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The Items

Below: 26th February 2025 26th January 2025 30th December 2024 10th December 2024 22nd November 2024 6th November 2024 4th September 2024 12th July 2024 10th June 2024 18th April 2024 27th February 2024 29th January 2024 19th December 2023 27th November 1st November 2023 5th October 2023

26th February 2025

We’ve expanded the information about Saul Solomon in our page Important People, including a download from Trevor Hearl.

A new feature may prove helpful if you want to reference an image on the site (e.g. in a Social Media post). If you hover over the image a popup will appear, one line of which is the image ID, in the form #image_id_ with a number. If you add this to the page URL you can link directly to the image.

e.g. https://sainthelenaisland.info/updatedthisrelease.htm#image_id_1 (the crest in the top left of the page).

Also, if you use a slower Internet connection, you may have noticed that our pages load faster - we have implemented compression technology.

26th January 2025

We have a NEW PAGE: New Year on St Helena used to be relatively quiet, but has grown in prominence in recent years so now has a page of its own.

We have the results of The Governor’s Cup 2024 race.

We have more about the re-formed Big Easy band on our page Sounds of St Helena.

We decided the ‘Mastodon’ Social Media platform does not meet our demographic requirements so have ceased posting on it. If you have suggestions for others we should explore please contact us.

We’ve tidied up our ‘next event’ highlights and added more information. Here’s an example:

30th December 2024

Naturally, we have added a few 2024 images to our page Christmas, and in the spirit of Christmas we’ve also added the sound of the Salvation Army Band playing carols outside The Market.

10th December 2024

Two (more) new Endemic Spiders have been discovered, and named after local conservationists. See our page Endemic Species.

SaintFM Community Radio didn’t shut down as planned, and has restarted, albeit in reduced form. Details on our page SaintFM Community Radio.

We’ve started posting On This Day and other items on the ‘BlueSky’ Social Media and ‘Mastodon’ platforms, and withdrawn from X™ (formerly Twitter).

Information about the 2024 The Governor’s Cup has been updated.

Lord Baden-Powell’s personal notes on his 1936 visit are amusing. See Famous Visitors.

Our page A Brief History (continued) has been brought up to date with 2024’s major events.

So you’re watching a Slide Show (Slide Show or Slide Show, Historic) and you want to know how long before it refreshes? The answer’s now in the title bar, with a simple countdown. See below:

22nd November 2024

A new page has been added discussing the Union Castle Line and the service it provided for St Helena from 1855 to 1977.

We have added the recently-deceased Mike Olsson to our page Important People, for his contribution to independent media on St Helena.

The closure of SaintFM Community Radio live broadcasting on 8th November 2024, and subsequent events, are detailed on its page.

We have a new winner for the Jacob’s Ladder Challenge.

We have a new map by Captain John Barnes, dated 1811. See our page Maps of St Helena.

The completion of the Field Road/Side Path Refurbishment raises a problem which was predicted but has never been solved. Read about it on our page Roads.

6th November 2024

We have the announcement of the closure of SaintFM Community Radio.

For an unusual mail delivery story from 1968, see the article on our page Communications.

4th September 2024

Why are there lots of feral chickens at Casons? The answer’s on our page Could you live here?.

We have yet another version of the story about The First Battle For St Helena?, although it does not alter our conclusions about the accuracy of the ‘commonly known history’ of St Helena.

We also have the story of an escapee who actually came back. Read about John Brown on our page Escape!.

Following an enquiry we realised that we hadn’t addressed Getting Around on our page Could you live here?; we now have.

We have details of this year’s Carnival.

Read about the Flax Mill Lovers.

We no longer try to show the weekly flight schedules on our page Fly here because they vary too much. Instead we have general information and links to where the up-to-date information can be found.

Each page’s head menu now contains an option ‘Explore this site’ which directs you to the navigation area, to select the page you want to see next.

12th July 2024

The UK Daily Express has again given us a contribution for our Do they mean us? page. Are they trying for some kind of record?

