MIAMI – The head of a Florida treasure-hunting company said he hopes for “a collaborative solution” to his dispute with Spain over the discovery of a shipwreck with a multimillion-dollar haul of silver and gold.

Greg Stemm, chief executive of Tampa, Florida-based Odyssey Marine Exploration Inc, insisted that his company has acted “in accordance with all applicable laws,” and that the treasure it discovered in the Atlantic Ocean was found outside any country’s territorial waters.

Stemm’s comments were sent to Reuters by e-mail on Tuesday.

The Spanish government is suing Odyssey on grounds it is the rightful owner of the 17 metric tons of silver coins and gold the Florida firm recovered last year. The government has vowed to dispel any mystery about the shipwreck in court documents it will file in Tampa on Friday.

Stemm said Spain may indeed have a legitimate claim to the treasure, and that it may have come from the Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes y las Animas, a Spanish vessel that sank in the Atlantic in 1804.

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Amid glitz and the glamour Bushmills Distillery was put on the world stage April 22nd – by the Bank of Ireland.

In case anyone was unaware of the world famous Bushmills, the Bank of Ireland’s Governor came to Belfast to honour his favourite whiskey.

From yesterday a new Bank of Ireland £5 note bears a picture of the famous distillery with new £10 and £20 notes to follow next month.

Yesterday — in scenes reminiscent of Hollywood — the Bank of Ireland unveiled its series of new notes with a blaze of publicity.

Huge outdoor screens beamed the launch onto the bank’s HQ stopping hundreds of shoppers in their tracks.

The Bank of Ireland’s governor Richard Burrows said it was a special moment for him as back in 1972 he spent four years as the managing director of Bushmills Distillery.

He said: “I spent some very happy years on the North coast of Antrim and today we are celebrating the 400th anniversary of Bushmills Distillery.”

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Stockholm – A 9-year-old boy’s search for shrapnel on an old battlefield resulted in a huge find of medieval silver coins near the Lund in southern Sweden, local media reported Monday. Alexander Granhof, 9, and his grandfather made the recent discovery, dubbed “silverado” by archaeologists.

“We went out on the field looking for cannonballs,” Alexander Granhof told the online edition of the Sydsvenskan newspaper. “I found a piece of metal and thought at first it was shrapnel from a shotgun. I shouted to grandfather and then we discovered more and more coins,” he added.

In all, the pair found more than 4,600 coins on the field. Archaeologists, using metal detectors, boosted the tally to 7,000 but did not rule out that even more coins were hidden in the soil.

“This is incredible,” Bernd Gerlach of the Lund University Historical Museum told reporters.

No reward sum has yet been determined but the silver in the treasure alone was estimated to be worth 1.5 million kronor (250,000 dollars). The coins had been placed in two urns that were wrapped in cloth. The treasure was likely buried during troubled times, and one theory was that the coins were church taxes collected from nearby farms.

The find included thousands of English coins with a high silver content and some other markers that likely were used locally.

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