Scotland said goodbye this weekend to the thousands of military personnel from the 14 nations, 49 ships and submarines and 72 aircraft which took part in the major UK led maritime training course, Neptune Warrior 052, formerly the Joint Maritime Course, which is held three times a year around the coast of Scotland.
Suggestions that British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands may be undermined by opinions expressed in the forthcoming Official History of the Falklands Conflict of 1982 are rejected by the British and Falkland Islands Governments.
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Shearers do the Islands proud at world champs; Falklands upsets Argentina at UN meeting;
From FIBS to FIRS.
Falkland Islands Councillors John Birmingham and Stephen Luxton addressed Wednesday morning the United Nations Decolonization Committee in New York underlining there is no sovereignty issue to discuss with Argentina and demanding the Committee concentrate in allowing the Islanders to choose their own future exercising their right to self determination.
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Three big themes of Spain's foreign policy; Gibraltar's cruise terminal one millionth visitor; Best international finance centre.
SOME Falkland Islanders describe the military base at Mount Pleasant as the Death Star. The site actually resembles a cross between a university campus and a light industrial estate - with some Rapier missile batteries thrown in.
Falkland Islands Holdings (FIH), an AIM listed company operating a range of businesses in the Falkland Islands, and the Portsmouth Harbour Ferry Company in the UK, announces preliminary results for the year ended 31 March 2005.
To mark the anniversary of the liberation of the Falkland Islands from Argentine occupation in 1982, Tuesday, June 14 will be a public holiday.
New revelations in the soon to be published British official History of the Falklands Campaign indicate that a few key acts by Argentine commanders could have produced a different outcome, possibly avoiding defeat.
Every day of the week Leon Marsh must drive down a track just the width of two Land Rovers, picking his way between the landmine fields that pepper his vast sheep farm in the Falkland Islands.