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A group of women came together this morning in support of a mother who was asked to move while breastfeeding at a local hotel.
They made their way to the Premier Inn at Admiral Park, where the incident was reported to have happened over the weekend.
Premier Inn has apologised.
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The Earl and Countess of Wessex are set to visit Guernsey for Liberation Day this year, in their first joint visit since 2009.
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Rush hour on Guernsey's first working day back under lockdown
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A healthy 20-year-old man with no pre-existing health conditions was hospitalised with the heart condition myocarditis following his second dose of the Pfizer vaccine.
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Get ready for a royal visit 👑
King Charles III and Queen Camilla will be coming to Guernsey on Tuesday 16 July.
It will be their first official visit to the island in 12 years and their first since King Charles’ accession.
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Guernsey Together supporting the Black Lives Matter movement 🖤
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GUERNSEY FINISH TOP OF THE MEDAL TABLE!! 🥇
The home team end the week with 54 GOLDS, just one less than 2003, with 145 medals won in total 👏
They've done the island proud at
@Guernsey_2023
💚
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Alliance supermarket worker Kevin Parsons has won the Overcoming Adversity award! Kevin has autism and has worked at Alliance for 35 years, always being pleasant and making people smile – Well done!
#OvercomingAdversity
#PrideOfGuernsey
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School nurse Kate Corcoran has won the Angel of the Year award! She was recognised for dedicating her life to nursing and health education, and for working in a nursing home during lockdown. Congratulations!
#AngelOfTheYear
#PrideOfGuernsey
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In February 1997, around 4.8m. Lego pieces were lost overboard from the Tokio Express container ship in a storm. Of those millions of pieces, there were only 4,200 octopuses lost at sea, and one local beachcomber has found one!
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HE’S DONE IT!! 👏
Adrian Sarchet has completed his 24-hour swim at La Vallette!
Sound on for this video 🔊
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Same-sex marriage proposals have just been supported in states
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La Mare High teacher syndicate scoops top prize in Christmas lottery
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Congratulations to Simon Johns who has broken the world record for a 24 hour indoor row in the mens 40-49 lightweight category. Here he is on the final stretch with wife Nikki. Thanks to Sammy Meerveld from the Premature Baby Foundation for doing the videoing
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Kristy Grant has won the Emergency Hero of the Year award for saving a man’s life when he went into cardiac arrest – well done, Kristy!
#EmergencyHero
#PrideOfGuernsey
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Guernsey and Jersey responded to the pandemic in very different ways, but which is the right approach? Journalist Gary Burgess compares the two strategies...
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Latest statistics have shown that Jersey’s claim to be the sunniest place in the British Isles is in doubt, with data from 2019 suggesting that the sun shines more on Guernsey
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The final piece of kit to establish Guernsey’s on-island coronavirus testing facility has arrived
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British Airways is returning to Guernsey with two new routes to London City Airport and Edinburgh - with return fares starting from under £100
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The Alderney Wildlife Trust’s CEO has been crowned Conservation Hero of the Year for founding the trust and sharing his passion for wildlife and doing as much as possible to enhance it! Congratulations!
#ConservationHero
#PrideOfGuernsey
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Zoe Collins has been named Young Achiever of the Year for her fundraising efforts for Les Bourgs Hospice following the death of one of her close friend’s mum. Well done Zoe!
#YoungAchiever
#PrideOfGuernsey
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It’s one of the few places he can visit before Christmas Eve, but Santa Claus has made it to Guernsey!!! 🎅🏼
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"Look at the size of this thing!" 😲
Here's the moment Daniel Bourgaize from Inglorious Fishing pulled up his first ever crayfish, off Guernsey's east coast — and it's fair to say he was pretty excited!
Read more:
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Dr Nicola Brink's leadership of Public Health has been recognised with a Community Service Award by The Rotary Club of Guernsey
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On the 75th anniversary of D-Day the red arrows have arrived!
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Next up it is Overcoming Adversity. And the winner is Ernie Backlund-Leale
#overcomingadversity
#PrideOfGuernsey
#2017
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His Excellency Vice Admiral Sir Ian Corder presents the Guernsey Press Ambassador of the Year award to Director of Public Health Dr Nicola Brink
#GuernseyPressAmbassador
#PrideOfGuernsey
@GvHouseGuernsey
@DrNicolaBrink
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Guernsey has topped the British charts as one of the best places to live in terms of living conditions and well-being
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James Ferbrache has won the Diversity & Inclusion award for caring for hundreds of students and ensuring they feel supported and included. Congratulations!
