Mrs Borg News Today

Eve Smith, 21, was found dead in the wreckage of a white VW Tiguan on the outskirts of Cardiff in the early hours of Monday morning - almost two days after the five friends were last seen at a nightclub.

The plague has never been endemic in Malta but it has been ‘imported’ several times from the Levant and spread rapidly throughout the islands with heavy loss of life. After the Order of St John was expelled from Malta in 1798, the first plague outbreak under the new British rulers occurred in April 1813. This is the basis of this month’s anniversary story. Lieutenant-General Sir Hildebrand Oakes (1754-1822), Civil Commissioner of Malta, 1810-13, in a portrait attributed to Henry Raeburn (...