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Hunters suggest Birdlife should be replaced on Ornis committee
A hunters' association, Kaccaturi San Ubertu, has called on the government to replace Birdlife by another ornithological society on the Ornis committee. KSU was reacting to a walkout from a committee...
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Eyesore room was in breach of design
A room in Rudolph Street, Sliema, that marred the streetscape of a row of townhouses was not built according to approved designs, a planning investigation has found. The planning authority will “in...
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Imported rabbits increasingly used by traditional 'fenkata' restaurants
Local rabbit meat is being squeezed out of the market by the “overwhelming” amount of frozen imports, according to breeders who claim they cannot compete with foreign producers. Nearly 300,000 kilos...
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Trappers’ hope for finch trapping fades
Trappers are unlikely to have a five-year ban on finch trapping lifted this year, according to a top hunting official. Lino Farrugia, general secretary of the hunting federation FKNK, said he was “not...
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‘Cliff jumping is safe if you take precautions’
Toby Segar, one of the British free-runners who shot a cliff-diving video in Malta last year, suspects it may have helped inspire this summer’s leaping frenzy. But he insists that there is nothing...
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Man arrested over theft of water
A man was arrested yesterday after the police received an anonymous report that water was being stolen from an unused public convenience in Xatt il-Braken, Marsa. The police said the arrest was made...
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Three young Polish men ended up in court today after walking naked in Triq-it-Turisti, Qawra, late yesterday. Patryk Piotr Fundament and Rafal Daniel Zeglen, both 26, and Grzegorz Janusz Jozwik, 24,...
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Prisoner escapes and is recaptured
The police this morning recaptured a man who escaped from prison guards who were escorting him at Mater Dei Hospital. The man was in preventive custody while facing charges of domestic violence. The...
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Updated - Police Commissioner: Phone logs show wrongly accused man contacted...
Updated - Adds Commissioner's comments on Isle of MTV incident allegations. Police Commissioner Peter Paul Zammit said this evening that police investigations into the meeting last week between the...
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Man describes how he was lured to secluded area and robbed
A man told a court today how he was driving in Gzira, on his way to a notary's office, when a woman hopped into his car and took him to a secluded area where he was robbed. The man was testifying in...
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Update 6 - Attempted hold-up: Man shot in critical condition, getaway car...
The man shot and injured in what is believed to have been an attempted hold-up outside Skyparks near the airport this morning is in a critical condition, the police said. People on the scene said the...
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Gozo court cases held up by payments backlog
Experts appointed by the Gozo courts have not been paid for their services for many years, leading them to refuse to submit their reports. The payment backlog and the resulting boycott is causing long...
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Man charged with escaping custody
Julian Genovese has been remanded in custody after he pleaded not guilty to escaping prison guards who were escorting him at Mater Dei yesterday. Mr Genovese, who was in preventive custody while...
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Men more likely to die from skin cancer
Men are 70 per cent more likely to die from malignant melanoma than women, according to a shocking report this week by Cancer Research UK. This is despite similar numbers of men and women being...
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‘Even Morsi’s supporters got fed up and turned against him’
Ousted President Mohamed Morsi garnered more dissenters than his predecessor, according to a Maltese Jesuit who has been in Egypt for 30 years. Following the original euphoria, Morsi became more and...
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Just four taxi drivers disciplined for not using meters
Just four white-taxi drivers have been disciplined by Transport Malta so far this year for carrying passengers without using meters. The Sunday Times of Malta recently found drivers demanding...
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Diver returns lost camera after YouTube post
A camera lost at sea in Gozo was returned to its owner some days (or weeks) later after it was found by an expatriate diver who lives in Malta who posted the contents of the camera’s memory card in a...
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Tons of material collected from water catchment facilities
A total 83 tons of material mainly silt, soil and other debris was collected from water catchment facilities since the beginning of the year, a spokeswoman in the Infrastructure Ministry said. She...
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Heist victim's condition improves
The elderly taxi driver who was fighting for his life after a robber shot him in the face yesterday in a failed €60,000 heist at the airport is no longer in a critical condition, the police said....
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Updated: Trees at Hamrun boys' school butchered
A number of trees lining the Boys’ Junior Lyceum in Ħamrun have been savagely pruned, prompting concerned environmentalists to question how youths were expected to respect nature if this was the...
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