Ferronats, a company formed by Spanish construction firm, Ferrovial and British air traffic controllers, Nats, has won 10 of the 13 tenders to run control towers at Spanish airports

 Ferronats, a company formed by Spanish construction firm, Ferrovial and British air traffic controllers, Nats, has won 10 of the 13 tenders to run control towers at Spanish airports as AENA privatises 49% of the company. It will control Alicante, Valencia, Ibiza, Sabadell, Sevilla, Jerez, Melilla, Cuatro Vientos, Vigo and A Coruña. The remaining three towers on the Canary Islands at Lanzarote, Fuerteventura and La Palma have been awarded to the Sacerco company. AENA estimates savings of 46.6% as a result, with Ferronats bidding 70.4 million, and Sacerco bidding 20 milli...

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Iberia to launch new low cost airline next week

 Iberia is planning to launch a new low cost airline next week. The Iberia board is expected to approve the project on Tuesday 4 October, to launch the low cost airline for the company’s short and medium distance services. The new airline is expected to take up 37 of the 69 A-320 aircraft the airline currently has in service. Iberia is now merged with British Airways to create the IAG, the International Airline Group, and the IAG board would have to ratify the decision on Thursday. Iberia has been holding talks with the pilots’ union SEPLA on the conditions for them in the new airline. The airline contends that it needs a structural reorganisation, but the union considers that all the flights should remain under the Iberia brand, and considers maintenance would be cheaper with a single...

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Canadian gold diggers look to Coruña

 Canadian company, Edgewater Exploration, are to reopen an old gold mine in Coruña and say they will employ 100 people in Cabanas de Bergantiños in the efforts to extract a million ounces of the metal. An ounce of gold is currently 1,800 € on the market. The Las Médulas mines have a long and distinguished past, and were responsible for ten percent of the Roman empire, as 96,000 kilos of gold was taken over 250 years as the Romans used thousands of slaves to find the metal. The new gold fever is the first in the area for 2,000 years. Despite their advanced plans the company is still waiting for a licence to proceed from the Xunta de Galic...

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Two British swimmers cross the Strait

 British swimmers, Edward Thedore Cox and Frazer Lloyd-Jones managed to swim across the Strait of Gibraltar on Saturday. A third Briton, Richard Woodrup Skelhorn, had to abandon his attempt halfway, being unable to keep up with the other two. The two successful swimmers, both aged 34, left La Isla de Tarifa at 0910 and arrived at Punta Almansa at 1357, helped by calm seas and weak westerly winds. A Moroccan police patrol inspected the documentation of the participants without any problem on their arrival on the Moroccan coa...

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UBS CEO Gruebel resigns over rogue trading loss

 UBS chief executive Oswald Gruebel has resigned over a $2.3 billion loss caused by rogue trading at its investment division, which is to be restructured now to prevent similar incidents in future, the Swiss bank said Saturday. Gruebel, who had come under heavy pressure from shareholders over the scandal, said he hoped his resignation would allow the bank to restore its reputation in the eyes of clients and investors. Article Controls EMAIL REPRINT NEWSLETTER SHARE "As CEO, I bear full responsibility for what occurs at UBS ( UBS - news - people )," he said in a memo to staff. "From my first day on the job I placed the reputation of the bank above all else. That is why I want to and must act according to my convictions." UBS Europe chief Sergio P. Ermotti will take over immediately...

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Irish firms named in gambling fraud case

 TWO IRISH subsidiaries of online poker group Full Tilt are named as defendants in a case being taken by the US department of justice claiming that the company used player funds to pay $440 million to owners and board members. Earlier this week US attorney Preet Bharara filed a complaint with a New York court claiming that Full Tilt used $440 million in players’ funds to pay various sums to directors Raymond Bitar, Howard Lederer, Christopher Ferguson and Rafael Furst. Two Irish-based Full Tilt companies – Pocket Kings Ltd and Pocket Kings Consulting Ltd – are included in the list of defendants on the formal complaint filed by Mr Bharara earlier this week. Pocket Kings is based in Cherrywood in Dublin and provides software, IT, customer and management services to Full Tilt. It employs...

