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Montevideo, June 22nd 2025 - 11:12 UTC

Falkland Islands

  • Saturday, May 12th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

    Thatcher unveils Falklands memorial

    Thatcher led troops to war in the Falklands

    Baroness Thatcher met Falkland veterans and unveiled a commemorative arch in Hampshire on Saturday to mark the 25th anniversary of the conflict.

  • Friday, May 11th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

    HMS Exeter at Falklands' war Barrow commemoration

    Royal Navy HMS Exeter

    Barrow in Furness shipyard expects 20.000 visitors for the Falkland Islands war 25 commemoration next month. The event will come off the back of the launch of the first “Astute” class submarine on Friday June 8, reports the northwest Evening Mail.

  • Friday, May 11th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

    Falkland Islands: Penguin News Weekly Update

    Julie Bellhouse and Alex Olmedo

    Headlines:
    Delicious new book launched; Two more men jump ship; Ship runs aground; A question of health; Fake £10 note found;
    Inside Penguin News this week: Lt Nick Taylor and Sheffield services; Cruise planning begins; Your letters; Councillors' pay trial; Chichester man visits.

  • Thursday, May 10th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

    Astonishment over missing fishermen in Falklands waters.

    Sea King helicopter from 78 Squadron RAF have been involved in the search

    Acting Chief of Police in the Falkland Islands, Inspector Len McGill, told Mercopress on Tuesday, that he had no reason to believe that two crewmen who had jumped from a Taiwanese jigger in Berkeley Sound had suffered mistreatment or physical abuse.

  • Monday, May 7th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

    Petition to save Falklands' warship attracts 2.200 signatures

    HMS Plymouth sailing on the Falkland's water

    An online petition to save a Falkland Islands warship from the scrap yard and bring it to Plymouth has closed after attracting 2,201 signatures, reports BBC.

  • Friday, May 4th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

    Falklands: Penguin News Weekly Update

    Headlines:
    Tourist Board: no confidence vote for directors; Pension reversal; Harriet lands new job; War losses remembered; A long distance interview; Expo plans progress.

  • Thursday, May 3rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

    Record skate for Falklands Fishery

    A rough-skinned skate (dipturus trachyderma) measuring 2.5 metres in length and described as the biggest recorded in Falklands waters, was displayed to the public recently.

  • Wednesday, May 2nd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

    Disaster management team in the Falkland Islands

    Former British Gov. Frank Savage, (FCO/OTD) and his colleague, Roger Bellers (DFID) Photo PN

    “To spread the word that preparedness does save lives” This was the reason given by Frank Savage, adviser on disaster management to the British Foreign and Commonwealth's Overseas Territories Department (FCO/OTD), why he and colleague, Roger Bellers of the Department for International Development (DFID) are in the Falkland Islands this week.

  • Wednesday, May 2nd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

    Decisive Falklands War actions recalled. Vulcan bomber raid and Belgrano

    Harold Briley reported on both actions at the time as the BBC Latin America Correspondent in Buenos Aires and subsequently met the captains of both the Belgrano and Conqueror

    Two of the most dramatic actions of the 1982 Falklands War have been recalled in a series of media reports in the United Kingdom 25 years after they took place - the sinking of the Argentine cruiser Belgrano with heavy loss of life and the attack on Stanley airport by a British Vulcan bomber in the longest air raid flight in history.

  • Wednesday, May 2nd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

    No confidence vote for Falkland Islands Tourist Board

    Dissatisfaction turned into action on Friday 27th April when members of the Falkland Islands Tourist Board (FITB) passed a vote of no confidence in the Board, at an extraordinary general meeting.