CASTLE Cornet played host to an English Civil War camp yesterday to mark the 360th anniversary of the end of the siege.

VISITORS and islanders were happy to get into character for the Easter Festival of Living History at Castle Cornet.

VISITORS to Castle Cornet could have been forgiven for thinking that they had travelled back in time at the weekend.

GHOSTS, ghouls and Goths invaded Castle Cornet at Halloween.

Asleep in his bedchamber, Governor of Guernsey Viscount Christopher Hatton was suddenly awoken - by hailstones on his face. His mother lay dead beneath the remains of a ceiling, his house lay in ruins around him. Chris Morvan tells the tale of the night lightning struck Castle Cornet - and unleashed the explosive force of tons of stockpiled gunpowderCastle Cornet: an explosive history

ENTRANCE to Castle Cornet will be free during September.

THE island's top tourist attraction will close a month early this year because there is no cash to keep it open.