A short spell of heavy rain yesterday caught this couple off guard and they had to shelter in the unused sentry boxes outside the President’s Palace in Valletta. The sentry boxes are unmanned because the Armed Forces of Malta have ‘temporarily’ suspended the detailing of soldiers on guard duties outside the palace and the changing-of-the-guard ceremony.

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