spy out hidden behind the latticework so that their lover might kiss the iron bars.”

German poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) “The spectacle of this city, sitting on the bulk of two rocks rent asunder by a pickaxe and separated by the narrow, deep gorge of the river, corresponds very well to the image of that city revealed in dreams.”

Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) “It is here, in Ronda, in the delicate penumbra of blindness, a concave silence of patios, leisure of the jasmine and the light sound of water, which summoned up memories of deserts.”

MATADOR: Ronda torero and (right) horse riding coachload as I tuck into my Spanish fish and chips - gambas pil pil and patatas bravas.

Brothers Jaime and Juanmi from Algatocin tell me they have been cycling through the valley almost every weekend for 25 years.

“The valley is so beautiful,” Juanmi says. “The cycle from Ronda to the coast is for riders who appreciate the beauty of the valley.

“Traffic on the road is so quiet that it is ideal for us.”

Five minutes from Jubrique where the valley

American author Orson Welles (1915-1985) “A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.”

meets the Genal river, a scenic walk winding past abandoned mills is accessible from the Venta San Juan, a former Guardia Civil checkpoint during the early Franco era.

Genalguacil takes the prize for most picturesque village in the Genal. Surrounded by pines and oaks, its impressive church proudl y overlooks the valley while an open air art gallery of curious sculptures and murals lining the white-washed streets reveals a pueblo that has gone completely art-mad.

During the first two weeks in August, artists get creative for the festival of Los Encuentros de Arte del Valle del Genal, and their prizewinning works of art go on permanent public display throughout the town.

The best valley views are reserved for the village of Algatocin which offers a 180 degree panorama.

Closer to Ronda, the Roman Castillo de Benadalid - now a cemetery - offers a glimpse into the region’s rich past.

Let the tourists take the high road. They might be in Ronda before you but the back road will show you the real beauty of the Serrania de Ronda.

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Head of gambling resigns from role THE government of Gibraltar is searching for a new head of gambling regulation following the resignation of Phill Brear.

Chamber of Commerce slams ‘thirdrate’ cab service

Going forwards, Brear will be concentrate solely on his role as Gibraltar Gambling Commissioner.

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GIBRALTAR’S maritime sector was well represented at the 2016 Monaco Yacht Show. THE City Taxi Service is Representatives from the perceived as ‘third rate’, the Gibraltar Yachting Business Gibraltar Chamber of ComDevelopment Association merce has claimed.

(GYBDA) and the Gibraltar The chamber also attacked Port Operators Association the lack of taxis at the fron(GPOA) attended the Press event, tier, airport and in town.

The Olive which attracted more than This month, the Gibraltar 30,000 people from Septem- Taxi Association invited the for news in Spain! ber 28TOP to 30. chamber to spend the day More than 125 yachts were with its drivers following an “The first impression to many lic three years ago that the on show, with Gibraltar’s new earlier chamber complaint of our visitors is a third-rate £300,000 of taxpayers’ superyacht berthing facilities about the service. taxi service. money being loaned to the one of the show’s main attrac- A chamber spokesman said: “The GTA assured the pub- GTA to install new metres in tions.

A Capurro Insurance spokesman said: “It was a proud moment for members present when visiting a new build SPAIN’S finance ministry has informed the Eu- nine months. registered in Gibraltar, inropean Commission that it will miss its deficit Brussels had let Portugal and Spain off the sured via Gibraltar, surveyed targets. hook in July when it debated whether or via Gibraltar, structured The country has forecast its deficit to be 3.6% not to impose potentially crippling fines ownership via Gibraltar and of its GDP come the end of 2016, missing the for having a budget deficit of more than represented by an agent from goal of 3.1%.

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Gibraltar. Two of the nine The EC noted the country’s ensuing political It ruled that both were attempting to get crew were actually from Gideadlock, which has seen two inconclusive elec- their deficits under control, and told them braltar as well!” tions inside a year and no government for over to stay on a path of ‘fiscal consolidation’.

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Big leap HOUSE sales were up 20% this summer across Spain compared to the same time last year, according to the National Institute of Statistics (INE).

Hard times MORE than a million Andalucians are living on a monthly income of under €332, with 43% of the population living beneath or on the ‘poverty line’, according to government statistics.

each taxi would ensure that taxis could be despatched efficiently around Gibraltar for the new City Service.

