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It’s cold comfort for those many islanders whose morning was disrupted yesterday by a bit of overnight snow but the bitter conditions have been caused by an unusually extreme negative state in something called the Arctic Oscillation, a climactic system which is currently feeding icy Polar air over Europe and these islands.

WAVE TELECOM has completed its purchase of Newtel Guernsey.

ALL schools and colleges were closed today as Guernsey’s freeze entered its third day.

THE cold snap is set to play havoc with island sport this weekend.

TEMPERATURES are rising in at least one part of Town as the Market Square ice rink is defrosted.

CHRIS SIMPSON has, in theory, been given an easier path through to the quarter-finals of the KIG Open in Los Angeles.

WHILE his home island grinds to a halt because of snow, there is one Guernseyman who spends his life working in the ‘white stuff’ and he is rather good at it.

RESIDENTS in Alderney have again spoken out against a smoking ban in enclosed public spaces.

ANOTHER ward was shut at the Princess Elizabeth Hospital and more operations cancelled as cases of diarrhoea and vomiting spread yesterday.

ST PETER PORT’S distinctive SeaGuernsey mast is coming down for maintenance for the first time.