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On this page we provide information about the most recent updates to Saint Helena Island Info, as well as details of previous updates. You can find information about earlier updates on page Page Updates History.
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These pages have minor updates unless listed in the Recent Updates section below.
Recent Updates
Listed below are the principal changes in each release, in addition to which there are generally new and improved images, corrections and other minor improvements throughout the site.
Below: 29th May 2026 8th April 2026 25th February2026 14th January 2026 6th December 2025 28th October 2025 25th September 2025 17th August 2025 14th July 2025 9th July 2025 Older Items
29th May 2026
We have a new page highlighting a spectacularly varied feature of our island: The Flora of St Helena.
We have added a lot more information about ‘Teabag’, the station cat for Radio St Helena.
Read what AI says about Saint Helena Island Info.
Learn about the changes we have made to our Social Media feeds.
8th April 2026
In case you have heard otherwise, Jonathan has not died and remains the world’s oldest living land animal. More on our page Jonathan the tortoise.
We have the 2026 Wirebird Census results on our page The Wirebird.
Read about the attempts to swim around St Helena on our page Go Swimming!.
See the proposed new logo for this site on our page Artificial Intelligence. We don’t think so!
25th February2026
We have a NEW PAGE, Icons of St Helena, which are not the same as our National Symbols.
The Major Incident regarding the St Helena Airport is documented on our page A Brief History (continued).
Read about the first-ever Round-The-Island Swim on our page Go Swimming!.
The King Charles III Banknotes are now in circulation. Details on our page Notes and Coins of St Helena.
The ill-fated Early Warning System has been added to the Things that don’t work section of our page Could you live here?.
14th January 2026
King Charles III Banknotes have been announced. Details on our page Notes and Coins of St Helena.
If walking is too slow for you, see about something faster on our page Walking St Helena.
Our page Christmas has been updated with the 2025 events.
We’ve removed the list of TV channels available from our page Television because it changes with zero notice and we don’t want to carry out-of-date information.
6th December 2025
From this release forwards Andrew Mountbatten Windsor is known as such throughout the site.
Following the 2025 Agricultural Show we have introduced a NEW PAGE, Farming, all about the present and history of agriculture on St Helena and with extensive coverage of the recent show.
We’ve improved the way This site was last updated… is reported which has resulted in a large number of pages with very minor updates. We have also improved the way the Closing Humour is generated, with a similar result.
At the advice of our site host we have moved away from using http:// and switched to https:// instead, which makes no practical difference whatsoever unless your browser is one of those that gives imminent danger of death warnings about http:// sites, in which case you will no longer get these (and, we hope, sleep better at night).
And Finally… Check out an update to our page Get Married Here.
28th October 2025
Our page Country Music was one of the first pages we wrote , but now we have a new page - Music - for all the many other musical styles featured here.
Updates have been made to many pages reflecting the move of the Port Facilities to Ruperts.
We have added a new Saved building - see our page Saved Buildings, recorded the visit of famous pianist Filippo Gorini and note the update to the lights on Jacob’s Ladder.
Pages related to Districts now give Legislative Council Representative information and our page Districts of St Helena lists them all.
Angus McKay has kindly sent us some photos taken on a visit in 1981, when he was just 10.
25th September 2025
We have summarised the latest plans for primary school reorganisation on our page Education.
Our page Government on St Helena is now updated for latest developments.
We are no longer able to be contacted by telephone. Our operational contact details are on the page Contact Us.
We’ve updated the page Roads with a more intuitive structure, and to reflect the completion of the Ladder Hill Road Refurbishment.
Our page about where to find St Helena has been updated to help people coming here from far, far away… Where is St Helena?.
17th August 2025
Read about the American battle plan to capture St Helena.
In July 2025 the Government of St Helena announced that it had received an investment proposal covering all or parts of the Mundens Fort area. At the time of writing{1} it is not known what has been proposed and whether development will be allowed to go ahead.
We’ve reorganised the page Forts and Batteries to better structure the information and highlight some important installations, including a new section Featured Forts.
There is lot of confusion on the Internet about what is our St Helena, and what is one of the others. We explore this on our page Do they mean us?.
John Coyle has kindly provided a collection of photos he took on the island in 1967-9, which we’ve included throughout the site.
We realised that the page Half Tree Hollow had many historic images but few contemporary ones, so have corrected this.
We have been through more of the site examining the ‘time of writing{1}’ markers and bringing them up-to-date, which has resulted in updates to more pages.
14th July 2025
We have been through the site examining the ‘time of writing{1}’ markers and bringing them up-to-date. This has resulted in updates to many pages.
9th July 2025
The QUICK READ section, at the top of each page, now gives you a word count and estimated read time for the main content{2}.
Captain Tom Whatley has been added to our page Important People because he is very fondly remembered by so many.
The island’s secondary school was renamed St Helena Secondary School in May so we now use its new name for ongoing references and its old name for historic ones.
We had a play with Microsoft Copilot. As a result we updated our page Artificial Intelligence and added in a few quotes around the site.
If you used to listen to Stedson Francis on the radio you may want to hear his distinctive signature tune again. It’s on our page Radio St Helena page.
Older Items
Older items can be found on our Page Updates History.
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Footnotes:
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