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For many lawyers — and traditionally this has been largely true of Gibraltar's bar fraternity -litigation (or legal work involving possible court appearances, as we laymen see it) is regarded as little more than a stepping stone to other, often more lucrative facets of the legal profession. However interesting and challenging lower court appearances may be, they are often seen as a lowly rung on the ladder of professional advancement "chores on which young lawyers cut their teeth".

But this has not been so for Lewis Baglietto who recently took over from David Dumas QC as head of the litigation division of the Gibral tar international law firm Hassans following the latler's appointment as Queen's Counsel, Baglietto, who has been a partner in the firm for the past decade, will head a team of ten lawyers and will be respon sible for "assessing who will han dle what"(as he puts it)in terms of any business which involves, or may involve,litigation.Dumas,one of the youngest Gibraltar barristers to take silk, will retain his links with the team in a consultative role.

Baglietto, who was called to the bar after studying law at King's College, London, joined Hassans soon afterwards. That was in 1986

fairly mixed practice with appear ances in the magistrates' court and Court of First Instance, and litiga tion became the focus of my legal interest from the start," he says.

"It's a common misconception that litigation is something one should handle only for the first tew years of one's career," he tells me over coffee in the board rcKim of the sleekly modem offices in Gibraltar Heights to which Hassans' litiga tion team expanded last year. "In fact it is a perfectly lite-long career — and justifiably so. Litigation is often more complex and challeng ing than many, if not most, other branches of law, with every day bringing something different to provide new interest and adven ture."

Litigation Is often more complex and challenging than many, if not most, other branches of law

when Hassans had just set up a dedicated litigation department the first local law firm to do so and Baglietto became part of the small three-man team under Dumas' direction.

"I cut my teeth on what was a

By the early 1990s,and as the liti gation department gradually ex panded, Baglietto had become heavily involved in maritime or Admiralty litigation, rapidly forg ing links with London and han dling a substantial number of Ad miralty Court cases and ship arrests — including that of the luxury yacht Flaiolcss which became"prob ably the longest Admiralty Court trial in Gibraltar since that of the Marie Celeste," he recalls.

He also started handling a string of major cases on behalf of the Gi braltar Government — including handling the groundwork on the Spanish pensions case(in which he appeared as junior counsel)— later

Lewis Baglictto, head ofthe litigation division ofinternational laxo firm Hassans acting for the Crown in a number of judicial reviews and other civil cases involving the Crown, so "gaining invaluable experience" as a junior to leading London silks and under his own steam in cases which

lord-tenant disputes, to criminal cases and matrimonial cases and to a handful of admiralty matters," he explains."There was, for example, very little in the way of administra tion law work — that is a compara-

have often ended up before the Courtof Appeal and even the Privy Counsel.

As part of the legal team ted by Michael Llamas, Baglietto also ap peared before the European Court of Human Rights in the Matthews "Eurovote" case.

"Taking over as administrator of the department is a new challenge and an extension of my responsi bilities to the team as a whole, for between us we cover every sphere of litigation in Gibraltar," he says.

And that sphere has expanded dramatically in the past20 years,he reckons.

"Before the border re-opened liti gation was largely confined to land-

tively recent field of litigation. But the opening of the border and the establishment of the finance centre has added a massive international element to the department's work.

"Add to this the increasing im pact of EU laws on our domestic legislation — which,coupled with other factors, has led to more com plex and sophisticated litigation needing specialist attention — and there's a great deal to keep us on our toes."

The burgeoning of this workload and the expansion of a young team to handle it, prompted the move last year of the entire litigation de partment to the modern offices in Gibraltar Heights.

"It's a common misconception that litigation is something one should handle only for the first few years of one's career"

FROM HUMBLE BEGINNINGS TO 2 MILLION PASSENGERS

Even a quick mental flip through the history of Gibraltar's mercantile community reveals a remarkable string of success stories... often linked to the entrepreneurial skills by which local businessmen have turned adversity to their advantage.

And though many of the early trading firms — built in the 18th and 19th centuries on a platform of serving the garrison's needs then expanding into Spain and Morocco — had British roots, more often than not their full development and real growth were spurred by immi grants from other parts ofEurope... particularly from Genoa, Naples and Malta.

Genoa, as a medieval city state whose fleets dominated Mediterra nean trade for more than a century, bred particularly hardy and adap tive entrepreneurs, traits which seemingly marked not only the wealthy merchant classes but the simpler peasantry. And it was from the commercial seeds sown by two relatively humble Genoese Gaggero brothers that Gibraltar's Bland group of companies has grown to become a major player in the tourist market of the western Mediterranean with a 2,000-strong staff working for its companies in Britain, Gibraltar, Spain and Mo rocco.

In local business circles the names of Bland and Gaggero are almost synonymous and the Group's success saga is closely in terwoven with a single family's determination to succeed. It is also a story of the up-and-downs span ning the efforts of more than five generations of the Gaggeros as they built an international business from ownership of a seedy pub on Cas tle Steps to the aircraft, ships and bus fleets of today.

"And there certainly have been many'downs'as well as'ups'in the process of our growth," admits Joe Gaggero CBE who stepped down as chairman of GB Airways - the Bland flagship company -in favour of his son James in January this year.

Like many of the Genoese fami lies who settled in Gibraltar after fleeing the Napoleonic turmoil of their homeland at the end of the 18th Century, the Gaggeros came from humble backgrounds and the family still has the account books of one of the earliest enterprises when,in the early 1800s,"a greatgreat grandfather owned a pub on what was then the notorious Cas tle Steps," Joe Gaggero explains.

But from pub-keepers the

Gaggerosswitched to shipping and two brothers Joseph and Manuel worked their way up the ladder on the staff of M.H.Bland, who had opened a .shipping agency on the Rock in 1810 and by 1861 had ex-

eration has made a mark on the his torical evolution of the group.

"The first two developed passen ger and cargo shipping routes as well as port facilities in Gibraltar and Morocco. For many years the

services were concentrated on de veloping the passenger and car ferry link between Gibraltar and Tangier."

"Along the line there have been mistakes and miscalculations... in cluding setting up a company to make heated dog-kennels for the US market and a venture in Paris where our American associates turned out to be CIA agents who were using the premises to 'bug' French government departments... We got out of that one very quickly when we uncovered what they wore doing," he told me during a recent visit to the Rock.

Gaggero is justifiably proud of the family's success and traditions, but doesn't shy from the mishaps. "They've all been part of the cor porate learning curve," he chuck les.

Though now headquartered in the UK — where, as well as own ing and operating Britain's fifth largest airline, its travel and holi day operation Cadogan Holidays (founded in 1950) was voted the UK's best specialist tour operator for six consecutive years- the Bland Group remains at heart Gibraltarian and its story of multimillion-pound international suc cess has its roots on the Rock.

It also exemplifies the entrepre neurial skills and the ability of the Rock's business community to overcome the sortof difficulties and pressures which today Gibraltar again faces. For the family's initial venture into the airline business with a single amphibian flying be tween Gibraltar and Morocco was not a resounding success.

Founded by Gaggero's father George (later Sir George) in 1931, Gibraltar Airways operated a Saro Windhover amphibian which pio neered flights across the Strait to Tangier.

Joseph — the grandfather of the present group chairman — became chairman and was followed in his turn by Sir George. And each gen

coal bunker trade was the core busi ness together with salvage opera tionslinked to the Bland ship repair yard.The evolution post World War 11 was a complete diversification into travel and aviation — greatly extending the geographical spread of our activities — whilst maritime

"My father was the main share holder but the project wasahead of its time and neither Gibraltar nor Tangier were ready for it," Gaggero explains." Without a runway at Gib — the airstrip was not yet built the service proved unviable and ceased after a short time. However the name was kept alive and the, company was kept going by Bland which during World War II repre sented Imperial Airways/BOAC in

Joe Gaggero CBE

Though its first planes may have been "light-weight", the airline's aspirations were not panded into ship-owning. When the last Bland died without male heirs, his family sold the company to the brothers.

Gibraltar."

Following the development of the airport in World War II, in 1947 — with three seven-seater de Havilland Rapide bi-planes - the airline was revived to provide third- level scheduled flights within a radius of 300 miles of the Rock in conjunction with what was then British European Airways.BEAhad similar deals with Air Malta and Cyprus Airways - providing links to its trunk services to London.

"Initially we also experimented with routes into Spain, though these were not successful," Gaggero recalls."The Rapide's fu selage was canvas and the biplanes flew at a maximum speed of 100 mph and were a far cry from the 189-seater Airbus 321s we use to day wlrich cruises at more than 500 mph...and is considerably more comfortable." This year GB Air ways expects to carry more than two million passengers on 23 routes to destinations in Europe and North Africa,he adds proudly.

But though its first planes may have been "light-weight", the airline's aspirations were not. Even after 1958, when Spain withdrew any bi-lateral routes out of Gi braltar, "a formula was found which allowed us to continue a link from the Rock to Madrid." The air-

the Moroccan coast,returning with supplies for the garrison. Steamdriven, they also found a lucrative niche in towing sailing ships through the Strait against adverse winds — not only to avoid delays but to prevent attacks by the Barbary Coast pirates!)

"Though the closure of the bor der and the economic pressures this imposed on Gibraltar was one of the'dips'during my career with the group, we were able to maintain a life-line route to London with Brit ish Airways so that — in spite of Franco's efforts the Rock's tourist economic mantle was not cracked," he says.

"Like other Gibraltar concerns we had to be resilient under con siderable pressure in a community with a relatively small infrastruc ture.

"But we not only survived...we managed to continue to grow and develop.

"As a company we learned a lot in those 20 years...it was bit like a game of Snakes and Ladders successes meant moving up the ladders and set backs sent us slithering down the snakes—but we got there!"

When the border reo pened it became clear that no airline could survive "doing one route" and in

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line also played a significant part in the development of Malaga which eventually was to outstrip Gibraltar and develop its own in ternational airport — in the years between 1954 and 1964 when Gi braltar was still the "gateway" for travelers to the nascent Costa del Sol.

"It was not for want of trying to develop routes into mainland Eu rope that the Gibraltar side of the air business lessened," Gaggero stresses. "But political circum stances were against us."

The closure of the border could have presaged lean times for the airline and the group, but in the best Gibraltarian tradition the Gaggeros turned adversity to ad vantage,strengthening ties and ex panding business in Morocco... where,though the original air links had failed,the original Bland ships had built up a thriving trade in the latter half of the 19th century.

{Those multi-purpose early ves sels shipped cargo and passengers from Gibraltar to various points on

1989, to meet the need for greater volumes of trade and passengers, as GB Airways,the company trans ferred its operations and base to the UK."We now have an established international structure centred on the UK which is heavily involved not only in air transport but in UK tourism and serving operations in the Western Mediterranean," Gaggero says. "Globally to be a game-player you have got to have volume and accessibility."

But though the group's head quarters are in Britain and Gaggero's home is now there, his heart remains solidly in Gibraltar.

"1 would dearly love to see all the recent problems that have be set Gibraltar put behind us," he says."That would ensure the com munity could enjoy the tremen dous aspirations for the future in relation to all that is going on in Europe.All the ingredients are here - we are respected internationally, the community has a lot of resil ience and our track record is good..."

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FINANCIAL SERVICES COMMISSIONER

Marcus Killick (formerly a Director of the Internatioinal Regulatory Services Division of KPMG)has been appointed as the new Financial Services Commissioner. Mr Killick commences his duties on 5th April 2003.

ment said; "The Government vvholeheartediv endorses the ap pointment of Mr KilHck as Com missioner and Chairman of the Fi nancial Service Commissioin. We are confident that Mr Killick will provide the leadership necessar\'to ensure that Gibraltar's financial services sector continues to be properly regulated in accordance with the financial services policy set by the Government."

In additiion and with reference to the contribution made by the outgoing Commissioner Mr Martin Fuggle, Minister Azopardi com mented:"The Government would also like to acknowledge the very significant contribution made by Mr Fuggle over the last four and a half years as Commissioner. He has

The Hon Keith Azopardi, Minis- successfully steered the Commister for Trade, Industry and Tel- sion's role and work during a parecommunications, who formed ticularly challenging period of part of the interview board that rec- change in the international regulaommended Mr Killick's appoint- torv environment.'

NEW AIDE-DE-CAMP FOR GOVERNOR Captain Ivor Lopez of the

Roval Gibraltar Regiment, stood down last month as His Excellency's military aid-decamp.Ivor hands over his duties to fellow officer, Captain Darren McComb, Royal Gibraltar Regi ment, who moves from being the

Regiment's Operations Officer. Ivor has held this prestigious and high profile post for the last 17 months and moves on to a five month com mand and staff course in Shrivenham near Swindon in the UK before returning to the his du ties with the Regiment.

SHORELEAVE VACATIONS IN GIB

Jackie Fielding is now at the helm of Shoreleave Va cations, a new company in Gibraltar specialising in self-catering accommoda tion (mainly villas with pools)from Cadiz to Tarifa, Nerja to Alcadeisa, plus the White Villages and Portu gal. In addition the com pany is offering sports lours to and from the UK for sports such as golf, tennis and game fishing plus the majority of team sports.

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What's happeriifig on the Rock this nionth

Thursday 3rd & 4th April

Gibraltar Stage Dance Festival or ganised by MO Productions at the* John Mackintosh Hall, 7.30 pm. Price: £6.00 or £10.00 season ticket, available at the ticket office as from 5pm.

Sunday 6th April

GOHNS Nature Rambles towards the'LLanos del Juncal'. The meet ing place is the Spanish Side of the Frontier at 8.00 am. Anyone wish ing to attend should get in touch with John Cortes during the week prior to the outing,in case, as hap pens on rare occasions, weather or other circumstances dictate a change of plan.John Cortes can be reached on Tel: 72639/76818.

Monday 7th - lllh April

Painting Exhibition by Maruchi Martinez at the John Mackintosh Lower Exhibition Room 9.30am12pm, 2pm-8pm.

Monday 7th April

The Gibraltar Photographic Society Special Prints Competition POR TRAITURE,plus: Beginners Mono chrome Prints competition(OPEN) at Wellington Front. 8pm. Entries for competitions will not be ac cepted after 8.30pm, when judging starts. For further information, please contact Mr Harper Tel: 73407.

Tuesday 8lh April

The Gibraltar Cardiac Rehabilita tion & Support Group meets at the John Mackintosh Hall 8.30pm.

Wednesday 9th & 10th April

Trafalgar Theatre Group presents "Twisted Tales" entry for this year's Royal Naval Drama Festival at The Garrison Library 8pm. Tickets £6.00 includes a glass of wine.

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Museum Lecture at the John Mack intosh Hall Theatre.Talk by Tommy Finlayson. Open to the public. 8.30am.

Sunday 13th April

Heritage Trust outing to Carteya. Meeting place: Coach Park 10.30am.

Monday 14th April

Gibraltar Photographic Society slides competition "Gibraltar"at Wellington Front. Plus: Beginners Prints: portfolio competition 8pm. For information contact Mr Harper Tel: 73407.

Monday 21sl April

Gun Salute at Naval Ground 12.00 noon.

Tuesday 22nd April

Gibraltar Photographic Society spe cial slides competition"NightPho tography"at Wellington Front8pm.

Wednesday 23rd April

Ceremony of the Keys(Rehearsal) at Casemates Square 8pm.

Thursday 24th April

Ceremony of the KeysatCasemate Square 6pm.

Thursday 24th April

Poetiy Societv at the John Mackin tosh Hall studio 1,8pm - 10pm.For further information plea.se contact Audrey Batty Tel: 44355,

Thursday 24th April

Museum Lecture at the John Mack intosh Hall Theatre.Talk by Dennis Beiso—TheJose Luis DiezIncident (Spanish Civil War). Open to the public 8.30am.