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GIBRALTAR GAMING COMMISSIONER STALKED BY PRIVATE DETECTIVE

 The complex twists and turns of the gaming world have delievered a startling new dimension to the court case seeking to force Gibraltar’s Gaming Commissioner Phil Brear to release payments of some £825,000 to a set of gamblers he claims were party to a clever ruse that deprives them of their winnings. Papers submitted to the Supreme Court reveal that the claimants are relying on the reports of hired private detectives who followed Mr Brear and family around Gibraltar, at the Eliott Hotel, Gauchos and to meetings at Hassans, even apparently to Amar’s bakery for a snack and then to his second home in Sotogrande.   The private eye even noted what papers were being carried, clothes worn and the value of Mr Brear’s properties. Phone calls were made to Hassans offices to see if lawyers...

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Costa del Sol’s oldest magazine shuts its doors

 The Costa del Sol’s oldest magazine is reported to have closed down after running its final edition on Friday. The Friday-Ad – which continues to run a UK operation boasting over 1 million readers a week – had produced a Costa del Sol edition out of its Gibraltar offices since 1975. The reason behind the decision to close remains unclear. When the Olive Press attempted to contact the publication’s office, the number failed to connect. However, a member of staff in the UK office confirmed that it was their understanding that the Costa del Sol edition had closed. “As far as I am aware that was the plan (to close on Friday) but you will need to call back in 10 minutes to speak to someone who can confirm that,” she sa...

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Coventry murder suspect may have fled to Gibraltar

 NEW footage of a Coventry man wanted in connection with the murders of a Chinese family of four in their home was shown on Crimewatch last night. Police revealed they have received more than 300 suspected sightings of Anxiang Du, of Witnell Road, Daimler Green, on the BBC One show. Officers are particularly interested in information he may have fled to Gibraltar. The 52-year-old is wanted by detectives in relation to the deaths of 46-year-old Jifeng “Jeff” Ding, his 47-yearold wife Ge Chui, known as Helen, and their two daughters, Alice, 12, and 18-year-old Xing, known as Nancy. The bodies of the Dings were found at their home in Wootton, Northampton, on Sunday, May 1, after they were fatally stabbed on Friday, April 29. The brother of Jeff Ding gave evidence on the TV show, saying...

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Spanish consumers have appetite for grass-fed lamb

 Spanish consumers have rated English Quality Standard grass-fed lamb highly in blind taste tests carried out by Eblex. Consumers at three different Spanish locations with a tradition of high lamb consumption rated English lamb equally to Spanish lamb, with no clear preference between the two. It is hoped the research, carried out with 476 people in Catalunia, Aragon and Extremadura, will encourage more Spanish buyers to consider fast-growing breeds of lamb reared on rain-fed pastures, which they have traditionally shunned out of a perception that it has too strong a taste compared to their milder, grain-fed domestically produced lamb. Jean-Pierre Garnier, Eblex head of export services, said: “Traditionally, we have faced a wall with some Mediterranean countries, particularly in Spain,...

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another serious incident in Gibraltar Territorial Waters (GTW) between Spanish commercial fishermen using drift nets and local anglers.

 There has been yet another serious incident in Gibraltar Territorial Waters (GTW) between Spanish commercial fishermen using drift nets and local anglers.  Every year at around this time GFSA gets reports from local anglers that they are being harassed, threatened and assaulted by Spanish commercial fishermen that have let out long drift nets on the East Side. These nets, that are in excess of 1000 metres in length (1 km), are allowed to drift on the currents off our coast line within GTW.  They target Flying Fish, Bonito and Frigate Mackerel; indiscriminately kill Dolphins, Sea Turtles and small whales like Pilot Whales, that are all protected species that get caught up in them, and they pose a serious danger to shipping because they can get caught in by the propellers of...

