Falkland Islands

• Thursday, June 30th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  FOGL Granted Extension to Exploration Licences

  FOGL announces that it has been granted a two year extension to its approximately 33,000 sq km licence held in joint venture with Hardman Resources, which owns 22.5% of the licence.

• Wednesday, June 29th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Book Review: Official History of Falklands Conflict

  The first comprehensive history of the 1982 Falklands War, published in Britain, reveals that Britain had previously contemplated selling Argentina powerful weapons such as an aircraft carrier and a Vulcan bomber, confirms the valuable help given Britain by the United States and Chile, examines controversial military actions such as the sinking of the Argentine cruiser Belgrano and HMS Sheffield, and the Battle for Goose Green, discusses the tensions over media reporting, and exposes how the British Government deceived the Falkland Islanders over secret talks with Argentina for transfer of titular sovereignty in return for a long lease-back period of continuing British rule.

• Wednesday, June 29th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  UK marks 200 years since Trafalgar

  The Queen has set sail for the biggest peace-time fleet review in the history of the Royal Navy.

• Tuesday, June 28th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands' war book: Chile discards rift with Argentina

  Chilean Defence Secretary Jaime Ravinet discarded this Monday that the coming revelation of an alleged Chilean interest in attacking Argentina following the 1982 Falklands' conflict, according to a British historian, could cause a rift between Buenos Aires and Santiago.

• Tuesday, June 28th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  British-Argentine 1981 secret plans revealed

  The duplicity employed by the British Government and Foreign Office to negotiate secretly for the transfer of sovereignty to Argentina without at first telling the Falkland Islanders in the early 1980s is exposed in the Official History of the Falklands by Professor of War Studies, Sir Lawrence Freedman, just published in the United Kingdom.

• Tuesday, June 28th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Re-taking Falklands “barely militarily viable”

  Assessing how to react to possible Argentine aggression against the Falkland Islands, the British Ministry of Defence (MoD) declared in 1981 that the proposed diminution in Britain's amphibious capability in that year's Defence Review ? later reversed ? would mean that reinforcement, subsequent to an Argentine invasion, “would be extremely difficult, if not impossible”.

• Tuesday, June 28th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Astonishing weapons sales plan for Argentina

  British Defence Ministry officials incredibly considered selling powerful weapons to Argentina only months before the 1982 Falklands War invasion, including an aircraft carrier, Sea Harrier strike aircraft, Vulcan bombers and battle tanks, even though the British intelligence services were warning that Argentina might be considering “full scale military invasion”. The sales did not go ahead and all these weapons subsequently deployed by Britain were vital factors in winning the war.

• Monday, June 27th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  SS Great Britain, a Victorian lasting monument

  THE world's first passenger steamship, the SS Great Britain, is reaching the final stages of an £11.3 million restoration that is transforming her from a rusting hulk into a lasting monument to Victorian enterprise.

• Friday, June 24th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Penguin News Update

  Headlines:
  Flight safety award for agent; July 10 remembrance; ?Waxy' fuel no longer; Forbes case appeals.

• Thursday, June 23rd 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  MBE for Captain Chris Elliott

  The British Antarctic Survey has reported that a man well known to the Falklands was awarded an MBE in this year's Queen's Birthday Honours list.