“The government said the new system would be reviewed after three months to see if further changes were necessary.

“The GTA got the money, they got the new metres, but the public did not get the service.”

The chamber also claimed the number of licences granted since 1985 was ‘virtually static’ despite the huge increase in visitors to the Rock.

Top of the class BUSINESS schools in Spain have been named the best for entrepreneurs.

Research by the Financial Times found that Spain had the highest proportion of students who set up their own company following graduation.

With 26% of its business school students creating their own company, the country surpassed the US and UK, with 19% and 24% respectively.

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WO court rulings have each confirmed that real estate agents should serve a minimum of two years in prison for defrauding both buyers and sellers. The punishment meted out to these professionals relates to the dishonest - albeit not common - habit of structur- that the real estate agent bought and then ing their commission payment on the dif- sold the property, at a profit, on grounds ference between what the buyer pays and that it is improper conduct for real estate what the seller receives…without telling brokers to act in such a manner, in addition to concealing the true nature of the deal to either party what these figures were.

The Courts, on finding the estate agents its customers. guilty on counts of criminal fraud, conclud- • The Court does not accept that both buyer and seller were satisfied at the time with ed the following: the terms of the agreed trans• Both buyer and seller were action: they probably were as unaware of the real terms of The dual they did not know otherwise, the deal, having the estate agent effectively obtain the agreements are owing to the disinformation and deception devised by the consent of both parties on different prices to those recipro- not a reflection of agent. cally agreed with either party, the real facts in • There is an aggravating circumstance in that the real causing loss to both. this case estate agent, operating via an • The dual agreements are not establishment opened to the a reflection of the real facts, the price for the buyer and the vendor are public, added further credibility to their acdifferent and the ‘agreed commission’ is tions and facilitated the removal of objections by buyer and seller. not real, as it was jacked up.

• The ‘buyer’s price’ was not the lowest he Similar behaviours to those described are could get away with and the ‘seller’s price’ known to have happened in the Costa del was not the highest the property could Sol but the likelihood of them resurfacachieve, owing to an artificial and fabri- ing, considering that approximately 95% of all transactions included two real estate cated deal.

• The court refutes the defence allegation agents, is mostly residual.

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Chocolate wars!

CHOCOHOLICS will be stocking their shelves by the boxload as Brexit threatens to spoil their beloved bars.

In a bizarre consequence of leaving the EU, Britain may lose a key ingredient from its chocolate production.

EU rules demand chocolate contains 30% cocoa - compared with only 10% in the US. If Britain leaves the EU, companies such as Cadbury - owned by Americans - would be allowed to lower the amount of cocoa in their production to cut costs.

"As a business that sells products across the EU, we look forward to having clarity on the UK's role within Europe so that we can have certainty and make long term plans for our business," a spokesman for Cadbury said.

Bargain border Gibraltar exports up as Spaniards cross border in search of bargain buys THE falling pound has boosted trade in Gibraltar as Spaniards flock to the Rock in search of bargains.

Chief Minister Fabian Picardo said the favourable exchange rate has seen an influx of Spanish shoppers heading to Gibraltar's stores and supermarkets.

As the pound slumps to a 168year low, bargains are to be had for those paid in euros across the border.

"A devalued pound is good for Gibraltarian exports, so from the point of view of the public finances of Gibraltar we are not doing badly,” Picardo said.

"You'll see there will be a lot of products sold in Gibraltar, we see more Spaniards come into Gibraltar to buy things.

"I tend to go shopping with my family on a Saturday afternoon to the local supermarkets, and we are seeing a lot of Spanish couples coming in to buy curios in Gibraltar they might otherwise not have been interested in purchasing. Their euros go much further.”

Among popular products flying off the shelves are tomato ketchup, Marmite and other British goods that still sell at a costly price in Spain.

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BRITISH Prime Minister Theresa May’s visit to Spain was as eagerly anticipated in Gibraltar as it was in Spain.

Gibraltar - and foreign minister Margallo’s obsession with joint sovereignty - was expected to feature heavily in the talks with Spanish PM Mariano Rajoy.

But depending on who you believe, it either didn’t come up, or didn’t work out the way May would have wanted.

While Spanish right-wing paper ABC claimed Rajoy stuck the boot in over Gibraltar, a spokesman for No.10 told the Olive Press that Gibraltar’s sovereignty was not discussed.

