A SPONSORED stretcher dash around the island by St John Ambulance Alderney volunteers has helped raise close to £4,000 for new equipment.

ALDERNEY’S St Anne’s Church has been given the go-ahead by Bailiwick church leaders to install the Channel Islands’ first full peal of bells.

WHEN you run Alderney’s second-hand shop, surprises come with the territory.

Alderney’s Trent class lifeboat ‘Roy Barker I’ and the RNLI boarding boat launched at 6:05 this morning to help two people on board the 36-ft German yacht ‘Loki’ which had broken away from her mooring and was drifting in Braye Harbour.

TWO enterprising Alderney fans have set up a business offering running holidays around the island’s 50 miles of tracks and lanes.

SENIOR Citizens in Alderney will jet off for a week’s fun hopefully in the sun in Portsmouth this year.

ALDERNEY visitors and residents are throwing their weight behind what’s been termed a ‘sink or swim’ effort to finally persuade the States to fund a community pool.

RAISED levels of legionella bacteria have been discovered at Alderney’s Mignot Memorial Hospital.

THERE’S light at the end of the drain for the historic cobbles of Connaught Square.

HEALTH and Safety has said that the health risk posed by a burning garage with asbestos in its roof in Alderney was ‘minimal’.

FOUR Alderney Duke of Edinburgh’s Award students have used their spare time to produce 20 boxes of logs and kindling for the island’s elderly.

A HEALTH and safety expert from Guernsey was called in to Alderney yesterday to advise  how best to remove concrete asbestos exposed during a blaze at a storage depot.