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David departed from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. And when his brothers and all his father's house heard it, they went down there to him. 2 And everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was bitter in soul, gathered to him. And he became captain over them. And there were with him about four hundred men.

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Hell will freeze over before we bow to Spain - Gibraltar's defiant message to Madrid

GIBRALTAR’S chief minister said this morning that “hell will freeze over” before it removes an artificial reef that has angered Spanish fishermen and which has led to what many see as a road blockade of the Rock.

By: Ted Jeory & Owen Bennett

Published: Mon, August 5, 2013

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Spain is taking a more belligerent approach to the row, causing misery to workers in Gibraltar

Fabian Picardo said the reef was required for Gibraltar’s economy and was no different to others built by Spain in its own coastal waters.

And he said Spanish threats to close its airspace around the Mediterranean outpost would make landings more difficult for pilots and so endanger the lives of passengers.

He accused Spain of acting like North Korea and sabre-rattling over the country's new hard-line stance on Gibraltar.

Madrid’s foreign minister Jose Garcia-Margallo has become increasingly belligerent in his language, threatening to impose a toll charge of 50 euros (£43.40) on vehicles entering and leaving the British Overseas Territory.  

Gibraltar's defiant chief minister Fabian Picardo (centre; from Facebook)

He has said the proceeds could be used to help Spanish fishermen who have lost out because of damage to fishing grounds allegedly caused by Gibraltarian authorities. 

Such a fee could impose punitive costs on Gibraltarians who regularly commute into Spain to work. 

Spain is also considering closing its airspace to flights heading to the Rock.

Mr Picardo said any border costs would violate European Union freedom of movement rules.

He added Spain’s threats were the “politics of madness”.He told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme: "What we have seen this weekend is sabre-rattling of the sort that we haven't seen for some time.

"The things that Mr Garcia-Margallo has said are more reminiscent of the type of statementyou'd hear from North Korea than from an EU partner.

"We've seen it before during Franco's time during the 1960s but I think all of us hoped that those politics were never going to come back and that the much more enlightened politics of Mr Moratinos (Miguel Angel Moratinos), who was the previous but one foreign minister of Spain, would prevail, which talked about people working together and creating economic benefits for the citizens on both sides of the frontier rather than the belligerence we are seeing now.”

What we have seen this weekend is sabre-rattling of the sort that we haven't seen for some time

Fabian Picardo

His comments came three weeks after the Sunday Express broke the story about the escalating row, with Mr Picardo demanding Britain send a gun boat to patrol Gibraltar in a show of strength.

Last week, Express Online revealed that Spain had been turning away lorries full of concrete thought to be destined for the artificial reef.

Thousands of other motorists have been forced to queue for hours in sweltering heat as Spanish border guards began to check every vehicle at the border post.

Yesterday, the Foreign Office voiced concerns over Mr Garcia-Margallo's comments and said Britain would not compromise its sovereignty over Gibraltar.A spokesman made clear that the UK expects Madrid to live up to the commitments it made in the 2006 Cordoba Agreement, which included deals on issues like border crossings and access for flights, as well as establishing a tripartite forum for regular dialogue between Britain, Spain and Gibraltar.

Spain claims sovereignty over the Rock, which stands on the southernmost tip of the Iberian peninsula but has been a British Overseas Territory since the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713. 

But the UK Government has made clear that it will not negotiate over sovereignty as long as Gibraltar's people want to remain British.Foreign Secretary William Hague last month phoned Mr Garcia-Margallo to complain about Spain ramping up border checks, which forced drivers to wait for up to seven hours in searing heat.

The Foreign Office yesterday summoned the Spanish ambassador to demand assurances that there would be no repeat of the excessive checks.

Our seaside town dumping grounds: Faded resorts filled with workless cost £2bn in benefits

• Unemployment is twice or even several times the national average
• Plummeting property prices mean hotels turned into cheap housing
• Report said it was a case of 'poverty attracting poverty'

By TAMARA COHEN

PUBLISHED: 00:14, 5 August 2013 | UPDATED: 07:38, 5 August 2013

 
 
 

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Declining seaside towns have become ‘dumping grounds’ following the destruction of their economies by cheap foreign travel, a report warns today.

Once-thriving resorts are now heavily populated by welfare claimants, those with substance abuse and mental health problems and patients leaving the care system, it claims.

Unemployment is twice or even several times the national average – with working age benefits costing almost £2billion per year.

Run-down: Seaside towns like Margate are full of empty shops and benefits claimants

A report from the Centre for Social Justice said seaside towns underwent rapid decline in the 1970s with the advent of cheap flights abroad.

While some, such as Brighton and Bournemouth, have retained their tourist industry by attracting the business community, many others have suffered ‘severe social breakdown’, the report says.

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The numbers of pupils leaving school with no qualifications, teenage pregnancy, lone parenting, and joblessness are among the highest in the country.

In areas of Blackpool, the researchers found more than 40 per cent of children were fatherless, and in one deprived area of Rhyl, north Wales, 67 per cent of people were out of work. The national average is 7.8 per cent.

One phenomenon found in all five towns they examined – Blackpool, Rhyl, Margate in Kent, Clacton-on-Sea in Essex and Great Yarmouth in Norfolk – was a plummeting of property prices which has seen former hotels and bed and breakfasts in town centres turned into cheap housing.

Desolate: The seaside town of Jaywick, near Clacton on Sea, is one of the most run down areas of Britain

'Dumping ground': Jaywick, where unusually high numbers of residents are on out-of-work benefits

This has attracted vulnerable people from nearby towns and cities, putting a drain on public services, said the CSJ, a conservative-leaning think-tank founded by the Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith. 

The report said: ‘A recurring theme has been that of poverty attracting poverty.

‘Many parts of these towns have become dumping grounds, further depressing the desirability of  such areas and so perpetuating the cycle.’ 

Of the 20 neighbourhoods across the UK with the highest levels of out-of-work benefits, seven are in coastal towns that once attracted millions of holidaymakers.

The Turning the Tide report says there is a clear case for more investment in transport and infrastructure in coastal areas. 

The report recommends giving these towns funding for initiatives such as improving local housing and schools to attract more upwardly-mobile residents, and grants for businesses outside the tourist industry.

It claims the new Universal Credit benefits system would help more unemployed into minimum-wage jobs. And it says the Government’s Coastal Communities Fund should be devolved to a more local level. 

Traditional high streets are set to disappear and be replaced by small clusters of shops, with empty properties converted into homes.

Planning minister Nick Boles said councils should attempt to preserve high street shopping on just one or two ‘prime streets’.

Town hall chiefs will get greater freedom to convert retail premises into private housing because we are doing more shopping online.

CSj Report http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/UserStorage/pdf/Pdf%20reports/Turning-the-Tide.pdf

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