Saturday 26th April

Gibraltar Botanic Garden Tour. Meeting place - The Nature Shop at the Atameda Cottage near the en trance at Red Sands Road 10.30am. There is no fee but donations are welcome.

Saturday 26th April

GONHS Monthly Outing to La Almoraima. Woodland birds and Spring flowers. Meeting place is at the Spanish side of the Frontier at 8am. People wishing to attend should get in touch with Keith Bensusan & Leslie Linares Tel: 73296 kbensusan@gonhs.org.

Monday 28th April

The Gibraltar Photographic Society Basic digital imaging:continued at Wellington Front8pm.For informa tion contact Mr Harper Tel: 73407.

Tuesday 29th April

The Gibraltar Philharmonic Sodely Violin Recital at The Convent.

Tuesday 29th April

GONHS monthly meeting At John Mackintosh Hall. My Ap proach to Photographing Nature by Denis Vincent, Nature Photogra pher, Ipswich.8.30pm.

Tuesday 29th April

Dance Association "World Dance Day" at the John Mackintosh Hall Theatre. Contact Sabina Tel: 70616.

HAPPIER LANDINGS?

With both GB Airways and Monarch planning to introduce bigger aircraft with greater seating capacity on the London-Gibraltar route from this summer,obtaining a last minute booking should become easier. But will it? All the pointers suggest that it will not. For,in spite of the fall-off in global air travel that was sparked by the events of "9/11" and lingers on more than 18 months later, the numbers of travelers arriving on the Rock by air continues to grow — and by a whopping 50 per cent last year alone.

"There is a substantial and steadily increasing mar ketfor air travel to and from Gibraltar, and in recent years several carriers have shown an interest in open ing up routes to the Rock— not only from London but from other parts of Britain as well as continental desti nations," Minister for Trans port and Tourism Joe Holliday told me recently.

"But when an airline looks to coming here they consider not only the poten tial market, but the operat ing costs — and that's where the handicap emerges. The MoD landing charges — which are possi bly four times as much as those charged by other air ports such as Malaga — are a strong deterrent, particu larly as far as low-cost air lines are concerned."

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As is the case with other commer cial airports, the MoD calculates landing charges in relation to the weight of an aircraft. The bigger the aircraft, the higher the cost. And it justifies the crippling fees it charges commercial planes for landing here on the grounds that running the air base and maintaining the runways is an expensive operation. But just

how expensive that is is anyone's guess,for,in spite of requests by the Gibraltar Government, the MoD

the burden of operating the airport — though as a strategic part of Brit ain's and NATO's defence network

the use of its airport facili ties but any charges should take into account its own need to have the base and its own use thereof."

And he points out that if a realistic — and lower cost was put in place this would increase the number of landings and, in turn, generate a lower per unit cost.

There issome light on the horizon, though. In recent correspondence with the Government,the MoD has suggested that the two par ties should meet, I under stand. As this is the first move initiated by the local defence wallahs,it suggests that there may at last be some movement and an impetus to reach a more re alistic agreement on cost ing.

Let's hope so!

Several low-cost airlines have shown an interest in providing a service to and from Gibraltar and if landing fees here are reduced this would encourage them — and ben efit travellers by offering cheaper fares... though, of course, there's still Spain's dog-in-the-manger in transigence that will need to be overcome.

declines to part with the fig ures.

"This is something that we have raised on an on-going basis not only locally with the MoD in Gibraltar but at a ministerial level in the UK," says Holliday."And we have offered an element of finan cial support, where the Gi braltar Government would contribute an annual sum to wards the running costs to overcome a 'transitional pe riod' if more realistic com mercial rates were intro duced."

Up to now there has been little progress in the talks be tween Government and the MoD which claims it carries

the airport would have to be maintained, whether or not it was used by commercial air lines.

"They would have to have the airport — a point that has been raised with Ministers in the UK as well as with visiting MPs — and this wasstressed again in the recent report of the For eign Affairs Committee of the British parlia ment," Holliday adds.

"We believe that it should be looked at in terms of levels per unit costs. Clearly the MoD has a right to charge for Gibraltar has become an increasingly popular destinationfor air travellers

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How often does a young Gibraltarian get to name a shipafter herself?

'I name this ship Vanessa-C...and I wish a safe voyage to the captain and crew, and to all who sail in her.' With those words Vanessa Wester, born Vanessa Beanland, released the bottle of bubbly and a triple piece of local history was made on a starkly chilly Saturday afternoon alongside the Cruise Terminal at the North Mole.

why triple? Well, it was the first time any ship had been named in Gibraltar, it was the longest vessel ever to berth inside the port, and, of course,it was offi cially named by and after Vanessa.

And there was a further little quirk of fate, as Vanessa's fa ther, Malcolm Beanland, told me; 'The ship that this has replaced was also called Vanessa, after Vanessa Redgrave. And,' he continued, 'twenty six years ago my wife Mariecarmen and I named our daughter — after Vanessa Redgrave.'

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Not an earth-shattering coinci dence, but intriguing enough for me to ask how this had all come about. Malcolm, Associate Man ager & Board Secretary at Gibtelecom and author of the his tory of telecommu nications on the Rock, "Gibraltar Calling!" was happy to provide the details.

Malcolm continued. 'He's Dutch but he lives on the Isle of Wight,and his shipping line itself is named af ter Carisbrooke Castle, one of the island's ancient stately homes.'

And,although the new container

tered plane and were staving at the Caleta Hotel.Jimmy Ferro,Captain of the Port, also attended.

The praise for the smooth run ning of this 'Gibraltar First' event went to local bunkering company Gibunco, whose Man aging Director Freddy Pitto and team person ally oversaw the smooth running of the wintry afternoon.

e romantically-minded father-in-law decided that Vanessa herself should carry out the naming ceremony in her native country, Gibraltar

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it turned out that Vanessa, a certified accountant, had moved to England some time ago after marrying Robert Wester. Robert is a banker whose business has a lot of dealings with the shipping in dustry, and, more significantly, his father Willem is the owner of the Carisbrooke Shipping line. So, when the time came to replace the old Vanessa-C after around thirty years of surfing the seven seas, he decided that instead of giving the new ship a new name he would call it Vanessa once again, but that it would still be new inasmuch as this time it would be named after his daughter-in-law.'He likes all his names to have some significance,'

and general cargo .ship Vanessa-C had been built in a Rumanian yard, the romantically-minded father-inlaw decided that Vanessa herself should carry out the naming cer emony in her native country, Gi braltar,

And so it was that 1 found my self standing alongside the enor mous container and general cargo ship inside the port, watching the fifty guests arrive for the simple ceremony. They had come from Holland, Germany, Spain, Britain and Rumania, landing together at Gibraltar airport in a s|>ecially char

It was a first for me, too,as I had never seen a ship naming in real life, though I knew the formula from a thou sand films and news reports. I also knew that even the highest digni taries have had to pretend to laugh when they just cannot get the bot tle to burst the first few times, but Vanessa's aim was true and her arm was strong - there was applause and cheers of delight(and relief)as the bottle burst against the bow and the cover concealing the name Vanessa-C slid away.

Vanessa herself was an account ant who gave up her profession to go into teaching at an English com prehensive school, although at present she has taken time off from

school to look after Iner and Robert's six month old son Michael.

She was educated in Gibraltar at Governor's Meadow Middle School before going on to Westsidc Girls' Comprehensive. A keen fol lower of local amateur dramatics, she took partin several productions including Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, produced at Ince's Hall by Dr John Cortes and his brother Joe.

Malcolm Beanland told me that Vanessa was always active in some way or another, and that she swam for Gibraltar in the Island Games at Aland a few years ago.'She was also very strong academically' he added;'after becoming a Certified Accountant she then went on to be come a qualified teacher. And she is also qualified as a swimming coach.'

Malcolm and his wife Mariecarmen (nee Olivero) have another daughter, Sharon Chavez, who lives with her Mexican lawyer husband Arturo in Mexico City where she lectures in .science and medicine atthe university,conduct ing her classes in English for her Mexican.students.The couple have a two year old daughter Isabel, whom Malcolm and Mariecarmen try to visit at least once a year.

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1 name this ship... after mcl Vanessa Wester lets go of the champagne Ltd. The paintings were the work of local artist Yin Mifsud.

toured the ship and attended a re ception in the Cruise Terminal where both Vanessa and Jen Sorensen of shipping agents Sorek Shipping presented paintings of the Port of Gibraltar to the ship's cap tain and to Carisbrooke Shipping

The Vanessa-C is a container ship that is also expected to carry bulk cargoes, steel coils, forest products and general cargo.It weighs 10,438 tonnes dead weight and has an

overall length of 145 metres and a beam of18 metres.Although empty when it was in Gibraltar, having sailed its maiden voyage directly from the Rumanian shipyard, it is equipped for dangerous goods in two of its holds.

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There used to be business cards and business brochures. Now you can have them both together as one card-sized CD-Rom

'We started producing CD-Rom business cards last year, and the idea has been catching on steadily as more and more people have dis covered that the service is available in Gibraltar/ said Peter de la Rosa as he showed me around MBS's records management depot at the Europa Business Centre.

MBS (Micro Business Systems) made a name for itself when Peter introduced microfilming of docu ments to Gibraltar in 1989, since when he has continued to add serv ices for the business community here. But first, those palm-sized brochures: how much information can they hold — and how much do they cost?

Peter elaborated; 'The cards fit into existing CD drives, they are used just like CD-Roms — there's no modification required — and hold 45MB each, compared with 650MB on a normal CD.This capac ity is easily enough to hold a few minutes of video,speech files, am ple text files and a good few pho tos,' he said.'They are a neat and novel way of giving or sending someone a company brochure,and say a lot more than a paper busi ness card could ever do. So far lo cal banks as well as Image Graph ics and the Gibraltar Magazine itself are amongst those who have taken them up,'he continued,adding that delivery time is normally three to fourteen days,depending on quan tity.

But what about the price, I in sisted.They sound brilliant but are they affordable to most small busi nesses?

'Prices?'Peter replied,'They start at £1.90each for 10.Customers give us the graphics along with what ever else they want on it, perhaps part of their website,and we'll bum the info onto the miniature rectan gular CDs. And that includes the customised labels printed in full colour.'

I was still blinking at the low prices — and the fact that rewritable versions are available as well for customers to do their own updating — as Peter went on to tell me that MBS also provide a print ing service for normal-sized CDs, whereby a company or an indi vidual can have their own design or logo on their disks,'This service

Right: John Dury, Operations Manager has been taken up by a lot of people and organisations,'he continued. 'The Ombuds man's annual report was brought here for CD print ing, and Global Directory Services did the same for their CD version of the Gi braltar Yellow Pages and tel ephone directory. And,' ho added,'we have also printed audio CDs — complete with the jewel case inserts and shrink wrapped for retail

outlets. We did this for the locally produced music CD Gib Connec tions last Christmas.'

And I thought MBS just did mi crofilming, a breathtaldng service in itself, given its scope compared to Gibraltar's size. Reducing docu ments to a fraction of their original

size as a space-saving device is wel1 known globally, to the extent that microfilm copies are accepted as evidence in legal disputes whereas normal photocopies are not. In Gi braltar MBS provides this service to banks, medical clinics and the Gi braltar Health Authority.The com

pany also has a secure archive stor age facility as well as other systems for document imaging,such as dig ital scanning. The latter has proved a boon to local banks in the scan ning and clearing of cheques.

'Last year we completed a job for the MoD,' Peter expanded;'We scanned and converted to digital form all of their personnel files. One million pages, in a format suitable for an electronic filing system,' he said,adding that the Mod was then able to destroy the million sheets of paper, having in their place just sixty CDs, all instantly accessible from any of their PCs. That's a pile abouteight centimetres high — you could hold them in one hand.

A further development by MBS (a member of the Records Manage ment Society of Great Britain) has been the design and production of a dedicated Records Management System software package called Imis ImageManager, which is sell ing in the UK and Spain,and about to hit the South and Central Ameri can market.'Did you have to go to South America to make the ar rangements?'I wondered.'No;'Pe ter replied,'but I'm still hoping I'll be wanted.'

The MBSstaff is made up of three managers,two administrators,four operators and one delivery/ Storeman,apart from Peter,and the range of services they provide is quite staggering. There's far too much to reproduce here(unless we got MBS to scan it, of course) but all is on the website www.mbs.gi and includes,amongst other things, a secure archive storage and re trieval service (9,000 boxes taking up 3,700square feet), mail handling equipment and services, colour coded filing systems, disaster re covery, and bar code file tracking. Microfilming or scanning can also be carried out at the clients' place of business, so documents don't have to leave their premises, and there is a call-in bureau service. There's a lot more,including equip ment by Canon, TAB, TouchMate Computer Products and others.

After checking out the website, further help can be obtained from Peter and his team by calling 42723 between 9am and 6pm Monday to Friday, or by fax 40612 or email sales@mbs.gi

Above: Peter de la Rosa of Micro Business Systems

'They are a neat and novel way of giv ing or sending someone a company brochure, and say a lot more than a paper business card could ever do'

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'Sports and recreation' is very much on the National Curriculum syllabus for Gibraltar's schoolchildren on their way from the Junior schools, through Middle (years 4,5,6 and 7)and on to the Comprehensives, where they can pass it over when they take their 'Options' at the end of Year 9.

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In chance conversations with teachers at St.Anne's School's first Tag Rugby Festival if was made apparent to me that they, and their pupils, very much enjoy the sheer joy of a wide range of sporting ac tivities — which merited a closer

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The presenting ofthe monies raised by the Gib 6s sporting tournaments 2002 to charities took place last month. Each of6 charities received £500. The charities were Elderly Care Agency, Alderhey Children's Hospital, Cibrallar Special Olympics, Gibraltar League of Hospital Friends, GSPCA andRlCC.

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examination (now there's an emo tive word).

Mr. Joe Cortes has been Head Teacher at St.Anne's since 1990, when he took over from Mr Cecil Gomez,a noted thespian. It seems that all those dedicated to educa tion have many strings to their re spective bows.

"I came to the school just before the Gibraltar Education Depart ment adopted the UK National Curriculum with its three core sub jects — Maths,Science and English — and several 'foundation' sub jects, including Sports and Recrea tion. Each Authority is able to ad just the course, within certain pa rameters, to suit the community's needs—of course,in Gibraltar that means we have adopted the teach ing ofSpanish as a preferred option.

"As regards sports, our succes sive Heads of the PE Department have introduced their own prefer ences into the curriculum. As with all other subjects, pupils have to at tain targets and they can do so in a variety of games and sports.Differ ent pupils excel at different things.

"They continue with their sport ing programme up to Year 9 at the Comprehensive,when they have to choose their'options' — PE can be dropped, but games lessons con tinue. Sport is good for the physi cal and educational development of the schoolchild.

"The sports programme at our school has increased in variety since I started and we have had a lot ofencouragementfrom the Gov ernment Sports Development Unit and the Education Department. 1 like to think that good teachers have had a lot to do with it as well."

Joe Martinez was appointed to St. Anne's at the same time as his Head,after specialising in sport at university and college.

"The Head gave me the oppor tunity to take over the PE Depart ment and I remained in that post for six years until becoming a Year 4 Coordinator. I was able to imple ment the recommendations of the National Curriculum into the PE programme. The GASA swim hall opened and I was able to convince the Department that swimming would be advantageous. Recently we held a Gala at which everyone took part during a five week period — nearly all are able to look after themselves in the water, perhaps 1% have fears that can be overcome and probably 40% are good swim mers.

"We each bring some changes to the curriculum — my predecessor Leo Alvarez's speciality was hockey and I liked football, as well as athletics. 1 didn't think dressing up as wallies suited the pupils so we introduced throwing events for those not on the track. We also in-

troduced vaulting and box work during my time.I have always been keen to take my own class for their

PE lessons.Zuleika Green who fol lowed me in the post, for three years, was keen on dancing, for

girls and boys, which continues. Graham Hawkins has introduced lag rugby, which is proving an ideal sporting activity for all the school children. I believe all should take part in everything."

