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Falklands offers opportunity to engage with the KEMH Maternity Review
MercoPress
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Thursday, August 28th 2025 - 01:06 UTC The KEMH is undertaking a full external review of its maternity services in October this year. The King Edward VII Memorial Hospital (KEMH) is offering the opportunity for those with experience of using...
Campaign group wins apology from government over medical data breaches
Falkland Islands Radio Service
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August 28, 2025
The Falkland Islands Government says sorry for not notifying the police despite being aware patient confidentiality had been breached, and for not apologising immediately. “We accept that those affected by the first data breach had to wait four...
NHS bosses slammed over Somerset hospital bed closures plans
SomersetLive
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August 27, 2025
NHS bosses in Somerset have been accused of "putting the chicken before the egg" when it comes to possible closures of community hospital beds. The Somerset NHS Foundation Trust operates 13 inpatient wards across its 11 community hospitals,...
Falklands, BFSAI and MPA capabilities in the challenging winter conditions
MercoPress
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Thursday, August 21st 2025 - 09:19 UTC An RAF transport parked at MPA in a typical South Atlantic winter weather night Whilst personnel in the UK are enduring yet another heatwave in 2025, Royal Air Force Service Personnel on the other side of the...
Commander John McGregor, Falklands commander
The Times
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On the evening of May 23, 1982, during the Falklands conflict, Commander John McGregor “watched in fascinated horror” after an unexploded bomb detonated while being defused on the frigate HMS Antelope, which was anchored 300 yards away in San...
Summer here, winter there: How the RAF keeps flying when it's freezing in the Falklands
Forces Network
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While Europe is still enjoying the summer, it's winter in the South Atlantic, creating some icy obstacles to be overcome for the Armed Forces personnel deployed there. Within the British Forces South Atlantic Islands, Mount Pleasant Airfield on...
Community hospital staff interviewed to ‘see who keeps their jobs’
SomersetLive
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August 18, 2025
Staff at Somerset's community hospitals claim they are being interviewed to "see who keeps their jobs" ahead of wider NHS reforms. The Somerset NHS Foundation Trust operates 13 inpatient wards across its 11 community hospitals, located in...
Falklands, Pollution Prevention and Waste Management Approved by ExCo
MercoPress
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Tuesday, August 12th 2025 - 04:53 UTC MLA Peter Biggs said: “Falklands needs to improve how we manage pollution and waste and this is an important step in better protecting our air, land and water. The Executive Council has approved a Pollution...
Falklands wellbeing platform is gaining more visitors
FITV
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August 10, 2025
Falklands’ mental health website Minding My Mind was launched at the end of June and has been up and running for just over 5 weeks now. The website is aiming to help people to monitor their emotional wellbeing, learn more about mental health and...
Falklands congratulates RFA on its 120th anniversary: Be it war or natural disasters, they are always there
MercoPress
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Wednesday, August 6th 2025 - 07:21 UTC RFA Tidespring is currently deployed in the Indo-Pacific as part of the Carrier Strike Group 25’s eight-month mission. The Falkland Islands Government Office in London, FIGO, has wished the RFA.(Royal Fleet...
The elusive contract: why a 68-year-old Briton keeps knocking on the doors of Ukrainian army recruitment centres
Ukrainska Pravda
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In the spring of 1982, forces from the British Army’s Royal Marines set off for the Falkland Islands to fight the Argentinians. The Battle of Two Sisters was one of the defining engagements of the ten-week-long war. Among the troops who took part...
SMALL CAP MOVERS: Rockhopper seeks $140m for Falkland's offshore oil production push
This Is Money
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August 4, 2025
Great Scott! Is it 2012 again, or did I just hit 88 miles per hour in a DeLorean? This week’s news jolted Team Proactive straight back to the past. Rockhopper Exploration, that blast-from-the-past Falklands oil explorer, is launching an equity...
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,...
How US gun culture stacks up with the world
Yahoo News
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Minneapolis. Kansas City. Lewiston. Monterey Park. Orlando. Las Vegas. Newtown. Parkland. San Bernardino. Uvalde. Nashville. Louisville. Ubiquitous gun violence in the United States has left few places unscathed over the decades. Still, many...
What happened to Spurgeon’s College?
Baptist News Global
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August 27, 2025
Just as students across the UK are beginning the fall term, 169-year Spurgeon’s College in London has closed its doors for good. According to a statement by the school, the unexpected closure of Europe’s largest Baptist college on July 31 came as...
Major General Brian Pennicott obituary: Royal Artillery officer
The Times
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Wars seldom end tidily. Even surrender takes negotiation. To his surprise, in June 1982, Colonel Brian Pennicott found himself a last-minute witness to the Argentine capitulation in the Falklands conflict. The process had begun a week earlier, but...
Aurora Expeditions’ Greg Mortimer Ship Review
NOMADasaurus
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August 28, 2025
The Greg Mortimer holds a special place in the world of expedition cruising. When it launched in 2019 it wasn’t just another polar ship — it was the first passenger vessel built with the groundbreaking Ulstein X-BOW®. That single innovation...
Hull Fishing History: Nick the Cook
Fishing News
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August 28, 2025
This is the tale of two brothers. Nick made his living trawling out of Hull. And Mac died aboard a trawler after only a couple of trips. Their story shows that the paths we choose in life can lead in unexpected directions. Although the Jamaican...
NHS bosses 'putting the chicken before the egg' over possible Somerset bed closures
Somerset County Gazette
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August 23, 2025
The Somerset NHS Foundation Trust operates 13 inpatient wards across its 11 community hospitals, located in Bridgwater, Burnham-on-Sea, Chard, Crewkerne, Frome, Glastonbury, Minehead, Shepton Mallet, South Petherton, Wellington, Williton and...
Hazel Fox KC, expert on international law
The Times
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When the question of whether General Pinochet, the Chilean dictator, should be granted diplomatic immunity came before the British courts, legal eyes turned to Hazel Fox, whose name was once described as “synonymous with the law of state...