The Royal River Conservation Trust has appointed Chris Franklin, an experienced land conservationist, as its new executive director. “I look at this as a great opportunity,” said Franklin ...

Friends of the British Overseas Territories, FOTBOT, plan to visit the Falkland Islands this month with Parliamentary Adviser ...

Britain and Mauritius denied on Wednesday media reports that London could end up paying double the amount in a renegotiated deal to retain a U.S.-British military base on Diego Garcia in the Indian ...

Chagos islanders still dream of returning home five decades after being expelled by Britain, but with Donald Trump in the White House they may have to wait a little longer. Late last year ...

Luquin. Speculation is rife that U.S. President Donald Trump might block an agreement between Britain and Mauritius to resolve their long-running dispute over the Chagos Archipelago in the central ...

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The Chagos fiasco may yet do for Keir Starmer ... building luxury hotels and fishing in what Britain maintains as a marine conservation area. They talked of settling the outer atolls with Mauritians ...

The cost of the Chagos Islands deal is equivalent to more than a decade of winter fuel payment savings, according to new analysis. The research found that the upper estimate of £18 billion ...