Falkland Islands

• Wednesday, May 23rd 2012 - 01:16 UTC

  Falkland Oil & Gas expects farm-in deal with “a listed independent” firm

  

  The political noise stirred up by Argentina over the Falkland Islands will not deter big energy firms from investing in the region if there is enough oil found to make it worthwhile, said the chief executive of exploration company Falkland Oil & Gas.

• Tuesday, May 22nd 2012 - 18:29 UTC

  Royal Navy says HMS Talent reports are “mere media speculations”

  

  Royal Navy Commander Mark Southorn said on Tuesday that news informing of the sending of the HMS Talent nuke submarine to the Falkland Islands are “mere media speculations”.

• Tuesday, May 22nd 2012 - 06:39 UTC

  Minister Browne and Gibraltar’s Bossano will attend Falklands’ Liberation Day June 14

  

  Foreign Office Minister Jeremy Browne is scheduled to attend the Falkland Islands Liberation ceremony on June 14 in Stanley to mark the 30th anniversary of the recovery of the Islands from invading Argentine forces.

• Monday, May 21st 2012 - 03:48 UTC

  Biggleswade farm exports pedigree pigs by air to the Falkland Islands

  

  Guy Kiddy who runs Solitaire Farm in Drove Road, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire has been exporting pigs across the world for years, but never expected he had to prepare to send two to the Falkland Islands for breeding.

• Monday, May 21st 2012 - 01:03 UTC

  UK ‘hunter-killer’ nuclear-powered submarine en route to Falklands, says The Sun

  

  British nuke submarine HMS Talent was dispatched this week end to the Falkland Islands “with Tomahawk warheads” on what could be a warning signal to Argentina, according to UK sensationalist tabloid The Sun.

• Monday, May 21st 2012 - 00:06 UTC

  Vulcan flypast at Falklands’ memorial in the Arboretum at Staffordshire

  

  A Vulcan bomber which launched air raids on Stanley Airport thirty years ago has flown over the peaceful countryside of central England to mark the dedication of a new Falklands Memorial to the 255 British servicemen and three women Islanders killed in the conflict.

• Sunday, May 20th 2012 - 22:28 UTC

  SS Britain “floated” on a sea of neon-green jelly for UK Museum at Night season

  

  The SS Great Britain that in the seventies was recovered from the Falkland Islands and is currently moored in Bristol has been “floated” in a sea of neon-green jelly as part of a cultural festival.

• Friday, May 18th 2012 - 22:35 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez insisted in Angola on the South Atlantic as “an area of peace”

  

  President Cristina Fernández highlighted the importance of keeping the South Atlantic region as ”an area of peace, free of militarization,” during her speech before the National Assembly of Angola on Friday.

• Thursday, May 17th 2012 - 11:29 UTC

  Falklands recover 370 hectares of Stanley Common made minefields in 1982 by Argentine forces

  

  Thirty years after the end of the Falkland Islands conflict, 370 hectares of Stanley Common south of Sapper Hill recently cleared by BACTEC (mine action and bomb disposal specialists), have been opened to the public, reports the Penguin News.

• Thursday, May 17th 2012 - 11:27 UTC

  The name HMS Dauntless is no newcomer for the Falkland Islands

  

  In anticipation of the imminent arrival in the Falkland Islands of the Royal Navy’s Type 45 destroyer HMS Dauntless, local historian and author John Allan writes that her predecessor was posted to the Islands in the 1930s.