Falkland Islands

• Tuesday, August 16th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Governors VI V's CBFSAI VI - Shotgun Challenge

  The first Falklands Gun Club Shotgun Challenge took place on what can only be described as a windswept Phillips Point Range this weekend.

• Monday, August 15th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Rockhopper jumps on AiM debut

  Rockhopper Exploration plc, the oil and gas exploration company with a number of licences in the North Falkland Basin, has announced that following the successful placing of 35,714,285 shares at 42p to raise £15 million (before expenses), its shares have been admitted to trading on AIM and dealings will commence at 8.00am today under the symbol: RKH.

• Sunday, August 14th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Breaking News.

  Governor goes Top Gun in F3 Tornado jet: Governor Howard Pearce went “top gun” last month when he was given a flight in an RAF F3 Tornado fighter jet by 1435 Squadron at Mount Pleasant.
  
  FIBS to FIRS on Monday: The Falkland Islands Radio Service will come into existence next week as the new name of the radio station.

• Sunday, August 14th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Falkland veterans angry with UK Lottery snub

  Officials with a charity hoping to build a refuge on the Falkland Islands for veterans of the conflict reacted angrily over the weekend after being snubbed by the National Lottery.

• Friday, August 12th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Penguin News Update.

  Headlines:
  End of an era for Falklands protector;
  The Falklands Regime: Bingham book hits the shelves.
  
  News in brief: Marine life study; VC10 damaged; Elqui to be scuttled.

• Tuesday, August 9th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Albatross and Petrel programme pushes ahead

  THE start of the Falklands Conservation Albatross and Petrel Programme (funded by the Overseas Territories Environment Programme and FIG) in March 2004 followed on from the highly successful Seabirds At Sea Team investigating the conservation of seabirds in the Falkland Islands.

• Tuesday, August 9th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  HMS Leeds Castle: years keeping Falklands safe

  Displacing little over 1,400 tonnes fully loaded, HMS Leeds Castle has spent much of her Royal Navy service in great waters thousands of miles from the United Kingdom.

• Tuesday, August 9th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklanders' farewell message to HMS Leeds Castle

  A message of “greeting and gratitude” from all Falkland Islanders was sent by the Islands' Governor Howard Pearce to the commanding officer of HMS Leeds Castle which was officially decommissioned Monday August 8 in Portsmouth.

• Monday, August 8th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands Councillors praise Robin Cook

  Falkland Islands Councillors in an official release praised Monday former Foreign Secretary Robin Cook whom they described as “an honest politician and a man of great conscience and integrity”.

• Sunday, August 7th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Spain proposes Gibraltar a “spirit of openness”

  No relationship with Gibraltar will ever be possible if the Gibraltarians do not want us, that is the frank admission made by Spain's Director General for Europe Jose Pons, and contained in an article published last week the Rock's Chronicle.