Why pick a holiday in Gibraltar? ‘We couldn’t go anywhere else’

Prized green-list status attracts younger British tourists to the Rock for the first time as vacation choices remain slim

If the residents of Apes' Den are pleased to see a larger than usual number of Britons snapping them, cooing over them or, indeed, edging gingerly away from them, they give little indication of it.

It is not much of a stretch to suggest that the social, political and economic ramifications of the current pandemic have been wholly lost on the crag-haunting, tourist-attracting Barbary macaques as they lounge around their lair high above the busy streets and marinas of Gibraltar.