World Bulletin / News Desk

Britain said on Wednesday it would make a formal "high level" protest toSpain over what the British Foreign Office described as an incursion into Gibraltar's territorial waters by the Spanish Navy earlier this week.

"There was an incursion into British waters near Gibraltar by the Spanish Navy on 18 February, during aRoyal Navy exercise," a Foreign Office spokesman said in a statement."We are raising this at a high level with the Spanish government and will be issuing a formal protest."