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- “Let em starve,” said Churchill
- “Overdose” verdict in Guernsey farmer’s death inquiry
- “Twink” goes missing on its way to Guernsey
- 6th Battalion of the Royal Irish Regiment fought at the Somme
- A boy scout fell 250ft over a Torteval Cliff
- A French fisherman is arrested and escorted to St Peter Port
- A Guernsey funeral takes place in Cornwall
- A Guernsey man posted himself to Sark
- A Guernsey planning dispute headed to Europe
- A Guernsey recruit regretted signing up
- A Guernsey retiree’s £1m offer attracts 57,000 requests
- A Guernseyman cycled to Herm
- A hospital worker stood accused of murder
- A hotel porter goes on trial for murder
- A Lancaster bomber crashed on Sark
- A liberation celebration ended in disaster
- A mainland murder with a Guernsey connection
- A man “disappeared” from a Guernsey ferry
- A minister was found dead at Icart Point
- A plane crashed on Crevichon
- A plane hit a car while landing at Guernsey Airport
- A royal visit… of sorts
- A tomato ship and a tanker collided
- A Trislander ate itself between Jersey and Guernsey
- A Wrinkle in the Skin by John Christopher
- Abreuvoir
- Admiral Thomas Le Marchant Gosselin died
- Air UK Fokker overshoots Guernsey runway
- Albert Lamy appointed Guernsey Police Chief Officer
- Alderney
- Alderney arrest sparks a “riot”
- Alderney debated in the House of Commons
- Alderney elects its first president
- Alderney experienced a total eclipse of the sun
- Alderney gets its first full-time radio station
- Alderney is occupied by German forces
- Alderney residents lined the coast to watch Titanic pass
- Alderney to Guernsey radio connection established
- Alderney was liberated at the end of the second world war
- Alderney’s evacuees return to their island
- An Islander aircraft crashed in Guernsey
- An occupation-era minefield is discovered at L’Ancresse
- Antiquarian William Collings Lukis was born
- Archaeologist Crystal Bennet was born
- Archaeologists found a porpoise grave
- Asterix is discovered in St Peter Port harbour
- Aurigny Air Services
- Aurigny Air Services founded
- Aurigny founder Derrick Bailey died
- Aurigny pilot Ray Bowyer spots a UFO near Alderney
- Author Mary Ann Shaffer is born
- Bailiff John Guille died in Plymouth
- Bailiff Sir Peter de Havilland was born
- Bailiwick
- Battery Mirus was test fired for the first time
- BBC made its first ever Channel Islands broadcast
- BBC Radio Guernsey takes to the air
- Beau Sejour opens for business
- Beaucette Marina
- Benefactor Osmond de Beauvoir Priaulx dies
- Bichard, Marlise
- Bichard, Miles
- Birth of Baron James de Saumarez
- Birth of concrete poet Dom Sylvester Houedard
- Birth of Generaloberst Friedrich Dollmann
- Birth of Sark-based writer Mervyn Peake
- Birth of Stone de Croze, the original Guernseyman
- Blue Islands takes to the skies
- Bluebell woods
- Books set in Guernsey
- Braye du Valle was gifted by the crown
- Brecqhou
- Brecqhou was put up for sale
- British papers reported Dame of Sark’s deportation
- Brouard, Ella
- Budzinski, Marie
- Building work starts on Guernsey Airport
- Can you name these eight Guernsey landmarks?
