AFTER a washout of an Easter weekend, it’s perhaps not too difficult to understand why Guernsey woman Claire Keeling swapped the northern hemisphere for the southern and has made her home in Sydney, Australia.

A GUERNSEYMAN and his partner have been voted among the most influential ex-pats in Andalucia.

GUERNSEY FC added more fans to their ranks recently – this time all the way from Australia.

AFTERSHOCKS are still occurring in New Zealand but life is slowly returning to normal, according to a Guernsey family now living there.

A GUERNSEYMAN living in Japan has told of a terrifying experience inside one Tokyo’s largest towers when Friday’s earthquake hit.

A GUERNSEY family yesterday recalled being in the middle of the New Zealand earthquake – and surviving.

AN AUSTRALIAN living in Guernsey was left feeling helpless when she heard that her sister’s home had been flattened by Queensland’s worst cyclone.

AN AUSTRALIAN living in Guernsey is hopeful her family has come unscathed through Queensland’s most dangerous cyclone.

FLOODS are receding in Brisbane but the water has left a thousand shattered lives in its wake, former islanders have said.

THE Queensland home of some former Guernsey residents escaped flooding by just three inches.

THE local family of Richard and Sue Schofield, pictured right, have received confirmation that the couple escaped the floods in Brisbane.

FAMILY and friends are awaiting confirmation that Sue and Richard Schofield, who moved to Brisbane in 2001, are safe from the floods that have struck the city.