According to ABC, Rajoy told May that Gibraltar must abandon the single market if Britain exits the EU and that Spain ‘would not accept different conditions for Gibraltar’ once Britain leaves the EU.

Brief By Charles Gomez

Can rights of 64 million UK citizens disappear?

So what of European ‘citizenship’?

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n my column on October 1 2016 I wrote about the British Government’s power to use the ancient Royal Prerogative to push BREXIT through, regardless of Parliament (you can read the article online).

This week the UK's Attorney General, Jeremy Wright Q.C. told the London High Court hearing the legal challenge over Theresa May’s right to trigger article 50 that the Royal Prerogative is suitable for giving notice of the UK’s secession from the EU. The case has been brought by a number of claimants led by Gina Miller, a London-based investment manager for the firm SCM Private. Crowds of Brexit and Bremain supporters have demonstrated daily outside the court in a sign of huge public interest.

As the case proceeds, I think that it will be held that the Prime Minister can use the Royal Prerogative to side-step Parliament, but that this will only be the tip of an iceberg of complicated legal issues which will have to be determined initially by the special threejudge High Court bench currently hearing the claim.

It is my understanding that because of the urgency of the case, any appeal may go straight to the Supreme Court in London, avoiding the Court of Appeal, which is normally the next tier in the English Court hierarchy. The hope is that the matter will be finally decided by the Supreme Court before Christmas (very much in the same way as in 1914 it was thought that the war would end before that holiday).

The Supreme Court (which replaced the ‘House of Lords’ in October 2009) is the highest domestic court, not just for England, but for the whole of the United Kingdom.

So, what other legal issues, apart from the use of the Prerogative, will tax the top judges of the Kingdom?

So far, most of the focus, post-23rd of June 2016 has been on the rights and obligations as between the Member States of the European Union – the UK and 27 others.

However, as the litigation proceeds, I envisage that attention will turn to individual civil rights. As a matter of English, Scottish, Northern Irish and Gibraltarian laws, have the citizens of the United Kingdom

and Gibraltar acquired “legitimate expectations” arising from UK membership which, it would be wrong in law for the executive government in Whitehall to do away with?

For example, is the UK Government able to withdraw from its citizens the rights of free movement throughout the EU that they have grown to expect?

Are constitutionally protected private rights engaged by the Article 50 trigger?

Expectations often create enforceable legal rights.

Moreover the matter goes further than mere expectation because Article 20 (1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union states that: "Citizenship of the Union is hereby established. Every person holding the nationality of a Member State shall be a citizen of the Union. Citizenship of the Union shall be additional to and not replace national citizenship."

Even in Roman times the so called jus soli (the right of a person born in the Empire to citizenship) was remarkably difficult to eliminate. In our time it remains difficult to withdraw citizenship even from recently naturalized convicted terrorists.

Can the individual rights of 64 million UK citizens be made to disappear at the stroke of a pen?

To complicate matters even further, the European Court of Justice retains jurisdiction in relation to matters pertaining to the rights of citizens of the EU that would of course include an attempt at removing those rights. There is a school of thought that the European Court of Human Rights might also have jurisdiction. Thus, all is set for the mother of all legal cases and we could end up with a Brexitier's nightmare of the final legal decision being made in... Luxembourg!

In an earlier piece still, I said that the only certain thing is uncertainty, and I think that by the end of the year the issues under judicial as well as political scrutiny are going to be very different indeed to the ones that everyone has been talking about and giving confident analysis on over the last few months.

Readers of the Olive Press are invited to discuss this or any other legal matter with Charles Gomez by emailing charles@gomezco.gi

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cially opened by Chief Minister FaA PARADOR inside a 12th cenbian Picardo. tury Spanish castle has been During the ceremony, Gibraltar’s declared illegal. new bishop Carmel Zammit blessed The High Court has annulled permission to use the El Casfirst the Rock’s first independent tillo de Monterrei in Xustiza as co-educational school. a luxuryThe hotel. Olive Press The former Sacred Heart site has It comes after an 18 month legal undergone extensive renovations wrangling following TOP for newsprotests in Spain!before opening its doors for the against the original building first intake of 60 pupils in Septempermit granted in May 2014. ber.

Those opposed to the plans, “I believe passionately in state educlaimed that the original percation, but I also believe passionmission gave to developers ately in choice,” said Picardo would ‘destroy an important part of history’.

