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Police warn of phone scam
The police said today that several people have received text messages or phone calls from an overseas number where they were falsely told they had won a lottery. They were then asked for their bank...
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Idiots’ guide to 2014 Malta Eurovision Song Contest
Twenty hopefuls take to the stage in tonight’s semi-final and most of the island will be watching how they get on. Kristina Chetcuti has been listening to the songs on a loop and is ready to dish out...
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Updated - Shareholders win second major National Bank court case
Shareholders of the former National Bank have won their second human rights case in as many months, with a court finding that unlawful expropriation without compensation had taken place. The case was...
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Mepa turns down Villa Bonici development application pending development brief
The Mepa board has rejected an application to develop the Villa Bonici gardens in Sliema. Developers had proposed building nearly 200 apartments in four blocks, the highest being 12 storeys high. The...
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PN prefers lower thresholds in party funding law - Controversy over Sandro...
PN General Secretary Chris Said indicated this evening that the PN would like to see the thresholds proposed in the White Paper on party financing reduced. The comment was made during the Dissett...
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Update 3 - Libyan Prime Minister spends night in Malta for security reasons
Updated - Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan arrived in Malta last night reportedly because his aircraft could not land in Tripoli for security reasons. He was greeted at the airport by Foreign Minister...
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Cat killings: Mayor says man on two Mosta videos may be different
Mosta Mayor Shirley Farrugia said today that the 'cat killer' seen on CCTV footage in September appeared to be different from the one recorded earlier this week. However she admitted on TVAM that she...
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Murdered man’s family deny he was police informer
Joseph Galea, known as il-Ġilda, who was shot dead in Marsa on Tuesday morning, was still alive, gasping for air, when his wife went outside to investigate after hearing a loud noise. “I went to him...
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Updated - Police issue new Mosta animal killer video
The police this afternoon issued new footage taken from three cameras showing the Mosta animal killer. The footage, too distant for the man to be identified, shows him carrying a crucified dog as he...
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Holmes files judicial protest, claims discrimination in court sentencing
Daniel Holmes, the Welshman jailed for 10-and-a-half years for cultivating cannabis, has filed a judicial protest claiming the harsh sentence was discriminatory and arguing that his case was null on...
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War tunnels opened for feast celebration
The subterranean war tunnels beneath the Upper Barrakka saluting battery will be opened to the public for the first time in years to mark the feast of St Paul’s Shipwreck on Monday. Speaking during a...
View ArticlePL elects National Executive
The delegates of the Labour Party have elected the party's National Executive. There were 13 nominations for the 12 places. The elected memebrs are Ġuża Cassar, Monica Farrugia, Frans Agius, Krista...
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‘Sewage will recharge water levels’
Sewage will be treated and used to recharge the island’s groundwater levels, according to Energy Minister Konrad Mizzi. Addressing the launch of an inter-ministerial consultation on a new 10-year...
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Superyacht graces Grand Harbour
The 85-metre motoryacht Pacific, formerly known as Project Josi, is in Grand Harbour. Launched in 2010 at the Lürssen shipyard in Vegesack, the superyacht was designed by Argentinian naval architect...
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CVA changes made Valletta parking problems worse - Council
Valletta local council complained this evening that changes to the CVA parking system to allow free parking in Valletta after 2 pm. had made the parking problem in the capital more serious. In...
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Coming Home wins Malta Eurovision Song Contest
Coming Home (lyrics and music by Richard Micallef) won the Malta Eurovision Song Contest tonight and the group Firelight will represent Malta in the Eurovision Song Contest in Denmark in May. The...
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'Chase every vote' Grech tells PL delegates
A good government has to accept criticism and act on it, Deputy Prime Minister Louis Grech told Labour delegates this evening. Closing the second session of the Labour general conference, he urged...
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Sant addresses PL conference for first time since stepping down
Former Labour leader Alfred Sant urged delegates at the party general conference this evening to stay solidly behind the government because it was not true "the Nationalists accepted defeat". This was...
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Cikku Fenech, man who evaded death sentence, passes away
Cikku Fenech, a man who was hunted by the police for three months after murdering Cikku Vella in Mosta 1963, has passed away. He was 74. Fenech lived in caves around Mgarr and Gnejna before finally...
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Windmill extension, Dwejra boathouses demolished
Mepa has demolished a large, illegally-built extension to a historic windmill in Triq il-Mithna in Zurrieq. The extension was built some years ago to increase the floorspace for the residents of the...
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