Falkland Islands

• Thursday, November 9th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Visiting MP supports Falklands' PR campaign exposing Argentina

  Spring is finally arriving in the Falklands after one of the wettest winters on record. The signs are many: evenings are longer, daffodils and snowdrops are appearing in Stanley gardens and the penguins that have spent the winter basking on beaches just South of Rio's Copacabana are busy cleaning out their burrows preparatory to laying their eggs, safe from predators.

• Monday, November 6th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Findings into the loss of HMS Sheffield become public

  The findings of the Board of Inquiry into the loss of HMS Sheffield in 1982 during the Falkland Islands conflict have been made public, was announced by the UK Minister of State for the Armed Forces.

• Monday, November 6th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Uruguayan trawler feared lost in Falkland Islands

  The small Uruguayan trawler Holberg, which for a number of seasons has been conducting an experimental fishery for scallops (vieiras) around the Falkland Islands, was reported today, Monday, to be still above water after an incident Sunday when it was feared she would capsize.

• Sunday, November 5th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  St. Helena flights now expected in 2011/12

  Following concerns raised by consortia tendering for the construction of an airport on British Overseas Territory St Helena in the mid Atlantic, the building process has been delayed “with flights commencing 2011/12”.

• Sunday, November 5th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Enhanced TriStars will remain fit into next decade

  Royal Air Force Lockheed TriStar some of which for years covered the air bridge to the Falkland Islands will be undergoing flight management and communications systems improvements following the award of a £22 million contract to Marshall of Cambridge Aerospace.

• Friday, November 3rd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Penguin News

  Headlines:
  Competitive cuisine; MRSA found in hospital; SAMA group arrives; Carlisle coaching team; Thatcher Jnr plans filming; MPs begin Falklands tour; Dockyard views; Encouraging wool news; This week's cruise ships.

• Thursday, November 2nd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Melbourne wool sales offer a ray of hope for Falklands farmers

  Wool sales held in Melbourne Australia on October 31st saw prices peaking higher than for some years and offered a ray of hope to Falklands farmers.

• Thursday, November 2nd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Decision on Falklands finfish quotas by Executive Council

  Falkland Islands Governor, Mr Alan Huckle, reported Wednesday on the local radio station, FIRS, that Executive Council, the South Atlantic archipelago's senior governing body, had approved the methodology for determining applications for Individual Transferable Quotas (ITQs) and Provisional Quotas (PQs) in the various finfish fisheries.

• Wednesday, November 1st 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Two MPs FIG guests expected this week in Falklands

  Conservative MP Mike Penning and Labor MP Sarah McCarthy-Fry are due to arrive on November 3, accompanied by the Falkland Islands Government's (FIG) Representative in the UK, Sukey Cameron.

• Tuesday, October 31st 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands' “first” for team of United coaches

  Carlisle United will make history this week when a team of five coaches become the first delegation from a professional football team to visit the Falkland Islands.