The ruling found that the original permission granted by the Monterrei Town Hall had exceeded building regulations and planning laws.

The medieval castle belonged to the House of Alba and is one of the best preserved in Galicia.

The town hall wanted to transform the castle to boost dwindling tourism figures in the area.

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AVE sympathy for those on a fixed sterling income, whether they be pensioners or working, because their real income in Spain has dropped by more than 17% since the Brexit vote or even a little before. For pensioners, who have saved for a relaxed retirement in the sun, they at least probably won’t have a mortgage to pay, but there will be health bills or private policies and other fixed costs.

And what if you work in Gibraltar? Your income has dropped by the same amount with no compensation. If you are still working, have a mortgage, family and other fixed costs, good grief, what’s happened to your quality of life? OK sunshine is nice, but you cannot live on that alone.

At least if you sell here you’ll get more pounds to buy over there, but the costs of sale and purchase are high so you could end up losing money. And house prices in the UK, good grief again, they’ve risen on average 8.4% in the last year, with a valuer friend claiming that in the Bromley area of London some had risen by 60%! The economists are all pleased to see inflation rising in UK, but that whittles down fixed income fast. It’s inevitable given the amount of quantitative easing/ money printing that’s been going on. The rise now was principally due to increases in energy prices, which will affect everything else. There’s talk of interest rates rising too, which again will raise costs, especially because a very small increase can double payments based upon it.

The ‘Marmagedon’ scare (No marmite because Tesco wasn’t prepared to accept the supplier’s proposed price increase), which was due to the fall in value of the pound meaning that importers had to pay more for it, was only the start. Prices for all imports are bound to rise in the UK, which will stoke up inflation even more.

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IN COME THE BIG BUCKS! A HUGE US property fund is splashing €45 million on three new Costa del Sol developments.

The American bosses Real Capital Solutions behind have snapped up sizeable plots in Estepona, Mijas and Benahavis and continue to look at further opportunities along the coast.

The company, based in Marbella since 2013, already has five other developments, including The Retreat, in Elviria.

“We have spent around lion here so far and have€86 mila fund of €100 million to spend,” plained Managing Partner exWells, based in Colorado. Peter “We are one of the largest opers on the Costa del develSol and our emphasis is on distressed properties.”

He added: “Also we do transparently and always things try and deliver on price and quality.”

The company - which made hundreds of millions buying ing distressed propertiesand sellUS - has 16 staff working in the its office at Centro Plaza. out of Local boss Taylor Cox, added: “The coast is really starting come alive and it’s a pleasure to to live in such a beautiful part of the world.”

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ESTATE agents in Spain lining themselves up for and Gibraltar are the busiest July on record.

It comes as some British buyers put purchases on hold due to referendum on June 23.the forthcoming EU Most agents the Olive Press firmed they had various spoke to con‘paused’ awaiting the result,sales currently despite the British market remaining The majority believe that strong. pected result - to stay in the ex- will lead to the pound Europe strengthening with a red hot summer of sales to follow.

Ben Bateman, at Holmes Sotogrande, described the lead up as a ‘pause forreferendum British buyers’ due to thought for concerns over the weak pound.

“After a remain vote however, we expect to see a strong finish to the den wave of bids from year - and a sudBritish buyers,” he told the Olive Press.

One agent in Gibraltar has gone one step further actually employing July. Savills director Sammy extra staff for Cruz-Armstrong said: “Everything is on but I am convinced we hold due to Brexit, and am taking on extra will stay in Europe with the expected delugestaff in July to deal Benahavis agent Scott of business.”

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tieSpain, meanwhile, described the pause as ‘very psychological’.

He said: “It’s a combination the vote and the exchange of the uncertainty of While many agents have rate right now.” rently on hold, some havea couple of sales cur“We have up to ten sales seen more. til after the referendum,” currently on hold unboss of Castles, in Manilva.said Victor Witkowski, “Buyers are not necessarily they are biding their time pulling out, but to see what happens.”

Fellow Manilva agent, confirmed a slowdown, Shani Hamilton, also predicting a huge influx but added: “We are a decision is made.” of business as soon as

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Respected analyst Mark eign demand for SpanishStucklin insists that forin the first quarter with property was up 16% of foreign buyers at 22%Brits the biggest group “The British still dominateof the market share. property and there is no the foreign market for able decline in demand evidence of a noticeas yet,” he said.