Graham Hawkins, with a major reputation on the hockey field when he came to Gibraltar, has strong views on the benefits of sport amongst schoolchildren pro viding a lasting benefitfor the com munity.

"Every child has a record made of their height, distance and speed attained at the beginning and end of their five week game sessions it provides a sense of achievement, not just for the House teams. We offer a wide range of sports and activities as well as the traditional sports.Recently we tried'orienteer ing'— competing around a course with map reading — it's proved very popular.This encourages team work as well as individual skills.

"We also introduced 'tag rugby' for year 7, and now year 6, with over a hundred taking part. Rugby is a particularly good game which can channel aggression. I under stand that Alan Sparks of the Gi braltar Rugby Club is trying to get this ideal sport introduced into other schools,although we lack the facilities for rugger proper.

"Nowadays the emphasis is away from making children play adult- sized games — games are mini-sided and children led. Re cently we were the first local school to offer lunchtime sports sessions which are proving very popular. Ten of my colleagues are giving up their lunchtimes to help out,

"I believe that our varied sport ing programme can keep children in school and off the streets — and build up self-esteem."

SQUASH UPDATE

On 29th March from 12 noon the Squash Club will hold its very popular Open Day at the Squash Centre, South Pavilion Road from 12 noon. There will be substantial reductions on membership fees or free good quality raquets on a first come basis while stocks last, plus25% offfamily memberships. There will also be an opportunity for those attending to join indoor bicycle spinning sessions free of charge, plus free food, T-shirts and other small gifts.

Next in the calendar is

Graham Hawkins with pmpils on a chilly Thursday sports session

"Nowadays the emphasis is away from making children play adult- sized games"

the

Photographed:Winners ofthe Silk Cut League'A's,BMI --CjustinChipolina, Gibraltar Closed sponsored by Louis Montegriffo (captain), Charles Savignon, Danny Llamas, Hamish Norwich and Peterborough on Risso. The 'B' League ivas won by IPS — Gail Hanglin, Mike Da Silva^ 31st March.

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NEWS AGENCY DELIVERS MORE THAN THE NEWS

'We lost our nine year old son Philip to neuroblastoma, a childhood cancer, and decided to help others avoid the disease. We also set out to help find a less traumatic treatment than chemotherapy/ said Tony

Sacarello as we had a coffee at Sacarello's Coffee House in Irish Town, which is owned by his second cousin Patrick.

He was telling me how he and his wife Margaret came to establish the Gibraltar-based charitv Re search into Childhood Cancer in 1989. You can see the RlCC's col lecting tins on the counters of a great number of shops throughout the Rock, just one of the constant fund-raising activities vigorously pursued by Tony and Margaret,as sisted by another eight committee members and what Tony described as 'umpteen helpers who are in valuable to us'.These include Tony and Margaret's two sons Craig and Gavin, the latter living in the UK and providing a useful link.

Craig and his friend Charles Linares helped raise more funds by running in the London Marathon two years ago, with all the sponsor ship money going to the Great Ormond Street Hospital and vari ous research funds.'In years before that, other Gibraltarians have run it for us,' said Tonv, adding,'for which we are very grateful.'

Does running the RICC take up a lot of time, I wondered.'Oh it's continual;' he replied without hesi tation.'Collecting the tins,commit tee meetings, used stamps and phone cards, banking, doing the accounts, the annual audit... it's like running another business. But you do it,' he said.

Ah yes, the other business. Al though I was mainly concerned with the RICC, 1 digressed to ask about the background to his longrunning busy newsagents, L. Sacarello at 96 Main Street, which was founded by Tony's father eighty years ago in 1923, and has since expanded to include Stop Press at the Rotunda opposite the airport as well as having built up the wholesale distribution side of the busine.ss to the extent that the company now has three vans out delivering all day.'The results of our wholesale distribution can be seen throughout Gibraltar,' said Tony, who was full of praise for the three employees who operate that part of the service. 'All three are very capable and run it themselves. I'm very fortunate to have them in

Ton}/ Sacarello behind the counter of his news Of^ency my employ,' he said. Meanwhile, back at the original Main Street shop, if it's not Tony himself man ning the till then it's sure to be his brother-in-law and partner Tony

now most of the British press is printed in Madrid, except for the Dnily Mail which comes from Se ville. A van gets special customs clearance to bring the news in

Every penny collected locally goes to either the Great Ormond Street Hospital for children or to research projects recommended by a consultant there

Robinson. Tony couldn't tell me how long Tony has been with him. He thought hard and gave up. 'We've been together so long I've forgotten. It's buried in the mists of time,' he laughed. The other regu lar face behind the Main Street counter is Marathon Man himself, son Gavin.

The company has mainly been dealing directly with the same UK newspapers and magazine publish ers for all of its eighty years, but Tony told me that the system has changed in the last couple of years. 'Everything used to be flown in from the UK,' he explained, 'but

through the frontier at nine o'clock every morning. The Giianiian and the magazines still come in by air, though,' he said.

Along with newspapers, the shop shelves also display the taste ful Medici greetings cards, station ery and a small selection of books for impulse buyers. Tony said he is gradually phasing out the books in order to increase his range of sta tionery,but he will always have the Medici cards.

So, back to the charity. I was pleased to learn that every penny collected locally goes to either the Great Ormond Street Hospital for

children or to research projects rec ommended by a consultant there, Dr Anthony Mikalsky,the Institute of Child Health being one of the main beneficiaries.The only excep tion to the'every peruiy' rule is that when money is raised through a special activity in Gibraltar, a book sale for example, then 25';. of the proceeds goes to a local children's fund,such as the Rainbow Ward at St Bernard's. Otherwise, all admin costs arc borne privately by the committee themselves.

As well as local support, the RICC receives contributions from people in the UK,'Mainly people we know and who knew Philip,' Tony explained.

The next event is an Attic Sale and Auction on the 5th April at the Calpe Rowing Club.'We're plan ning that anyone can donate cash or goods for auction with a reserve price. We will charge a commission of just 10% of the sale price for the RICC fund,' he told me,adding that this would widen the range of con tributions and give the public a chance to participate.The sale starts at 11am and the auction at 3pm.

'Meanwhile,' Tony emphasised, 'we are very grateful to those who collect used stamps for us(even the ordinary Gibraltar 5p stamps are interesting to other people around the world) and we are also now collecting old phone cards.'

So, there are three simple ways to help a most worthwhile cause which has been appreciated enough by research projects to have even earned the RICC a mention in the British Medical Journal for help ing a doctor get British government backing for his research; businesses can save stamps, a lot of people can save their phone cards, and every one can drop some small or large change into one of the blue and white shop counter collecting boxes.

Stamps and cards can be left at the news agency, a few doors up from Barclays Bank. And if you would like to help, you'll be made very welcome —just call Margaret Sacarello on 75538.

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2002 sazv the arrival ofPeter Baltes and his Gibraltar-born partner Marie to the Rock and with them "The Electronic Repair Centre". Operating out ofCity Mill Lane,Peter specializes in the repair oflaptop computers, mobile phones, digital cameras, DVD players, satellite receivers and other hi tech gear. Haz'ing successfidly run a similar business in Scotland for many years, Peter hopes to offer Gibraltar residents a professional repair service for articles which other service centres are often reluctant to take on.

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THE DANCING YEARS

The DSA Olde Tyme and Modern Sequence celebrates its 50th Anniversary this autumn — 50 golden years for its dedicated dancers now,fortunately, increasing in numbers year by year. But it wasn't always so.

One who remembers all those years is Victor Sciacaluga BEM, now in his 70s — and still dancing.

"I came from a dancing family, my parents remember dancing the Lancers and even quadrilles at the old Assembly Rooms, so when 1 saw an announcement in the Chronicle for a Grand Dance,open to all, at the DSA, a friend and 1 decided to give it a try. We were in our 20s, sitting in the corner and two ladies Misses Gilpin and Price encouraged us onto the floor. In those days the DSA club was very much Services and UK based civil ian orientated — as much was in the post war years on the Rock. We were made most welcome and, as time went by, I went to more and more dances learning the steps ail the time. The Club occupied two nissen huts in the Cormorant ama at Queensway.

"1 remember at that time Captain Kinsman was the Chairman and eventually I became a Committee Member—the Offices were all held by UK personnel. In the 50s, things changed as the Dockyard began to close down and numbers of UK dancers declined and 1 found my self with fewer members,so 1 asked around amongst friends and soon we had the club up and running again. John Bruzon, who later be came the first local Chairman (for 13 years), Mercedes Andrew and her husband Harry,joined — Keith

Mcrcciics and Harri/ lead the dance,followed In/

Martin and his wife Vera were our Leaders, tlie most important posi tion. We had a well established Club, when the announcement was

Modern Sequence Dance Club

came into being.

"My late wife Esther and 1 were totallv involved in dance for all

Often Esther and I were called upon to 'lead the dance', especially any thing Latin;although we have even succeeded at Old Tyme waltzes and even quadrilles.

"Dancing was our life and we loved it all.

"Mercedes and Harry became our Leaders and did a wonderful job for many years, until Harry passed away. Mercedes then car ried on as Leader, partnemd by Mr. Trinidad, until 1996."

The DSA Leaders are now Wilfred and Syivana Jurado, who have to learn all new dances from scripts which they demonstrate and pass on to its 124 members.Wilfred is the nephew of Mercedes and started his dancing career as a teenager.

made of the opening of the Catho lic Community Centre on Zoca Flank and it looked like another great venue; so the Catholic Com munity Centre Olde Tyme and

those vears, and welcomed into many homes,where we often prac tised new dances with our service friends and made many lifelong friendships, which still exist today.

Mercedes reflects on the years when she and husband Harry were Leaders at the DSA from 1962 -'84. "We became the first local Leaders and Harry was brilliant with the scripts, which we received from the UK to learn the new dances from. Ho could interpret everything, every new movement. We used to travel a lot, especially to the Isle of Man where we made lots of friends and learnt with Rita Polver. We also studied from books as well as the 'scripts'. We always wanted to learn new dances and bring them back to share with our friends.

"Old Time is not'old',butjust the names of traditional dances. We

Lather and Victor

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uiid IJuny on the dancejloor loved the Waltzes and Saunters, which are so elegant and where every movement could be studied. I'm not so sure about the more modern dances which are quicker and mistakes can be covered up."

Mercedes was awarded the Gi braltar Award by HE the Governor, for services to dance,in 2002.

The two Clubs still exist side by

side today with their own clubnights up at the Queensway Club (affectionately known locally as the Central Hall).

The CCC meets on Mondays and the DSA on Fridays, from 8.30pm. There is always an hour of tuition beforehand as there is much to be mastered before taking to the floor with confidence.

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1st Chiropractic Centre Expands

The 1st Chiropractic Centre is expanding again with the addition of another Chiropractor, making five Doctor Pim's in the one family. Dr Leyla Pirn will shortly be joining the family practice to help give a welcome boost for Chiropractic health here in Gibraltar.

— the Chiropractor! The health of your spine is possibly the biggest single factor in determining how healthy you are. The key to health is not waiting for symptoms. Do you wait for toothache before see ing a dentist, or miss seeing a car crossing the road, because you had poor eyesight.i Have you got an other body to live in should you wear this one out? Visit a Chiropractor today!

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Continuous Professional Develop ment (CPD), 250 hours of post graduate activity over 5 years, is now a requirement to retain post graduate qualifications awarded by the FGDP of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and similarly to retain the practitioner's name in the Dental Register of the UK.

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by James Martin

The Bucks: A TALE OF LOST CHERRIES

It is now nearly two years since I wrote on the band once known as Buck Cherry,so the time is ripe for another look at them given they are one of my favourite local attractions.

Nowadays they simply wish to be known as The Bucks. It would appear that somewhere along the rock and a^ll road the boys have lost their cherries! Given they boast a combined age of 254 years some would consider this occurrence long overdue.

I caught up with them a couple of months ago, when it was time to lock up your grannies as The Bucks began their world tour of Gibraltar. This began one Friday night at Corks and came to an exhausting end some 24 hours later at the Lord Nelson. In spite of this gruelling schedule the "boys" did manage to chat to me and reaffirmed that the band's own philosophy regarding choice of material mercifully re mained intact. Not a Mustang Sally within earshot, instead they prefer

monly known single version of this great song. No, they showed their true breeding by doing the version found on what many believe to be the Sfo/ii's'finest album Let it Bleed, whose title was a parody of the Beatles'Let it Be. It is essentially the same song and I particularly like guitarist Stan's snarling playing, which adds a real edge. It was also one of the most popular choices at both gigs.

In the 1960s and 1970s there ex isted a phenomenon known as al bum bands. These bands tended to pooh pooh singles, concentrating instead on albums. Singles were commercial whereas artistes put out albums. If you tried that in to day's world of over hyped manu factured music you'd be lucky to get sales into double figures. Yet all

tables to its frantic rhythm

to choose numbers that are a little less well exposed but a lot more en joyable.

They have developed into quite a tight outfit and have a great front man in Zooney. With Michael on bass and vocal.s, Stan getting better and better on lead guitar.Bob Pugh on rhythm and the octogenarian drumming skills of Baz Wallace, they have become a much loved feature of the Rock's rock music scene.

The two venues they played at represent, in Corks, Gibraltar's newest live music location; whilst in the Lord Nelson we have Gibral tar's premier and best loved live music location. The Nelson is now the place for musicians and music lovers alike. The acoustics are not perfect (nowhem in Casemates is) but it more than makes up for this in other ways. And Corks too has the potential to offer some great nights of music, although its loca tion may put it at a disadvantage for late night gigs.

The Bucks set includes some real gems.One of my favourites was an old Stones' number Honki/ Tank WoHKUj. Not for the Bucks the com-

those years ago bandssold millions of albums without having to release a single. Even more incredibly some of those album tracks became as well known as hit singles.

Take for example Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven.One of the most familiar rock songs in the world it was never released as a single(Rolf Harris,ofcourse,took it into the UK charts). The Bucks didn't attempt Stainvay to Heaven, they did, how ever, dip into the majestic album from which it came,known simply as Led Zeppelin 4, or ZOSO, on ac count of its symbols.Following the riff driven rock of the album's opener. Black Dog, comes Rock and Roll,and this was the song the Bucks chose to perform for us. It went down well, especially at Corks where some in a part)' from GBC were seen to be banging their hands on the tables to its frantic rhythm, and,surely not, head banging along as well! I understand the cheque is in the post so I won't be naming names!

Some bands achieve immense success,sell millions of albums,and apparently cannot put a foot wrong. Until, that is the self styled

A party from GBC were seen to be banging their hands on the

purveyors of taste turn against them. One band that rode the tide after Live Aid only to suffer a criti cal backlash later on were Dire Straits. They almost single handedly took rock music into the CD age and then guitarist Mark Knopfler sensing the impending backlash blew the whistle on the band, preferring to concentrate on his solo career. Good on the Bucks then for reminding us of just how good Dire Straits were by including a great version of Moruy For Noth ing, from the multi million selling Brothers in Arms album.The follow ing day it inspired me to blow the dust off some Straits' albums, the true sign of a song well done.

Now what kind of age group en joys The Bucks? Well, at the risk of sounding ageist (a bit late for that maybe)I was surprised to see a real cross section getting off on the band. When a group of young girls arrived to celebrate an 18th birth day party I did wonder how they would relate. After all it appears that rock bands are becoming less mainstream as dance music takes over. In the event the youngsters responded enthusiastically to the band and were the only people there to dance. Who says rock mu sic is dead.

Mind you even the dead would find it hard to resist dancing to the

energy of Dr Feelgood's classic track

Down at the Doctorsl The masters of English rhythm and blues from

Once again the Bucfcs'penchant for selecting material just that little bit different paid off handsomely.

delight everyone with a great ver sion of Steve Harley and the Cockney Rebels'Make Me Smile(Come Up and See Me.) Not an easy song to per form it worked perfectly, with Bob, Zooney and Stan doing the back ing vocals and three part harmo nies.

