Tag: Peter Pepper

• Thursday, June 15th 2023 - 11:52 UTC

  Falklands Liberation Reception in London

  

  At the invitation of the Speaker of the House of Commons, the Rt. Hon Sir Lindsay Hoyle MP, who visited the Falklands last year, the Falklands Liberation Reception was held this year in the magnificent surroundings of the Speakers House at Westminster.

• Thursday, December 15th 2022 - 22:44 UTC

  New Faces, Same Objective: Falkland Islands Association AGM in London

  

  Last week saw the first face-to-face AGM of the Falkland Islands Association since the pandemic began in 2020. It was held at the Abbey Centre in Westminster. About fifty members were present in person. But another fifty took part - some of them from the Falklands – via Zoom. This was a major improvement on earlier AGMs when decisions could be taken only by those actually present. All future AGMs will be done this way.

• Tuesday, May 31st 2022 - 10:45 UTC

  Falkland Islands Veterans Reunion in Gosport and Portsmouth

  

  As the Falkland Islands Liberation Day approaches, on 14 June, commemoration events and services are being held across the United Kingdom and the Falklands, and over last weekend it was Gosport and Plymouth that marked the 40th anniversary of the 1982 War and honored those who did not return from the South Atlantic.

• Friday, June 12th 2020 - 07:08 UTC

  “Falkland Facts and Fallacies”, a new contribution to the Falklands' debate

  

  By historian David Tatham (*) - This book by Graham Pascoe describes itself as a refutation of a work by two Argentine lawyers, Professor Marcelo Kohen and Facundo Rodríguez – and that is just what it is.

• Sunday, December 9th 2018 - 17:51 UTC

  Battle Day 2018 in London

  

  The annual Falklands memorial service at the Cenotaph took place on the 8th December in brilliant sunshine. On this day in 1914, the naval Battle of the Falkland Islands took place and the ceremony is a commemoration of those who gave their lives then. It also honours those who fell liberating the Islands from Argentine occupation in 1982.

• Wednesday, June 6th 2018 - 14:09 UTC

  Falkland Islands Reception in London

  

  Marking another successful year, the Annual Falkland Islands Government Reception took place on Tuesday 5th June at Middle Temple, London. Islanders in Britain, their friends and supporters, politicians, and veterans of the 1982 war of liberation met in high spirits.

• Thursday, June 15th 2017 - 11:15 UTC

  Liberation Day Reception, London Gratitude for the Past, Hope for the Future

  

  Falkland Islanders and their supporters met in London on the 13th of June for the annual Liberation Day Reception. This time it was special - it marked the 35th anniversary of the war. Guest of honour was Sir Alan Duncan, just re-appointed as Foreign Office Minister with responsibility for the Falklands; this was his first outside engagement.

• Thursday, June 16th 2016 - 11:15 UTC

  Liberation Day Reception, London - The Falkland Islands are flourishing

  

  That is the message from the gathering of supporters at the Falkland Islands Government Annual Reception in London commemorating the 34th anniversary of liberation from Argentine occupation. An upbeat update on progress in all aspects of life in the Islands was given by long-serving member of the Legislature, Mrs Jan Cheek. t

• Tuesday, December 8th 2015 - 09:36 UTC

  A Positive Outlook for the Falklands at FIA's annual general meeting

  

  The Falkland Islands have received assurances of sustained support from the British Parliament and from the Falkland Islands Association at that organisation’s annual general meeting in London where members were given a positive report of progress and economic development in the Islands.

• Monday, December 8th 2014 - 23:25 UTC

  Commemoration Service for Battles of Coronel and the Falklands at London's St Martin-in-the-Fields

  

  The first two significant naval battles of the First World War were commemorated in London and the Falklands in parallel church services on the 8th December – a hundred years after these momentous events took place.