And certainly not everyone One agent, Graham Govier is suffering. of Inland Andalucia has seen ‘no negative impact’ at all during the referendum lead-up.

“In fact it is the opposite. cheap right now and we Prices are extremely are selling two times as many properties as we were He added: “My salesman last year,” he said. a local celebrity - has justPaul - already a bit of enth consecutive sale and completed his sevbecause they can see that people are buying won’t wait around for themthe incredible deals Paul made headlines in forever,” he added. the Olive Press last year when he sold an impressive nine properties in a row.

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Rock’s newest school officially unveiled by Chief Minister “The decision my government took was not to financially support this project but to facilitate it becoming a reality.

“We have already started reviewing the process of co-education and there is a lot of co-education in the fifth and sixth form happening in

the state sector.”

Speaking exclusively to the Olive Press before the official opening, headmaster Peter Watts said he was ‘delighted’ with how the renovations have gone.

“We had to work incredibly hard,” he said. “The contractors knew they had an obligation, as the children’s education depends on it.

“We made it. But once the euphoria died down you realise you still have a school to run!”

Prior Park’s final pupil intake will rise to 240 by 2018.

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THE Environmental Safety Group (ESG) has come out against the new Dolphin Bar Restaurant plans.

The campaigning group insisted plans to demolish the current restaurant and construct a new new restaurants, car parking and swimming pool should be rejected.

The ESG has claimed the building work would spoil the area’s natural beauty.

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A NEW superyacht berth has opened in Spain.

Port Denia, located between Alicante and Valencia on the Costa Blanca, is one of the largest berths in the world at 138 metres.

The new port, providing a short 60km trip from Ibiza and Formentera, has been described as opening a new chapter in Spanish superyachting, helping the country to become a cruising ground in its own right.

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But for the immediate future the fixed income expat is in a hard place. And even the fixed income State pension is at risk, with talk of fiddling with it to reduce the costs to the State.

But hang on, were there not so many promises made over the years that the income one paid in would multiply and be bountifully repaid upon retiral? What’s actually happened is that it’s been like a giant Ponzi scheme, where the money paid in for investment, was actually paid out as ‘return’ to others already in the scheme.

It’s come to the natural end of these schemes where there are insufficient people paying in to cover the ‘return’ payments to those who have paid into the scheme before. ‘Bernie’ Madoff is described as an American fraudster and serving 150 years in prison for running a scheme not much different from the UK’s National Insurance.

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Fever pitch In all seriousness, there is no way European or World Cup qualifiers can be played in Gibraltar until a new pitch and stadium has been built (Far-O and Away, Issue 30). The pitch when Lincoln Red Imps played Celtic was atrocious (just like Celtic).

There is no way a Champions League qualifying game should have been allowed to have been played on that surface.

Scott Duncan, Gibraltar

Word of honour Spain should be made to honour its International Agreements (A Sky-High Squabble, Issue 29). For

Government, its foreign minister signed a deal to lift all bans on Gibraltar Airport.

The EU should make Spain adhere to the deals it signs.

Douglas Saretto, UK

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Bully boys THERE is no relevant or existing dispute other than Spain’s bullying tactics, ignoring the historical fact that they ceded Gibraltar in perpetuity (A Sky-High Squabble, Issue 29). A simple case of entering into a signed agreement to hand Gibraltar over and retaining Ceuta and Melilla forever. Spain is overshadowing its own political crisis of circa 47,000,000 inhabitants by pressing on our country which by comparison is significantly smaller in size, but seemingly a great threat.

What is worse is that the so-called dispute should be used as an excuse by the EU not to eradicate the avia-

The Gibraltar Airport is a Spanish territory not included in the Treaty of Utrecht (A Sky-High Squabble, Issue 29).

Not to mention that it is the most insecure world ‘airport’ with an avenue that goes through it.

British engineers - my God! Pablo Cedron, La Linea

tion rule. This is even more unbelievable.

EU wake up! You are supposedly representing democracy and human values, therefore act upon the rules you boast of and rid yourselves of this farcical behaviour. Do what is right and stop sitting on the fence pretending and just act accordingly. After all, Spain owes the greatest percentage of the EU debt which outweighs any claim over any territories. The EU must act upon this and help the bullied, this is your responsibility, this is what you stand for and this is what you must move on with.

