A diplomat well-known to Falkland Islanders as former Head of the South Atlantic and Antarctic Department, Tony Longrigg, has been appointed Governor of Montseratt, the Caribbean Island whose inhabitants are still suffering from the effects of volcanic eruptions in recent years.
A two-hour television document re-enacting Sir Ernest Shackleton's epic 1914-1916 trans-Antarctic expedition has won rave reviews in the United Kingdom.