Falkland Islands

• Saturday, October 23rd 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Gibraltar and Spain unite.

  This afternoon saw a substantial protest march called by the residents closest to the CEPSA 'Gibraltar Refinery' located in Punto Mayoga, Spain.

• Friday, October 22nd 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Poll Dorset and Texel Plus breeder visits Falklands.

  A delegation from Tattykeel Stud, an outstanding Australian breeder of meat sheep which has also extended to South America will be visiting the Falkland Islands this Saturday.

• Friday, October 22nd 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Penguin News Update.

  Headlines:
  Islands celebrate as Governor says ?I do'; MPs to visit.
  
  Inside: Tour guides let loose; CITB update; Readers' letters; Gift to Stanley House; Falkland's weddings abroad.

• Thursday, October 21st 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  A Very British Occasion......almost.

  Mr. Howard Pearce CVO made history today by becoming the first British Governor to marry in the Falkland Islands.

• Wednesday, October 20th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Old friends reunited.

  BARONESS Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister of Great Britain, hosted two representatives of the Falkland Islands at her home last week.

• Wednesday, October 20th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  First Governor to wed in the Falkland Islands

  His Excellency The Governor of the Falkland Islands Mr Howard Pearce CVO will marry his Dutch fiancée Caroline Thomée on 21 October 2004 in Christ Church Cathedral, Stanley, the world's most southerly Anglican Cathedral.

• Monday, October 18th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Falkland Conservation Director to leave.

  The Director of the Falkland Islands principal non-governmental environmental research and protection organization will be leaving the Islands in March 2005.

• Sunday, October 17th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  HMS Cardiff concludes S. Atlantic deployment.

  HMS Cardiff returns from South Atlantic deployment next Friday (22/10) having had a West African school named after her. Sierra Leone president Ahmad Kabbah was so impressed with building work carried out at a Freetown school by 100 HMS Cardiff sailors he renamed the institution in their honour.

• Saturday, October 16th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  “Penguin News” Voice of the Falklands for 25 years.

  The first copies of Penguin News went on sale twenty five years ago this month.
  Islander Graham Bound sensed a gap in the market and decided a new Falkland Islands newspaper was needed. Penguin News was created and has, save for a few rare silences, been with us ever since.
  October 3, 1979 saw the publication of the first issue of this paper.

• Saturday, October 16th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Gibraltar “aspirations and interests” included in UN text.

  In its session this week the United Nations Fourth Committee adopted without a vote the decision calling for a solution on Gibraltar but changing the text for the first time in years.
  It followed Spanish president Jose Rodriguez Zapatero's statement last month when he said that Madrid wanted to hear Gibraltar's voice.