We're thrilled to announce a pledged donation of £2,000 from The St Helena Independent, St Helena's weekly online newspaper, towards our campaign to send a conservation-accredited structural engineer to St Helena in January. This very generous contribution has helped us raise enough other gifts and offers of support in kind so that we are very close to sum we need. Huge thanks to Vince Thompson of the Independent. We couldn't have done it without your support!

Author Colin Fox explores St Helena's journey from reliance on enslaved labour to free labour, focusing on how enslaved people themselves experienced the almost 50-year process.

Bonhams are selling a fr agment of wallpaper reputed to have c ome from the room in Longwood House in which the Emperor Napoleon died in 1821. It is labelled on the reverse: 'Part of the paper of the room in which Napoleon died at St Helena brought over by an officer who was present at the time of his death.' The souvenir has an accompanying note of provenance: 'Authenticated by Mrs Nethercote (nee Allix) whose relative Colonel Allix fought at Waterloo, and left by will to he