- Car plane air crash caused airport fireball
- Carey, Odette
- Carey, Ollie (Oliver)
- Carey, Remus
- Carlisle, Freya
- Castle Breakwater
- Castle Breakwater
- Castle Cornet
- Castle Cornet is struck by lightning
- Castle Cornet surrenders to Guernsey
- Channel 4 broadcasts Sark-based Mr Pye
- Channel 4 gameshow Treasure Hunt comes to Guernsey
- Channel Express Airways plane crashes on Guernsey
- Channel Islands
- Channel Islands crossword
- Channel Islands Securities Exchange founded
- Channel Islands’ word search
- Channel Television disappears
- Channel Television saw off a rival broadcaster
- Channel Television took to the air
- Charlie Chaplin played in St Peter Port
- Check out the Sarnian video
- Check out this picture of Fort George under construction
- Chouet
- Clameur de Haro
- Clarence Battery
- Clarke
- Condor Liberation enters service
- Coronavirus returns to Guernsey
- Crevichon
- Cricketer Charles Grieve died in Shropshire
- Dad’s Army actor John le Mesurier died
- Dalliance
- Dame Sibyl became a dame again
- Dame Sibyl Hathaway chose her Desert Island Discs
- Dead man appointed to run Guernsey Airport
- Death of Guernsey-born footballer Len Duquemin
- Death of occupation resister Marie Ozanne
- Death of Sir Charles Hayward
- Death of the Vicar General of the Channel Islands
- Death of Thomas Fiott de Havilland
- Debut of Guernsey-set comedy This is Jinsy
- Digard, Cecil
- Dixon, George
- Doctor Who travels to Guernsey
- Downloads
- Dubois, Charlie
- Dutroux, Bob
- Earl Grey was appointed Governor of Guernsey
- Easter weekend Guernsey quiz
- Ebenezer Le Page author GB Edwards dies
- Elizabeth College is founded in St Peter Port
- Elizabeth College’s foundation stone was laid
- Enemy at the Door comes to the end of its run
- Erne, Alfie
- Explorer Edmund Kennedy is speared to death
- Express & Star bought Guernsey Press
- Fairy Ring
- Falla
- Famed printer Thomas de la Rue born
- Ferbrache, Ross
- Fermain Bay
- Films set on Guernsey
- Final issue of Deutsche Guernsey-Zeitung was published
- First arrests were made at Guernsey Airport
- First Commando raid of the Second World War
- First ever broadcast of Puffin’s Pla(i)ce
- First Guernsey competitor took part in Miss World
- First meeting of Guernsey’s Controlling Committee
- First publication of Victor Hugo’s Toilers of the Sea
- Footballer Matt Le Tissier was born
- Former bailiff Daniel de Lisle Brock died
- Fort George
- Fort Grey
- Fort Hommet
- Foxton, Dawn
- Free Guernsey computer wallpaper
- French fishing boats prepare to invade
- G-COBO has a bumpy flight
- G-JOEY completes his last flight
- Gache Melee
- Game of Thrones actor Roy Dotrice was born
- German forces confiscated Guernsey’s radios
- Guernesiais
- Guernesiais linguist Marie de Garis died
- Guernsey
- Guernsey abolishes the death penalty for murder
- Guernsey adopts Sterling currency
- Guernsey aimed for equal adoption rights
- Guernsey Airport
- Guernsey Airport opened for business
- Guernsey Airport’s new terminal opened for business
- Guernsey and France tackle the Amoco Cadiz oil spill
- Guernsey and Jersey considered merging
- Guernsey and Jersey newspapers agree to merge
- Guernsey bans smoking in public places
- Guernsey beaches and general knowledge crossword
- Guernsey bigamist got married for the second time
- Guernsey bought Fort Grey from the War Office
- Guernsey bought Herm from the mainland
- Guernsey by drone
- Guernsey celebrated Queen Victoria’s jubilee
- Guernsey chose England over France
- Guernsey clears up after heaviest snow in years
- Guernsey coffee trader William Le Lacheur died
- Guernsey commando Hubert Nicolle died
- Guernsey Controlling Committee’s Sir John Leale died
- Guernsey court escapee was caught again
- Guernsey declared a State of Emergency
- Guernsey deportee, nurse Gladys Skillett was born
- Guernsey emergency services prepare for a disaster
- Guernsey exchange student goes missing in Virginia
- Guernsey Fisher makes its maiden voyage
- Guernsey flag
- Guernsey Gache
- Guernsey general knowledge crossword
- Guernsey gets its first postbox
- Guernsey gets its own flag
- Guernsey guidebook pioneer Henry Inglis dies
- Guernsey heads call for an end to the Eleven-plus
