Stories for February 2001
Iron Duke returns to Portsmouth.
Portsmouth-based Type 23 Frigate HMS Iron Duke returns home on 23 February 2001 after a 6-month deployment. In that time the ship's company enjoyed the New Year celebrations on the beach in Brazil, and the ship has had a school named after her in Sierra Leone.
Blueprint for Future Falklands Prosperity:Organic Meat Exports, New Abattoir and Deep Water Port.
“The Falkland Islands Government has announced a three-year development plan. Our Correspondent Harold Briley has been looking at it”
Falkland Islands Government. PRESS RELEASE.
Foot and Mouth Disease
Falkland Councillors philosophical over argentine rejection.
Falklands Councillors have reacted in a typical British philosophical manner following the Argentine Government's rejection of their ?let's conserve the fish stocks' letter, which was sent to LA NACION and CLARIN.
While Councillor Mike Summers outspokingly called the Buenos Aires Government, ?predictably pathetic', Councillor Richard Cockwell adopted a more restrained approach and called the Argentine response ?negative'.
“Malvinas: Surprise Message to Argentina”.
La Nacion's front page headline today says “Malvinas: Surprise Message toArgentina”.
Referendum in conjunction with Election
Breaking News from South America
In Shackleton's Footsteps
An attempt to re-trace the perilous journey by Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton across South Georgia's formidable mountains, from King Haakon Bay to Stromness, is being made during March by a six member team of British adventurers.