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Full Tilt was 'not a legitimate poker company', said Manhattan attorney Preet Bharara.

Photograph: Isaac Brekken/APFederal prosecutors have accused two top poker players and troubledgambling site Full Tilt Poker of running "a massive Ponzi scheme" that defrauded players out of $440m.Manhattan attorney Preet Bharara filed legal papers on Tuesday accusing Full Tilt Poker of improperly using funds from its online poker players to pay members of its board of directors, including professional poker players Howard Lederer and Christopher "Jesus" Ferguson."Full Tilt was not a legitimate poker company, but a global Ponzi scheme," Bharara said in a statement.Full Tilt "cheated and abused its own players to the tune of hundreds...

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Spanish custom officers seize cigarette packs

 SPANISH customs officers in La Linea de la Concepción seized 2,848 packets of cigarettes last weekend, according to press reports. Contraband tobacco was found hidden in three vehicles crossing the border into Spain from Gibraltar. In a fourth case, the bag of a person walking by the Levante area was searched and was found to be carrying 1,000 packets of contraband tobac...

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Marrakesh bomb trial to resume

 The trial in Morocco of nine suspects in a bomb attack in April that killed 17 people, mainly European tourists, is set to resume on Thursday with bereaved relatives in attendance. The main suspect, 25-year-old Adil El-Atmani, and his accomplices face the death penalty if proven guilty. The trial opened on June 30 but was then adjourned to August 18 and further postponed to September 22 in order to allow the plaintiffs to prepare their case. "So far the trial is taking place in normal conditions. The judicial guarantees are there and personally, I'm ready. So I don't wish for another postponement," Omar Abouzouhour, a lawyer for nine of the victims' families, told AFP. The nine suspects are accused of "seriously undermining public order, premeditated murder and laying an ambush,...

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New deadlines force final bids

 tighter takeover rules that came into effect yesterday have forced deadlines on a slew of would-be bidders for mostly small-cap companies. The new Takeover Panel rules include a 28-day deadline to "put up or shut up" – to make an offer or walk away. Ongoing bid talks that must now reach a conclusion by 17 October include bookmaker Ladbrokes' interest in smaller rival Sportingbet and William Hill's tilt at the small Gibraltar-based gaming group Probability The clock is also now ticking on the long-running saga between hotel operator MWB and office space supplier MWB Business Exchange. Potential bids for financial services firm Merchant Securities, banking software firm Parseq, Purple Ronnie brand owner Coolabi and insurance broker THB Group are now also facing 17 October deadli...

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BHA's decision to team up with William Hill to fight the exchanges is misguided

 One wonders whether the British Horseracing Authority pondered such a scenario before it decided to jump into bed with William Hill bookmakers. For they are now jointly pursuing a judicial review of the Levy Board’s decision not to impose Levy on some customers of betting exchanges. Which equates to the sport’s governing body suing the Government quango that distributes its funding. Why, we should ask ourselves, would the ruling body of horse racing want to march into battle allied to its biggest parasite? WilliamHill.com are, after all, the biggest on line bookmaker dodging Levy payments by being based in Gibraltar. Betfair, on the other hand, who are the BHA’s principal target in this fight, voluntarily pay racing £6 million a year in Levy even though, they too, are based offshore....

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Dr. Wade Turner, Winfield, successfully swam the Strait of Gibraltar on Sept. 5

 Dr. Wade Turner, Winfield, successfully swam the Strait of Gibraltar on Sept. 5. The attempt was a fundraising effort to secure monies to help with recruitment of physicians to rural areas such as Winfield through the William Newton Healthcare Foundation. Prior to his swim, Turner spoke at a meeting of the Noon Kiwanis Club and announced his intentions. The club decided to support his idea and made a donation to his project. Kiwanis Club member Ed Foster also jokingly boasted, “If (Turner) finishes his swim, I’ll swim across the lagoon at Island Park to raise more funds.” With Turner’s successful accomplishment, Foster has now risen to the challenge and will navigate his way across the lagoon (near the entrance to Island Park at the bridge) at 12:30 p.m. on Thursday. Everyone is invited...

