Falkland Islands

• Saturday, April 6th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  South Georgia scrap merchant seeks justice and compensation for his lost assets.

  Twenty years after being the main character in series of events which eventually escalated into the South Atlantic War, Constantino Davidoff, the man behind the landings by a group of Argentine scrap merchants on South Georgia continues to claim his innocence and says he still hopes to recover his assets lost on South Georgia as a result of the conflict in a British Court of Justice.

• Saturday, April 6th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Banned “Falklands Play” broadcast.

  A controversial radio and television drama about the Falklands War has at last been broadcast by the BBC, reversing a ban which caused its cancellation 15 years ago on the fifth anniversary.

• Friday, April 5th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Penguin News: Islands mourn Queen Mother.

• Thursday, April 4th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Straw cancels visit.

  The explosive situation in the Middle East has forced Foreign Secretary Jack Straw to cancel his visit to Chile that should have began this Friday.

• Thursday, April 4th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Queen's Falklands stone for memorial

  The Queen has contributed a stone along with many other people towards building a cairn as a permanent memorial at the Falklands Memorial Chapel in Pangbourne, Berkshire. The stone was chosen by Falklands Governor, Donald Lamont, from the Government House Garden in Stanley, and flown from there by the Royal Air Force.

• Thursday, April 4th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  “Navy cuts preclude Falklands-type Task Force”

  Navy experts have warned that the British Government's decision to scrap Sea Harrier fighters means that Britain could not send a task force to war as it did in the Falklands campaign, according to the London Daily Telegraph.

• Thursday, April 4th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  UK Falklands Intelligence failures.

  One of the most interesting and perceptive of the British media anniversary features is a devastating attack in The Times accusing the UK Government of intelligence failures and of ignoring warnings which led to a war which it says could have been avoided.

• Thursday, April 4th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Fund raising campaign for Darwin Monument kicks off with Colon Theatre concert.

  Internationally acclaimed tenor Dario Volonté, a survivor of the 1982 sinking of the cruiser ARA General Belgrano was given a standing ovation as the star performer at a fund raising concert held last night at the Colon Theatre. The special performance was organised by the Families' Commission that groups the next-of-kin of Argentine servicemen killed during the 1982 South Atlantic War.

• Wednesday, April 3rd 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Breaking News from South America.

• Wednesday, April 3rd 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Burned Guardsman re-lives Sir Galahad horror

  Of all the recollections of the Falklands war, none are more poignant than those of Welsh Guardsman, Simon Weston, who re-lives the horrifying experience of being badly burned along with other guardsmen when the assault ship HMS Galahad was set ablaze by Argentine bombs at Fitzroy.