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.

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.

FORMER Guernsey residents said they were stuck in a frightening waiting game as they frantically got ready to escape the floodwater rising around their Queensland home.

GUERNSEY expats in Australia are bracing themselves for more hot weather as temperatures smash records.

LIBERATION DAY was truly international this year, reaching as far as Western Australia.