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This year’s Calpe Conference, coinciding with the 1300th Anniversary of the crossing of the Strait by Tarik ibn Zeyad,

 This year’s Calpe Conference, coinciding with the 1300th Anniversary of the crossing of the Strait by Tarik ibn Zeyad, aims to review the entire history of this important channel. The conference’s title gives the focus of the meeting: was the Strait a bridge that allowed access between Africa and Europe and between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, or was it a barrier to such access? An impressive panel of speakers will assemble in Gibraltar to attempt to answer these questions. The conference kicks off on Thursday 22nd September at 0930 hours with the official opening by the Honourable Edwin Reyes MP, Minister for Culture, Heritage, Sport and Leisure. The opening will be followed by a key note address by Professor David Abulafia of the University of Cambridge. Professor Abulafia is...

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New Mobile Casino Games Platform For Victor Chandler

 The Victor Chandler group is extremely famous all over the world because of its gaming operations and bookmaking. It has offices in the Far East and Gibraltar and there is a huge number of gaming products that it offers. In March 2011, Victor Chandler joined one of the world famous online casino games developers Microgaming. QuickFire takes the credit for the gaming platform it provides to the casino and the betters thus have 150 titles to choose from. This move has also enabled the consumers to try their hands to win a huge sum of money from the progressive jackpots. Since the platform has become such a big hit, Victor Chandler has once again chosen Microgaming for Quickfire mobile casino games solutions. The software will help players wagering a number of mobile casino games along...

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William Hill's bid exposed by takeover rules

 Bookmaking giant William Hill was today confirmed as being behind secret takeover talks with mobile gambling firm Probability as new City disclosure rules came into force. The Takeover Panel has said target companies which receive an informal approach must now declare it publicly to the stock market. That will force any would-be bidder to clarify if it intends to make a formal offer within 28 days, rather than let the process drag on for months. Regulators brought in the changes to alter the balance of power between target companies and bidders after criticism during Kraft's takeover of Cadbury that the rules favoured those making an approach. Gibraltar-based Probability has been having "preliminary discussions" with William Hill but there has been no offer. William Hill must now...

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Moroccan cops seize Scot caught with £500k of cannabis resin

 holidaymaker is being held in a hell-hole Moroccan jail after being caught in a camper van with £500,000 of hashish. Daniel Healy, 66, was arrested last week as he tried to drive across the border from Morocco to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. The police discovered the 100kg stash of cannabis resin hidden in aluminium boxes stashed in a water tank. Since then, Healy – who is from Glasgow – has spent six nights in the violent and cramped Tetouan prison. Friend Graham Boszormenyi, 46, claimed that Healy was unaware of the hidden drugs. Ex-Royal Navy submariner Graham said: “Daniel is a good friend of mine and I know that he had no knowledge of what he was carrying. “I spoke to him a couple of days ago and he said he plans to plead guilty because he’s been told he’ll only get one year. “But...

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Chris Stewart has been voted the most influential expat of the past 200 years in Andalucia

Chris Stewart has been voted the most influential expat of the past 200 years in Andalucia Photo: Andrew Crowley Individuals included on The Olive Press's “Expat 100” list ranged from little-known historical figures such as Amelia Loring, the grandaughter of a former British consul who founded Málaga's botanic gardens in the 1850s, to modern-day celebrities such as Sean Connery, who lived for many years in Marbella.Top of the list was Chris Stewart, ex-drummer of the British band Genesis, whose books about life on his Andalucian farm have, the newspaper said, “completely changed the perception of Andalucia as a region,...