Talking to drummer Baz Wallace after the gig he told me:"We are still determined not to do Mustang Sally, Hotel California, Knockmg on Heav ens Door and all those songs every body does. It's not that they aren't good songs, far from it. We just want to do something different, that we enjoy. The only version of Hotel California I like is the one by the Eagles because nobody else can do it properly. If we had to do those songs I'd sooner pack it in."

Canvey Island in Essex featured two of the most colourful charac ters in rock in the late Lee Brilleaux, and ace guitarist Wilko Johnson.

But it wasnot all rough and gutsy rock music. The night had some contrast. This was best typified when Michael took over vocals to

That would be a really sad way to end his musical career. Baz has been playing for some time now,his best-known role being one Barry Jenkin (sic), in the 60s' band The Nashville Teens. He has also played with Screaming Lord Sutch before he formed the Monster Raving Loony Party,and hassqueezed in a military career, which saw him do ing such diverse thing as patrolling the Malayan jungle and guarding a Welsh oil refinery.

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Special Olympics: A RETURN TO WHERE IT ALL BEGAN

Gibraltar participated in the first ever Special Olympics European Summer Games held in Dublin in July 1985. Six athletes, two bowlers, three swimmers and five coaches took part and three silver medals were gained in swimming — two for Marie Navarro and one by Magda Valarino. As a result of the success of this participation at these Games,a group of people decided to set up a Special Olympics Programme in Gibraltar.

In July this year, Gi braltar will be return ing to Dublin for the 11th International Summer Games - the first time that they have been staged out side of the USA.Dub lin won the right on account of facilities and financing.

In the intervening vears Gibraltar has competed at World Summer Games at South Bend, Indiana ('87); Minneapolis/ St.Paul('91); New Ha ven,Connecticut('95) and North Carolina ('99). Gibraltar has also seen success at National Games in Portugal ('88), Euro- Pive- a- side pean Summer G«imes at Glasgow ('90) and Groningen, Netherlands ('00); floor hockey at World Winter Games in Salzburg ('93)and Toronto('97)and Anchor age, Alaska ('01), Isl Jeux des Petites Pays at Monaco ('96) and 2nd at Luxembourg, and the UK National Championships at Port smouth ('97).Gibraltar's S.O.com peted for the first time at 'unified' Five-a-side football in the Nether lands and, subsequently, in the Czech Republic in 2002.

Responding fully to the words of the Oath'Let me win but, if I can not win, let me be brave in the at tempt' — little Gibraltar has lined up as a full member alongside the mighty contingents of the Ameri cas and Europe and , in terms of medals,brought back several from each participation — often Gold.

Gibraltar has also hosted Special Olympics teams from the UK and Portugal and Spain at Summer Games on the Rock. Gib. S.O. has also been instrumental in theMATP programme,now Individual Sport Activities, a sport-based pro-

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gramme for those with severe or profound learning disabilities, who are unable to compete at SO level.

"It is essential that we should al ways be represented at any cham pionship—since we joined in 1984.

It is our commitment to the Special Olympics movement. Our partici pation is greatly appreciated by the European and International Head

have always been involved in swimming,athletics, ten-pin bowl ing and the team game of floor ! hockey. To these we have added football and, now,equestrianism.

"We have enjoyed great success at five-a-side football over the past five years. On the local scene our special athletes have done well and at wider international level even

We have 31 trainees at the Centre and over 75% take part in Special Olympics on a regular basis

Offices. We are seen to have a well structured programme."

Annie Risso, MBE, is National Director of Gib.S.O. as well as be ing Manageress of the St. Bemadette's Occupational Therapy Centre.She will be Head of Delega tion at Dublin.

"We have 31 trainees at the Cen tre and over 75% take part in Spe cial Olympics on a regular basis. We

better at 'unified' championshipswhere the able bodied 'partners' play alongside the athletes. We are fortunate at having such splendid 'partners'. The sport is adminis tered according to UEFA rules and we,and Monaco,have been singled out for praise at how we play the game. In the Czech Republic last year, Gibraltar only conceded the Gold medal to Cyprus by a single

goal in the final, after wc had beaten them in the preliminaries.

"For Dublin we have made the deci sion to participate at Special Athletes level — and not at'unified' — as we feel that it will give more oppor tunities for our special athletes.

"Our athletes are most keen, training twice a week with coaches Henry Danino, Brian Vinent and Brian Fernandez. There are eight foot ballers going to Dub lin — James Brancato, Stephen Cassey, Nicholas Danino, Darren Vinent, Carl Vantura, Aziden El Habali, Wayne Mason and Keith Medhurst.

"One of the keenest footballers is Glen Wimbleton, who excels at eve rything he undertakes. He will face the big challenge of Equestrianism at Dublin — the first time we have felt able to take part in this sport, although we have been working with horses for several years. Glen, and Michael Lima,are most able on horseback.Glen has achieved most on a structured programme, coached by Kerri Morgan at Tesorillo. We were able to qualify horsewoman Kerri on a SO course. Equestrianism is probably the most expensive individual sport, in terms of equipment and uniform. In Dublin, Glen will have to com pete at three disciplines — dres sage, obstacle course and English equitation.

"For Dublin, my Assistant is Elizabeth Sherrif who looks after the bowlers Carlos Yeo and Jan Lopez. Willie Paige and Fleur Graccione work with the athletes Michael Lima, Maria Cruz, Miguel

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Rubio and Lee Guerrero. Swim mers Stephen Peggie, Sally Ann Maure, Malcolm Miel and Alfred Celecia have been trained regularly at the GASA pool by Johnny and Anna Marie Gelding, Many others are involved throughout the year.

"We are taking 19 special athletes

trainer Kerri

will be starting our'Adopt an Ath lete' programme. Already one of our footballers James Brancato has been 'adopted' by the Gib 6s or ganisation and we know several others always come forward.

"We are grateful to all those who make our international participa-

to Dublin, with ten officials and coaches. Needless to say it is an ex pensive venture, over £20,000, Al ready we have received welcome contributions from the GBC Open Day and others. Government also helps us financially,

"We like to help ourselves and

tion possible, especially the many coaches who give so freely of their time throughout the year to ensure Gibraltar's special athletes arc al ways able to give their best."

Gibraltar Special Olympics Na tional Director Annie Risso can be contacted on Tel. 78309.

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CLASSICAL GUITAR CONCERT IN MAY

On 29th Mciv at 8.30pm there will be a concert by Professor Neil Smith at the Cathedral of St Marv the Crowned. Forming part of the May Festival, the programme in cludes works by M. Praetorious, F. Sor, E. Granados, F. Tarrenga, I. Albeniz, D.Reis,S. Rak and a trib ute to George Harrison arranged by Professor Smith.

Professor Smith has been play ing for over 30 years,taking a bold move to leave his job as a quali fied engineer to take up classical guitar on a full-time basis.

Professor Smith is an Examiner for the University of Wales, the Northern College of Music and is a Fellow of the London College of Music.

He has recorded Spanish,Italian and South American classical mu sic and teams up regularly with ensembles to perform music by Pachlebel, Vivaldi and various Ba roque era composers.

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to be arranged), at the Eliott Ho tel. Entrance will be free and open to all styles of guitar play ers. Masterclasses will also held for pupils of the local comprehen-» sive schools.

Local guitarist, Keith Vinnicombe comments; "1 have attended Mastercla.sses by Profes sor Smith under the auspices of the South Wales Classical Guitar Society. I.t is a source of inspira tion to see such a gifted natural guitarist giving individual tuition on stage."

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Dire Straits' guitarist Mark Knopfler was once asked why he abandoned a safe career as a teacher in order to become a rock musician. In essence he threw away a safe secure job with a guaranteed pension in order to toss the rock and roll dice. Instead of the classroom and blackboard he chose the seedier side of London's pub rock circuit as described in Dire Straits' first hit Sultans ofSluing. His answer was quite simple: "If it's inside you it's got to come out."

This is the driving force of all artists whose deci sions are not made on the basis of logic or"common sense." Instead they are driven by the desire deep inside them to express the creative side of their per sonalities. Indeed to do anything else would con demn them to a life of unfulfillmentand unhappiness.

I thought of the words of Mark Knopfler as I in terviewed Gibraltar artist Jenica Pizarro at her beau tiful home along Europa Road,one she shares with her husband, well known local vet Mark Pizarro. As jenica told me of how her interest in art developed it became clear that this is more than a hobby. It is, quite simply, a funda mental part of her person ality that needs to be ex pressed on canvas. And the talented artist has al ready had serious recog nition on the Rock by winning several prizes for her work.Last year she won the Gibraltar theme prize for her study of Casemates and this year she has another piece exhibited at the 30th Gibraltar International Art Exhibi tion, at John Macintosh Hall.

What fascinated me about her development as an artist is the sin gle-minded determination she has shown in achieving her goal. Inter est began, not surprisingly, as a youngster. She recalls, "My sister used to draw and she was very good at drawing animals. I used to scribble on her books trying to copy.

"We lived in Africa,Zambia to be precise, for five years, and my teacher there taught me a lot. School would start early and finish at midday.It was a dangerous place so I tended to be home a lot draw ing."

When, I asked, did you begin to paint?"This began when I returned to the UK for my O levels, and it came very naturally. In school my

first paintings were of ships but my teacher gave me space.It developed into a passion and I got lost in it, the time just flew by." She contin-

ture student of 21 at Stevenage Art College, which is now part of Hatfield University. She likes real ism, portraits and figurative work.

his work. Also Vela Zamez, who did The Wa ter Seller of Seville. Locally Jenica really admires Adrian Cabedo's work.

Speaking of her own work she discussed the award-winning picture of Casemates, "It's bright, modern and textured and I really enjoyed doing it. I got lost in the painting completely. 1 did it very quickly, if something's go ing really well I don't eat or drink. When 1 get a good reaction there's a lot ofsat isfaction for me."

Jenica, who works with oils and pastels, is plan ning to do a lot more paint ing in the future. In recent times, not surprisingly, her marriage and the birth of her children have taken precedence.In addition the project that is their beauti ful colonial home has also taken up a lot of time. However,she pays tribute to the immense amount of support and encourage ment she gets from her husband. In the short term she hopes to contribute to an exhibition taldng place as part of the May Fes tival in Gibraltar.She also hopes to participate in the San Roque one as well. But she plans much more in the future,"I'd like to have people ask mc for portraits. I do the life classes in Gibraltar every Thursday. The year before last we did the Miss Gibraltar girls, and out of ten girls seven took my paintings. I enjoy murals as well;I'm open to those."

ued, "I did graphics and art. My teacher said you can be a fine art ist,or a graphic designer and be rich and famous.Half way through my A levels my parents moved to Gi braltar."

Even then the promise was there. Jenica won the under 25s'competi tion in the Rock's international art exhibition. In 1991 she left Gibral tar,determined to continue her pas sion for art. She enrolled as a ma

She adds,"1 can do other things but portraits appeal. I am more open now to experimenting.I do this be cause 1 love it, and I wouldn't put something on the wall I hated. I don't like artists en bloc,I like paint ings." However,she does naturally have her favourites,"1 love Lucian Freud,80 years old and still alive, he's the top live artist in the UK.He refused to paint Princess Diana but painted the Queen.I really admire

Jenica's achievements speak for themselves.Her forma!artistic edu cation wascharacterised by several interruptions which mav well have put off le.ss focussed individuals. It is a tribute to her determination to express her art thatshe is still paint ing today.

Given her obvious potential,and whatshe has already achieved,one can only speculate as to what the future holds once she can commit herself full time!

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Much has been written locally, but as a player ofsome 40 years ex perience, it was a proud moment when the tournament was launched. Grandmasters and Mas ters from over 20 countries com peted in what, by any standards, was a very strong tournament, des tined to be played for at least the next 2 years as the sponsorship was guaranteed.

Thanks to the incredibly sunny weather during the 10 days ofJanu ary,1 am sure that many more play ers, and possibly their families.

McDonnell, a British player, played several matches against the Frenchman, La Bourdannais, dur ing the 19th century, which wen ton for months on end, with some days progress amounting to only 10 or so moves each. Meals would bo eaten during play, political discus sions take place and everyman of gamesmanship employed to slow things down.

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Chess is often considered an older person's game but with the advent of powerful computers,able to analyse complex positions, to day's youth has a distinct advan tage as their preparation (or train ing) can be as good as the World Champion's, given the wealth of information available on the Internet.

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are usually finished in a single ses sion.

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As it was, Manolo Matto, an ob sessive, participated in both The Masters and The Amateur, with varying degrees of success, but Joseph Mifsud, George White and I contented ourselves with just The Amateur, a more relaxed event.

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MOUNTBATTEN, HIS BUTLER & THE COUP

Recent headlines in the British press have linked Lord Mountbatten of Burma with a plot for an armed coup to overthrow the British Government but his reclusive former butler claims otherwise.

Mounlbatten,a familiar figure in Gibraltar from childhood to old age, was assassinated by the IRA in 1979 when they blew up his boat Shadow V while he cruised on Donegal Bav. Also killed were Mountbatten's 14-year-old grand son, a 15-year-old boy working in his school holidays,an 80-year-old woman and her pet dachshund. The butler, William Evans, had been on the boat with Mountbatten many times but had left his em ploy ten years earlier.

A new book, the Wtrr of the Windsors, alleges that Mountbatten, former Viceroy of India and the Queen's cousin,plot ted a coup d'etat to oust Prime Minister Harold Wilson and re place him with a unified govern ment headed by Mountbatten him self.

Since his death Mountbatten has been criticized in numerous books and articles concerning his erratic career and faithless marriage.This latest charge, however, was too much for Evans, whose mother was born in Gibraltar, and he has come out of seclusion to defend the man he served faithfully for ten years.

Today Evans, 70, manages on a state pension and his lifestyle is far from the days of luxury when he worked for Mountbatten but he re mains faithful to his former boss. He was a Naval petty officer when he caught the eye of the then Chief Sea Lord, who poached him as his right-hand man.

"He was a wonderful person," says Evans of Mountbatten. "I would have died for him. He was unique."

Evans agrees that Mountbatten did meet with conspirators plan ning a coup but that the Lord con sidered the men to be 'mad' and only humoured them with abso lutely no intention of getting in volved their outrageous scheme. One of the conspirators was news paper proprietor Cecil King who, after requesting a meeting, met with Mountbatten at his flat.

Says Evans: "1 was in the bed room unpacking when Lord Louis walked in, after three or four min-

utes, and shut the door. He said, 'We've got a complete nutter in there. He wants me to throw the Government over and put troops in the streets. Can you imagine it? He's bloody insane. Give me two minutes and come and get me out'."

Evans waited for a few minutes before going in with a note and so giving Mountbatten an excuse to leave. The next day, however, Mountbatten met again with King and his henchman Hugh Cudlipp, but in the presence of Chief Scien tific Officer Sollv Zuckerman.The

meeting lasted a little more than ten minutes.

Afterwards Zuckorman ad vised, "Dickie, get rid of the man. Have nothing to do with him."

Evans told one British paper that the onlv reason Mountbatten wasted his time with the so-called 'nutter' was because it 'flattered his ego'.

The butler's credibility is bol stered bv the fact that Mountbatten did not pay him well, did not pro vide him with a pension and left him nothing in his will.

When Evans announced that he was leaving Mountbatten'ssimplv

responded,"Well,cheerio,old son. Look after yourself," and bolted down the stairs.

Today Evans lives quietlv in a small bungalow and his only momento of his days with Mountbatten is a pair of silver cufflinks.

"I wouldn't sell them for £500,000," he says with surprising loyalty.

Author's Note: The story 'Mountbattcn's Man ofCibrallar'can be jbund in my book Gibraltar Con nections available at Gibraltar book shops.

