Tonight there have been shots fired off of Gibraltar according to witnesses, although it’s unclear at the moment who fired them or how many. Four Spanish ‘Guardia Civil’ officers have since been detained at Gib Police HQ. It seems that a Guardia Civil launch was chasing a Spanish speedboat within Gibraltar waters. The pursuit […]

“The BNP would hand the key outpost of Gibraltar to Spain in an astonishing betrayal of its 30,000 British citizens. The move would also deprive the UK of a naval base – defended bitterly for more than 300 years – of huge strategic importance. Party leader Nick Griffin, elected as […]

+++ Breaking (Parish) News +++ TheEye remembers how much trouble he got into early this year for commenting on the Miss Gibraltar contest, but hopes that it is safe to say this evening that congratulations are in order to Miss Gibraltar 2009 Kaiane Addorino, who has made history tonight by becoming […]

+++ BREAKING NEWS +++ Well okay, not so much, because it happened four days ago but Breaking because the MoD have only ‘fessed up to the public in a press release late this afternoon. From the BBC with light fisking: The UK has apologised to Spain after the Royal Navy used a buoy […]

Regular readers may recall that members of the Gibraltar Regiment have been proudly serving in Afghanistan from August 2004. However this all came to a grinding halt in February 2009 when some pen-pusher noticed that they were on a different and inferior injury compensation scheme to regular UK troops. Instead […]

There was an odd question raised in the House of Commons yesterday – not odd in itself but odd in the fact that the usual Hansard Kremlinwatchers may not be aware of the background. Firstly, the issue was about misconduct by the judiciary, and in response to a question from Labour’s […]

Nobody can say that MoD planners in Whitehall don’t have a sense of humour when it comes to naming things. When it starts tomorrow, Exercise Macaque Attack will be the first full-squadron size exercise to have taken place at RAF Gibraltar for several years. Six Tornado GR4s of XIII Squadron, […]

The Royal Gibraltar Regiment was on parade yesterday in the Ceremony of the Keys. Centre of the picture is Governor Sir Robert Fulton who inspected the parade; his last ‘Keys’ ceremony before departing in October. TheEye reported at the beginning of the week that, although willing and able to serve […]

Fresh from TheEye twittering congratulations to Lance Corporal Jason Capena being commended for his service when seconded to the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers in Iraq last year, the Daily Express today reports that bureaucrats have banned the Royal Gibraltar Regiment from fighting in ­Afghanistan amid fears its soldiers would not […]

And still it goes on. Readers will recall Spain’s recent successful attempt to claim authority over Gibraltar’s territorial waters under EU environmental protection laws, and their ongoing attempts to assert that authority using armed fast patrol boats. The excuse from Whitehall for accepting the EU directive was that they hadn’t […]