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Gibraltar’s residents go ape

 ANGRY residents in the Catalan Bay area have called on the government to protect their homes from the Rock’s iconic apes. They claim apes are now descending on the residential area on a daily basis causing hundreds of pounds worth of damage, by climbing on rooftops and jumping from car to car. One local resident Jackie Pisharello insisted she had even seen the creatures fighting on her patio leaving blood everywhere. The residents believe the long-standing problem has been made worse by a recent fire which destroyed a bin, forcing the residents to dispose of rubbish at the local car parking area. A Government spokesman insisted it is in the process of cleaning up the ar...

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Smuggler Tosses Passengers Off Jet Ski

 Spanish police say a human smuggler trying to sneak two Moroccans into Spain by crossing the Strait of Gibraltar on a jet ski threw them into the water when detected by coastal authorities and that one drowned. A Civil Guard statement Tuesday said the incident happened Sept. 9 near the Spanish town of Tarifa. The Moroccan driver has been charged with negligent manslaughter. One of the travelers managed to swim ashore after being dumped 500 meters from it, but the other did not survive. Spain is a lure for poor North and sub-Saharan Africans because it is Europe's southern gateway. Every year, thousands try to reach the Spanish mainland...

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PORTUGUESE AUTHORITIES SEEK TRIAL OF ALLEGED GIBRALTAR DRUGS DEALERS

 An ongoing investigation dating back well over a year continues after a local man aged 73 was arrested last week and remanded on Friday on the strength of a European Arrest Warrant. On Thursday officers of the RGP arrested Angel Vella of No. 7 Maidstone House. The warrant issued by the Portuguese authorities is for alleged offences of conspiracy to import 6000 kilos of cannabis resin into Portugal. Vella appeared before the Magistrates Court on Friday where he was remanded in custody until September 19. Vella, who was granted legal aid and is represented by Carl Rammage, did not agree to being surrendered to the Portuguese authorities. In court the Portuguese Government was represented by Crown Counsel Karina Khubchand of the International Division EU International Department of the...

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Families flee crime and jobs horrors

 MILLIONS of hacked-off Brits are fleeing the UK for a home in the sun. More than three million have emigrated since 1991, shock new figures reveal. That means around one in 20 of the population have fled in search of a better life. And the mass exodus has sparked more fears of a brain drain generation as Britain’s brightest hopes go. Many say they are being driven out by crime, a shattered economy and bungling Government ministers. Huge numbers are young workers desperate for jobs and pensioners searching for an easy sunshine life. A string of tax benefits is also tempting away Brits who had been forced to get two jobs to try to ride out the recession. Australia has been the most popular sunshine spot for migrating Brits since 1991. America and Canada remain “attractive destinations”,...

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The Feadship Helix arriving in Gibraltar

Helix is Feadship Royal Van Lent's latest F45 superyacht, which was launched on August 15th. Helix is the first yacht in the series with the Nautical interior theme, which features a modern mix of light fabric covered walls in mahogany wooden frames and a high contrast in carefully selected materials. Helix is currently being offered for sale, and will make her first public appearance at the upcoming Monaco Yacht Show, which runs from September 21 to ...

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Dr. Wade Turner of Winfield successfully completed the grueling swim of the Strait of Gibraltar in just under five hours on Sept. 5.

 Turner’s wife Laurie, said his unofficial time, which she kept, was 4 hours, 52 minutes to complete the 12 to 14 mile swim. Distance is dependent on strength and direction of currents. The average temperature was 18-23 C depending on location in the water. When he finished, Turner told his wife he “couldn’t have made it another two minutes.” According to Laurie, Turner endured three to four foot swells and stretches of bad current. The facilitators wouldn’t let Turner break for nourishment or to rehydrate for a portion of the swim because the current was so strong. If he had stopped during that time, for every minute he was stopped, he would have been swept a quarter of a mile or more off course. Turner ended up having to take a longer route but made it to Africa in spite of the many...

