Falkland Islands

• Friday, January 14th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Cause of flight refusal is ?administrative'

  THE Acting Governor says that Argentina refused a private aircraft permission to fly to the Falklands, not due to its destination but because of an “administrative problem.”

• Friday, January 14th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  South Atlantic rendezvous for Ellen

  The Royal Navy destroyer HMS Gloucester has met up with round the world sailor Ellen MacArthur in the stormy South Atlantic west of the Falklands.

• Thursday, January 13th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Falklands Veteran returns to record the ?forgotten voices'.

  “Within the Task Force there was no hatred of the Argentineans; there was just a feeling of the wastefulness of them not realising that they needed to give up until the bitter end.”

• Wednesday, January 12th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Private jet couldn't fly direct from Argentine to Falklands.

  Government House has asked the British Embassy to follow up reports, after a request from Acting Governor Harriet Hall, which Argentina refused permission for a private plane to fly from Argentina to the Falklands.

• Tuesday, January 11th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Red Ensign Conference in Falklands next month.

  The Red Ensign Conference, an annual event, which brings together in a series of meetings those British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, which have shipping registers and the UK Maritime and Coast Guard Agency, will be held for the first time in the Falkland Islands next month.

• Monday, January 10th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Unusual tides in the Falklands

  STRANGE tidal activity has been witnessed around the Falklands and is believed to be a result of the sea bed earthquake and tsunami which caused devastation in southeastern Asian countries and the east Africa coast.

• Monday, January 10th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  200 anniversaries of Trafalgar and Admiral Nelson

  Britain will commemorate this year the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar which saw the defeat of the Spanish-French fleet confirming the supremacy of the Royal Navy.

• Friday, January 7th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Penguin News Update.

  Headlines:
  Blair: ?No sovereignty doubts'; Tsunami Appeal; Canadian delegation to visit; No next of kin on the way.

• Wednesday, January 5th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Govt set to support Tsunami appeal.

  Gibraltar Government has confirmed that it intends to make a substantial cash contribution to the Tsunami appeal. Details are expected to be announced later this week. The Government is also understood to be looking at other ways in which the victims can be assisted.

• Wednesday, January 5th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Falklands' rapid response to Asian tsunami disaster.

  By close of business at the Standard Chartered Bank in Stanley yesterday (Tuesday) a recently opened Tsunami Disaster fund account had already reached £6,500, which is in addition to £2,000 sent immediately to the British Red Cross from their local branch in the Falkland Islands, when the news of the disaster in Asia broke.