Tomorrow marks 40 years since Argentina invaded and occupied the Falkland Islands. Britain has "ruled" the small Island in the South Atlantic since 1833, but Argentina maintains it's claim to them to this day.
Falkland Islanders would generally prefer to be stay British, which was Margaret Thatcher's argument when she announced Britain would engage Argentina in a war over the sovereignty of the Islands to the House of Commons...
Editor of the Times, John Witherow was there reporting on the war in one of his first jobs in journalism
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