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Stories for September 2000

• Friday, September 22nd 2000 - 21:00 UTC

  F***lands - in lieu of a review

  Having been subjected to months of media and Internet hype about a film which had been secretly shot in the Falkland Islands I had decided long ago that it sounded like the sort of thing I was going to hate if I ever got round to seeing it. Such a view was largely based on the fact that as a journalist and a researcher working on the subject of the Falkland Islands this media and Internet craze had mostly boiled down to getting crack of dawn phone calls from press colleagues wanting to get “your views” on a matter about which they generally confessed to knowing next to nothing

• Thursday, September 21st 2000 - 21:00 UTC

  South America breaking news.

• Wednesday, September 20th 2000 - 21:00 UTC

  More Publicity for Secretly-filmed Argentine Falklands Film.

  As a massive publicity campaign gathered momentum in Argentina for the launch (on Thursday September 21st) of a secretly shot film about the Falkland Islands, it is now receiving more media coverage in the United Kingdom.

• Wednesday, September 20th 2000 - 21:00 UTC

  FIBS Direct News.

• Tuesday, September 19th 2000 - 21:00 UTC

  Shackleton Legend: Major Exhibition at Dulwich College.

  The remarkable revival of interest in the Antarctic explorer, Sir Ernest Shackleton, nearly eighty years after his death, shows no sign of slackening off. Indeed, it is gathering momentum.

• Monday, September 18th 2000 - 21:00 UTC

  Hot News

• Monday, September 18th 2000 - 21:00 UTC

  FIBS Breaking News

• Wednesday, September 13th 2000 - 21:00 UTC

  Outgoing British Ambassador in Argentina talks about the Falklands.

  In an interview with “La Nación” in London, outgoing British Ambassador in Argentina William Mardsen said he didn't anticipate changes in the near future concerning sovereignty over the Falkland Islands. He added that Islanders want to remain British and that much progress can still be achieved between Britain and Argentina in the South Atlantic fisheries, oil and cooperation to eliminate mine fields in the Islands.

• Wednesday, September 13th 2000 - 21:00 UTC

  Retracing Shackleton's epic voyage.

  A British military expedition to retrace the footsteps of explorer Ernest Shackleton set sail from Gosport, Hampshire this week on an epic voyage to the Southern Atlantic.
  The Army-led joint services team on the 50 foot, steel-hulled yacht Ice Maiden is expected to touch Uruguay and the Falkland Islands, before the final push to South Georgia.

• Tuesday, September 12th 2000 - 21:00 UTC

  Corruption plunges Argentina into “despair and self-loathing.”

  Argentina has been “plunged into a new wave of despair and self-loathing” by its latest corruption scandal, according to a British newspaper report.