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"He was a wonderful person," says Evans of Mountbatten."I would have died for him. He was unique."

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tion.

Even the Barbary Apes became ill and for a time there were fears that they would be wiped out.

And then as quick as she came 'The Spanish Lady' was gone. Sci entists are still uncertain as to why the bug stopped its muderous ram page or where it went.

The Spanish flu raged around the world for just three months be tween October 1918 and January 1919 but in that short space of time it proved to be the most deadly dis ease since the Black Death of the Middle Ages claiming more than 20 million lives. The rapidly spread ing flu reached every corner of the world, including Gibraltar where 3,000 cases were reported and 111 deaths recorded.

I first learned of the Spanish flu while reading about ice hockey. Like most Canadian boys in the 1960s I was a hockey fanatic and as a lover of statistics I poured over old hockey guide books. While reading one such book I found that the 1919 Stanley Cup playoffs be tween the Victoria Cougars (my hometown team)and the Montreal Canadiens(my favourite team)had been cancelled because of the death of Montreal player Joe Hall due to Spanish flu. Not even Canada's participation in World War I had prevented the playing of the Stanley Cup, the holy grail of Ca nadian hockey, so I was a bit sur prised that the death of one player would bring it down but as a youngster I was unaware of the magnitude of the epidemic. Re cently, with fears of biological war fare all too real, the Spanish flu has been in the news again.

The flu was first reported in Spain and thus was given the tag 'The Spanish Lady' and has ever since been known as the Spanish flu but the exact source of the outbreak was never agreed upon by experts. Some said Russia, others America. Certainly the movement of vast amounts of infected American troops to Europe in World War 1 contributed to the spread. One theory,formulated by Dr.J.S. Koen was that the outbreak started on 30th September 1918 at the Swine Breeder's Show in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Koen theorised that during the mingling of the animals and the humans a mild hog flu combined with an equally mild human flu to

produce a maverick killer that at tacked human lungs injuring them beyond their capacity to recover.

On the other hand a Spanish medi cal commission set up in an attempt to clear that country's name con cluded that the disease stemmed from Russian Turkestan.

The only other pandemics com parable to the Spanish flu were the fifty-year plague of Justin ian, starting in AD 542 which re portedly killed in ^

history of health, hospitals and sanitation in Gibraltar. Dr. Benady wrote that Gibraltar had suffered through a milder epidemic in May to July 1918 in hot, dry weather. There were only 21 deaths,13from pneumonia. But in late September when the worldwide epidemic start Gibraltar was hit again, this time severly.

Wrote Dr. Benady: "The incuba tion period was 30-40 hours, and the onset was

In the book,'The Plague of the Spanish Lady', by Richard Collier he quotes flu expert Sir Christopher Andrews: "I can believe that the virus goes underground and per haps does so all over the world... that it can persist in an area with out causing outbreaks... but is able to become active and epidemic when the time is ripe."

In his book Collier identifies a Dr. Juan Zamora as being responsible for treating patients in Algeciras and Gibraltar.

Dr. Zamora was sent to the re gion from his hometown of Malaquilla. He was one of the first of the medical profession to recog nize that this was no ordinary flu.

In his little town nearly every person exhibited symptoms.All he could do was to treat those symp toms according to individual needs. He found that often rest, warmth and a liquid diet proved as effec tive as 'pretentious cure-alls'.

Collier describes Dr. Zamora's attempts to save one Spanish woman who lived near Algeciras:

the neighbour hood of 100 mil lion people,and the Black Death (1347-50) which is believed to have killed 37 million Asians and 25 million Europeans.

The most vul nerable to the Spanish flu were the aged and those suffering from heart,lung or kidney disease, but unusually the flu also killed millions of young men and women. The hockey player Joe Hall would have been supremely fit and was only 23-years-old.

The list ofthe dead grew longer and longer as theflu turned pandemic

sudden with pains in the back and sides, fever and furred tongue. There was often bleed ing from the nose, as well as diarrhea and vomiting. Ten per cent of pa tients developed pneumonia, and some jaundice.In the survivors the convalescence was slow, with de bility and anaemia. Relapses were frequent, but few of those infected in the first epidemic suffered a sec ond attack in the autumn."

"One was the wife of the village medico. Dr. Foyato, who was him self laid up.But Senora Poyato,had been more gravely ill, and she had known it. 'Please Doctor' she begged,as Zamora made ready his hypodermic,'don't give me an in jection. It's useless. Don't you see the Holy Virgin is coming forme'."

The woman had been pointing at the bedroom ceiling,in the absolute certainty of her vision, as Zamora slid the needle into her arm.Deeply disturbed, he had felt that her ap parition possessed more power than any medical skill of his,for she was dead within hours.

Today, while the world concerns itself with the possibility of terror ist attacks using biological weapons such as smallpox or anthrax,scien tists are also concerned that a Span ish flu pandemic could happen again.

The flu in Gibraltar is covered in a book by Dr. Sam Benady on the

Many of the sufferers were mer chant seamen who had arrived in Gibraltar already in critical condi-

Collier writes: "Given that the virus believed to have caused the pandemic still exists in pigs, most virologists answer yes."

Fears of biological warfare through terrorism has scientists throughout the world looking back at the greatest health disaster of the 20th century, the Spanish flu {Pandemic.

Even the Barbary Apes became ill and for a time there were fears that they would be wiped out

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^ In October 1929 the residents of Gibraltar were treated to one of the 2 great aeronautical sights of the age. The great silver airship the Graf V, Zeppelin hung silently just metres above the peak of the Rock.

An engineering marvel of the time the GrafZeppelin had only two months previously completed the first round the world flight, cover ing 21, 100 miles(33,957 km)in 12 days,12 hours30 minutes.The visit to Gibraltar was part of a planned goodwill and sightseeing tour over Spain, one of several trips held in celebration of the round the world triumph. What hadn't been planned was to actually stop over at Gibraltar. The thousands of Gibraltarians watching in awe that day weren't aware that the won drous balloon ship was in difficulty.

The GrafZ-cppelin was powered by five massive 550-horsepower Mercedes Benz engines that were in constant use when the ship was airborne, but for an hour and a half over Gi braltar they sal silent. Why had the pilot.

Dr. Hugo Eckener, brought the air ship to a halt. It wasn't for the view, splendid thought it was. Later a senior officer of the crew. Captain Hans Von Schiller reported what happened;

"We undertook a journey to Spain, but on this flight a bearing on the shaft between the engine and propeller failed. We had a replace ment shaft on board which was fit ted during the flight over the Strait of Gibraltar. The journey was stopped, the propeller unscrewed and brought into the gondola. The old shaft was dismantled and the propeller replaced. The whole pro cedure, during which we had to suspend a few routine operation.s, lasted only an hour and a half.

"During this time Dr. Eckener sat at lunch with the passengers, and not until he heard all five engines working again did he mention any thing of the event to them.The abil ity to carry outsuch work on an air ship in flight aroused the greatest astonishment. None of the passen gers had noticed anything of the

they could carry spare parts and undergo repairs in flight. Other ad vantages included greater comfort (the interiors of the gondolas com pared favourably with those of the great ocean liners),larger payloads and, so it was at the time, greater safety.

The GrafZeppelin itself had a tre mendous record of service and safety. Constructed in 1928 at a cost of 3.5 million Reichsmarks she made her maiden flight on 18th September that year, remaining aloft for 34 hours and covering 1,953 miles (3,150 km). In October 1928 on a flight to New York the Graf Zeppelin set a record by stay ing aloft for 112 hours and cov ered a distance of 6,154 miles (9,926 km).

In August 1929 she completed the circumnavigation of the world

In August 1929she completed the circumnavi gation of the world each passenger paying $9,500 US for the privilege.

Following a number of promo tional flights,including the one that took her over Gibraltar, the Graf

Above Zeppelin's dining room

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Zeppelin was put on a scheduled run from Germany to Brazil and the United States. Between April and November 1933 she made 123 flights in a space of eight months and 1937 she crossed the Atlantic a record sixty times. manoeuvre.

Compared to some modern air catastrophes, when 300 and more people are killed at one time, the Hindenburg explosion and fire was relatively minor. Of the 96 passen gers and crew on board only 34 perished and of those only 13 were paying passengers. One ground worker was also killed. How ever, the spectacle of the Hindenburg catch ing fire, exploding and crumpling to the tarmac was caught on film and broadcast live in a now famous and hysterical and emotional radio re port by Charles Rosendahl. The dra matic film, shown in cinemas around the world, caused a sensa tion and a fear of flying by airship.

Because of the disaster the Ger man government agency in charge of airships, Deutsche Zeppelin Reederei, can celled all further scheduled flights until the cause of the loss could be deter mined.Despite a thorough investigation and question ing of surviving crew and passengers the exact cause was never determined.The po litical situation of the time,the rise of Nazism and the threat of war,led many to believe that it had been an act of sabotage.

Despite the tremendous record of the other German airships(the pas senger deaths at Lakehurst were the first in that country's history of air ships)they were never to carry pay ing passengers again.

The Graf Zeppelin was moved to Frankfurt and put on display as a museum piece. The most success ful of the Zeppelins she had made a total of590 flights,covering more than a million miles and had trans ported 13,100 fare-paying passen gers without the loss of one life.

Rightly or wrongly the Hindenburg disaster marked the end of the airship era and spawned the boom of the famed DC3 and similar passenger aeroplanes.

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Right. Pilot Hugo Eckener

But on 6th May 1937 the dream of com mercial travel by airship died at Lakehurst, New jersey, when the Hindenburg, while pulling into the mooring py lon, caught fire and exploded in a hydrogen fireball. It took only 32 seconds for the largest airship ever built to burn and fall to the ground a giant charred skeleton.

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The Arts Centre, on Prince Edward's Road holds art classes for children and adults. Children can take partfrom 5-6pm on Mondays, 5-6,30pm on Tuesdays and 5-7pm on Thursdays. Adult classes are held on Mondays and Tuesdays from 6.30pm-8pm and Wednesdays from 6.30pm-8.30pm, with an additional life painting olass on Wednesdays 7pm-9pm. Tel: 79788.

The Fine Arts Association Gallery on 1 st Floor over the glass factory in Casemates IS open 1 lam -2pm and 4pm -6pm Mon day • Friday, Saturday 1 lam - 2pm.

The Arts b Crafts Gallery next door is open Monday - Friday 9,30am - 5pm(sum mer) 6pm (winter), Saturday 9,30am3pm.

The Poetry Society meets on 20th of each month. Contact: Audrey Batty on 44355 for information.

Charity Events

Charity Boot Sale at Safeway s Car park every Sunday.

Church Services

Bahia Tel: 43637 for meetings.

Church of England Cathedral of the Holy Trinity. Tel: 78377. Sung Eucharist, Sun day 10.30am. Sunday School.

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day

Saints Suite 21a Don House,30-38 Main Street. Tel: 50433. Sundays 10am, Church of Scotland St Andrew's Church, Governor's Parade. Tel: 77040, Worship and Sunday School 10,30am, Bible Study

Tuesdays 7 30pm.

Evangelical Bretheren Assembly, Queensway Quay, Sunday 11am, Tues day Bible Study 6pm, Thursday Prayer Meeting 6pm, Methodist 297 Main Street.Tel : 77491. Sunday services 11am and 7pm, Mid week Fellowships.

Roman Catholic Cathedral of St Mary the Crowned,215 Main Street Tel: 76688 Fax: 43112.

Board Games

The Chess Club meets in Studio 1 at John Mackintosh Hall from 8pm to 10.30pm on Tuesdays.

The Gibraltar Scrabble Club meet at the John Mackintosh Hall every Monday. Bank holidays will be changed to Thurs day of that same week. Please contact Vivian Mifsud or other committee mem bers on 71967 /Gib mobile 54000835 Time: 7pm-11 pm All players welcome.

Dance Modern & Latin American Sequence Danc ing sessions every Monday at the Catho lic Community Centre at 8.30 pm (begin ners classes at 7.30 pm. Everyone over 15 years welcome,www.gibnynex.gi/inst/ cccseqdance/start.html or www.geocities.com/ccgseqdance/ start.html

Old ft Modern Sequence Dancing ses sions at the Catholic Community Centre at 8pm, beginners at 7.30pm, every Wednesday.

The DBA Old 6 Modern Sequence Danc ing sessions at the Central Hall every Fri day at 8,00 pm, beginners at 7.30 pm. Fur-

ther details on Tel: 78282 or e-mail manvio@gibnet.gi Everybody welcome.

Senior Citizens Teatime Dances are held at the The Youth Centre, Line Wall Road on Monday afternoons 2pm-5.30pm, All senior citizens welcome for coffee, tea and biscuits. Entrance free.

Children aged 4 plus may attend classes in classical ballet, Spanish dance and hiphop at the Liza School of Dance on 3rd floor of the Methodist Church, 297/299 Main Street, Classes on Wednesday & Friday from 6pm at Chiltern Court(4Cs). Tel : 58111000.

Line Dancing at Queensway Club, Cen tral Hall every Wednesday at 8pm -9pm beginners; 9pm - 10pm advanced. Eve ryone welcome, including visitors to the Rock. For further information contact Helen 50381 or mobile 540137760.

History 6 Heritage

The Gibraltar Heritage Trust is located at The Main Guard, 13 John Mackintosh Square, Tel: 42844.

The Gibraltar Classic Vehicle Associa tion is dedicated to the preservation of the Rock's transport and motoring herit age. It aims to assist members in the res toration and maintenance of classic vehi cles, Members and vehicles meet on the first Sunday of every month at Safeway's car park from 10am. Prospective mem bers are very welcome to attend. Tel: 72481 Fax: 72033 E-mail : gibclassic@gibnynex.gi.

Outdoor Activities

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Ornithological and Natural History Society rambles are walked on the last Sunday of the month(meet Span ish side of frontier, just to right of the Aduana vehicle exit at Sam), Tel: 74645/ 71956 for details, All welcome. GONHS organises birdwatching every Saturday when a member will be available on site at Europa Point Observatory to the right of the lighthouse frorn 2pm. The GONHS Birdwatching and Naturalist walk up the Mediterranean Steps takes place every Sunday from 9am to 11am. Contact 72639/76818 for details on GONHS.

Performing Arts

The Trafalgar Theatre Group meets on 2nd Wednesday of each month at The Garrison Library 8pm. All welcome.

Quizzes

Cannon Bar quizzes are held on Tuesdays with at least three quizzes per night. Start ing with a warm up, then two other quiz zes, including a theme quiz. Starts at 8,30pm,all welcome and prizes are given. Free entrance but a donation to charity is requested. Tapas served after the quiz. The Edinburgh Arms, Naval Hospital Road, has a quiz night from 8.30pm every Monday with prizes and free tapas.

The Tunnel in Casemates has a pub quiz and entertainment on Sunday nights.

Social Clubs

Scots on the Rock: Any Scots visiting the Rock can contact Charles Poison (Tel: 78142) if assistance or information is needed.

Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes (Gibraltar Province) meets at the RAOB Club, Vault No. 1, Jumpers Bastion on the following days: Provincial Grand Lodge, 1st Monday of month, 8pm, Executive Meeting, last Monday of month 7pm. Knights Chapter, 2nd Monday of month 7.30pm, Examining Council,3rd Monday of month 7pm,William Tilley 2371,Thurs days 8pm. Buena Vista 9975, Wednes

days (fortnightly) 7pm, Por Favor 9444, Wednesdays (fortnightly) 7pm. Farewell 10001, Tuesdays 8,30pm, Goldacre 10475(social) last Friday of month 8pm. The Tuesday Ladies'Club meets at 8.00 pm at the Queensways Club on the firs> Tuesday of each month. And is open to all women in Gibraltar who enjoy meet ing people and making new friends. It is a non-profit making organisation, and any proceeds are donated to charity at the end of the financial year. Contact Anne Tel: 43869, or Margaret Tel: 70816

Special Interest Clubs B Societies

Gibraltar Horticultural Society members get together on the first Thursday of the month at 6pm,John Mackintosh Hall. The society's main feature is the Annual Flower Show held in Spring, Other events include slide shows, demonstrations on flower arrangements and outings to gar den centres plus an annual tour around the Alameda Gardens, Non-members welcome.

