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THE oldest university in the Netherlands is partnering with Gibraltar Museum to carry out research at Gorham’s Cave.
Teams from Leiden University, founded in 1575, have been visiting the important Unesco World Heritage site for the last two years.
This new agreement equips the museum with cutting edge technology from the university’s zoo-archaeological department.
Students and researchers will soon be embarking on new research at the prehistoric site.
“THE Rock of Gibraltar is ours and no one else’s,” Gibraltar’s minister for economic development
Sir Joe Bossano told a UN summit.
The former Chief Minister was in a defiant mood, slamming Spain’s approach to the United Nations decolonisation process.
He compared Gibraltar’s identity to other colonies established from slavery and derided the Treaty of Utrecht as ‘anachronistic’.
Bossano, brought up in Francoist Spain behind a closed frontier, also called the Spanish claim ‘flimsy’.
“The position of Spain, which it claims is also the doctrine of the UN and C24 is that Gibraltar can
