Thousands of flamingos on Akrotiri salt lake
Staff at the Akrotiri Environmental and Education Centre have confirmed that approximately 11,000 flamingos have taken up residence at the salt lake site this year...
British Bases
Bases and RoC in joint Troodos exercise
Last week saw emergency services from across the Bases and within the Republic of Cyprus take part in a large-scale exercise in Troodos to test...
Cycle Challenge raises €22,000
The first-ever Chief Constable’s Cycle Challenge to help 10 Cypriot children in need of medical care and two schools specialising in working with children with...
Road Safety Week success
Command Master Driver, Warrant Officer 1 Craig McIntyre, has said this year’s Road Safety Week has proved a huge success in raising awareness about the...
BFC community welcomes Children in Need to Cyprus
The British Forces Cyprus community featured in a two-minute video on the BBC’s Children in Need charity appeal last week after raising £10,000 for the...
Tartan Army donates to RDA
Ahead of last weekend’s Cyprus versus Scotland European Championship qualifying match in Nicosia, the official Tartan Amy Children’s Charity (TACC) visited Riding for the Disabled...
Drug Dealer sentenced to 25 months prison
A Greek Cypriot man living in Trachoni was jailed for 25 months in Her Majesty’s Prison, Dhekelia last week, after being found guilty for the...
Cypriots honoured by Bases Commander
Following the latest round of Commander British Forces Cyprus Commendations, a number of locally employed staff have been honoured once again for their dedication and...
Bird trapping ‘almost eradicated’
Sovereign Base Area Police officials have this week confirmed the illegal trapping of Ambelopoulia – Black Caps – has decreased a further 55 per cent...
Silver medals for 2 Mercian Cambrian Patrol teams
Two teams from the 2nd Battalion The Mercian Regiment returned from Wales last month having secured silver medals at the world-renowned infantry competition, Exercise Cambrian...
Illegal facilitator sentenced to four months in prison
A Pakistani man arrested earlier this month has been found guilty of illegally facilitating immigrants and sentenced to four months in Her Majesty’s Prison in...
Dashing performance from 2 Mercians
The hugely-popular Dhekelia Dash took place at the end of last month for the British Forces Cyprus community but it was an Episkopi-based team from...
Fighting for autism
Last weekend, more than 110 runners and 30 children from across Cyprus raised more than €2,500 after taking part in the second annual Run to...
Sirens sing in Akrotiri
Partners of British Forces Cyprus personnel took part in last week’s Exercise Siren Song in RAF Akrotiri to get a better understanding for what life...
Akrotiri tackles micro plastic waste
Staff working at RAF Akrotiri have confirmed that 6,600 litres of waste has been cleared from beaches on the peninsular this week as part of...
Man charged with spate of break-ins
A Greek Cypriot man from Trachoni will appear in the Sovereign Base Area Court in Episkopi on November 25 after being charged with four counts...
Bases Police donate computers to Xylophagou Secondary School
The Sovereign Base Area Police last week donated six computers to the Xylophagou Secondary School in the Dhekelia region after they were seized, wiped of...
Bird trapping crackdown continues in SBAs
Sovereign Base Area Police officials in Dhekelia have revealed that only three weeks into the illegal bird trapping season, they have already made eight arrests...
More excavation underway at Dreamer’s Bay
Since 2015, archaeological teams from the University of Leicester and Southampton have being conducting excavation and survey work on Roman and early Byzantine remains at...
Bases Commander bids Cyprus farewell
As Commander British Forces Cyprus and the Sovereign Base Areas Administrator, Major General James Illingworth prepares to hand over his role and leave the island...
