Geoffrey Hoon, the British Secretary of State for Defence, on a brief one-day visit to the Falkland Islands, has stressed the importance of ?wider cooperation' between the Islands and Argentina.
The Falkland Islands have been praised for their help to veterans of the 1982 Conflict by the South Atlantic Medal Association (SAMA).
A new book about paratroop Colonel H. Jones VC, rejects a claim that he may have been killed by his own men at Goose Green in the 1982 Falklands War because they were worried he was leading them into a suicide attack.
The court case brought by Falklands and other war veterans against the British Ministry of Defence has begun in London (on March 4th) with accusations that the British Government failed to protect them from the horrors of war.
Sea Harrier jump jet aircraft which played such a vital role in the 1982 Falklands War are to be withdrawn from service.
Under the headline Thriving Falklands, the British newspaper Daily Mail, carries a report by Falklands Government Representative Sukey Cameron declaring: The Falkland Islands is no longer a dependent colony, but a dynamic overseas territory of the United Kingdom.