Falkland Islands

• Thursday, November 1st 2001 - 20:00 UTC

  Lockheed to build Harrier replacement.

  What is believed to be the world's biggest ever arms deal -- the contract for the new supersonic joint strike aircraft for the United States and to replace Britain's Harrier jump jet -- has been awarded to Lockheed Martin in preference to Boeing, after tests of demonstrator aircraft from both companies.

• Thursday, November 1st 2001 - 20:00 UTC

  HMS Endurance is heading Antartica.

  As the Royal Navy's Ice Patrol Vessel, HMS ENDURANCE embarks upon her annual deployment she bids farewell to Portsmouth for the next six and a half months and looks forward to the Austral summer in Antarctica. She returns to her base port of Portsmouth, to which she is also affiliated, on 7 May 2002.

• Wednesday, October 31st 2001 - 20:00 UTC

  Formation of South Georgia Association.

  An educational charity called “the South Georgia Association” is to be set up to encourage interest in and promote study of South Georgia and conservation of its natural and cultural heritage. It will encourage contacts and fellowship among those who have lived and worked in or around South Georgia, have visited or are interested in the Island. The Association will be formally inaugurated at a meeting in London on December 14th.

• Wednesday, October 31st 2001 - 20:00 UTC

  Breaking News from South America.

• Tuesday, October 30th 2001 - 20:00 UTC

  Lan Chile expansion plan. Controversy over squid licensing.

• Tuesday, October 30th 2001 - 20:00 UTC

  UK denies any surrender of Gibraltar sovereignty.

  The British Government has categorically denied a report that it is involved in a secret deal for sharing sovereignty of Gibraltar with Spain or gradually surrendering the territory to total Spanish control.
  If this were true, it could be seriously worrying for the Falklands Islands in combating Argentina's sovereignty claim. But the Foreign Office in London has assured Mercopress it is not true.

• Monday, October 29th 2001 - 20:00 UTC

  South America News.

• Friday, October 26th 2001 - 20:00 UTC

  Penguin News Front Page

• Friday, October 26th 2001 - 20:00 UTC

  Minister's tribute as Falklands Showcase opens.

  An enthusiastic tribute was paid to the Falkland Islands and its people by British law minister, Baroness Scotland, when she opened the new 90-thousand pound Falklands Government Office “Showcase” in London, which Falklands Representative, Miss Sukey Cameron, described as “a very exciting development, showing people what a dynamic place the modern Falklands is today”.

• Friday, October 26th 2001 - 20:00 UTC

  “Baltimar Orion” is heading south.

  Fully loaded and anxious to arrive in the Falklands in four days time, “Baltimar Orion” will leave Montevideo Harbour today, at 9.30 am, in spite of a thunder and force 5 wind storm.