Base. They are quite optimistic in their views that oil will be extracted from the Faroese CS. They are preparing themselves for a possible oil industry in the Faroes. Atlantic Supply Base in Runavik has [...] has been an active participant in the exploration drilling that have been made in the Faroes since 2001, i.e. 5 wells. ASB was founded in 1999. Now, new challenges are ahead of us. The Statoil explorations [...] supply base service, and the Oil Companies who have done there exploration well’s, have been well satisfied with our service, so I do not think there is any reason to move the supply base away from Runavik

can now become the focus of attention and therefore – in a way – become a new centre. A New Frontier There are still new frontiers to be discovered in the world – and the Faroe Islands might be just that: [...] experience in a radio programme in this way: »It’s a cosmic experience. The Faroe Islands is a country which is – and is not. It is in constant flux. It keeps disappearing: One moment it’s lost in the fog [...] fog, and suddenly – there it is again in all its magnificent beauty. Like magic. Like reality and fairytale in one. In these majestic surroundings you become almost painfully confronted with life’s vulnerability

Take Jónas Bronck, for example. Born in Copenhagen, the son of a Danish Lutheran minister, he was raised in the Faroes. As one could well imagine, growing up in the Faroes Jónas was quite at home on the [...] proceeded to found Rome. A few odd centuries later in 1639, Jónas Bronck sailed westward across the Atlantic in his sturdy Fire of Troy and settled a bit of land in the new world that would later be known as The [...] collection of books in America. Now Jónas knew the realities of living in a harsh environment and he brought along good quantities of building supplies (scare at even the best of times in the Faroes) and skilled

And I don’t like taking part in creating fictions about my life. That’s sort of not what I had in mind when I came out thirty years ago. I have three kids who have five parents, more or less, and I don’t [...] not exist.…(F)ighting for gay marriage generally involves lying about what we are going to do with marriage when we get there — because we lie that the institution of marriage is not going to change, and [...] shouldn’t have five parents legally… I met my new partner, and she had just had a baby, and that baby’s biological father is my brother, and my daughter’s biological father is a man who lives in Russia, and

celebrations are held today all around the Faroes. In every Flag Day speech, in every village, on almost every island today, the role of Britain in our flag’s official history will be remembered. Being in Scotland [...] universities in Scotland. They are looking to build on the MoU they have with the University of the Highlands and Islands in Inverness, where they are headed tomorrow. Representatives from NORA are also here [...] Faroese companies are making major investments in sustainable aquaculture in Scotland with the view to developing the industry for our mutual economic benefit. But we also have so much more in common than fish