Tag: British crown

• Friday, February 14th 2020 - 08:06 UTC

  Ascension Island airport to reopen to wide-body traffic by 2022

  

  The runway at Georgetown Wideawake Airport on Ascencion Island will be repaired by 2022 allowing AirTanker-operated A 330-200 flights to return, Fluor, the company which won the contract, said in a statement.

• Monday, September 3rd 2018 - 08:32 UTC

  Falkland Islands: New titanium collector crown coins feature the crab

  

  The government and treasury of the Falkland Islands issued on 30th August new collector crown coins which feature one of the region’s most familiar side-walking sea-dwelling creatures — the ever familiar crab.

• Friday, October 28th 2011 - 17:07 UTC

  British crown updates succession rules: end of gender and religion discrimination

  

  Centuries of British royal discrimination came to an end Friday after Commonwealth leaders agreed to drop rules that give sons precedence as heir to the throne and bar anyone in line for the crown from marrying a Roman Catholic.