The song St Helena’s Batsh!t Crazy gets a mention on our page A Brief History (continued).

10th June 2024

For Pride Month 2024 we have introduced a new page: LGBTQ+.

Our page Government on St Helena was a bit too large, so we moved the British Overseas Territory details to a new page British Overseas Territory.

Work has started on the St Helena Cultural Centre.

We have Pilling Primary School’s 1st place winning song in the 2024 Culture Month Competition: Proud of St Helena.

18th April 2024

We (probably) have snakes! But only harmless ones… We’ve added them to our Problem Animals page, even though it seems that, with a diet of ants and termites, they might be more of an advantage than a problem.

We have the 2024 Wirebird Census results, showing an increase in adult birds. See our page The Wirebird.

The UK Daily Express has generously given us another contribution for our Do they mean us? page.

We’ve added a set of interesting 1960s postcards to our page Postcards of St Helena.

If you connect to the Internet on St Helena via Sure you should read our Internet Speeds Warning.

27th February 2024

On 29th January, Sam Collins broke the record for the Jacob’s Ladder Challenge with a time of 5 minutes 4.19 seconds, as reported on our page Jacob’s Ladder.

Refurbishment has begun on Toby’s Cottage. There are images of the work on our page Toby.

We get spectacular sunsets on St Helena, as documented on our NEW PAGE Sunsets.

Our Accessability Statement is published on our pages Important Information and About This Site.

29th January 2024

Arguably the most significant change is the addition of HRH Edward, Duke of Edinburgh’s visit to our page Famous Visitors.

As usual in January, we have some updates (new photographs, etc.) to our seasonal page Christmas.

The 2023 Festival of Walking has also generated updates to our Walking St Helena page.

We have information on the new sea freight service for St Helena.

The Consulate Hotel held a Jazz night in January. We have a recording on our page Sounds of St Helena.

19th December 2023

We’ve attempted to answer the question ‘Does UK Legislation apply to St Helena?’ on our page Government on St Helena. Good luck understanding the answer!

The (UK) Daily Express has, once again, kindly made a contribution to our Do they mean us? page. Nice of them!

Also deserving (and therefore getting) a mention on the same page is the new Napoleon film.

Much better, however, is the new article on our Read articles about St Helena page.

Is Diana’s Peak a ‘Mountain’? We don’t know! What do you think?

27th November

We now know where the people recently re-buried in Ruperts originated, before being captured as slaves. See our page The Slave Graves.

Enjoy our NEW PAGE Fascinating Facts about St Helena!

We tried a different Artificial Intelligence app, this time with rather less success. See our page Artificial Intelligence.

We have taken advantage of the now-available un-capped Internet access to add additional What3Words locations across the site.

1st November 2023

Our National Conservation Areas now have their own page: see National Conservation Areas. Also included is information about our Marine Protected Area.

Beware of the Diddlidite! See our page Edible Wild Plants.

We’ve removed all the (known!) Dead Links and replaced them with alternatives.

There are other updates too numerous to list across many pages, including additional ‘Read More’ articles, factual updates, additional images and new data. Enjoy discovering them☺.

5th October 2023

Read about Captain Robert Wright, who fought (and won) a duel with Lieutenant Stephen Young at Chubb’s Spring in 1809 and was subsequently acquitted of murder.

We’ve updated our page Communications to reflect the improvements in Internet access on St Helena with effect from 1st October.

Batchelors Hall is a large, prominent building in Main Street, Jamestown. If you’ve never heard of it see our page Historic Buildings, Jamestown.

Our page Sounds of St Helena now contains links whereby you can ‘Listen Live’ to our island radio stations.

Abercrombie & Kent are famous for high-end travel and next year one of their trips includes St Helena. See the article on our page Visitor Information.

The 2024 The Governor’s Cup race has been announced, starting on 26th December 2024.

We’ve greatly improved the Image Search - it now returns more and more relevant results. Good if you know you saw an image on Saint Helena Island Info and can’t remember where. Images returned must have a height of at least 500 px.