Falklands : Internet News Relevant to the Falklands (05/20/08)
Submitted by Falkland Islands News Network (Juanita Brock) 20.05.2008 (Article Archived on 03.06.2008)
A look at how others are reporting on the Falklands.
INTERNET NEWS RELEVANT TO THE FALKLANDS (20/05/08)
(Spoof)
Gordon Brown has been consulting widely to find a way to reverse his disastrous showing in the polls. It would seem that Margaret Thatcher has come up trumps.
http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s1i35175
(People)
People across Oxfordshire are being asked to get out their tea cups and start baking cakes and biscuits for a massive fundraising tea party.
http://www.oxfordmail.net/news/headlines/display.var.2260996.0.hospice_launches_tea_party_bid.php
(Antarctica)
Twenty Russian polar explorers are celebrating the 63rd VE-Day anniversary on the North Pole 35 drifting research station in the Arctic region, a source at the Federal Hydro-Meteorological Service’s Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute told Itar-Tass on Friday.
http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=12663269&PageNum=0
(Starving Army)
A highly sensitive internal report into the state of the British Army has revealed that many soldiers are living in poverty. Some are so poor that they are unable to eat and are forced to rely on emergency food voucher schemes set up by the Ministry of Defence (MoD).
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/exclusive-report-soldiers-need-loans-to-eat-report-reveals-825928.html
(Penguins)
Yesterday was the Squire’s birthday so I popped down with her gifts – a cuddly penguin back pack and a cuddly penguin cd holder - with which she was delighted. We have been exchanging penguin type gifts since we were flatmates in 1982 and this is why.
http://blogcentral.journallive.co.uk/2008/05/penguin_history.html
(Veterans)
IT would be fair to say that super soldier Henno Garvie is rather hard. With muscles like a sack of footballs, he doesn't even need to shoot people – he simply throws them at a stationary bullet at over 200mph Expertly brought to life by Ross Kemp in a role he was born to play, Sergeant Garvey is the heart and soul of Ultimate Force, which returns to the screens after a long mid-season break. An SAS trooper for 15 years, he has served in the Gulf, Falklands and Northern Ireland. The Regiment is his great love – and he puts it before anything else ...
http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/features/TV-hard-man-Ross-Kemp.4083803.jp
A native of Kent, England, Mr. Spinks says he joined the Royal Air Force when he was 16 and was sent to the Falkland Islands
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121055696814984165.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
(People and Newspapers)
LEDBURY soldier Daniel Beard is such a big fan of the Reporter, he's asked his family to post regular copies to the Falkland Islands, where he is now based.
http://www.ledburyreporter.co.uk/news/ledburynewsroundup/display.var.2270841.0.local_news_reaches
_falklands_soldier.php
(Entertainment)
Phil Walker – his act has taken him to some weird and wonderful places, from a scout hut in Unst in the Shetland Isles to a portacabin on Mount Alice in the Falkland Islands, becoming a firm favourite with the armed forces.
http://www.chesterchronicle.co.uk/entertainment-chester/news-reviews/2008/05/16/quartet-of-top-comics-coming-to-wirral-s-pacific-road-59067-20914649/
(Photography)
Stunning photographs of the Antarctic are on show in a new exhibition at Cambridge University’s Museum of Zoology. Antarctic: An exhibition of photographs by Roger Slade opens on May 22 and runs until June 28.
http://www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk/news/article/default.aspx?objid=47280
(Endurance)
The crew of HMS Endurance will take 90 minutes off duty to watch Portsmouth – 8000 miles away in the Falkland Islands. Icebreaker Endurance was given the ...
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/38037/Cup-Final-punters-having-a-ball/
(Wrong Expert)
On the Falkland Islands (Malvinas), Ana Marcela Pastorino, representing Argentina, delivered a statement in which she said the Territory was a 'special and particular colonial case as it involves a sovereignty dispute'.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/TUJA-7EP4U9?OpenDocument
(Sovereignty)
BANDUNG, INDONESIA, 16 May -- The 2008 Pacific Regional Seminar on decolonization convened under the auspices of the General Assembly’s Special Committee on the situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples -- better known as the Special Committee of 24 on Decolonization -- concluded its work today.
http://7thspace.com/headlines/281479/pacific_regional_seminar_on_decolonization_adopts_draft_report
_as three_day_meeting_in_bandung_indonesia_concludes.html
(Military History)
The wreck of one of the Second World War's most famous warships has been found by deep sea explorers, 66 years after it was lost in battle.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/indonesia/1975561/Wartime-naval-legend-HMS-Exeter-found-off-Java.html
(US Election)
For God's sake, get into alliance with Britain, your greatest ally in this fight, and drill under the Falkland Islands and start accessing your own reserves ...
http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/32285.html
Speech by Joe Bossano at the Regional Seminar on decolonisation
The following is the text of the speech delivered by the Leader of the Opposition Joe Bossano at the UN Pacific Regional Seminar on The Implementation of the Second International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism, which this year has taken place in Bandung, Indonesia.
http://www.panorama.gi/localnews/headlines.php?action=view_article&article=3306&offset=0
Life on the most northerly inhabited island in Britain can be very tough indeed. On Unst the winters are harsh, and the winds brutal and relentless, regularly sweeping across the treeless landscape at more than 100mph.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/may/19/greenbuilding.windpower
(Gough Island)
Yesterday, the RSPB proposed hiring helicopters to drop thousands of tonnes of rodent poison on the island. "A government-funded feasibility study done with New Zealand, which has eradicated rats from many islands, shows it is possible. They mice would take the poison and just go to their nests and die. We think it could be done fairly easily and would cost about £2.6m", said a spokeswoman.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/may/19/wildlife.endangeredspecie
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