- Guernsey held its first full marathon
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- Guernsey holidaymakers head home itching
- Guernsey hosted the Island Games 2003 closing ceremony
- Guernsey hosted the second Island Games
- Guernsey hosts its first Parkrun at Pembroke
- Guernsey issues banknotes featuring famous locals
- Guernsey joined the Football Association
- Guernsey Ladies’ College opened
- Guernsey Language Commission formed
- Guernsey lifeboat performs a chemical tanker rescue
- Guernsey lifeboat saved a Swedish schooner
- Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie film opened
- Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society was published
- Guernsey Monopoly board game went on sale
- Guernsey Mormon Sampson Avard dies in Illinois
- Guernsey number plate sold for £240,000
- Guernsey nurse Elizabeth Lincoln elected to the States
- Guernsey nurses go on hunger strike
- Guernsey opens its wartime files
- Guernsey optician Specsavers was founded
- Guernsey passengers are battered by storms
- Guernsey passengers stage a ferry sit-in
- Guernsey players set darts record
- Guernsey plays Tottenham Hotspur
- Guernsey poet and painter Denys Corbet was born
- Guernsey poet George Métivier is born
- Guernsey Police makes the world’s first underwater arrest
- Guernsey Police moves to its new headquarters
- Guernsey Police Service appoints its first inspector
- Guernsey Post Office is established
- Guernsey Post Office was established
- Guernsey Press registers its domain
- Guernsey quiz 2
- Guernsey Railway company ceased operations
- Guernsey Railway Company runs its first services
- Guernsey recruits caused concern in Parliament
- Guernsey shipwreck results in starvation
- Guernsey Society celebrates its 70th anniversary
- Guernsey steam tramway is granted its concession
- Guernsey Steam Tramway stops running
- Guernsey steamship SS Rossgull is wrecked
- Guernsey struck by an earthquake
- Guernsey suffered its first and only air raid
- Guernsey suffers its worst storm in 35 years
- Guernsey switched to Reichsmarks
- Guernsey to Jersey plane crashed into the sea
- Guernsey to UK telephone connection inaugurated
- Guernsey voted to legalise local abortions
- Guernsey votes for equal age of consent
- Guernsey was declared free of cholera
- Guernsey was invaded by Colorado beetles
- Guernsey was liberated from German occupation
- Guernsey was struck by a hurricane
- Guernsey watchmaker helps Stone of Scone manhunt
- Guernsey welcomed its first steam ship
- Guernsey wins gold at the Commonwealth Games
- Guernsey woman advised to leave for her safety
- Guernsey won double-silver at the Commonwealth Games
- Guernsey Yacht Club was founded
- Guernsey Zoo is sold as a going concern
- Guernsey-built prototype plane crashes
- Guernsey-set film The Sea Devils hits cinemas
- Guernsey’s entire police force is arrested
- Guernsey’s first banker dies
- Guernsey’s first female murderer goes on trial
- Guernsey’s first governor, Edmund Weston, is appointed
- Guernsey’s first Methodist minister arrives
- Guernsey’s first paid constables were hired
- Guernsey’s island-wide police force is established
- Guernsey’s last duel
- Guernsey’s last execution didn’t go according to plan
- Guernsey’s last witch trial takes place
- Guernsey’s new population law comes into force
- Guernsey’s oldest resident dies, aged 110
- Guernsey’s Reform Law was enacted
- Guernsey’s Royal Court sits for the first time
- Guernsey’s school children were evacuated
- Guernsey’s stone crackers demanded a pay rise
- Guernsey’s telephone wars broke out
- Guernseyman Edward Tupper killed by cannibals
- Guernseyman Herbert Le Patourel wrongly thought killed
- Guillaume de Beauvoir appointed dean of English Church in Geneva
- Guille and Alles lease the Assembly Rooms
- Guille and Alles open their library
- Guille, Tony
- GUNS founder Charles Machon died
- GUNS writer Joseph John Gillingham was deported
- Hanois Lighthouse is cut off by the weather
- Hanois Lighthouse’s foundation stone was laid
- Hauteville House is bequeathed to the City of Paris
- Havelet Bay
- HD Ferries makes its last crossing
- Head of Guernsey CID is shot in St Peter Port
- Henri
- Herm
