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For the record
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About the most recent updates to Saint Helena Island Info
This site was last updated on 16 September 2024.
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: 16th September 2024 4th September 2024 12th July 2024 10th June 2024 18th April 2024 27th February 2024 Older Items
16th September 2024
Minor and/or technical updates only.
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.
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 Next Page 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.
Older Items
Older items can be found on our Page Updates History.
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Credits:
{a} Cato the Elder{2}{b} Anon
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.