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The King and I
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Vol. 8 Issue 198
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EXCLUSIVE: Our man at the Coronation, See page 6
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ROCK SOLID
Shipwreck awaits fate By John Culatto
THE bathing season is under threat from what could be the biggest oil spill to date. It comes with the shipwreck off Catalan Bay is finally set to get lifted out of the water. The Dutch company employed by owners of the OS 35 to remove the shipwreck will finish the complex operation by June 16, more than two weeks late and the day after the bathing season officially starts. This new stage will see the greatest risk of a further oil spill. Although the contractors backed by the Gibraltar Port Authority (GPA) have put a plan into place to safeguard beaches, they are not entirely sure how much oil and fuel is still trapped in the ship. Koole Wreck Removal will first make both the front and back sections airtight before lifting them out of the water from their current location 700m from Catalan Bay. Captain of the Port, John Ghio, had originally ordered that the wreck be removed by May 30. But he admitted it was ‘an extremely complex and delicate process’. “Whilst the short delay for its final removal is unfortunate, this is the only safe way to do so that mitigates the potential future source of pollution and minimise the impact on the environment,” Ghio said.
Gibraltarians came out in force to show their loyalty during the coronation of King Charles III Full story, see page 4
IMAGINE THEY GET BACK FRESH life has been breathed into a cold case involving some of the most iconic photographs in rock and roll history. The remarkable set of pictures of J o h n Lennon a n d Yoko Ono - in-
Cold case reopened: Fresh lead in missing John Yoko wedding photos cluding their iconic Gibraltar wedding snaps - have been missing for decades. While the Olive Press launched a special investigation in 2016 to help recover them for photographer David Nutter, the trail has since g o n e cold. Over the
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ICONIC: John and Yoko in Gib, while (right) with snapper Nutter, plus flashback to our 2016 probe
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EXCLUSIVE By Walter Finch
course of a year we managed to establish that the stolen negatives were being offered by a shady Far Eastern cartel that claimed to own them. However, despite receiving a copy of a contact sheet we were unable to finally secure the negatives or pin down the seller. Now, out of the blue, we have received a mystery letter from an apparent Good Samaritan in the USA who claims she had the missing negatives in her hands in 2011.
UNSEEN BEFORE: Scan of negative of John and Yoko kissing sent to us this week
Offered to her company by a third party, they were digitally scanned, but not purchased over concerns of copyright. Having recently read our reports from 2016 she has decided she wants to return to the photographer himself and has reached out to the Olive Press to help. “I feel real sympathy for Mr Nutter’s plight and I want to get the scans to him,” she wrote, adding she would actually like to deliver them herself. Taken in Gibraltar in 1969 by Nutter, the incredible photos captured the infamous, whistlestop wedding of Lennon and Yoko. The valuable negatives – estimated to be worth at least €150,000 – vanished in the 1970s after Nutter, now 84, lent them to a friend Anthony Fawcett to use in his book, John Lennon: One Day At A Time. They were allegedly stolen during the repossession of Fawcett’s apartment ‘he claimed’. Despite two separate investigations by British police and the FBI they have never been recovered. If you can help (or are the anonymous letter writer) pls contact jon@theolivepress.es in strict confidence