Gibraltar Internet Club meetings are held monthly on Mondays at the College of Fur ther education from 7pm to 9pm, All are welcome to attend, whether experienced surfers or just starting to get acquainted with the net. There are a number of com puters connected to the internet as well as a number of machines with programs for the creation of web pages. Also avail able is a colour scanner for anyone who wants to scan pictures for personal use.

The Gibraltar Photographic Society meets on Mondays at around 8pm at Wel lington Front. Basic courses in photogra phy, competitions etc.

UN Association of Gibraltar PC Box 561, Suite 6/265 Irish Town, Gibraltar, Tel: 50426/72780 or Fax: 70370 for info.

Sports Supporters Ciubs

Portsmouth PC supporters would like to start a Club. Anyone interested please call Billy 58873000.

Arsenal Supporters Club meets at Amigo's Bar in Marina Bay where a large screen shows all Arsenal games. Mem bers annual subscription £15. For details visit Neil at Amigo's Bar (Tel: 79241).

Sports 6 Fitness

Golf: Med Golf tournaments are held monthly. Telephone Gibraltar 79575 for details of membership or tournament ven ues/dates.

Skating: The Gibraltar Skating and Xtreme Sports Association opens its Skate F^rk at Coaling Island, Queensway, Tuesdays to Saturdays,5pm to 9pm, The Skate F^rk has state of the art ramps for those dar ing skaters who enjoy Xtreme/aggressive roller blading or skate boarding. The park also provides leisure skating facilities within its excellent skating rink(when not being used for roller hockey training). For further info contact the Fork's Manager Mr Eric Young 70710(Tuesdays to Satur days) or just turn up at the park.

Squash: The Gibraltar Squash Associa tion, The Squash Centre, South Pavilion Road.

Swimming:The Gibraltar Amateur Swim ming Association opens its swimming pool for early morning swimming every Monday to Friday morning 7am - 8.45am (swimmers can also swim any time be tween 12 noon and 4pm and 8pm to 9pm Monday to Friday). For information tel ephone: 72869.

Table Tennis: The Gibraltar Table Tennis Association will be holding training and playing sessions at Bishop Rtzgerald Mid

dle School on Wednesdays from 6pm to 10pm and Thursdays 8pm to 10pm. For information contact Eugene l^ns on 72934 or just turn up at sessions.

Yoga: Integral Yoga Centre runs a full pro gram of Yoga classes from Monday to Mday at 33 Town Range. For more details Tel: 41389, Everybody welcome.

Support Groups

Gibraltar Cardiac Rehabilitation and Support Group meets monthly on the first Tuesday of every month at 8.30pm at the John Mac Hall, except for July and August. (4th March, 8th April, 6th May, 3rd June, 2nd September, 7th October, 4th November, 2nd December),

With Dignity Gibraltar is a friendly sup port group for separated, divorced, wid owed or otherwise unattached people. Regular meetings at 9pm at the Commu nity Centre, Line Wall Road. Contact Pili 71824 or Gladys on 71465 for information.

Clubs b Organisations shouldsubmit de tails to The Gibraltar Magazine. PC Box 561, PMB 6377, Suite S3D International Commercial Centre, Main Street, Gibral tar for inclusion in this guide.

Music

The Caipe Singers' rehearsal takes place at the Gibraltar Music centre, Wellington Front, every Tuesday and Wednesday 8pm - 9.15pm. Alleges from 15-60 welcome (if you have a reasonable ear and a sense of com mitment!). No strict audition neces sary, just a month's probation period.

Live Music Venues

There is regular live music at many of Gibraltar's venues.

The Lord Nelson in Casemates has live music on Friday and Saturday evenings. Jam session on Sunday evenings - all musicians welcome.

The Tunnel,also in Casemates,has live music every Friday night from 10pm and live etertainment on Saturday nights from 10pm until late(watch this spacefor details of theirThursday night live entertainment!).

There is live music at Corks on Irish Town every Friday from 9pm to late. Murphy's bar on City Mill Lane has live Irish music on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday evenings.

The Market Tavern (right next to Casemates Gates)has live music every Friday from 9pm until late, and karaoke on Wednesday and Saturdays from 9pm until late.

The Rock Hotel, Europa Road, has regular entertainment from 4-6pm with guitarist Tito Valerga, and on Saturday evenings with Masquerade.

Local duo Dreamwish play at the Ellott Hotel every Saturday evening from 8.30pm.

A MOBILE MARKET

Gibraltar has become a community of mobile phone-users anci with sales doubling annually since the first handsets were introduced almost a decade ago, the market must be close to reaching saturation point. Walk down Main Street and count the number of locals either talking into or listening to the gadgets. The figure will surprise you. My own spot check earlier this month showed that — di.sregarding gawping tourists and grannies pushing prams — one in three were using their mobiles, while among a group of school children to whom I spoke,four out of five had their own handsets.

Since the first generation of bulky and rather clumsy affairs went on sale, mobiles have proved a phe nomenal success story, while the ancillary text-messaging has cre ated a "new" written language some of whose abbreviations and usage has already found its way into the latest edition of the Oxford dictionary - the "bible" of serious lexicographers. And public famili arity with second generation mo biles and the hype surrounding the sale of third generation (3G) li cences contributed significantly to the telecoms/ dot.com boom which peaked in 1999 — and whose col lapse led to massive falls in share prices on the world'sstock markets.

Though the first of Britain's 3G mobiles went on sale at the begin ning of March,they will not be com ing to Gibraltar, Lucio Randall of Gibtele.com tells me.And this is not only because the price of handsets is probably too steep for the aver age Gibraltarian but because the system has yet to prove itself. How ever, the latest second generation phones have become so sophisti cated that they already provide many of the services which were promised for the 3G models!

When Britain's 3G mobiles hit the market they confirmed earlier speculation about their likely cost£399 for each hand-set... and that's before tlie cost of calls! And so far sales have been minimal, with all signs pointing to a repetition of Ja pan's woeful 3G experience. When the new "hear-it-all, see-it-all" mo bile phones went on sale in Tokyo 18 months ago they generally were welcomed with all the enthusiasm of an injured gazelle for an ap proaching lion or hyena.

Bought mainly by Japanese gadget freaks and wannabe corpo rate executives, only slightly more than a third of manufacturers'fore cast sales of handsets have been achieved, according to a recent news report from Tokyo.

T-Mobile the mobile arm of Hutchinsons, one of the four Brit ish licence holders who lashed out a whopping £22 billion in the eu phoria thatsurrounded the dotcom boom, has been the first to test the UK market—forced to do so by the

need to recoup some of the massive investment the company has al ready made not only on its licence but in research and setting up the network of new transmission masts and other infrastructure the 3G phone system needs.

The three other players Vodafone, Orange and mm02

have punted these in major sales and marketing drives. And this seems to have worked.

In January British mobile users downloaded 524 million Internet pages to their phones, an increase of more than a quarter on the pre vious month as sales of new hand sets and marketing of services in-

In January British mobile users downloaded 524 million Internet pages to their phones

are not yet ready to launch and are waiting for the initial glitches to be sorted out before they take the plunge which will be towards the end of this year or "some time in 2004", according to sources at Or ange.

Other than the cost of the new handsets, the progress which has been made in second generation mobiles seems likely to curb sales.

Anxious to increa.se their earn ings from non-voice services. Or ange and Vodafone particularly

creased interest in cell-phone surf ing. The rise also boosted the sale over Christmas of hundreds of thousands of new phones geared to make mobile gaming and Internet access simpler.

With so much trivia available from the existing, comparatively cheaper systems, it is unlikely that the punters will be queuing up to splash out£400 for 3G handsets. In fact, the sanity that has gradually returned to the stockmarkets in the wake of the dot.com high-tech col

lapse, has hit the mobile phone sec tor hard — with Vodafone a major casualty.

"It is less than three years since Vodafone - then the darling of in vestment advisors and fund man agers — announced its $183 billion bid for the German giant Mannesmann in its drive to capture pan-European coverage and thus dominance of the mobile phone market.

Mannesmann owned D2 and Omnitel, mobile franchises which offered a leading position in Ger many and a substantial proportion of the Italian market," according to a recent reportin the Spanish press.

But any investor who bought Vodafone shares, carried along by the hype surrounding the deal, will have taken a hammering.Today the whole Vodafone group is valued at only £75 billion, only two-thirds of the value of shares offered for Mamiesmarm in November 1999.

However, on the credit side if Vodafone paid for the deal in shares, not cash, and proceeded to sell a raft of Mannesmann assets for cash — improving its balance sheet at a time when other telecoms com panies were burdening themselves with debt to pay for their 3G li cences. It also disposed of Orange to France Telecom for around £20 billion, and although Orange con tinues to expand its UK market share, the Vodafone deal has brought the French company dan gerously close to bankruptcy... While,locally,Gibtele.com continues to prosper and we continue to use our mobiles, second generation though they may be!

GIBRALTAR CONNECTION WITH TANGIER (Part 2)

Sally and I know Morocco fairly well, and it is possible there are other Moroccan Dragon Trees(Dracaena draco subsp. ajgal) growing in gardens elsewhere in Morocco,not just in Tangier.

scaping, yet the wonderful E. Afri can Flame Tree {Spathodea cainpanulafn) is commonly culti vated there today.

So, how did these Moroccan Dragon trees come to Gibraltar,pre sumably by the Moors? The oldest one is in the Convent garden, and is probably about 500 years old, which takes it back to well within Moorish times. My guess is that the older specimens here,or most of them, are probably descend ants from the original ones, which may have been destroyed during the non-peaceful era of Gi braltar. One thing is certain.Dragon Trees do not like to be messed around too much,as rot can easily set in from damage to stems or roots, which means they could have been killed off during the sieges,or even used as firewood.

One thing is certain. Dragon

Trees do not like to be messed around too much

lection of mature Moroccan Dragon Trees anywhere,and is perhaps the most important part of our botani cal heritage." TTie only concern 1 have for the future is that a few Canarian specimens have been planted in recent years, which in time could cause the dilution of the purity of our seeds once those plants get to flow ering size, through hybridi sation. I wonder what can be done about it, so that this never hap pens? The few true Canarian Dragon Trees in nearby Spain do not pose a threat in this respect.

Our knowledge of southern Mo rocco is far better, as I have been endeavouring to sort out the com plex distribution of the very vari able spiny succulent Euphorbias. This work has taken usdownSidi Ifni, a few hours drive south of Agadir. This dusty but fascinating fishing port was originally a Span ish enclave in Fran co's time, and we have found two branched Dragon Trees there, but they are typical of the Canary ones. Presumably during the Spanish oc cupation of much of southern Mo rocco,odd specimens were brought

some plant

over from the Canary islands, or even seeds,as it is only a short dis tance away. Oddly enough in Agadir,today a modern seaside re sort, I have not noticed any Dragon Trees at all. It is surprising as the gorge of the Dragon Trees is in the nearest range of mountains the Anti-Atlas. I remember visiting Agadir in 1959, prior to the earthquake which to tally devastated the town,and there were no Dragon Trees to be seen then around town,or in hotel gar dens. The Moroccan Dragon Tree is a very handsome plant for land

We shall never know for certain, in the same way as when the origi nal Gibraltar macaques arrived here. I do feel quite confident in saying "that the Gibraltar Botanic Gardens possesses the largest col-

Nowadays thanks to Gibraltar being over populated with seagulls, our young Dragon Trees are pop ping up all over the place. In much the same wav as Chiffchaffs have taken a great liking to the sweet nectar of Aloe arborescens, which abounds around Gibraltar, the seagulls have done the same as re gards the fruits ofour Dragon Trees. Indigestible seeds later get sown around the Rock,complete with fer tilizer!

One ofthe tzoo Moroccan Dragon Trees in the garden ofthe El Minzah Hotel in Tangier

The Moroccan Dragon Tree is a very hand

Seagulls eating thefruit ofthe Moroccan Dragon Tree(Dracaena draco subsp. ajgal) in the botanical gardens *

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'N^arket Tavern

Just A Nibble

Jjar^a/yLApe

Eb'mhur^h Arms S37Naval

Piccadilly

Murphy's

i^ediaurant CaL ^uide

Palm Court Restaurant Eliolt Hotel, Governor's Pde. Tel: 70500

A splendid choice of international dining lunch and evenings uniquely blended with a Mediterranean flavour. Finest regional wines. All highlighted with paintings from local artists and sophisticated atmosphereMenu:a la carte menu includes starters such as Moroccan spiced prawns, roasted goals cheese with herb crust, pesto dressing, toasted ciabatta,and pan fried scallops with five spices on sauted leeks with lemon and dill butter. Main courses cover complete range from grilled sea bass with fettuccine and ratatouille sauce,to pan roasted guinea fowl filled with ricolta and thyme on spin ach and mushrooms Madeira jus, and griddied pepper fillet steak served sliced on balsamic roast red onions and red wine jus. The lunch bistro menu includes baked mus sels with garlic, tomatoes and breadcrumbs, chilli oil, and Italian cold meat platter with artichokes, gherkins and capers. Air-condi tioned, parking.

Da Paolo

Marina Bay. Tel: 76799

Biancas Restaurant

6/7 Admiral's Walk Marina Bay. Tel: 73379 Fax:79061

Titpiilar ami pleasant restaurant iin the Quayside at Marina Bay-

Menu: Try chicken tikka raita, avocado & smoked salmon or fresh carrot & ftini^er soup to start, followed by barbecued spam ribs, beef viagra, swordfish steak, Cajun Ceasar salad, kuku nyama pizza,or chicken and smoked salmon tagliatelle to name but a few for the main course. Crepes, pies, ice cream sundat^s etc for des-sert. Children's menu, vegetarian dishes, daily specials. Great for all the family.

Open:7 days,9am - late.

Facilities: large quayside terrace.

Cafe Solo Grand Casemates Square. Tel: 44449

Modern Italian eater\' set in Casemates.

Menu: Everything from char grilled si|uid on a salad of zucchini & mint yoghurt, or aromatic prawn salad on romaine leaves bound in wild mushroom & sherry mayon naise,to pastas(eg;smoked haddtK'k risotto with mascarpone and basil oil; open ravioli of Swiss chard, basil, garlic and potato with parmesan cream sauce) and pizzas (eg: Quattn htagioni topped with mozzamlla, ham, chicken, peppevoni and mushroom).

Claus on the Rock Queensway Quay. Tel/Fax: 48686

International menu served on the quayside for lunch, afternoon and dinner. Well worth a vi.sit, especially if you appreciate good wines and cigars.

Open: Lunch & Dinner. Closed Sundays,

Facilities: large quayside terrace.

Hong Kong Chinese Restaurant |1T|i

11-13 Market Lane. Tel: 77313 MM

Good no fuss Chinese Restaurant serving all the traditional favourites including Spring Rolls,Chicken Satay, Buddha Duck in Black Bean Sauce, Pork Sweet and Sour, King Prawns with Spring Onion Ginger Sauce, Shredded Crispy Beef in Spicy Sauce, Spe cial Noodles and Chicken in Black Bean Sauce on a Sizzling Plate.

Open:12 - 3,6.30 - midnight every day.

Located: off Main St near Post Office.

Da Paolo serves a high standard of attrac tively presented international cuisine right on the waterfront at Marina Bay. Try baked leek & wild mushroom tartlet or lobster bisque to start, or for main course, crepe of fish & prawns glazed with hollandaise sauce; baked aubergines filled with ratatouille gratinated with mozzarclla; or perhaps the loin of pork baked in cider with cinnamon. Continental/English breakfast, lunch,inc. light meals & baguettes, and full a la carle dinner.served. Quayside terrace.

