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Falkland Islands

  • Wednesday, May 3rd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

    Glory days of the Harrier

    “Hostile Skies: My Falklands Air War” by David Morgan.
    Morgan flew in the first British air strike against Port Stanley and shot down Argentinian fighters over Bluff Cove. He was awarded the DSC in 1982.

  • Wednesday, May 3rd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

    Falklands' Government prepares for constitutional change

    Members of the Falkland Islands Government's Select Committee on the Constitution comprised of the eight elected members of the Legislative Council, recently met with Attorney General, David Lang QC and Chief Executive, Chris Simpkins, to discuss some changes to the Islands' Constitution, which they wished to propose in due course to the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

  • Monday, May 1st 2006 - 21:00 UTC

    UK Armed Forces minister visits Falklands

    Falkland Islands defence capability, the 25th anniversary of the 1982 South Atlantic conflict and hydrocarbons were among the issues discussed Monday between visiting British Armed Forces minister Adam Ingram and elected Councillors in Stanley.

  • Saturday, April 29th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

    Falklands warm-up for ?a bit of a ride' through the Americas.

    “We thought we were just going for a bit of a ride”. The speaker was 49 year old, Mick Daly, expressing some mild surprise at the amount of interest generated by his plan to join his old army colleague, Mick Simpson, in a motor bike ride from Ushuaia, Argentina, the most southerly town in Latin America, to Prudhoe Bay in Alaska.

  • Friday, April 28th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

    Penguin News Update.

    Headlines:
    Getting Memorial Wood ready for 2007; ?South Atlantic 25' announced; Dry-dock delayed; Indecent images found: man pleads guilty

  • Thursday, April 27th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

    25th Anniversary of Falklands Conflict to be commemorated in 2007

    The 25th Anniversary of the Falklands Conflict will be marked by special commemorative events in June next year, Secretary of State for Defence John Reid announced today.

  • Wednesday, April 26th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

    Famous grave in South Georgia may be saved by hydroelectric project.

    In many parts of the world, the building of dams for hydroelectric schemes has led to whole villages being submerged, communities broken up, climate change and threats to fragile ecosystems.

  • Tuesday, April 25th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

    Australian and New Zealand war dead remembered in Falkland Islands

    At dawn on the 25th of April, members of the growing Australian and New Zealand community in the Falkland Islands and friends gathered together at the Cross of Sacrifice in Stanley in an act of remembrance, which echoed similar gatherings taking place all over the world.

  • Monday, April 24th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

    Deep sea visitors

    ONE of the most long-living fish in the world, an orange roughy (Hoplostethus atlanticus), which has never been recorded in the Southwest Atlantic before, has been caught on the eastern slope of the Falkland Islands at a depth of about 770 m.

  • Saturday, April 22nd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

    Stanley Services promotes rambling and fly fishing groups

    Rambling groups and fly fishing are among the latest options offered to Falkland Islands tourists by Stanley Services, the company with the longest experience in land based tourism in the Islands going back to the late eighties.