Lizanne, Gibraltar

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Everything’s been ‘Halloweenised’ and Guy Fawkes is pumpkin pie. Not a very good one, either. The Cinderella’s carriagesized calabazas they sell in my local supermarket to turn into lanterns are so woody, my homemade pumpkin soup gave me splinters last year.

Right now, on the Costa, ex-pat Mums and Spanish mamas are knitting/sewing/ welding together ghoul and zombie costumes and sending their kids out to bully the neighbours, quaintly known as trick-or-treating.

Times change. When you’ve watched

the Olympics firework display on wide-screen TV, who wants to shiver around a bonfire in the back garden striking matches at a damp catherine wheel nailed to the garden fence, which is how we always celebrated Guy Fawkes Night, a long time ago.

Most readers will be too young to ‘remember the fifth of November, gunpowder, treason and plot’. Today it’s all about October 31, vampires, witches and fake blood capsules – in America, Europe, Spain and even in Britain itself, where burning a Catholic on a bonfire has become very unPC, even if the guy did try to blow up the king and parliament in a premeditated act of terrorism.

Although there are some who say Guy

ALMOST FORGOTTEN: Guy Fawkes

Fawkes was ‘the last man to enter Parliament with honest intentions’.

That was in 1605.

My kid brother saved his pocket money for weeks to buy firecrackers to let off in the school playground. Today the sale of over-the-counter explosives to under-18s is a crime, letting them off on the lawn is a Health & Safety issue and Social SerThe ups and downs of vices would not be edified to see young children roamworking in radio ing the streets begging, even if it is just for pennies.

Besides, there are so many more merchandising opportunities with Halloween.

We made our guys from old pyjamas stuffed with newspapers, a balloon and grandad’s old Trilby hat, which did nothing for the GDP. Today Americans spend a spooky $7 billion on Halloween costumes and candies while, in the UK, October 31 makes Bonfire Night S you may or may not be aware, I look like a damp squib and have another job as a radio preeven out-retails Valentine’s senter. Radio is your basic job for ON THE DECKS: Giles Brown Day, which says a lot about madmen, as you spend two hours all you guys of the human or more talking to yourself and playing poor South American call centre worker variety. music in a darkened room, haunted by unwittingly gets handed the direct stuthe sneaking suspicion that there could dio number and goes into the standard Spooky sales patter about changing phone be nobody out there listening.

Here in Spain, most of the Mind you, if there is one thing worse provider. Nothing pleases my dark and locals have never heard of than people not ringing in, it’s people twisted soul more than letting them try ‘Ghee Forkeys’, although ringing in. I don’t have the luxury – as and sell me the latest mobile tariff, bethey damned well ought many of the UK national stations do – of fore letting them know that they are on to have, considering he a seven-second delay. The delay means live radio. fought for their country that should a caller say something rude, Mind you, some of the guests can be during the Eighty Years offensive or a combination of the two, equally entertaining. There was the lady War. It was the Spanish the presenter has time to cut off the who brought her own coffee in a zip who taught him how to flask. Halfway through the caller and insert a jingle use explosives in the first interview she unzipped it – most famously in Birplace! and the sound was picked mingham when, in a clasWhy don’t The Spanish didn’t know up by the microphones. The sic piece of live radio, and about Halloween either, you take that phones went mad as everyangry caller was silenced for centuries, although thus microphone and one rang to ask whether my they have their own pubguest had really disrobed “Why don’t you take that lic holiday the day after. stick it right up on air! microphone and stick it November 1st is All Saints And then there was the Caright up your …. BRMB RAyour… BRMB Day, when Spanish faminadian custom bike builder DIO”. lies light candles and leave who let rip with two Prxxks, The general rule of thumb fresh flowers on the graves a couple of Basxxxds and for radio call-ins seems of their loved ones. Novemto be that anyone who wants to call in other assorted language in the first ber 2 is All Soul’s Day, or shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near the 60s seconds before I could get over my the Day of the Dead, not a radio but it does lead to some high oc- shock, hit the advert button and give public holiday in Spain, altane broadcasting moments, as you are him a yellow card. though it is in Mexico. never sure what’s going to happen next. But the best recent call was from an It didn’t take the fiestaSaturday evening shows tend to attract anti-immigration campaigner. “These imloving Spanish long to rethe more, ahem, over-refreshed caller, migrants” he ranted “They come over to alise they could make a who is normally working his way through places like Birmingham, get on benefits three-day puente of it. Behis second carton of vino collapso some- and bring over their family and their elk.” sides, Halloween ghouls where in the campo and wants to hear He meant ilk. But the studio collapsed in and ghosts one day, delaughter at the image of herds of Canaeither Judas Priest or Ozzy. ceased relatives and Friday afternoons are also interesting dian moose wandering around Spaghetti graveyards the next ... it as this tends to be the time that some Junction. kind of works.

