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FIBS News Review.

1: Our first story of the week was about the councillors debate on changes to the constitution:

Councillor Summers explained what the impact of those changes might be?

2: And we reported that Ex-governor, Richard Ralph was still under the spotlight in the UK as was his partner, Jemma Marlor.

He met her here after his marriage was over. But the Daily Mail in an article call him the ?randy envoy' and claim his young girlfriend ?broke up the marriage'. The Conservatives have called for an inquiry into Mr Ralph's role in the purchase, by an Indian businessman, of a Romanian steel plant. Richard Ralph is now the British ambassador to Romania and the row is over a letter drafted by him and signed by Tony Blair on behalf Lakshmi Mittal. He donated 125 thousand pounds to labour around the same time. And questions are also being asked about Jemma Marlor. The Conservatives say ? she worked for the Romanian Arm of a British legal firm who was involved in the Ispat-Sidex take-over. Mr Ralph, 54 is quoted in the article as insisting that there was no conflict of interest ?and that there was a ?Chinese Wall' between him and Jemma Marlor on professional matters.

3: Sky News were in Stanley. They were filming a ten-part feature on 1982 plus a half-hour programme concentrating on the Islands today.

They were filming in the community school last and at Sea Lion Island last weekend. On Monday they came into the radio station to film the breakfast show and interview, Patrick Watts ? the station manager during the war. Sky News Correspondent, David Chater was last here 19 years ago. Working for ITN he covered the UK election from here. He describes what it was like as a journalist when the islands heard of Margaret Thatcher's landslide victory? David Chater notes how prosperous the islands are now and that moral is much higher among the residents? Asked what angle the Sky programme would have on the political future of the Falklands, he said they were more interested in the here and now?

4: And the most recent Exercise Purple Strike began Monday.

This tests the skills the RIC have learned since they began training on the islands. And happens b