MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency

Abattoir Operations Manager.

Brian Corner will be joining the Falkland Islands Development Corporation as Abattoir Operations Manager next month. Initially he will be working in the UK conducting a programme of visits to suppliers, potential customers and organic specialists prior to coming to the Falklands in early January. He will be accompanied by wife Sandra. Brian started work as a fifteen-year-old in the Glasgow Municipal Abattoir and worked his way up to plant manager. Since then he has worked in Egypt as part of a team setting up a new abattoir in Ismailia, and has set up his own business as a family and catering butcher in Glasgow. Brian has said he "missed the buzz surrounding the industry" and moved to London as Abattoir Manager and then General Manager of a kosher abattoir serving beef and lamb to the Jewish community in London. Later he accepted the position as General Manager of an abattoir in Nottingham. The couple are said to be excited at the prospect of moving to the Falklands and are looking forward to meeting the people. Brian enjoys gardening and fishing and both he and Sandra are looking forward to exploring the Islands.

British Antarctic Survey News

The British Antarctic Survey Dash 7 is still in the Falklands waiting for a weather window to allow the crew to fly the third rotation to Rothera in Antarctica. In other BAS news the RRS Ernest Shackleton has left Montevideo in Uruguay and is due to arrive in the Islands this weekend.

Radio Leeds Visitor to Islands

A current visitor to the Falklands is Dan Ryntjes Broadcast Journalist with BBC Radio Leeds. Dan hopes to collate enough material from people living in the Islands, originally from Yorkshire, to produce a one-hour documentary on the subject. Dan who leaves the Falklands on Saturday said that it was a last minute decision by his producer, Danny Savage to send him to the Islands