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Bay of Gibraltar is 'disaster waiting to happen'

 The rock of Gibraltar rises to the east, its massive limestone cliffs more than 400 metres above sea level. To the west lies the Spanish port of Algeciras and its nature reserve. Between the two is a gulf barely 7km across where about 30 tankers and liners compete for space. They are moored in the bay waiting. Gibraltar is Europe's top port for refuelling. Located on one side of the strait connecting the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, with more than 110,000 ships passing through every year, it is a very attractive spot, especially since it levies no tax on fuel. Ships filling their tanks here can even dispense with mooring fees. But according...

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Tankers left to idle as growth in fleet outstrips global oil demand

 Anyone looking out over the Bay of Algeciras by the Rock of Gibraltar over the next few months can expect to see plenty of ships. The bay is a popular spot to moor oil tankers - Algeciras’s busy oil refinery is nearby and the bay’s strategic location makes it an excellent place for temporarily idle ships. The ships are underemployed thanks to growth in the world tanker fleet that far outstrips the 1.3 per cent world oil consumption growth projected for this year and the 1.8 per cent projected for 2012. Figures from Fearnleys, an Oslo-based shipbroker, put this year’s growth in the world fleet of very large crude carriers - the largest...

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talkSPORt to be broadcast to British troops stationed overseas

 talkSPORT commentary on the Rugby World Cup 2011 is to be broadcast to British soldiers serving overseas, the British Forces Broadcasting Service has announced. Coverage commences on September 9 and will enable troops stationed in more than 20 countries; including Afghanistan, Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands, to keep up to date with all the games as they are played. England legend Brian Moore, aka The Pit Bull, will be heading up talkSPORT's coverage for the tournament alongside David Campese. He said: “The Rugby World Cup is a massive event and is sure to be a fantastic spectacle – I’m really pleased to be supporting our brave troops abroad.” BFBS Controller Nicky Ness said: “I am delighted that the BFBS and talkSPORT partnership now extends to Rugby World Cup coverage. ...

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Nurofen Plus withdrawn in Gibraltar

 PHARMACIES in Gibraltar have had to withdraw all stocks of Nurofen Plus. The Health Authority fears the boxes could contain other types of drugs. They were advised to do this by the UK who issued a Class one drug alert Friday evening and issued a total recall of all Nurofen Plus tablets over the bank holiday this weekend. At least five packets of Nurofen Plus in the UK were found to contain other drugs including a powerful anti-psychotic medicine and another used to treat epilepsy. As of 10am on Tuesday it was still possible to buy the tablets in Gibraltar pharmacies. This is because, instead of an emergency call, the notification was apparently faxed to the chief pharmacist here, so it was Tuesday morning before any action was taken on the Rock. Scotland Yard is investigating...

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The husband of a woman who fell to her death during a holiday in Morocco remained upstairs in their apartment while she lay dying in the street below

The husband of a woman who fell to her death during a holiday in Morocco remained upstairs in their apartment while she lay dying in the street below, according to a new witness.His account deepens the mystery surrounding the death of Mathilde Lamb, 43, and that of her husband Roger, 47, who died in a separate fall four days later, leaving their four sons orphaned.Mrs Lamb, known as Tilly, was killed after plunging three floors from the window of the family’s £30-a-night rented apartment in the coastal town of Essaouira during the early hours of August 17. Mystery: Mathilde and Roger Lamb whose four children have been orphaned after both...

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Surgeons repair Spanish king's ruptured tendon

 Spanish surgeons successfully repaired 73-year-old King Juan Carlos's ruptured Achilles tendon on Monday, medical and palace officials said. The popular monarch had surgery to the Achilles tendon of his left foot at the private USP San Jose hospital in Madrid and has returned to his Zarzuela palace on the outskirts of the capital, they said. "The procedure was carried out successfully under epidural anaesthetic," the hospital said in a statement. Surgeons repaired the tendon through open reconstruction surgery, strengthening it with a transplant from the king's own body and with plasma rich in growth factor, it said. In typical open surgery, a surgeon makes a long incision along the back of the leg and sews the broken tendon back together. The ankle is often immobilized for up to three...

