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Southern Star (Falkland Islands Newsletter, No.20, August 1984) The British Forces in the Falkland Islands now have their own newspaper, called Southern Star. It started life in May 1983 as a one sheet duplicated broadsheet, called Newsheet. Since then it has developed into an either to ten page A4 sized publication, produced on two 3M photocopiers, and has been given a new name, because the original title smacked of a 'change of linen' rather than a newspaper. The present Editor is Captain Leighton Yeo of the Royal Army Education Corps, and he wrote from the Forces Education Centre at Lookout Camp, Stanley, sending initially a copy of issue No.3, dated 6th April 1984. He wrote that between then the photocopiers had produced a quarter of a million photocopies in nine months - which is something to be said for 3M. Since then we have gratefully received further issues and Southern Star is now being published weekly. The circulation of Southern Star, which is described as "The most southerly service newspaper in the world" is 770, and it is distributed free of charge to all three services in the South Atlantic. Whilst the first two pages are generally devoted to world news, the third and fourth pages have been devoted to a series telling the story of the Falkland Islands War. Other pages have been devoted to a series of articles on Falklands Wildlife, Wrecks around Stanley, and local news. One issue a month includes a full list of radio programmes of the Falkland Islands Broadcasting Service and the British Forces Broadcasting Service, and then there are reports of football matches and UK results, Letters, Poems, Tide Tables (for fishermen), Puzzles and Cartoons, the latter not relevant to the Falklands. Clearly the newspaper seeks to make the servicemen more aware of their surroundings, and this we heartily applaud. We wish the Southern Star every success. For anyone who is wondering where Lookout Camp is, it is an accommodation camp, consisting largely of Portakabins, located at the west end of Davis Street, opposite White City. This article first
appeared in the Falkland Islands Newsletter, Edition 20, August 1984.
The Falkland Islands Association is an independent organisation which
brings together those who support the continuing freedom of the people of
the Falkland Islands. Its Constitution states that its objectives
are to assist the people of the Falkland Islands to decide their own
future for themselves without being subjected to pressure direct or
indirect from any quarter. |
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