Saturday, 22nd November 2008

Daily Archives: July 10, 2008

Parfit smashes freestyle and backstroke records

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TWO swimmers finished well inside the championship age group record in the 100m freestyle event of the NRG Series staged by the Beau Sejour Barracudas Swimming Club.

Guernsey to mix it with the big guns in France

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GUERNSEY Touch is taking three teams to represent the island at this weekend’s seventh European Touch Championships.

Four to jump for burns unit

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A FOUR-PERSON group skydive will raise money for burns victims.

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Fishermen get help to stay safe

AN INITIATIVE has been launched to help keep Guernsey fishermen safe.

Liberation pubs come in from the cold

COMPLETING the purchase of Sandpiper’s hospitality estate has ended staff uncertainty, according to Liberation Group CEO Mark Crowther.

A grand type of bay

The beach has altered little over the years, but the rest of Grandes Rocques has seen its fair share of changes. Rob Batiste explores the bay that remains popular to this day.

Left to die

THE two-way mirror that assists drivers as they exit Grandes Rocques Road marks the point where 67 years ago Nicholas Ogier met a cruel and mysterious death.

The ever-changing sands of Grandes Rocques

Those living at Grandes Rocques have fond memories of the area as it was and the people who inhabited it, as Rob Batiste reports.

A nice little earner

VISITING Grandes Rocques beach in the 1960s offered so much more than it does these days.

The Way home

THE Germans all but wrecked it, that great sea lord de Saumarez transformed it into a school for his ailing son and plans for the 1951 Festival of Britain were drawn up there.