The success of an exhibition commemorating the Antarctic explorer, Sir Ernest Shackleton , at his old school, Dulwich College in London, has resulted in a valuable donation of £10,300 (15,000 dollars) to the Shackleton Scholarship Fund in memory of Shackleton and his son, Lord Shackleton.
An Islander, Charlene Rowland, has been appointed the Falkland Islands first Organic Inspector in its bid to become the world's first officially certified organic country.
British, Argentine and islander veterans of the 1982 South Atlantic conflict will be reuniting in Stanley next week as part of a TV documentary being made to mark the 20th anniversary of the 1982 conflict.
Argentina denied any closure of Antarctic bases but confirmed significant cuts in operational funds.
A British Army expedition has set off for the Falkland Islands to launch an expedition to explore the remote Danco coast of Antarctica this coming southern summer.
The Royal Navy has struck another blow against Latin American drugs runners in a dramatic encounter in the Caribbean, seizing a cocaine shipment with an estimated street value of 40-million pounds (nearly 60-million dollars).