Open:from y.3()am. Closi'd on Sundays.

The Rib Room Restaurant Rock Hotel. Tel: 73000 Fax: 73513 www.rockholelglbraltar.com

Offering stunning views of the bay,the Rib Room is internationally acclaimed for its high standard of service and cuisine. Ulti mate venue for intimate dinners, or larger gatherings,the Rwk Hotel rises to theixxasion with style and sophistication.

Menu:Glass of fino and appetiser welcome diners. Summer i la carte and daily house menu from £21.95 p/p specially prepared bv the Executive Chef with classical cuisine and a modern interpretation. Comprehen sive wine list. Sunday lunch is becoming an institution; £14.95 for a welcome Manzanilla, 4-courscs which always in cludes roast sirloin and some of best York shire puds in town. Sunday newspapers supplied. Relax afterwards listening to the a-sident pianist/guitarist. Air-conditioning, parking, kid's menu/high chair.

Open: 7pm-l(1pm daily.

Credit cards: AF, D, F, M, V

Simon's Restaurant

44 CornwalTs Lane. Tel; 47515 lixcellent food in a sophisticated, intimate iitmosphea-. Hosts Suzanne and Simon en sure everyone receives personal attention.

Menu:Start with Simon's own pate with red onion jam and hot toast, or king prawns thermidor with tarragon mustard, white wine and cheese cream sauce or perhaps baked New Zealand mussels with garlic butter and melted camembert. Main courses include kebab of swordfish and king prawns with creamy dill sautv, breast of chicken with mushnHim, bacon, rosemar)' stuffing and masala sauce, and roast tenderloin of pork wrapped in bacon with apple,sage and Calvados sauce. Or tr\' the mast rack of lamb with mint, redcurranl and red wine sauce or the grilled fillet of mero with avocado and prawns. There is something to delight everx' palate. Fully air-conditioned.

Open:evenings(biH>kings recommended)

The Viceroy of India, Horse Barrack Lane. Tel: 70381

Quality restaurant with a ple.is.mt ambi ence. For banquets/intimate meals.

Menu:Well presented dishes include tikkas, samosas, bhona prawns, pakora,tandooris, kofte curry, lamb }alfrazi, and prawn biryani. Air-conditioned.

Open: noon- 3pm, 7pm - late,(open buiv day hinchtime only for roasts)

Located: Off Main St opp.old post office.

INFORMAL HUf

AI Andalus Bar Restaurant

3 College Lane. Tel: 49184

Small eatery in the centre of town serving lots of tasty food from sandwiches and ba guettes to barbecues (lamb chops, fillet steak, mixed grill etc) and tajines. Try the cous-cous(beef, veggie,chicken or lamb)or the lapas - £1 (eg: Spanish omolette, boiled crab legs, garlic chicken, cuttlefish stew).

Now serving breakfast fnim 8am.

Open:Sam - late evening

Barbary Ape

Opp.Queen's Hotel. Tel:44380

Homemade food, breakfast, lunch and din ner, including English breaklasl, toaslies, club sandwiches, salads, burgers and fish & chips. Kid's menu.

Open: from IDam Monday - Saturday. Closed Sundays.

Facilities: enclosed terrace, parking.

Located: near cable car.

The Black Kat Bar - Restaurant

104/106 Irish Town. Tel: 47181 Fax:46645

Fullv aircunditioned bar -restaurant. All private parties catered for Including kids' birthday parties.

Buddies Pasta Casa

15 Cannon Lane. Tei: 40627

Tasty Italian specials in pleasant ambience.

Menu; Large selection of starters from gar lic bread to calamari. Main courses include fettuccine de formaggio, spaghetti alia carbonara, fu.sitli al salmone, and entanrole ai whiskv to name a few. Tasty desserts and a wide variety of wines.

Open:.Mon - Wed lOam - 5pm, Thurs, Fri and Sat lOam •4pm and 7pm - midnight.

Cafe Roma

Cornwall's Centre. Tel: 79699

Authentic Italian specials from an Italian management team.Spacious courtyard ter race and comfortable Interior set just off Main Street at the top of Bell Lane(turn off Main Street at Jumpers clothes shop or Mothercare • left fork in road).

Menu: Try marinated .salmon with Italian dressing or bruschetta with garlic and to mato to start, Ciabtta sandwiches include tuna,eggs,tomato, mayonnaise and lettuce, and beef with farlare sauce, wide range of salads include "Trastevere" chicken with pink sauce and grapefruit, and "Navona" cabbage, cream, raisin.sand mayonnaise.

Open:8.30am - 7pm, breakfast 9 -12 noon, lunch 12 - 4pm. Closed Sundays.

Charlie's Steak House Grill Marina Bay. Tel/Fax:79993

George and Paulaareyour hosts at Charlie's where you will find a wide selection of in ternational food including si/j;ling steaks, tandooris and seafood dishes plus daily spe cials. Try the special sizzling mixed grill which includes tandinrri and garlic chicken breasts, slices of prime fillet, king prawns, sau.sages, bacon, tomato and peppers. Regular theme nights. Quayside terrace.

Open:9am • late every day.

Just A Nibble Isl Fluor International

Commercial Centre. Tel: 78052

Ihill blown licensed cafeteria serving Eng lish breakfast, vast range of toaslies, rolls, and other snacks. Meals include steak and kidney pie, chilli con came,cod and chips, jacket potatoes and burgers/hotdogs. Home cooked daily specials. Vegetarian sausages/burgers/English breakfast and lasagne. Ideal meeting place.

Open: Mon-bat fn>m 9am.

Munch ies Cafe

24 Main Street. Tel: 43840 Fax: 42390

A great sandwich bar/cafe Munchies offers an unusual range ol sandwiches on while or granary broad, plus salads, baguettes, soups,desserts, homemade Italian ice-cream and hot/cold drinks. Bu.siness lunches, par ties and kids parties also catered for (for party and office platters telephone or fax your order by 5..30pm day before - minium orders for delivery £12).

Open:Mon• Fri 8,30-7,Sat 9- 4,Closed Sun. Piccadilly Garden Bar/Restaurant

3 Rosia Road. Tel: 75758

Pleasant bar with large outdoor terrace for summer drinks and meals, Tasty Spanish and English cuisine including fresh seafood, breakfasts, churros and hamburgers.

Open:from breakfast to late.

Located: near cable car / Queen's Hotel.

Pizza Hut

ICC, Casemates 5q. Tel: 42300

All favourite pizzas from classic toScicilian, Pan and Rolling. Salad bar,garlic bread and pastas. Buffet eat as much as you like(pizza, garlic bread & salad)£4.99 adults,£2.50 kids. Last orders 10.30pm. Fat-in, take-away or free deliver)'. Online at www.pizzahut.gi.

The Rock Cafe

2nd floor ICC (next to Health Centre), Casemates Square. Tel:52990

Eat in (or lake-awav), while vou wait for your number to come up on the Doctor's Digital AppointmentScreen on the cafe wall. All day breakfast, toaslies, sandwiches, ba guettes,jacket ptrlatoes,scampi&chips,cod & chips, calamares, steak & kidney pie, burgers, kiddies menu, homemade apple pie, cakes and pastries — milkshakes, beer, wines, spirits, tea, coffee and soft drink-s. Ideal meeting place with relaxing music. Open:from Sam, Monday to Friday.

Roy's 1! Fish and Chips Cafeteria

Opposite the Convent, Main Street. Ihis fi.sh and chip cafeteria and takc-away is located directly opposite the Governor's residence on Main Street. Traditional fish and chips, burgers,salads and much more.

San Panaro 1 Pizzeria/Takeaway

Block 5 Watergardens. Tel; 48554

Real handmade Italian pizzasserved on the terrace, in the restaurant or to takeaway. Deliveries from 3lsi March 2003. Try the Four cheeses, or the Capricciosa or ProHCiutto, or even the San I'anaro Special (mozarella, tomatoes, bacon, chicken, and sausages!). As well as Pizzas there are start ers and pastas(Spaghetti with mussels and garlic; Taglialelle with cream and mush rooms: Rigaltoni with Italian sausages etc) and main anirses such as grilled steak with sautbd vegetables;calamares with chips and salad,and Italian sausages with onions and mashed potatoes.

Smith's Fish and Chips

295 Main Street Tel: 74254

A traditional British fish and chip shop with tables,'seating available, or take away wrapped iti newspaper.

Menu: Cod, haddock or plaice in batter, Cornish pasties, mushy peas etc. Also cur-

ries, omelettes cind burgers.

Open:11am - 6pm Monday - Saturday.

Located: Main Street opp. Convent.

Facilities: take-away or eat in.

Sacareilo Coffee Co.

57 Irish Town. Tel: 70625

Converted coffee warehouse, ideal for cof fee, homemade cakes with afternoon tea, plus full menu including excellent salad bar, specials of the day and dishes such as lasa gne,steak and mushroom Guinness pie, hot chicken salad, toasties, club sandwich and baked potatoes. Art exhibitions.

Open:9am - 7.30pm. Closed Sundays.

The Tasty Bite

59a Irish Town. Tel: 78220 Fax: 74321

Tasty Bite has one of the biggest take-away menus around with home cooked meats, filled baguettes, burgers, chicken, kebabs and everything else you can thirrk of!

Open: Monday - Saturday.

Located: on street parallel to Main Street.

bARS &puL

All's Well Grand Casemates Square. Tel: 72987

Traditional pub in the fashionable Case mates area. The name comes from the 18th century practice of locking the Casemates Gates to the city at night when the guard would announce 'All's Well' before hand ing the keys to the watch. All's Well serves Bass beers, wine and spirits plus traditional pub fare. Full English breakfast is served all day,hot mealssuch as pork in mushroom sauce, sausage & mash, cod and chips and steak & ale pie are complimented by a range of salads and filled jacket potatoes.

Facilities: large terrace.

The Angry Friar

278 Main Street. Tel: 71570

The Angry Friar is everything you'd expect from a British pub, but with a large terrace.

Food 9.30 - 4,6 - 9.15 inc. breakfasts. (Sun day roasts 11 - 4,6 - 9.15pm).

Open:9.30am-midnight(Sun.from llam)

Located: Opposite The Convent.

Aragon Bar

15 Bell Lane. Tel: 78855

A friendly traditional bar serving good homemade food. Outside tables available.

Open:7 days, 10-late, food 10 -10.

The Cannon Bar

27 Cannon Lane. Tel: 77288

E-mail:janegib@glbnynex.gi

Still owned by Jane after 16 memorable years! Good food all day. Amin makescous cous or tajine to order.

Located: off Main St at Marks & Spencer.

The Clipper Irish Town. Tel: 79791

Large popular bar serving good homemade food from breakfast to dinner. Large var ied menu. Top sporting events covered on overhead TVs. Private functions catered for.

Open; 9.30am to midnight (Fri and Sat to lam). Food served 9.30am to 10pm).

Corks Wine Bar

Irish Town. Tel: 75566

Under the new management of Neil and Gino,Corks is a popular and pleasant wine bar serving an excellent range of hot and cold dishes atlunchtime(12-3pm)with daily specials Toast, coffee and scones served 9.30-11.30am, afternoon toasties- English breakfast. Tuesday evening is Curry Night, Thursday evening is Steak night

Open:9:00am - late. Closed Sundays

Duck & Firkin Building 6, Europort. Tel: 72745

Live football on a giant TV showing all pre mier league action from Sky Sports plus more. Quiz machines, 2 poker machines,2 pool tables. Karaoke on 2nd Saturday in month. Food served 10am - 3pm Mon-Sat.

Open: 10-midnight(Fri-Sat 11-lam)

The Edinburgh Arms

Naval Hospital Road. Tel: 78961

When it's hot outside be cool inside! Excel lent homemade food from 10am weekdays, midday weekends. Snacks/tapas available all day. Take aways available. Sundays re lax with the Sunday papers and special brunch. Dartboard and children's activities.

Monday is prize quiz night.

Open: Mon-Thurs lOam-midnight, Fri lOam-lam,Sat. midday-lam.Sun. middaymidnight.

The Horseshoe

193 Main Street. Tel: 77444

Right in the centre of town, the Hor.seshoe is a popular, busy bar. Good menu from full English breakfast, to burgers and mixed grills. Curry and chilli specials on Sunday.

Open:9am to late, Sunday 10am - late.

Facilities: Main Street terrace.

Jordan's Bar Eurotowers. Tel:46771

Previously the KiUick, this bar is under new management and will be offering a full menu from April onwards. Happy hours arc 5.30-7.30pm on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.

Open:8.30am-midnight every day.

The Market Tavern

Waterport/Casemates Gates.

Tel: 50800

Serving good food from salads, snacks and full English breakfast (until 3pm)to burg ers, toasties, curries,fish and chips,and pie, chips and gravy. Pool table upstairs. Live music every Friday from 9pm till late, Karaoke every Wednesday and Saturday from 9pm till late.

Open;Sam - late Mon - Sat,Sun lOam-late.

Lord Nelson Bar Brasserie

10 Casemates Sq. Tel:50009

E-mail:reservations@Iordnelson.gl

www.lordnelson.gi

Attractive bar/brasserie in historic Casemates building. Done out to respresent Nelson's ship with cloud and sky ceiling crossed with beams and sails-

Menu: try Serrano Spanish ham plate with pistachio and roast peppers. Creek saladMediterranean cucumber, tomato & mixed leaves with black olives and fcta cheese, or jacket potato with black pudding sliced and pan fried with a fried egg on top. Daily spe cials and light snacks available. Children eat free on Sunday limch (with their par ents!), senior citizens get tea and coffee at 50p before 12 noon-

Open:from Sam for breakfast until late.

Facilities:.spacious terrace

Murphy's City Mill Lane. Tel: 43969

Cosy Irish bar just off Main Street,decorated in green. Run by Issy (Belfast)and family. Homemade food served all day from early breakfasts, Irish stews and scones. Tasty specials £2.95 - £2.50 served in evening-

Open:6am - midnight 7 days.

Located: off Main Street at Mothercare.

Pickwicks

Governor's Parade. Tel: 76488

'The little pub with the big heart' is located

in a quiet square opposite Eliott Hotel.

Menu includes toasties, salads, fresh filled rolls and sandwiches. Tree-lined terrace.

Open:from 9.30am Mon - Sat(late Fridays)

Location: off Main Street at Marks & Spen cer, up steps into Governor's Parade.

The Pig and Whistle Unit 18, Watergardens. Tel: 76167

The Pig and Whistle is a comfortable pkasanl pub with pool table and terrace on the quayside- Big screen TV.

Open:10-midnight (Fri-Sat ll-lam)

The Royal Calpe

176 Main Street. Tel: 75890

Comfortable tradtional bar close to the Ca thedral on Main Street. Beer garden at the rear. Serving good pub food all day includ ing breakfast, omelettes, salads, jackets, toasties and main courses such as curry, chilli, lasagne,scampi,burgers and fish and chips. Kiddies menu available.

Open:9pm-12 Mon - Sat, Sun llam-Spm.

Royal Oak Bar

59c Irish Town. Tel: 71708

Small informal pub, popular for its pool ta ble and sports talk.

Facilities; Outdoor seating, pool table-

Located:Irish Town, parallel to Main St.

The Star Bar

Parliament Lane. Tel: 75924

Reputedly the oldest bar in Gib,the Star Bar opens early for breakfast (English or toast and cereal). Lunch/evening menu includes fillet steak, fish and diips and salads. Kids menu 99p. Home of Med Golf (10% dis count on food for Med Members). Home of Leeds United FC supporters club.

Facilities: Outside seating.

Open:from 7am every day. Located:first right off Main Street(walking from North to South).