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Doctor serves six months in prison because of his grandmother's mothballs

 mistaken positive in a drugs test carried out at Barajas Airport in Madrid has resulted in a Panamanian doctor, Juan Rodríguez Lizondro, to be imprisoned in Madrid for six months. The customs authorities and Guardia Civil declared that his 19 kilos of clothes had been impregnated with cocaine, while the doctor claimed they had detected his grandmother’s camphor. The reported conversation at the time was.... ‘It smells strange – what’s it got?’ ‘I don’t know. I live with my grandmother. She irons my clothes with starch, and then puts it in drawers with balls of camphor ro repel the moths – maybe it’s that’. ‘Let’s see’, said the Guardia Civil, who then sprayed the clothes with an aerosol which produced a distinctive blue colour, indicating as far as they were concerned that it was cocaine....

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The youngest son of Christchurch-based engineer Roger Lamb and his wife who died during a holiday in Morocco has described his mother's last moments.

Lamb and wife Mathilde, known as Tilly, were holidaying with their four sons, aged between 9 and 16, in Essaouira when they died in separate falls several days apart.British reports said a "furious argument" was heard before Mathilde, 43, of England, was found on the ground after plunging from the third-floor apartment where they were staying.Flat owner Majid Naimi told the Daily Mail there was no way her death was an accident – "the only way out of the window is if someone climbs out or is pushed."But the couple's youngest son who was in the apartment at the time of the tragedy has denied that was the case, The Telegraph reported.He told relatives that Mathilde had been leaning out of their apartment window to remonstrate with a group of people rowing outside in the street, when she lost...

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LIBYA EXPOSES LEADERSHIP VACUUM IN ALGERIA

The Algerian authorities’ change of heart regarding their decision not to recognize the Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) indicates an emerging civilian power vacuum in el-Mouradia Palace and a de-facto take over by the Military of all matters of government in Algiers.  Experts believe that the Libyan crisis has exposed the “known fact” that the Military Intelligence Agency‘s (Département du Renseignement et de la Sécurité or DRS) has been running the Government in Algeria for sometimes now.With Algeria’s so-called position of “pure neutrality” in the Libyan conflict evaporating, Algeria’s Foreign Minister is trying to save face on the international scene.  Mr. Mourad Medelci recent declaration of Algeria’s pending recognition of the CNT is a far cry from his government...

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MYSTERY continued to grow yesterday over the deaths of a mum and dad in Morocco.

  Mathilde “Tilly” Lamb and her husband Roger both plunged to their deaths, days apart, while on holiday with their four sons. There were reports of a loud, “furious argument” before Tilly, 43, fell from the third floor window of their rented holiday flat in Essaouira.Friends of the Lambs claim the pair had fallen out over plans to sell their home in Penham, Worcs, and emigrate to New Zealand. But Roger’s brother Mark Rogerson said this was wrong according to what one of the boys had said.Tilly died three days later in hospital. A day later Roger, 47, fell to his death from the second floor balcony of the Sofitel Hotel. Sons Angus,...

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Inquest hears balcony plunge mum Tilly Lamb died of multiple fractures in Morocco

BRITISH tourist who fell 60ft to her death from an apartment in Morocco suffered head, neck and back fractures, an inquest heard yesterday.Mum-of-four Mathilde “Tilly” Lamb, 43, of Dinton, Wilts, died the day before her husband Roger also perished in a fall from their hotel balcony.Moroccan detectives are treating her death as an ­accident. They believe Mr Lamb, 47, committed suicide afterwards.&nb...

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