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Update 3 - Fire at Mriehel factory building
Updated - Adds new video A fire broke out this morning in a factory building - known as the former Honda showroom building - at Mriehel Industrial Estate. The police and several fire crews of the...
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Driver chases empty runaway bus in Rabat
A driver ended up chasing his bus after an apparent brake failure in Rabat early this afternoon. The incident happened near the Roman Villa and Crystal Palace (Is-Serkin) Bar. The bus fortunately...
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Maltese tourists' car involved in fatal crash in Sicily
Two Italian men died when their motorcycle was involved in a head-on crash with a car driven by Maltese tourists on the Trapani-Marsala road, Italian media have reported. The incident took place...
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Anger as holiday-makers are told their tours have been cancelled - police...
The police launched an investigation today after several people who had booked holidays with Fantasy Tours reported receiving an SMS message telling them that their holidays have been cancelled. The...
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Tonio Fenech, Konrad Mizzi to be substituted in PAC during oil procurement...
The government proposed today that the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) should formally start to discuss the findings of an Auditor-General report on Enemalta oil procurement in the week starting...
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Updated - Government intends to stick to tax-cutting plan
Updated - Adds video comments - Finance Minister Edward Scicluna said this morning that the government is planning on continuing with the three year programme of top rate income tax cuts announced by...
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Plan to 'eradicate' medicines problem
The Government is working on a plan to eradicate once and for all the “endemic” problem of out-of-stock medicines by revamping the procurement system which has been in operation so far, Prime Minister...
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Rinella sandy beach may be extended
The government is considering the possibility of extending Rinella sandy beach, the only beach in Grand Harbour, Infrastructure Minister Joe Mizzi said this morning. The extension would be made by...
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Update 2 - Lawyers request immediate release of man after mistaken arraignment
Lawyers representing Darryl Luke Borg, 27 of Birkirkara, this afternoon filed an urgent request for his release from custody after it resulted earlier in the day that he had been wrongfully arraigned...
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Couple loses second bid to have care orders lifted and children returned
A couple has lost its second bid to have care orders revoked and two boys returned, with a court finding that conditions at home justified the removal of the children. Mr Justice Tonio Mallia...
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Forgotten bag causes bomb scare at MIA
A black sports bag that was left or forgotten just outside the departures building at Malta International Airport caused a scare this afternoon until army bomb disposal experts ascertained that there...
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Swimmer injured after being struck by boat
An Italian man fractured his left leg when he was struck by a boat yesterday at about 8 p.m., while swimming alone in the area known as il-Fossa, Valletta. The police said that investigations found...
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‘We are here for the booze and beauties’
They are oversexed, underdressed and in Malta in bigger numbers than ever before. Young, fun-loving Italians in designer bikinis or skimpy speedos seem to dominate popular tourist spots at the moment....
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Valletta's open theatre officially inaugurated
Pjazza Teatru Rjal, the open theatre on the ruins of the former Opera House in Valletta, was officially inaugurated this evening. President George Abela and the Parliamentary Secretary for Culture,...
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‘Bench vandals did us a favour’
A wooden bench in St Julian's which landed two Frenchmen with a court-imposed fine for vandalism was already broken and had been lying in a state of disrepair for months, Times of Malta has learnt....
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Investigations into cancelled tours continue as furious clients demand refunds
The police and officials of the Consumer Affairs Authority today continued to list complaints by a large number of holidaymakers whose tours were cancelled by Fantasy Tours yesterday, some of them...
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Bays 'being returned to the people'
Half of the area in the three bays at Ghadira has been freed of rental sun shades and deck chairs in terms of a new agreement reached between the Malta Tourism Authority and the lido operators. MTA...
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Dog-friendly beaches announced
The government has designated a number of bays as being ‘dog friendly’. They are Bahar ic-Caghaq behind the Splash and Fun park, Marsaxlokk at Il-Maghluq, Sliema near the old Chalet, L-Ahrax near the...
View ArticleSicilian mayor wants to end twinning with Siggiewi
Siggiewi mayor Karol Aquilina in a statement today regretted comments reportedly made by the mayor of the Sicilian town of Vittoria that he saw no reason to maintain a twinning ageement with Siggiewi....
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Italy agreed to take migrants 'for humanitarian reasons'
Italy accepted 102 migrants blocked by Malta due mainly to humanitarian reasons, according to the Italian ambassador. “After two days of stalemate my authorities decided out of humanitarian concerns...
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