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Tue, 14 Jun 2022 10:57:00 GMT
Falklands War: end of hostilities, General Menendez surrenders to Major General Jeremy Moore
With the capture of Mount Tumbledown, Wireless Ridge and Sapper Hill the Falkland Islands conflict was effectively over and at 2100 hours on the 14th June 1982 the commander of the Argentine garrison in Stanley, General Mario M...

Tue, 14 Jun 2022 10:30:00 GMT
That’s a fine mess you got out of, Stanley
By Graham Bound for MercoPress – Images of Stanley captured in 1982 compared with photos taken from the same vantage points 40 years on, show a town – now a city – transformed.

Tue, 14 Jun 2022 09:53:00 GMT
The status of 'city' granted to Stanley by the Queen, another Argentine complaint in the next C24, June 23
Next June 23 Argentina will renew its request before the UN Special Committee on Decolonization, or C24, for the United Kingdom to resume negotiations on the Falklands/Malvinas Islands sovereignty dispute, which have been suspe...

Tue, 14 Jun 2022 08:25:00 GMT
Falklands issues 50p coin to commemorate the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth
A brand new 50p coin to commemorate the Platinum Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has been issued on behalf of the Falkland Islands government, by the Pobjoy Mint.

Mon, 13 Jun 2022 23:45:00 GMT
Timeline: 14th June 1982 – Democracy restored to the Falkland Islands
On 02nd April 1982 Argentine Forces invaded the Falkland Islands. Patrick Watts, who was Head of Falklands Radio, broadcast a marathon 11 hours non-stop description of the events as they unfolded. He maintained a British presen...

Mon, 13 Jun 2022 10:45:00 GMT
Mounts surrounding Stanley taken by British forces, end of Falklands war
The Argentine occupation of the Falkland Islands is coming to an end and Liberation is in the air. Royal Marines, Paras, Scot Guards, and Gurkhas with naval bombardment support were attacking and capturing the Mounts surroundin...

Mon, 13 Jun 2022 10:00:00 GMT
Operation Blackleg to recover sensitive information from HMS Coventry sunk by Argentine bombers
The Daily Express going through the National Archives of the British Ministry of Defense unearthed details of a secret operation in the aftermath of the Falkland Islands War to recover what were considered sensitive information...

Mon, 13 Jun 2022 09:15:00 GMT
Impressive service at the Pangbourne Falklands' Memorial Chapel
More than a thousand people gathered on Sunday at Pangbourne College Falkland Islands Memorial Chapel to commemorate forty years since the end of the Falklands War. The Memorial Chapel holds a remembrance service each year for ...

Mon, 13 Jun 2022 07:21:00 GMT
Memorial service for 14 sailors from HMS Glamorgan killed in Falklands
The Falkland Islands marked the forty years since the attack on HMS Glamorgan which killed fourteen crew members. The Memorial service was held at the Glamorgan memorial, Surf Bay, and streamlined live on Forces News despite aw...

Sat, 11 Jun 2022 11:09:00 GMT
BAS/South Georgia launch new data portal on one of the world's largest Marine Protected Areas
A new Data Portal was launched on Friday by the British Antarctic Survey and the Government of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (GSGSSI), which will help to enhance the management of one of the world’s largest Mar...



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