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July 12, 2007 – Odyssey Marine Exploration survey vessel, the Ocean Alert, was seized off Europa Point by the Spanish Civil Guard and taken to the port of Algeciras for inspection despite assurances from Spanish judicial authorities that the ship was only to be inspected at sea and would not be taken into a Spanish port. (CNN)
September 8, 2007 – Chief Minister Peter Caruana advises the Governor to dissolve Parliament and call a General Election for October 11, 2007. (Gibraltar Chronicle)
August 13, 2007 – Salvage crews prepare to try to refloat a cargo ship that collided with an oil tanker off Europa Point, the southernmost tip of Gibraltar, and ended up partially submerged. (Wikinews)
October 11, 2007 – The Gibraltar Social Democrats were returned to Government for a fourth term after a General Election. (Gibfocus)
November 29, 2007 – A former Spanish Ambassador to Portugal is appointed as the Director of the Instituto Cervantes. (Gibfocus)
December 15, 2007 – The 25th anniversary of the pedestrian opening of the frontier in 1982.
December 9, 2007 – Gibraltar is named as one of the locations in which John Darwin, once presumed dead, reappeared during his five year life under a false identity. (Daily Mirror)
December 23, 2007 – The Junta De Andalucia blames Gibraltar for an oil spillage detected off the shores of Algeciras allegedly linked to the New Flame off Europa Point. (Gibnews)
December 29, 2007 – A 14-man team makes preparations to remove the wreck of the New Flame. (Gibraltar Chronicle)
January 2, 2008 – Gibraltarian patients evacuated from the Royal Marsden Hospital as fire breaks out. (Gibfocus)
January 8, 2008 – Gordon Brown asserts that the Her Majesty's Government does not contemplate any discussions with Spain about possible deals over Gibraltar's sovereignty. (Gibfocus)
January 13, 2008 – Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs Miguel Ángel Moratinos states that the Spanish Government will support New Flame legal action against Gibraltar. (Gibraltar Chronicle)
1 February 2008 - British Archaeologist and Architectural Historian, Prof. Warwick Rodwell, calls the demolition of the Rosia Tanks "an act of cultural vandalism". (Gibfocus)
24 January 2008 – Joint Sovereignty campaigner Peter Hain resigns from several posts after the failure to report donations to Metropolitan Police.