Inquiry finds Fabian Picardo was ‘grossly improper’ to protect James Levy from a search warrant The chief minister of Gibraltar made a series of “grossly improper” and “sinister” interventions to interfere in a live criminal investigation in order to protect his friend, mentor and business partner from the consequences of a search warrant, a public inquiry has found. The retired England and Wales high court judge and inquiry chair, Sir Peter Openshaw, concluded that Fabian Picardo acted to protect James Levy KC when police were at Hassans law firm, where Levy was a senior partner, on 12 May 2020 with a search warrant from “a legitimate police investigation and operation”. Continue reading...

The longest night of the year saw fire, beasts and masked revellers filling the streets.

Explore Canterbury’s history around the remains of an original Roman town house and Scheduled Ancient Monument.

Fair Isle practitioners say Channel 4’s knitting show is littered with errors about their historic craft and demand an apology The group chat for Shetland knitters was popping off, says one member, as they settled down to watch the first episode of Game of Wool: Britain’s Best Knitter. But their enthusiasm for the Channel 4 elimination show hosted by former Olympian and crafts enthusiast Tom Daley quickly unravelled. Continue reading...

Tchiques exempl'yes en bouochies d'son du Dictionnaithe Jèrriais-Français Sound clips of example Jèrriais phrases from entries in the big dictionary - Dictionnaire Jersiais-Français

According to the 2022 Demographic Census by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), Brazil currently has 433,980 indigenous people aged five...

The Regional Dossiers focus on the education system in European regions that have an autochthonous lesser-used language, and on how the lesser-used language is embedded in this system. The Regional Do...

Selon une enquête menée par Preply, dans les Hauts-de-France, 52 % des habitants perçoivent un effacement de leur accent régional. L’accent ch’ti est-il en train de disparaître ? On vous explique.

A new Welsh pharmacy network had been launched in a bid to increase the use of the Welsh language. On Wednesday 22 October, pharmacists, students and educators in the field came together for the estab...

MUSIC lovers will have heard of Gorillaz, but there’s a new animated band forming and celebrating all things Jersey. La Dgaîngue, which translates from Jèrriais to The Gang, is the creation of Dr Kit ...

More wall than traditional hedge, the painstaking skills have been maintained for thousands of years in Cornwall - but hilariously hit the headlines when someone else tried their hands at it

Iniciativa pol Asturianu denuncia la esclusión de la llingua asturiana na nueva configuración de la Oficina de las Llingües Oficiales y del Consejo de las Lenguas Oficiales y la Oficina para las Lengu...

Culture Vannin is launching a £26,000 fund ahead of year-long celebrations of the island's language.

At the September session of the 60th UN Human Rights Council held at the end of September in Geneva, Spain adopted several recommendations from different states made under the Universal Periodic Revie...

Italians born in Rome may have accidently selected the Roma ethnicity category in the country's last census, officials say.

While we know the manuscript spent at least 650 years at Kells, we do not know where it started its life. Now a new book offers some clues as to its provenance.