The Three Owls

Irish Town

A traditional bar serving best of English beers. Three separate bars/floors: ground floor — big screen tv, pool table, poker ma chines, games machines, bar — open from 10.30am daily. First floor'Hoots' —2match pool tables, poker machines, darts board, ganies machine,bar—open from 1pm daily. Second Floor 'Nest' — American pool ta ble, poker machine, games machine, card table, bar — open from 5pm daily.

The Three Roses

Governor's Street. Tel: 51614

Dermot and Vai from Scotland run this tra ditional bar, known as The Scottish Em bassy,serving homemade food (until 6pm).

Facilities: darlboard and pool table. Open:all day,every day.

Toon on the Rock

Cornwall's Parade. Tel: 59997

Comfortable bar, and the official home of Newcastle United supporters on the Rock. Three big screen TVs, outside terrace and bar snacks served all the time. Good bar food such as pies with peas, pasties,toasties and burgers, plus the occasional barbecue on the terraceOpen: 10- late 7 days a week.

The Tunnel

8 Casemates Square.

Tel: 74946 Tel/Fax: 44878

Large bar located in the historic Casemates Square.

Menu: Wide variety of affordable food in cluding Slzzbng specials from 7pm. Selec tion of international meals,Indian speciali ties, vegetarian selections, homemade ice cream. Sunday carvery served lpm-9pm

(hot & cold).

Facilities: Large terrace, big screen TVs, regular live music-

Open:7days a week 9am - very late.

The Venture Inn

Lynch's Lane. Tel: 75776

A good central meeting place,this bar serves home-cooked food all day.

Facilities: terrace seating off Main Street.

Open:from 10am

Located: at beginning of Main Street near Casemates,opposite the ICC.

The Verandah Bar

The Eliotl Hotel

Governor's Pde. Tel: 70500 Fax: 70243 E-mail: eliotti^gibnet.gi

A sophisticated place to unwind at any time of the day.

Wembley Bar

10 South Barrack Ramp. Tel: 78004 Hot and cold bar snacks, function room. Home of Super Spurs Supporters'Club. Fri days 10am for breakfast. Air conditioned.

Open:llam-midnight Sunday - Thursday, 10am - lam Friday, llam - lam Saturdays. Located: in the south district.

Ye Olde Rock

John Mackintosh Square. Tel: 71804

Warm friendly pub with lots of military his tory in the middle of town.Homemade food including specials served by hosts Eaion, and Mollie.

Open:from 10am 7 days a week

Facilities: air conditioned, terrace.

ACROSS DL J3orJie,

La Verandah km 135,Playa Guadiaro, Torreguadiaro, Spain. Tel:(956)615998

Quality international food served in a friendly informal atmosphere. Excellent value. Log fire in winter.

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A light hearted look at Gibraltar society with "H"

Tony on Irish Town

Ialways think that April is a good month. "Touch wood" hopefully the worst of the winter weather is behind us — with luck we'll have a good spring and before you know it summer will be here. The weather for the first long weekend of the year wasn't too bad,so let's hope that Easter will be just as good.

The Chocolate Test

Easter-time will be the first big test of the year for those whose New Year's Resolution was to lose some weight and have managed to keep it up so far. Just remember a little bit of what you fancy does you no harm, but loads of chocolate goes straight to your bum (and who wants a fat bum in shorts with summer just around the comer?).

Football Crazy

Another thing that happens at about this time of the year concerns football. Who will be the Premier League cham pions and who will win the FA Cup?

In the Nationwide League, who will be promoted and just who will have to face the dread of going down?

In the Premier League it looks as if it's going to be the Gunners again and that should please all the gang at

Henry ^ets readyfor the day Lai serves another satisfied customer

Amigo's. But for George of Charlie's Tavern and all the many other Man Utd,fans on the Rock it will be a disas ter, in fact it will be a double disaster if Arsenal win the FA Cup as well as the championship. Will the mighty "Red Devils" have to endure a second sea son running without a major piece of silverware in the trophy cabinet?

Mind you, while there's still a chance the Geordie boys of Newcastle and the Chelsea Pensioners are still in with a shout and won't give up till the last kick. At the other end of the table things are looking pretty bleak for the "Black Cats" of Sunderland and if 1 were a fol lower of West Ham or Bolton 1 would be having a few nightmares as well. Sunderland have just appointed Mick McCarthy as their new manager but will it be in time to save them from the drop who knows? I'm beginning to suspect that being a football manager isn't a job for the faint hearted, but we all think we could do the job better. In the 1st Division it looks as if Port smouth are on the way up and that should please Billy of Rock Photos, the Shephard clan and all the other Pompey fans. In the 3rd Division the "Pride of The East End"Leyton Orient will neither go up nor down this sea

son — 1 can but hope that next year is the year for glory as 1 have for more years than 1 care to remember.

A Winning Shirt

Baz Wallace "drummer extraordinaire"and rugby fanatic per sonally took the blame for England's de feat at the hands of the French in last years six nations tournament because he wasn't wearing his "lucky shirt" this year he must have had it on because England's team have won the first three matches of this year's competion includ ing beating the French, whatever you do Baz don't lose that shirt. The less said about England's cricket team and their exit from the cricket world cup the bet ter. Things can only improve.

Gone Fishing

Still on the subject of sport but of a completely different nature I've long suspected that fishing and fishermen are a funny lot. 1 mean,just consider who make up some of Gib's freshwater an glers; Noonie, Mac and Micky of Any thing Goes — what more can you say? Absolute lunatics every last one of them and now they've been joined by another namely Kevin the "Master Baker" of Safeway who it would appear is out of

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Paramedic Graham

the same mould as the others.

On a recent trip out into the wilds of Spain, Kevin's car blew up on the mo torway before he even got to the venue and he didn't take partin any of the fish ing at all. And I'm highly suspicious of Micky who was perfectly fit for the fish ing and still looked in good shape when Mac dropped him off at home after wards, but it would seem that Mick's back started playing up the next day when it was time for work. Quote Mac "he'sswinging the lead" — 1 cannot im agine a more motley mob.

Size Isn't Everything...

Another of Gib's more colourful lu natics is of course my old mate "Sparky"who was spotted recently un der the influence 1 expect, baring all to anyone who cared to look — of which, I've no doubt,there were very few.One noble lady who was subjected to a view of this hideous sight commented that there was very little to look at anyway.

Join the Club

The Bad Leg Club has only one new member this month and I'm reliably in formed that the lady in question was definitely not up to any exotic dancing nor was she partaking in any extreme

sports what so ever. So just how the accident occurred I don't know but as a result of it Gillian Schirmer has cracked her knee bone and has had to get around on crutches for a while. I wish her a speedy recovery and wel come her as the newest member of this prestigious club.

Celebration Time

Last month I told you how Andy went to take his driving test minus a car and left the driving centre a sad der but wiser man. Well I'mglad to be able to tell you that Andy did get hold of a car to take his test in eventually and he duly passed the driving test. Congratulations to Andy and also to Patricia of the Rock Cafe in the ICC who recently became a Grandmother.

Spring Un-sprung

Spring time is traditionally the time for romance, and for Amy and Dave living on a boat in the Marina St.Valentines was the night for a ro mantic dinner for two,but as they say, the best laid plans of mice and men often go astray, and Amy and Dave's were no exception. Instead of the ro mantic culinary treat planned they had to have bangers and mash becau.se

their gas bottle ran outso they couldn't cook. I can only hope they got the bangers from "Big Phirs"Sausage Fac tory as he claims they are a massive aphrodisiac.

Many Happies

Birthday boys and girls this month include Norrie, Janet, Dawn, Pat, Christopher, Squeege, Vin, and Mr.Peter Jackson and last but not least Angle Smith best wishes to them all.

The Young and the Brave

Now I've heard some people refer to Pat Harris and Chris Read as many things most of which are unprintable but on a recent vLsit to the Angry Friar (on business 1 hasten to add)1 bumped into thi.s pair of reprobates whilst 1 was chatting to Steve and Sue, and to our amazement heard one of the barmaids refer to them as "young men". I can only assume the young barmaid was after a very big tip or she was in ur gent need of spectacles. Whatever it was Sue, Steve and myself could hardly believe our ears, and even Pat and Chris squirmed with embarrass ment. "Young men" indeed — I've heard it all now!

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Natural History & Heritage Park

Adniission to the Natural History and Heritage Park is between 9.30am and 7pm ' by tickets(includes entrance

him how to mount a gun on the north face of the Rock. It was a Sgl. Major Ince who suggested tunnelling and there are now over 30 miles of tunnels inside the Rock Various exhibitions inside the tunnels bring their history to lite.

The Military Heritage Centre: Housed in one of the Rock's many historic batteries, the Military Heritage Centre displays infor mation on the development of Gibraltar's military defences through the ages.

fered a reward to any man who could tel t: iUeb .-.ithin the Park including St. Michael's Cave. Monkey's Den,Great Siege Tunnels, Military Heritage Centre, A City Under Siege' Exhibition and the Moorish Castle).(Facilities closed on Christmas Day and New Year's Day) Adults £7.00 / Chil dren age 5-12 years: £4.00, Children age 4 years and under: free. Vehicles: £1.50. Pri vate vehicles may be restricted at certain times and it is advisable to take a Rock Tour by taxi/mini bus. The Natural HistorY& Her itage Park can also be reached by Cable Car (leaves from Grand Parade 9.30am-6pm Monday to Sunday, Last cable up: 5,15pm, down: 5 45pm).

The flora and fauna on the

Upper Rock are considered to be of great conservational value. It's a perfect place for birdwatchers, as migratory species use Gi braltar as the shortest crossing between Eu rope and Africa, but botanists will also be interested to see over 600 species of flow ering plants, including some unique to Gi braltar. Watch out for colourful lizards, the non-venemous Horseshoe Whipsnake, but terflies and pipistrelle bats. Info on the Rock's flora and fauna is found at the Gi braltar Ornithological and Natural History Society's Information Centre at Jews Gate.

St. (Michael's Cave: The cave consists of an upper hall with five connecting passages and drops of 40-I50ft to a smaller hall. A further succession of chambers, some at 250ft below the entrance, is reached through narrow holes. The Cathedral Cave is open to visitors and is used as an audito rium for concerts and theatre. The cave was prepared as a hospital in WWII, but was never used. While blasting an alterna tive entrance a further series of chambers were discovered ending in a mini lake. These are called Lower St. Michael's Cave and can be visited with a qualified guide.

Hie Monkeys'Den: There are around 160 monkeys living in the Park and around 30 of these can be seen at the Monkey's Den. Often called apes, they are tail-less Barbary Macaques and the only free living monkeys in Europe. Feeding the monkeys is illegal and carries a fine of £500

The Great Siege Tunnels: Tunnelling in the Rock began during the Great Siege (177917831 when France and Spain made an all out attempt to recapture the Rock while Britain was busy with the American War of Independence Governor General Elliot of-

History Alive

Gibraltar's streets are filled with military pageantry every Saturday morning when the Rock's past is brought alive by a troop of soldiers in 18th century period uniform. The soldiers march from Bomb House Lane at 12 noon to Casemates. At Casemates they carry out a "Ceremony of the Keys" routine and then march back up Main Street to the Cathedral of St Mary the Crowned.

A City Under Siege Exhibition: Exhibits depicting the lives of the civilian population during the many sieges, are housed In one of the earliest British building on the Rock. Original graffiti, drawn by duty soldiers to stop themselves falling asleep, is still vis ible, the earliest dating back to 1726.

The Moorish Castle: The Moorish Castle is actually just pan of a Moorish town and castle which was built up during the Moorish occupation of the Iberian Penin sula, spearheaded from Gibraltar in 71 IAD by Tarik-ibn-Zeyad ('Gibraltar* is a corruption of the Arabic words "Jebel Tank" - Tank's mountain). The part we see today. The Tower of Homage, dates back to 1333AD, when Abu'l Hassan recaptured the Rock from the Spanish. The tower provides an excellent view point as it did for its Moorish builders centuries ago

Natural History b Heritage Park Walks: One walk IS recommended (St Michael's Cave through to Charles V Wall) but walk ers should be relatively fit. It is also pleas ant walking along the upper rock roads, Fact Files and brochures are available free from all Tourist Board offices.

Botanical Gardens: Opened in 1816, the Alameda Botanical Gardens fell into disre pair but are currently being restored to their former glory. Visitors can enjoy a stroll be neath pines, dragon trees and palms, and see many of Gibraltar's native plants as well as exotic species. The shop sells environ mentally friendly gifts, plants and seeds. Tel: 72639/74022. Large car park available

Nelson's Anchorage: Rosia Road 9.30am - 5.15pm Monday to Saturday(last entry at 5pm). Closed on Sunday. Admission: £1 00 (free of charge with Nature Reserve ticket. Tickets for the nature reserve can also be bought at this attraction).

Parson's Lodge: Rosia Road. A narrow limestone outcrop with a labyrinth of un derground tunnels surmounted by an im pressive battery, which has witnessed the

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development of coast artillery over 300 years. Once housed three IB ton 10-inch rifled muzzle loaders positioned behind a unique sandwich of armour plate and teak, known as 'Gibraltar Shields'. Open 10am to 6pm every day. Adults £1.00 / Children & OAPs 50p

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Geological Research Station and Lithology of Gibraltar. To visit please contact; F. Gomez Tel 44460. P Hodkinson Tel. 43910.

Shrine of Our Lady of Europe (Museum within premises) Europe Road. 10am-7pm Monday to Friday, 11am-7pm Saturday,Sun day and Public Holidays. Closed 1 pm - 2pm. Admission free.

Trafalgar Cemetery: Trafalgar Road, open Sam • 7pm daily (admission free).

Visitor Information

GlbraKar Museum Tel: 74289

18/20 Bomb House Lane Open 10am -6pm (Sat. 10am • 2pm). Closed on Sunday. Ad

mission Adults £2.00/Children under 12 years £1 .00. Special exhibitions also held at museum premises in Casemates gallery.

Heritage Trust Tel: 42844

Registry Office Tel: 72289

It IS possible to get married on the Rock within 48 hours of arrival A fact taken ad vantage of by stars such as Sean Connery and John Lennon.

Rock Tours by Taxi Tel: 70052

As well as offering normal fares, Gibraltar taxis provide a complete Rock Tour taking in the Upper Rock, Europa Point and other sites of interest. It is the best way to see the Rock's major features in a short time.

Tourist Board Tel: 74950

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John Mackintosh Hall Tel: 75669

The centre of Gib's cultural life, this centre includes a cafeteria, theatre, exhibition rooms and library. 308 Main Street 9.30am - 11 pm Monday to Friday. Closed Saturday and Sunday

Bus Routes

Route 2: Caieta Hotel -5 mins past the hour. When Sir Herbert Miles Rd is ready, the bus route will start from Both Worlds. Line Wall Rd, Cable Car, Prince Edward's Rd, St. Bernard's Hosp, 25 mins to the hour back to Caieta Hotel - down Prince Edward s Rd, Main St, Cathedral Sq,W. Churchill Ave, Dev il's Tower Rd, Caieta Hotel Monday - Friday 0830- 1700.

Route 3: Runs between Frontier and Light house, Europa Pt. Calling at points inc. W. Churchill Ave, Smith Dorrien Ave, Line Wall Road, passing Museum,Convent,up Europa Rd past Casino, Loreto Convent.Lighthouse, and Caieta Hotel. Mon - Fri 0730 - 1130 (non-stop), 1130 - 1830 levery 15-20 mini 1830 -2130(every 1/2 hour)Saturday 08001000 levery hour) 1000 -1800 (every 1/2 hour)1800 - 2130 (every hour)Sunday 1000 • 1400 levery hourl 14(}0 - 2000 (every 1/2 hour)

Route 4: Catalan Bay, Devil's Tower Rd, W. Churchill Ave, Glacis Rd, Queensway, Europort Ave, Safeway Petrol Station, Gib 5, Watergardens, Casemates,Line Wall Rd,

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