Entertainment

Sunday, April 8th 2018 - 21:16 UTC
What does the new Falklands ‘Islands Plan’ mean for South America?

Over the past decade it is has become customary for a newly elected Legislative Assembly in the Falkland Islands to publish an ‘Islands Plan’. As there are no political parties in the Falkland Islands, all eight members of the Assembly are independents. Therefore there is no collective manifesto when elected to office. This has traditionally been addressed via a consensus-based Islands Plan.
Saturday, April 7th 2018 - 10:49 UTC
The Guernsey house where Victor Hugo wrote Les Miserables will be recovered by art collector

A millionaire businessman has donated 3m Euros to save the home where French author Victor Hugo wrote Les Miserables. The celebrated writer of The Hunchback of Notre Dame lived at Hauteville House in Guernsey from 1856 to 1870.
Thursday, April 5th 2018 - 09:25 UTC
Even rain stops for the spectacular opening of the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast

Fireworks followed rain on Thursday as the 21st Commonwealth Games opened on the Gold Coast, Australia, complete with a beach party featuring dancing lifeguards and a floating white whale and a musical soundtrack that included a didgeridoo maestro and aboriginal rapper.
Thursday, April 5th 2018 - 08:19 UTC
Falklands' 14 strong team takes on the challenge of the Commonwealth Games

Wednesday marked the opening ceremony of the 21st Commonwealth Games which are being held from 4 -15 April at the Gold Coast in Australia. This is the tenth Commonwealth Games that the Falkland Islands have participated in and this time they will be competing alongside more than 6,600 athletes and team officials from 70 Commonwealth nations and territories.
Wednesday, April 4th 2018 - 08:58 UTC
Falklands' veteran supports Everton Argentine player Funes Mori: “he is entitled to his opinion”

A Falklands war veteran has said that Everton’s player Ramiro Funes Mori is “entitled to his opinion“ after a controversial tweet went viral. The Argentine defender posted, “Las Malvinas son argentinas” which translates as “the Falkland Islands are Argentine” on the anniversary of Argentina’s invasion of the Falklands, April 2nd.
Wednesday, April 4th 2018 - 08:31 UTC
Commonwealth Games program: England listed as part of Africa

England have been listed as an African nation with capital Banjul in the official program for the Commonwealth Games’ opening ceremony, leaving Gold Coast organizers red-faced. The program, being sold at newsagents and merchandise tents around the Queensland resort, has England’s population listed at just over two million and their first Commonwealth Games appearance in 1970.
Sunday, April 1st 2018 - 03:31 UTC
Stephen Hawking laid to rest alongside Newton and Darwin

People gathered by the hundreds in the English city of Cambridge Saturday to pay their last respects to famed British scientist Stephen Hawking as his remains arrived at St. Mary the Great church where some 500 guests had been invited to the private funeral.
Friday, March 23rd 2018 - 09:03 UTC
Falklands promotes sports challenge with “Road to Gold Coast 2018”

With the Commonwealth Games around the corner, what better way for the Falklands community to get involved than, “a sporting challenge of our own,” asks Infant/Junior School teacher Daniel Harrison.
Friday, March 23rd 2018 - 08:43 UTC
“Malouines to Malvinas” exhibition in Ushuaia Museum

Next Thursday the Ushuaia museum in Tierra del Fuego will open an exhibition titled “From Malouines to Malvinas”, depicting history since the French occupation of the Falklands in the XVIIIth century to the first Argentine governor of the Islands.
Monday, March 19th 2018 - 08:21 UTC
Video Assistant Referee will be used at the World Cup in Russia

Video assistant referees will be used at the World Cup for the first time after Fifa formally approved the technology for this year's tournament. VAR has been trialed in some domestic English cup games this season, and has been used in Germany and Italy.