Falkland Islands

• Saturday, April 29th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands warm-up for ?a bit of a ride' through the Americas.

  “We thought we were just going for a bit of a ride”. The speaker was 49 year old, Mick Daly, expressing some mild surprise at the amount of interest generated by his plan to join his old army colleague, Mick Simpson, in a motor bike ride from Ushuaia, Argentina, the most southerly town in Latin America, to Prudhoe Bay in Alaska.

• Friday, April 28th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Penguin News Update.

  Headlines:
  Getting Memorial Wood ready for 2007; ?South Atlantic 25' announced; Dry-dock delayed; Indecent images found: man pleads guilty

• Thursday, April 27th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  25th Anniversary of Falklands Conflict to be commemorated in 2007

  The 25th Anniversary of the Falklands Conflict will be marked by special commemorative events in June next year, Secretary of State for Defence John Reid announced today.

• Wednesday, April 26th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Famous grave in South Georgia may be saved by hydroelectric project.

  In many parts of the world, the building of dams for hydroelectric schemes has led to whole villages being submerged, communities broken up, climate change and threats to fragile ecosystems.

• Tuesday, April 25th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Australian and New Zealand war dead remembered in Falkland Islands

  At dawn on the 25th of April, members of the growing Australian and New Zealand community in the Falkland Islands and friends gathered together at the Cross of Sacrifice in Stanley in an act of remembrance, which echoed similar gatherings taking place all over the world.

• Monday, April 24th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Deep sea visitors

  ONE of the most long-living fish in the world, an orange roughy (Hoplostethus atlanticus), which has never been recorded in the Southwest Atlantic before, has been caught on the eastern slope of the Falkland Islands at a depth of about 770 m.

• Saturday, April 22nd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Stanley Services promotes rambling and fly fishing groups

  Rambling groups and fly fishing are among the latest options offered to Falkland Islands tourists by Stanley Services, the company with the longest experience in land based tourism in the Islands going back to the late eighties.

• Friday, April 21st 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Queen's Birthday Parade goes off without a bang

  As befits a British territory, the birthday of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth, is celebrated each year in the Falkland Islands with a public holiday and a parade.

• Thursday, April 20th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Penguin News Update.

  Headlines:
  Happy Birthday Your Majesty; Councillor unfazed by ?anti-Falklands' Argentine fishing bill; No bill for rower; Iceland opportunity; Public Family Bill discussions.

• Wednesday, April 19th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands Councillors in Malta for Regional CPA Conference

  Two members of the Falkland Islands Legislative Council (LegCo) are bound to Valetta, Malta next week to attend the annual conference of the British Isles and Mediterranean Region of the British Commonwealth Parliamentary Association.