Drivers were forced to queue for hours in blistering heat as Spain tightened its border controls with Gibraltar in the wake of the standoff at sea on Thursday. The tailback on Friday and Saturday ...

This could be a description of Gibraltar, the British exclave on the southern Spanish coast that was the subject of an international row last week as Madrid stepped up its claims of sovereignty ...

A few years later, in 1713, the Treaty of Utrecht - which formally ceded Gibraltar to the British - made clear Jews and Muslims should be banned from the Rock. It did not work. A century later - in ...