Falklands : Internet News Relevant to the Falklands (27/07/08)
Submitted by Falkland Islands News Network (Juanita Brock) 27.07.2008 (Article Archived on 03.08.2008)
We take an in-depth look at what other newspapers are writing about the Falklands
INTERNET NEWS RELEVANT TO THE FALKLANDS (27/07/08)
Compiled by J. Brock (FINN)
We take an in-depth look at what other newspapers are writing about the Falklands.
(Falkland Islands Holdings)
As well as writing this column, I am trying to meet the deadline for delivery of haiku for a small poetry magazine, but: the sky hangs down/ a curtain of dark warning - thunder crash ripples.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9eb7abfe-552a-11dd-ae9c-000077b07658.html
(Falkland Islands Holdings)
The Board of Falkland Island Holdings plc announces the appointment of KBC Peel Hunt as the Nominated Adviser to the Company with immediate effect. KBC Peel Hunt remains Broker to the Company
http://www.londonstockexchange.com/LSECWS/IFSPages/MarketNewsPopup.aspx?id=1906580&source=RNS
(Tourism)
Take a cruise, and help public radio. WLRH FM-89.3 is organizing an exotic trip to South America and Antarctica in February.
http://www.al.com/living/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/living/1216545333183340.xml&coll=1
I WAS on the cruise money couldn’t buy: once more, after 16 years, mid-river, amid a fleet of ships that appeared to belong to a bygone age.
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/echo-columnists/2008/07/22/the-leaving-of-liverpool-100252-21380333/
(Mentioned)
THE NEWS that the BBC is scaling back on its already cigarette-paper thin coverage of the Edinburgh festivals, the world's biggest live arts event, chimes with the current overall level of coverage of Scotland and all things Scottish by the British Broadcasting Corporation. That is, to look at the BBC news this week you would think that Scotland doesn't exist. Or perhaps it's right next to the Falkland Islands on the priority list.
http://www.sundayherald.com/oped/opinion/display.var.2403659.0.its_not_just
_the_weather_maps_that_are_skewed.php
(Financial – Mention)
As fears mount about a possible recession in the UK, a new report has highlighted that investors can still expect impressive returns if they put their money ...
http://www.moneyhighstreet.com/finance-news/514/
(Veterans)
Falkalnds veterans will be able to visit their former battlegrounds for the cost of a train to Scotland.
http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/Falklands-veterans39-flight-plan.4301195.jp
(Commemorations)
DENMEAD, Inhams Farm, Inhams Lane (PO7 6LX). 2.45pm gates for 3.30pm. Brass in the Garden. Featuring the Denmead Brass Band. In aid of Mayor of Winchester's charities. Tea and cakes can be purchased. Admission £8 pp/ £20 family. (023) 9225 7565 for tickets.
http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/whatson/The-List--Saturday-July.4302094.jp
(Army Recruitment)
The Army is considering a recruitment drive in Jamaica to boost its depleted forces.
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.2403932.0.British_Army_may
_recruit_in_Jamaica.php
(Weekend with Royal Navy)
The public will have a chance to learn about the future direction of the Royal Navy during a weekend of events in Portsmouth giving people the opportunity to step on board warships and witness dramatic displays.
http://www.crawleyobserver.co.uk/latest-south-east-news/Weekend-of-events-brings-navy.4322944.jp
(Sovereignty)
Any autobiographically tinted writing forces me to clear up any doubts about decisions I made more than half a century ago. I am talking about subtle details, since the essential points are never forgotten. This is the case of what I did in 1948, sixty years ago.
http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2008/0718reflexfidel.htm
(Margaret Thatcher)
RARELY has a political move sparked such a furious response as the proposal to give Margaret Thatcher a state funeral.
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2008/07/21/the-real-legacy-of-margaret-thatcher-is-a-nation-divided-100252-21375195/
(Birds)
A rook is a bird of the passerine order; a type of crow. It's also the title of the new album from Austin, Texas, band Shearwater. On the album cover a figure is standing on a rock outcrop near the ocean covered entirely in rooks.
http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/etoday/story.html?id=d09f3bc5-e523-4282-b842-776cb7195329
(Thief)
Duncan MacGillivray, 40, stashed the guns and ammo after tours in Iraq, Northern Ireland, the Falklands and Germany
http://www.sundaymail.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2008/07/20/busted-soldier-hid-lethal
-arsenal-of-weapons-in-his-home-78057-20654868/
(Happy Couple)
Matthew, 33, and Isabel, who is originally from Chile, met in 2004 while working in the Falklands and she followed him back to England so they could be ...
http://www.thisisdorset.net/display.var.2405383.0.couples_quest_over.php
(Military Equipment)
The Seawolf air defense missile was originally tested and fielded in the 1970s, and saw action in the 1982 Falklands
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/Britain-Signs-Through-Life-Support-Deal-for-Seawolf
-Missiles-04990/
(Relevant Books)
A bidding war between two publishers over a debut novel has seen Atlantic Books editor Sarah Castleton secure world English rights for a "good five-figure" sum.
http://www.thebookseller.com/news/63480-atlantic-wins-bidding-war.html
John Dugdale is the deputy media editor of the Guardian and a contributor to the Sunday Times, The Listener, The Face, Arena, The New Statesman and the New Yorker.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/1999/nov/26/top10s.media.books
(Photography)
This week Nathan Myhrvold published some of the most stunning pictures I’ve seen in a long time. They’re compiled in a photo essay, entitled “Panoramas and Photo Technology from Iceland and Greenland,” on John Brockman’s Edge.org site.
http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2008/07/23/around-the-world-with-nathan-myhrvold-and-his-camera/
(Literatire)
As a graduate student of Latin-American literature, and a history buff, I can recommend this book to any uninformed individual on the Dirty War and its origins. But at the same time I would recommend that you take some of Dr. Taylor's comments with a grain of salt.
http://www.deargentinos.com/products/details.aspx?pid=0822318687
(Conflict Theatre)
Falklands veterans and heroes are required, for a production of Henry V, from tonight until Friday, centred around the conflict.
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/whats-on-newcastle/theatre-arts/2008/07/23/heroes-of-the-stage-72703-21382993/
(Military Equipment)
BAE Systems’ Chelmsford operation has won a £141 million contract to maintain the Seawolf air defence system on board the Royal Navy’s Type 22 and Type 23 Frigates over the next nine years.
http://www.businessweekly.co.uk/2008072332219/defence/mod-awards-%C2%A3141m
-contract-to-bae-in-chelmsford.html
(Air Marshal Sir Eric Dunn)
Air Marshal Sir Eric Dunn, who has died aged 80, started his RAF career as a 16-year-old aircraft apprentice and by the time he retired 42 years later had risen to be the service's chief engineer.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2455701/Air-Marshal-Sir-Eric-Dunn.html
(1982 Veteran)
A FALKLANDS War veteran and community stalwart has died aged 85.
http://www.thisisdorset.net/display.var.2406805.0.falklands_war_hero_has_died.php
(Air Show)
SOME of the world's most famous aircraft are set to soar through the skies above the east coast as part of the 12th Lowestoft Seafront Air Festival.
http://www.eadt.co.uk/content/eadt/news/story.aspx?brand=EADOnline&category=News&tBrand=EADOnline&tCategory=news&itemid
=IPED24%20Jul%202008%2000%3A23%3A29%3A617
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