Falkland Islands

• Wednesday, July 6th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Professor Freedman's Official History
  Falkland Islanders' Exploits Played Down

  The vital part played by Falklands Islanders in helping to win the 1982 war against their Argentine invaders sadly receives scant recognition in the recently-published Official History of the Falklands Campaign by Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman, Professor War Studies at King's College, London.

• Tuesday, July 5th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Live internet coverage for Island Games

  The NatWest Island Games being held in Shetland this month, with the participation of a delegation from the Falkland Islands, will mark a technological breakthrough as, for the first time, live pictures will be available over the Internet.

• Sunday, July 3rd 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  WWII 6Oth Anniversary Commemoration

  The Falkland Islands Branch of the Royal British Legion is planning to mark the 60th Anniversary of the end of the Second World War in coincidence with commemorations in the United Kingdom which are scheduled for Sunday 10 July.

• Saturday, July 2nd 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Gibraltar biologists identify “monster” squid

  Gibraltar Ornithological & Natural History Society's marine section has tentatively identified the curious animal that was found by Kenneth Bagu and Victor Chipol on the seabed off the South Mole last week, based on the photograph in the Gibraltar Chronicle.

• Friday, July 1st 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Penguin News Update.

  Headlines:
  War historian: ?I've been full and fair';
  Mail investigation;
  Competition images capture Islands' beauty.

• Thursday, June 30th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  FOGL Granted Extension to Exploration Licences

  FOGL announces that it has been granted a two year extension to its approximately 33,000 sq km licence held in joint venture with Hardman Resources, which owns 22.5% of the licence.

• Wednesday, June 29th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Book Review: Official History of Falklands Conflict

  The first comprehensive history of the 1982 Falklands War, published in Britain, reveals that Britain had previously contemplated selling Argentina powerful weapons such as an aircraft carrier and a Vulcan bomber, confirms the valuable help given Britain by the United States and Chile, examines controversial military actions such as the sinking of the Argentine cruiser Belgrano and HMS Sheffield, and the Battle for Goose Green, discusses the tensions over media reporting, and exposes how the British Government deceived the Falkland Islanders over secret talks with Argentina for transfer of titular sovereignty in return for a long lease-back period of continuing British rule.

• Wednesday, June 29th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  UK marks 200 years since Trafalgar

  The Queen has set sail for the biggest peace-time fleet review in the history of the Royal Navy.

• Tuesday, June 28th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands' war book: Chile discards rift with Argentina

  Chilean Defence Secretary Jaime Ravinet discarded this Monday that the coming revelation of an alleged Chilean interest in attacking Argentina following the 1982 Falklands' conflict, according to a British historian, could cause a rift between Buenos Aires and Santiago.

• Tuesday, June 28th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  British-Argentine 1981 secret plans revealed

  The duplicity employed by the British Government and Foreign Office to negotiate secretly for the transfer of sovereignty to Argentina without at first telling the Falkland Islanders in the early 1980s is exposed in the Official History of the Falklands by Professor of War Studies, Sir Lawrence Freedman, just published in the United Kingdom.