Falkland Islands

• Wednesday, April 10th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  How Falkland Islanders went to war.

  How the Falkland Islanders went to war in 1982 to rid their country of the Argentine invaders with courage, ingenuity and vital practical help to the advancing British forces has been told for the first time.

• Tuesday, April 9th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  British Foreign Office Official call for “A cooperative spirit with Argentina”.

  Argentina has a part to play in the future development of the Falklands, according to British Foreign Office Deputy Under-Secretary Graham Fry.

• Monday, April 8th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Fishing-fuelled prosperity

  Several British press articles focus on the transformation of the Falklands economy since 1982, thanks to the new fishing industry.

• Sunday, April 7th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  2 April gets its own website.

  Tuesday 2 April marked not only the twentieth anniversary of the outbreak of the South Atlantic War, but the launch of a new website called www.2deabril.com which could well open a new stage in Internet based debating forums. This new site heads its homepage with the challenging slogan “twenty years on the time to debate has come”.

• Saturday, April 6th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  South Georgia scrap merchant seeks justice and compensation for his lost assets.

  Twenty years after being the main character in series of events which eventually escalated into the South Atlantic War, Constantino Davidoff, the man behind the landings by a group of Argentine scrap merchants on South Georgia continues to claim his innocence and says he still hopes to recover his assets lost on South Georgia as a result of the conflict in a British Court of Justice.

• Saturday, April 6th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Banned “Falklands Play” broadcast.

  A controversial radio and television drama about the Falklands War has at last been broadcast by the BBC, reversing a ban which caused its cancellation 15 years ago on the fifth anniversary.

• Friday, April 5th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Penguin News: Islands mourn Queen Mother.

• Thursday, April 4th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Straw cancels visit.

  The explosive situation in the Middle East has forced Foreign Secretary Jack Straw to cancel his visit to Chile that should have began this Friday.

• Thursday, April 4th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Queen's Falklands stone for memorial

  The Queen has contributed a stone along with many other people towards building a cairn as a permanent memorial at the Falklands Memorial Chapel in Pangbourne, Berkshire. The stone was chosen by Falklands Governor, Donald Lamont, from the Government House Garden in Stanley, and flown from there by the Royal Air Force.

• Thursday, April 4th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  “Navy cuts preclude Falklands-type Task Force”

  Navy experts have warned that the British Government's decision to scrap Sea Harrier fighters means that Britain could not send a task force to war as it did in the Falklands campaign, according to the London Daily Telegraph.