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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.{a}

About the most recent updates to Saint Helena Island Info

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This site was last updated on 26 January 2025.

See also: ⋅ Page 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: 26th January 202530th December 202410th December 202422nd November 20246th November 20244th September 2024Older Items

26th January 2025

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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

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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

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We’ve started posting On This Day and other items on the ‘BlueSky’ Social Media and ‘Mastodon’ platforms, and withdrawn from X™ (formerly Twitter).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

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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.

See Wooooo.

6th November 2024

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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

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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.

Saint Helena Island Info is listed on sthelenaonline.org{1}

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.

Older Items

Older items can be found on our Page Updates History.

LOL

MY SPILL CHUCKER

Eye halve a spilling chucker, it came with my pea sea.
It plainly marks for my revue miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a ward and weight four it two say
weather eye am wrong oar write - it shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid it nose bee four two long
and eye can pot the error rite - its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye ran this poem threw it, I'm shore your pleased to no.
Its letter perfect awl the weigh - my spill chucker tolled me sew!
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Credits:
{a} Cato the Elder{2}{b} Anon

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Footnotes:
{1} You can list your own St Helena business.{2} Who apparently also said If you allow them[women] to achieve complete equality with men, do you think they will be easier to live with? Not at all. Once they have achieved equality, they will be your masters.

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