#DiversityAndInclusion
#PrideOfGuernsey
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The Grandparents of the Year award goes to Peter and Helena McGovern! They were one family’s “lockdown heroes” for looking after their grandchildren during the pandemic so the parents could continue their work at the NHS
#GrandparentsOfTheYear
#PrideOfGuernsey
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And now we're onto Young Achiever of the Year. And the winner is Maya Le Tissier
#youngachieveroftheyear
#PrideOfGuernsey
#2017
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The
#Tokyo2020
Olympics are officially open! 🇯🇵
Best of luck to our three Bailiwick stars representing
@TeamGB
;
@HeatherWatson92
,
@CamChalmers400
, and
@HesterDressage
💪
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Sark is thought to be the first place in the British Isles to start using an electric tractor.
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Director of Public Health
@DrNicolaBrink
on
@GMB
this morning talking about the island's response to the Covid-19 pandemic
Guernsey has recorded no new cases of Covid-19 in 41 days.
Director of Public Health, Dr Nicola Brink, explains how a community based track and trace system, which was introduced before the first case on the island, has enabled them to move into phase four of the pandemic.
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At the centre of the Island Games world! 🌍
Check out this fantastic addition to the
@Guernsey_2023
set-up at Beau Sejour.
It was made by the CLIP team at Guernsey Prison 👏
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Huge turnout in Market Square ready for Santa to arrive and turn on the Town Christmas lights! 🎄🎅🏼
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Learning support mentor Savannah King has been named Teacher of the Year! She was praised for her listening ear and going the extra mile for her students – Congratulations!
#TeacherOfTheYear
#PrideOfGuernsey
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A dad who makes stuff 🎨
Congratulations to the
@MoonpigUK
Arts Contribution of the Year winner, Ross Le Brun! 👏
#PrideofGuernsey
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Several islanders have been recognised on The Queen's New Years Honours List for 2020 and will be toasted to at the Bailiff's reception on New Year's Day
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The view from above! 😲
Rolling over
#Guernsey
- glorious blue skies in the Channel Islands today. Here’s what the
#RedArrows
display looked like from cockpit.
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Staff at the retirement and assisted living facility GreenAcres have been awarded the Carer of the Year award! They were recognised for caring for and entertaining their residents throughout lockdown – well done all
#CarerOfTheYear
#PrideOfGuernsey
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A tribute to the late Zef Eisenberg who sadly lost his life this week. The MadMax Race Team has sponsored the Emergency Hero of the year award 🖤
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Well the weather just about held 🙌
The
@rafredarrows
and
@ChinookDisplay
were among the aircraft wowing the crowds at today’s
@gsyairdisplay
🇬🇬
Here’s a flavour of the action…
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"Dieu Sauve Le Roi!"
The proclamation of King Charles III in Guernsey 🇬🇬
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Now for a new award,
@SureGuernsey
Sports Volunteer of the Year 🗣
Big congratulations to our first winner,
@downthesoif
’s Barry Moroney 🙌
#PrideofGuernsey
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Organisers estimate that as many as 1,500 people marched in support of nurses and their demand for better pay today
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Allister Carey was today presented with his MBE for services to sustainable development in Africa.
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A comet has been caught on camera streaking across the sky over L’Ancresse Common
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The ‘Sea Donkey’ is off! 🏊♂️
Adrian Sarchet has begun his 24-hour challenge at La Vallette, with 325 islanders set to join him in the Ladies’ Pool along the way.
“I think this is likely to be the best fun I have ever had on any of my swims” 💚
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Nikkie Kerr has been named Neighbour of the Year! She lives in an assisted living complex with 70+ residents and visits anyone who falls ill or brings them a present to brighten their day – Congratulations!
#NeighbourOfTheYear
#PrideOfGuernsey
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A petition with more than 2,500 signatures calls for Dr Nicola Brink to be nominated for a New Year Honour
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A bid to halt new abortion legislation going through has just FAILED at the States.
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The contact tracing team initially worked seven days a week for 60 plus hours to trace those who may have encountered an individual who tested positive for Covid-19
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“It’s been absolutely amazing!” 🤯
A local fisherman says he’s been “overwhelmed” after a video of him catching and releasing an egg-laden crayfish was shared thousands of times.
Daniel Bourgaize is now petitioning for a law requiring that breeding shellfish be returned.
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The first is for Emergency Hero. And the winner is... the RNLI Lifeboat crew.
#PrideOfGuernsey
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Happy Liberation Day, Guernsey! 🇬🇬
Here’s the
@LiberationGSY
cavalcade passing the Imperial as it set off on its island-wide tour 👋
You can track its progress here:
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'Today it is just me,' the Bailiff said as he laid a wreath at the foot of the War Memorial to mark another year that Guernsey stands free from Occupation
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A donation of more than £100,000 from Steve and Maggie Lansdown has enabled the Princess Elizabeth Hospital to buy a new x-ray machine. Because it looked like a giraffe, it has been decorated as one and named Lara.