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Beher’s bellota ham was crowned best in the world at international food fair IFFA Delicat in 2007, 2010 and 2013.

In all, Beher’s jamon has won 22 gold medals at Frankfurt’s prestigious IFFA awards, with San Roque siblings Rafa, Fran and Cristina running the new Gibraltar branch.

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CAFE Rojo has celebrated its tenth anniversary in style by raising £825 for The Animals in Need Foundation.

The Irish Town restaurant’s owners Annette Heywood and Luis Ansaldo Lopez toasted the occasion by giving diners a free glass of cava with their Mediterraneanstyle meal.

A raffle for the charity raised £825, with one lucky guest, Nick Tyler, winning a £100 meal voucher on the evening.

“It was a lovely night,” said Annette. “We gave out two extra prizes of a bottle of

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Wedding crashers A NEW set of wedding bells will soon be ringing out over Gibraltar.

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“We had a great night. I don’t know how we’ve managed 10 years but it’s awesome to be here.”

Annette presented the cheque to Eugenie Cotterell from the Animals in Need Foundation and Adopt a Rescue Dog Gibraltar group.

She has also sold 19 of her nail varnish paintings already in October to raise money for Animals In Need Foundation.

Annette and Luis are currently putting the finishing touches to their winter menu, with bookings for Christmas already filling up fast.

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In a goalless first half, Anthony Bardon had an effort cleared off the line by Jesus Toscano, with Roldan’s header bringing a smart save from Navas.

The Olive But Walker stepped Press up to curl in his long-range freekick TOP and for burynews his former in Spain! team as Europa boldly signalled their title credentials.

The win leaves Europa top and unbeaten with 12 points after four games and sets up THE International Olympic Committee (IOC) has come a top-of-the-table clash with under heavy fire from Chief Minister Fabian Picardo.

Mons Calpe on Friday night. Fed up with being denied a place in the Olympics, Picardo

Be ashamed!

Fabian Picardo tells the International Olympic Committee it should be ‘ashamed’ for blocking Gibraltar bid said that the IOC should be ‘ashamed of itself’ for repeatedly blocking Gibraltar from fielding its own team.

Blaming Spain for abusing its power to block Gibraltar’s bid, Picardo said that it was ‘time for the IOC to let us into the long jump and told Spain to take a running jump’.

"You can see a pattern developing - whenever an objective, international, fair tribunal is asked to consider Spain's spurious claims to our sovereignty, or her attempts to stop us participating in international bodies, those objective tribunals tell Spain to go and take a running jump,” he said.

"I think the International Olympic Committee should be ashamed of itself for blocking Gibraltar's application to be a member nation.

"Other overseas territories within the United Kingdom are rightly a part of the IOC. "If a fair and objective international tribunal was allowed to determine our original application to join the IOC, it would and could only reach one conclusion.

"This is the same conclusion which the Court of Arbitration reached in respect of our application to join Fifa."

Gibraltar was accepted into FIFA in July and is currently taking part in its first World Cup qualifying tournament.

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Speaking after Bruno’s Magpies’ 1-1 draw with Cannons, Wilson revealed his hopes for promotion to Gibraltar’s top tier.

Wilson said: “It’s brilliant.

I never thought I’d go into the second division and find a team as good as this.

A GIBRALTAR football coach is heading to India to train young- “Coming from a nonleague and professional sters at an academy linked to Arsenal.

Former Bruno’s Magpies manager Joel Richard Williams will background, this is the coach 450-500 children at Sanjay Ghodawat International School. closest club I’ve seen in GiAs football continues to grow in popularity in India, the academy, braltar that has that kind which is affiliated to Indian Super League side Pune City, hopes to of professional structure.

“Loads of volunteers and unearth Asian Premier League stars.

