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Falklands Day, August 14th
MercoPress
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Thursday, August 14th 2025 - 12:01 UTC Today, the 14th of August, the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly proudly marks Falklands Day and extends warm wishes to all Falkland Islanders and friends of the Falklands. This day marks the anniversary...
Voices: No, Kemi Badenoch – housing asylum seekers in tents won’t solve our immigration problem
The Independent
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August 12, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Navitas Sea Lion project report sets out positive and negative impact on the Falkland Islands
FITV
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August 3, 2025
A report into the social and economic impacts of the Navitas Sea Lion project has been released. The report, put together by Hatch, sets out the positives and negatives that could come if the project is green-lit. At a public meeting on Thursday,...
Interview: Dire Straits and the adventure of Brothers In Arms
Louder
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August 14, 2025
It’s spring 1985 in Britain. The coal miners have ended a rancorous, year-long dispute with Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government. In the wake of the Heysel Stadium riot, in which 39 people died and 600 were injured, English football clubs...
Athy to welcomes visitors from the Falkland Islands
Kildare Nationalist
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August 1, 2025
Athy will warmly welcome four winners of the Ernest Shackleton essay competition from the Falkland Islands to visit the new Shackleton Museum during their tour of the UK and Ireland. On August 19, Ruby Marsh, Alice-May Curtis, Benjamin Goodwin and...
Transformed St Helena veteran vessel will be visiting Falklands in 2026/2027
MercoPress
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Thursday, July 31st 2025 - 21:26 UTC RMS St Helena when she was in full operations transporting passengers and cargo between the island in mid-Atlantic and South Africa. Falkland Islands residents, originally from the island of St. Helena, most...
Reverend who served in Falklands and first Gulf War has died, aged 70
NorthWalesLive
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July 31, 2025
A minister who worked as a chaplain in both the Falklands and Gulf wars has died, aged 70. Reverend Marcus Wyn Robinson from Caernarfon started out as a Presbyterian minister in the Dyffryn Peris area, also returning to same area towards the end...
Falklands, Government announces Environmental Studies Budget
MercoPress
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Wednesday, July 23rd 2025 - 08:57 UTC The application period for the Falkland Islands Government’s (FIG) Environmental Studies Budget is now open. The Environmental Studies Budget provides annual funding to support individuals and organizations in...
Falklands, applications for Naturalization and British Passports
MercoPress
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Wednesday, July 23rd 2025 - 09:19 UTC Reminder of ‘One Name for All Purposes’ Policy The Falkland Islands Government’s Customs and Immigration Service would like to remind people intending to apply for Naturalization as British Overseas...
Falkland man scores lifetime BC Hockey membership
Revelstoke Review
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July 23, 2025
Being named a BC Hockey Honourary Life Member is the second-best thing to ever happen to Bill Greene. The first – as any good husband will tell you – is being married. “It’s an incredible honour to be awarded a Life Membership with this...
Falklands’ delegation will be attending Expo-Prado next September in Uruguay
MercoPress
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Monday, July 21st 2025 - 09:21 UTC The Falkland Islands Government welcomes expressions of interest from the community to form part of a delegation to represent the Falkland Islands at Expo Prado in Montevideo, Uruguay, in September 2025. Expo...
Inside Ellen DeGeneres' UK life after being 'pushed out' of Hollywood
Daily Mail
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August 13, 2025
Ellen DeGeneres shocked her fans when she said goodbye to the United States in favor of the United Kingdom after the 2024 presidential election. But now the 67-year-old comedian's new life in the UK with her wife Portia de Rossi, 52, is coming...
Pitt County Education: More students enrolled in Pitt County Schools in 2023-24 school year
Greenville Reporter - North Carolina
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July 24, 2025
Catherine Truitt North Carolina Superintendent of Public Instruction | https://x.com/ctruittnc?lang=en Catherine Truitt North Carolina Superintendent of Public Instruction | https://x.com/ctruittnc?lang=en The only school district in Pitt County...
British actor looks unrecognisable as he watches Oasis at Wembley with musician Tom Grennan - but can you guess who it is?
Daily Mail
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August 11, 2025
He was just 13 years old when he rose to fame on This Is England. The British actor secured the role after he was spotted at a youth club by This is England director Shane Meadows, and he went on to nab a British Independent film award for best...
Remains of UK Scientist Found 66 Years After Tragic Antarctic Glacier Death
ScienceAlert
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August 12, 2025
The remains of a British meteorologist who died in an Antarctic expedition in 1959 have been recovered six decades later from a glacier, the British Antarctic Survey said Monday. They were identified by DNA-testing as those of Dennis "Tink" Bell,...
The Tony Blair Institute’s filthy role in planning the ethnic cleansing and “reconstruction” of Gaza
World Socialist Web Site
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July 16, 2025
Earlier this month, the Financial Times revealed that two staff members from the Tony Blair Institute (TBI) took part in discussions with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) about plans to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from Gaza and build a “Trump...
Inside Ellen DeGeneres' life in the UK after being 'pushed out' of Hollywood and leaving because of Trump
Daily Mail
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August 13, 2025
Ellen DeGeneres shocked her fans when she said goodbye to the United States in favor of the United Kingdom after the 2024 presidential election. But now the 67-year-old comedian's new life in the UK with her wife Portia de Rossi, 52, is coming...
Gorgeous 'British island' with pink beaches and loads of shipwrecks
The Mirror
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August 12, 2025
Across the world, there are 14 British Overseas Territories. These areas fall under UK sovereignty whilst remaining separate from the United Kingdom itself. Nine such destinations are permanently inhabited and include places like the Cayman...
Inside Ellen DeGeneres’ New Life in the U.K. and What’s Next
Us Weekly
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August 12, 2025
On a Sunday afternoon in late July, Ellen DeGeneres walked onto the stage at the historic Cheltenham Everyman Theatre in Cheltenham, England, to the tune of Harry Styles’ “You’re So Golden,” then sat in front of a crowd of nearly 700 people for a...
My First Cruise Connections: Jill Abel, CEO, Australian Cruise Association
Seatrade Cruise News
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August 11, 2025
Describe the first time you saw a cruise ship. My first proper cruise ship encounter wasn’t on a sun lounge with a cocktail in hand, far from it. It was 1995, and I had just taken on the role of cruise co-ordinator for what was then the Marine...