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A Royal Navy helicopter lifting a man off the stranded oil rig Orion at Grandes Rocques headland in January 1978
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Historian Dr Gilly Carr explains why social media trolls will never stop her work
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After announcing its services would have to be suspended due to an ageing IT system not allowing staff to work from home, two local organisations have stepped in to save Citizens Advice Guernsey
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National Trust of Guernsey’s campaign to buy and conserve green spaces is a wonderful initiative, Guernsey Conservation Volunteers co-ordinator Angela Salmon has said.
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BREAKING: From a week Saturday most lockdown restrictions will be lifted in the Bailiwick of Guernsey.
bubble
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BREAKING: Aurigny announces new partnership deal with easyJet which will guarantee connections with easyJet flights at Gatwick
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A slice of local sporting history is being revived on Saturday 🤽
For the first time in nearly five decades, competitive water polo will be played at La Vallette with Guernsey welcoming teams from Jersey and England.
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The Bailiwick is again free of Covid-19, as the most recent patient to contract the virus has recovered
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Guernsey's shining light of the Covid-19 pandemic had the honour of placing the star on the top of the Tree of Joy
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Cricketer and sports administrator
@DavidPiesing63
has been promoting the cause of sports tourism for years. After the undoubted success of the Island Games, he says now is the time for Guernsey to recognise the opportunity on offer - and go after it.
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Opportunities to improve Guernsey’s cycling infrastructure were explored at an online conference yesterday with a Dutch Cycling Embassy marketing and communications manager, explaining the Netherlands’ transport successes
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Guernsey has reached double figures in the number of consecutive days passed without any new cases of Covid-19
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In Lockdown 1 we were passing each other socially distanced with a smile and wave, but that has given way to a more suspicious atmosphere in the follow-up lockdown, argues Nick Mann
– and the self-appointed online ‘social police’ only make things worse...
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BREAKING: States members reject plans to introduce GST.
P&R’s proposals are defeated 25-15.
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Potato Peel Pie film third in UK box office charts after first week on general release
@lilyjamesonline
@glenpowell
@StudiocanalUK
@VisitGuernsey
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After months of uncertainty and work behind the scenes, organisers of the much-loved Guernsey Battle of Britain Air Display have confirmed the event will be taking place as planned on 10 September this year - Red Arrows and all
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Guide Dogs for the Blind Association is looking for volunteers in Guernsey to establish a new fundraising group and support local people with sight loss.
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What a night! 🙌
Congratulations again to our 2021
#PrideofGuernsey
winners 👏
Thanks to our hosts
@carlward
and
@JoPriaulx
, and to all of the sponsors for helping make this inspiring event happen 🇬🇬
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Up next it’s the
@CherryGodfreyCI
Customer Service of the Year Award 🤗
Congratulations to our 2021 winners, the
@Govgg
Visitor Arrival Testing Team 👏
#PrideofGuernsey
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In the debate on end of life care vs States prioritisation, end of life wins. Deputy Gavin St Pier's amendment for an end of life care review to be completed within this term was successful by 23 votes to 13
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The Customer Service award goes to performance and vehicle specialists JL Innovation! The company was celebrated for donating more than 100 hours of their time to repairing essential workers’ vehicles while the island battled the Covid lockdown
#CustomerService
#PrideOfGuernsey
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Lindsay de Sausmarez is the new Environment & Infrastructure president.
She beat deputies David De Lisle and Andrew Taylor in a two-round ballot, but not all members cast a vote in the last round
In the last round she received 21 votes to De Lisle's 16
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Maya Le Tissier makes history as 1st girl to play in
#Guernsey
v Jersey U15s Star Trophy Muratti. In Sport today.
@WomeninFootball
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An official ‘well done’ 👏
Team
@guernseyiga
came together at
@GvHouseGuernsey
tonight to celebrate their achievements at
@Guernsey_2023
and the efforts of the Island Games organisers and volunteers 🇬🇬
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With unemployment at its highest level for a generation, the Guernsey Press is offering employers free job adverts in a bid to get people back to work and boost the island economy.
#GuernseyTogether
#ReviveAndThrive
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St John's Residential Home matron Susan Fleming was very shocked, humbled and proud when Lt-Governor Vice Admiral Sir Ian Corder phoned her to say she was to be made an MBE
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An art teacher is using his two hours of permitted exercise a day to find inspiration for his challenge of completing a watercolour painting every day for a year
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Missing cockapoo Rufus has now been found and reunited with his family!
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Two medics from Guernsey are giving up Christmas with their families to care for homeless people in London
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