Article: Meeting the Rock stars; Gibraltar is approaching its 300th anniversary - and even the apes are getting a makeover. Clive Batty spent a weekend there...

Byline: CLIVE BATTY

THE LAST time I visited Gibraltar was with a Spanish girlfriend ten years ago. Having spent much of the journey from the Costa del Sol railing against the English 'pirates' who had stolen The Rock from Spain, her tone changed as we walked along the town's scruffy high street.

'It's a dump,' she concluded, 'you can keep it.' But Gibraltar has changed for the better since those days. The town centre now has a greater variety of shops, the central square has been spruced up and is fringed with Continental-style outdoor cafes and restaurants, a marina has been created from land reclaimed from the sea and the vexed issue of cigarette ...

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