Faroes

KYLE LAFFERTY has warned Northern Ireland they cannot take the Faroe Islands for granted in Torshavn.

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In the second half, Faroes keeper Gunnar Nielsen turned a Karelis drive on to the post and Vasilis Torosidis thought he had scored but his effort was disallowed for a foul.

"We are focused on the Faroes game and trying to get three points.

THEY were singing on the streets of Toftir on Tuesday after the Faroe Islands recorded their first European Championship win in 16 years.

SNP MP Angus MacNeil said: "In the Faroe Islands, the price of diesel is 94p a litre, which is 50 pence a litre cheaper than in the Western Isles.

Faroe Islands fishermen have also been told they can triple their catch quota, to 85,000 tonnes.

Chlamydophila psittaci was detected in 10% of 431 fulmars examined from the Faroe Islands.

Icelandic shipping and logistics group Burdaras hf said on Tuesday (17 August) that its shipping subsidiary Eimskipafelag Islands and the Faroe Islands shipping company Faroe Ship had concluded a contract to merge the ownership of the two companies.

Faroes shot stopper Mikkelsen moved to Partick Thistle in the summer and can now give his team-mates a first-hand dossier on the shaky Scots.

However, many followers of the nation's fortunes believe this performance still represented the worst result, simply because the population of the Faroes numbers no more than 45,000.

Unexplained outbreaks of MS were reported in isolated groups of people during World War II, most famously among the inhabitants of the Faroe Islands in the far North Atlantic.