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Channel Islands

July 2024

  • A moth with black and white wings and central orange flashes

    Specieswatch
    Specieswatch: Jersey tiger moth heads north as climate heats up

    The farthest north this species used to be seen was the Channel Islands but it is now common in Bedfordshire

May 2024

  • People take part in a Dignity in Dying protest outside the states assembly building during a debate on assisted dying

    Jersey approves plans to allow assisted dying for terminally ill adults

  • A tall concrete structure on the Alderney coast

    More than 1,000 slave labourers may have died in Nazi camps on Alderney, review finds

  • Hospice patient Lynne Cottignies

    ‘Once you take choice away, there’s nothing left’: assisted dying edges closer in Jersey, but can they protect against a ‘duty to die’?

  • Seven men, some in soldiers' uniforms, watch as Commandant Oberst Schwalm talks to Brigadier Alfred Ernest Snow, surrendering on Alderney on 16 May 1945 next to a metal bunker with an open door

    Inquiry into Nazi camps on Alderney to examine if there was British cover-up

March 2024

  • People hold banners and placards to urge support for assisted dying

    Jersey to debate allowing assisted dying for terminally ill

    Proposals deter ‘death tourism’ by requiring applicants to have lived on the island for at least 12 months

February 2024

  • concerned female doctor talks to patient

    Assisted dying law may soon diverge across British Isles, MPs warn

    Parliamentary inquiry highlights likelihood of Scotland, Jersey or Isle of Man passing new laws

January 2024

  • Victoria Lucie (Agnes) in On the Line.

    On the Line review – telephone-exchange thriller is one-person kidnap mystery

    Victoria Lucie is impressive as the only visible actor, connecting calls on the island of Alderney and piecing together a propulsive 60s-set drama

November 2023

  • The graves of Russian prisoners at the Alderney camp.

    Himmler ordered mass execution of prisoners in only Nazi camp on British soil, documents reveal

  • -<br>PIC: MARK PASSMORE/APEX 02/11/2023 Teignmouth in Devon took a battering by Storm Ciaran. Its pier and seafront were damaged by the powerful waves and winds whipped up by the weather bomb. One resident was stunned by the weather. She said: "I was shocked by the amount of debris and damage along the promenade. "At high tide the waves were enormous and now there is debris right back onto the road. "It's really quite frightening". A car was washed into the sea by the storm at nearby Sidmouth too. ** SEE STORY BY APEX NEWS - 01392 823144 ** ---------------------------------------------------- APEX NEWS AND PICTURES GENERAL: 01392 824024 NEWS DESK: 01392 823144 PICTURE DESK: 01392 823145

    Storm Ciarán: flood risk remains in parts of UK after heavy rain

August 2023

  • A view of Guernsey’s coastline can be seen through an empty picture frame on a beach, part of the Renoir Walk.

    Guernsey to host Renoir exhibition 140 years after artist’s stay

  • Student and family opening A-level results

    A-level results 2023: top grades fall more steeply in England than other parts of UK – as it happened

  • Russian graves on Longy Common during the second world war

    Today in Focus
    Uncovering the truth of the Nazi occupation of the Channel Islands

  • Michael James on dockside

    ‘The Holocaust happened on British soil’: Inquiry into​ Nazi camps creates bitter divide on Alderney

July 2023

  • Alderney was the only Channel Island to be evacuated during the second world war as the island became part of Hitler’s Atlantic Wall defence.

    Channel Island Nazis inquiry under pressure to find out why perpetrators never faced justice

    Thousands of people may have perished on Alderney during the second world war but their murderers never stood trial
  • Russian graves on Longy Common in Alderney, photographed during the second world war.

    ‘No more cover-up’: Nazi concentration camps on Channel Island finally to be officially investigated

    Review could show that thousands more Jews and prisoners of war died on Alderney than previously thought
  • Kamal Singh, Ohad Caspi, Reece Hudson and Anna Daly in A Where, choreographed by Jakub Jakoubek and Emeline Rochefeuille.

    ‘We will reach everyone in Jersey eventually’: island ballet company’s giant leap

    The Channel island now has a professional ballet outfit, run by Canadian former dancer Carolyn Rose Ramsay. She remembers rehearsals in a potato warehouse and shares ambitious plans

June 2023

  • Asian hornets (Vespa velutina) in front of their nest

    The age of extinction
    Hornet hunters: the crack squad keeping an invasive species at bay on Jersey

  • The view west from Sark

    Battle in the Channel: seigneur of Sark takes on Barclay dynasty

February 2023

  • Artist and sculptor Piers Secunda in his east London studio

    Artist reproduces Alderney ‘Nazi execution site’ in London

    Piers Secunda will tell story of bullet-damaged wall and forensic examination supporting theory
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