MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for April 11th 2001
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Wednesday, April 11th 2001 - 21:00 UTC
Baby Thomas - Falklands Adventurer.Off on his travels before he was born!
Baby Thomas is a Falkland Islander who has never set foot in the Falkland Islands. He is the son of Stanley resident, Andrez Short, and school teacher Alison Davies, who taught for several years in Stanley Junior School, and was briefly a fisheries inspectorate observer, flying with FIGAS ( Falklands Government Air Service).
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Wednesday, April 11th 2001 - 21:00 UTC
“Military operation are our priority”
The Commander British Forces Falkland Islands, Air Commodore John Cliffe, has told a concerned Islands population that despite the recent withdrawal of British troops from the Island of South Georgia, ?we will go back and land troops from time to time on exercise, to show that we can reinforce rapidly if the need arises'.