- Herm bribery case comes to court
- Herm goes back on the market
- Herm tenant Major Peter Wood died
- Hitler ordered the Channel Islands’ fortification
- HMS Boreas sank at Hanois
- HMS Guernsey launched in Aberdeen
- Holdbrook, Rosalynd
- Hollett, Alton
- Hollett, Frank
- Hollett, Verity
- Holtzer, Friedmann
- Horse racing returns to L’Ancresse race course
- Horticultural painter William Caparne was born
- Hottentot Fig
- Howards’ Way came to Guernsey
- Huffin’ Puffin
- Human remains were found on Lihou
- Hydrofoil Condor 1 completed its final sea trials
- Ibbott, Richelle
- Icart Point
- Island FM brings commercial radio to Guernsey
- Isle of Guernsey delivered to its new owners
- ITV broadcasts first episode of Island at War
- Jaonnet Bay
- Jeeves actor died in Guernsey
- Jerbourg Point
- Jersey
- Jersey swimmers set a round-Guernsey record
- Jethou
- Jethou tenant was rescued from an up-turned boat
- Jethou was put on the market
- Jethou’s tenant fell off his own cliff
- John Doyle was appointed Lieutenant-Governor
- Jones, Ruby
- L’Ancresse
- La Vallette bathing pools
- Langlois, Simon
- Laura Kennington kicks off Channel Islands triathlon
- Le Moal, Daniel
- Le Page, Christine
- Le Page, Dan (Daniel)
- Les Hanois Lighthouse
- Lieutenant Governor, Lord Ruthven, died in Bath
- Lihou
- Little Russell
- Mahy
- Mail ship wrecked on Black Rock
- Major General Sir Isaac Brock died
- Major Guernsey employer Tektronix went public
- Malkulpa
- Mapmaking geologist John MacCulloch died
- Marble Bay
- Minchin, Gregg
- Missing girl, Jetta, was found on Guernsey
- Morse code
- Murder inquiry ends with suicide
- Murder suspects steal visitor’s boat from St Peter Port
- Murderer Peter Robin sentenced to death
- Murderer sentenced to death in three hours
- Murders in Guernsey
- MV Prosperity is wrecked at Perelle
- Naftel’s paintings go on display
- New coins are minted for Guernsey
- Norfolk pupils spend a week in Guernsey
- Occupation president Ambrose Sherwill died
- Occupation resister Winifred Green was deported
- Occupation stories occupy the mainland papers
- Occupying forces confiscated Guernsey’s radios
- Occupying forces mount a desperate raid on Granville
- Oil rig stranded at Grandes Rocques
- Oliver Reed in Guernsey
- Oliver Reed was jailed in Guernsey
- Operation Hardtack targets the Channel Islands
- Ormer
- Ozanne, Harry
- Ozanne, Tony
- Paget, Aurelie
- Patterson, Louisa
- Pembroke
- Pezeries
- Philip de Saumarez was discharged as a Jurat
- Pittard, Helen
- Planning the Sarnian
- Plans for St Sampson power station approved
- Pleinmont
- Point Law runs aground off Alderney
- Police found a bomb in Bluebell Wood
- Pollet guest house fire claimed its third victim
- Portelet Bay and Harbour
- President Garcia is re-floated in Saints Bay
- Priaulx Library opens for the first time
- Prince Charles and Camilla visit Guernsey
- Princess Elizabeth opened Guernsey’s hospital
- Puch, Janusz
- Queen Mary executed while wearing Guernsey stockings
- Queen Victoria visited Guernsey
- Quiz: can you unscramble 8 Guernsey place names?
- Racing yacht Westward is blown up off Guernsey
- Radiant Med sinks with loss of life
- Radio station Contact 94 went off the air
- Release of Reverend Harry Samuel
- Renoir arrived on Guernsey to paint
- Renouf, Marc
- Renouf, Sophie
- Review: Life in Occupied Guernsey: the diaries of Ruth Ozanne 1940 – 1945
- Roche, Matthieu
- Rocquaine Sudoku
- Role of Chief Minister of Guernsey abolished
- Rousse
- Royal Guernsey Light Infantry fights at Ypres
- Royal Guernsey Light Infantry memorial was unveiled
- Royal Guernsey Light Infantry Museum opens
- Royal theft inquiry heads to Guernsey
- Saints Bay and Saints Harbour
- Sampson
- Sark
- Sark featured in the music charts
- Sark holds its first election
- Sark is awarded Dark-Sky status
- Sark voted for democracy
- Sark was the target of Operation Basalt
- Sark women get the right to inherit
- Sark’s Stocks Hotel was damaged by fire
- Sark’s vineyards were vandalised
- Sarnia
- Sarnia Cherie
- Sarnia Theatre celebrated its most successful year
- Sarnian 2: Blowfish
- Schoolboys and teacher went missing off Sark
- Second World War bomb detonated
- Seigneur of Sark, Michael Beaumont, dies aged 88
