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Newspaper post YOUR FIRST READ AND CLICK OF THE DAY WWW.MALTATODAY.COM.MT 2 maltatoday today today SUNDAY • 26 AUGUST 2018 • ISSUE 981 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY The indomitable chef and restaurateur Marvin Gauci interviewed PAGE 16-17 KURT SANSONE SIX children abandoned by next of kin after their father died were found living on their own in horrid conditions, Mal- taToday has learnt. The children aged be- tween five and 15 were living at the family home in central Malta, with the eldest sister acting as a mother to her siblings. The chil- dren were found living in poor and dirty condi- tions. Social workers have been working for the past weeks on this complex case and last Thursday the children were put with a number of respite foster carers until arrangements are made for their long- term care as a family unit. PAGE 6 PAGE 3 Abandoned children found living alone in terrible conditions €1.95 12 13 Six children abandoned by next of kin after their father dies Children found living on their own in horrid conditions Kitchen confi dential 2 Cliff Zammit- Stevens takes the Q&A INSIDE MaltaToday2 Mighty rowers of the Regatta Inside the Bormla boathouse Squalor that is unbelievable in 21st century Malta: these are the rooms where the children, aged five to 15, were left to fend by themselves after being abandoned by their next of kin No official reason yet for NGO plane's grounding PAUL COCKS MALTESE authorities are refusing to justify their decision to ground a small plane used by a German non-govern- mental organisation to assist in the search and rescue mission of a ship it also operates, the NGO has claimed. The NGO was initially told the aircraft could not use Malta as a base to f ly patrols in Libya's SAR zone, because the department had issued a NOTAM (Notice to Airmen) saying Italian- registered aircraft could not be based in Malta. The Civil Aviation De- partment then claimed that an Aeronautical Information Publica- tion (AIP) warning of the dangers of f lying out of Libya had led it to ground the SR22. Questions sent to the CAD remained unan- swered by the time we went to print.