“I love challenges,” Williams told the Olive Press. “It’s going to be fans, the games are viddifferent training kids. As a manager with adult players, I was there eoed. I have really fallen in love with it and I can’t wait to win games - if I had to sub someone I did. for match days.”

“But with kids it’s different. You want them to grow.”

He added: “It’s a big step for me leaving Gibraltar. I’ve left every- Bruno’s are on ten points after four games, with Anthing. But who knows where I could go after this?” gels up next on October 30.

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CHAMPION jockey - and Olive Press fan - Richard Dunwoody said he was more scared of failure than falling from a horse.

The two-time Grand National champion told a Garrison Library audience how he spurred himself on to ride 1,699 winners.

Since retiring as a jockey, Dunwoody has walked across the south and north magnetic north police and travelled to Kabul in his new career as a photographer.

“Whenever I spoke to A.P [McCoy] about this, the one thing that drove him on was the fear of making a mistake and failing,” he said.

“In the National, it wasn’t the fences, it was making sure you were in the right position at the right time. Fear of fail-

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Dunwoody, who used to live in Gaucin, told the Olive Press ‘I had your Gaucin supplement in my house for visitors to look at.”

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Mile high club A GROUP of pilots have labelled Gibraltar airport as one of the hardest to land in in the world in a Telegraph feature on pilots’ secrets.

Clown craze THE RGP is investigating claims that the killer clown craze that has swept the UK and the USA has now arrived in Gibraltar.

Paint live GIBRALTARIAN artist Christian Hook took part in a live painting session of well-known English actor Simon Callow as part of his Chronos art exhibition.

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Pet rescue Hero races into fire to rescue his dog

A HEROIC youth stormed into his family’s burning flat to save the family dog, Nala.

Christian Hewitt, 22, was at home with his parents Albert and Ruth and their two grandchildren when one of the tots accidentally set a bedroom on fire.

The family tried to douse the flames, but fled their fifthfloor Laguna Estate flat when the heat and smoke grew too intense.

Albert, 56, told the Olive Press: “We tried to put out the fire but it was impossible as the whole room was burning. We were inhaling the smoke and it was terrible.

We had to run.

“We forgot to get our dog because of the shock. But

SAFE: Dog and Christian (inset) Christian ran back inside with the flat on fire to save Nala our dog.

“The police and fire brigade couldn’t stop him. I don’t think he should have done it, but he was a real hero.”

A squad of six firemen eventually got the blaze under control, but Albert says the

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flat is now ‘totally black’ and undergoing extensive repairs.

“My 12-year-old son Justin lost everything,” says Albert.

“I have to thank Michael Chrome for buying him new clothes.”

Unite government convenor Albert has been ‘overwhelmed’ by the generosity of Gibraltarians, with the Chief Minister calling him within minutes of the fire.

So far, a Justgiving page has raised more than £2,600 for the family with repair costs, with a charity disco night planned for November 5.

“It's incredible how many hundreds of people have been in touch offering moral support,” he said.

“For me, that's more important than money.”

The family are currently staying in a hotel but hope to be back in the flat in time for Christmas.

Bulls eye... Again!

SPAIN’S famous one-eyed matador has been gored in the face… again!

Five years after losing his left eye in a horrific goring, Juan Jose Padilla has taken another horn to the face in almost identical circumstances.

Incredibly he took the blow in virtually the same spot in the same bullring in Zaragoza.

Going down on his knees, the ‘Pirate’ - as he is nicknamed, because of his eye patch - attempted to dive out of the way as the bull charged towards him.

In an ironic twist of fate, the damage is not too serious… because his eye has already been removed.

The only way is Spanish REALITY TV star Sam Faiers has been criticised for giving her 6-month-old son Spanish lessons.

Probably preparing her boy Paul for the many family trips to ‘Marbs’, the 25-year-old Essex lass said she wanted him to learn the language because of her connection to Spain.

She lived in Marbella from a young age and was fluent as a toddler.

The original TOWIE cast member made the comments during her new reality show The Mummy Diaries, but some viewers blasted the lessons as

‘ridiculous’.

“He can’t even walk yet, it’s stupid!” one said.

Others supported the move, agreeing with experts who have since said that it’s never too early to begin teaching children another language.

Language school Bilinguasing said: “Decades of research suggest that introducing babies to a second language before they are six months helps to shape the brain at its most flexible stage.”