- Ship sinks in St Sampson harbour
- Sibyl Beaumont married Robert Hathaway
- Sibyl Hathaway, Dame of Sark, is born
- Sir Charles Hayward buys Jethou for £91,000
- Sir Isaac Newton has his say on a mysterious Guernsey invention
- Sloane, Amy
- Soldiers staged a mutiny at Fort George
- Solution: Channel Islands crossword
- Solution: Channel Islands word search
- Solution: Easter weekend Guernsey quiz
- Solution: Guernsey beaches and general knowledge crossword
- Solution: Guernsey general knowledge crossword
- Solution: Guernsey quiz 2
- Solution: Rocquaine Sudoku
- Solution: White Rock Sudoku
- Songs of Praise comes from Guernsey
- Spanish flu arrived on Guernsey
- Specsavers’ Mary Perkins was born
- Spooner, Kira
- Spotlight was broadcast for the first time
- St Johns undertook its first Guernsey rescue
- St Martin’s parish church consecrated
- St Peter Port
- St Peter Port inundated with fish
- St Sampson
- St Sampson pensioner was buried in a landslide
- St Sampson was ordained a bishop
- St Sampson’s travels
- States of Guernsey hired its first independent vet
- States of Guernsey voted to lower the voting age
- States Telephone Department was established
- Stella
- Stunning drone footage of Herm
- Telex, phones and telegram cables go quiet
- The BBC broadcasts from Sark for the first time
- The Beatles played at Candie Gardens
- The Book of Ebenezer Le Page
- The Book of Ebenezer Le Page is published
- The Channel Islands were cut off from the outside world
- The Channel Islands were demilitarised
- The Channel Islands’ king set sail for England
- The court considered a Guernsey porn dealer’s testimony
- The desalination plant opened
- The Devil’s Rock had its opening night
- The Duke of Connaught visited Guernsey
- The first ever Guernsey stamp is issued
- The first lighthouses were built on the Casquets
- The first mines were dug on Sark
- The first Muratti football match takes place
- The Fleet
- The Guernsey Martyrs were burned at the stake
- The Guernsey Quiz Book
- The Guernsey Tapestry is completed
- The Guet
- The Imperial Hotel opened for the first time
- The king and queen celebrated Guernsey’s liberation
- The last issue of GUNS was distributed
- The Little Theatre was reprieved… for a while
- The melon king died… long live the melon king
- The Nurse
- The original Torteval church was consecrated
- The papers were excited by a Guernsey execution
- The post-Occupation military government was disbanded
- The RAF bombed Guernsey Airport
- The Red Cross saves Guernsey from starvation
- The Rolling Stones played St Peter Port
- The Sarnian
- The Sarnian 1: Dead in the Water
- The Sarnian 1: Dead in the Water
- The Sarnian is now available on Kindle Unlimited
- The Saumarez Memorial foundation stone was laid
- The Star received some “grave” news
- The Star was published for the first time
- The States of Guernsey bought Aurigny
- The States of Guernsey proposes a new airport
- The States of Guernsey registers the gov.gg domain
- The Story of Adele H opened in cinemas
- The title Baron de Saumarez was created
- Thoumine, Thomas
- Three Jewish women are deported from Guernsey
- Toilers of the Sea
- Toilers of the Sea: a summary
- Torrey Canyon spills oil on Guernsey’s beaches
- Torteval
- Treasure Hunt on Guernsey and Herm
- Trident VI ran aground on its return from Herm
- Trudy, Guernsey’s biggest ever import, was installed
- TV programmes set on Guernsey
- TV’s Jeeves is rushed to hospital on Guernsey
- Two cargo ships collide on their way to Guernsey
- Two deserters were shot after landing on Guernsey
- Typhoid suspect holidaymaker flies home
- Val des Terres was first opened for traffic
- Victor Hugo flees France and Napoleon
- Victor Hugo in Guernsey
- Victor Hugo plants his United States of Europe oak
- Victor Hugo statue is unveiled in Candie Gardens
- Victor Hugo’s house is opened to the public
- Wartime diplomat Wilfred Gallienne born in Guernsey
- Wesleyans celebrated 100 years on Guernsey
- White Rock Sudoku
- William Hedley Cliff buys Jethou
- Winston Churchill visited Guernsey with his wife
- Wombles author Liza Beresford dies
- Work begins on the Val des Terres
- Work started on the Victoria Tower