FREE Alderney Week Special Edition

12 page free edition packed with reports and full colour photos of the opening days of Alderney Week including Cavalcade Day.

This edition can be purchased online at the cost of postage and packing. Please note this edition is not included with subscriptions.

For full reports and further photos please see issue 903 of the Alderney Journal out on 16th August.

In issue 902 - Sat 02 Aug 2008

• States agree to hold byelection on October 11
• Royal Navy minesweeper visits Alderney
• States reveal members' pay for second time
• Family returns to island after horrific accident
• Commercial quay development continues
• Cost of living in Alderney goes up considerably
• Top Jersey artist Jason Butler visits Alderney
• Island's dog walker dies in France
• Photo Competition gets into full swing
• Alderney rockers to release debut album
• Alderney Week train ride will be "fabulous"
• Journal launches property section

In issue 901 - Sat 19 Jul 2008

• New-look Youth Club attracts 35 children
• Record breaking boat makes flying visit to Alderney
• Beaumont Hague residents enjoy weekend in island
• States still planning to cull airport chickens
• Plenty of sun and fun at St Anne's summer fair
• Duke of York visits Tower of London to see cannons
• Smoking ban will be back on the agenda soon
• Photo Competition entries start coming in
• WAG says islanders are starting to recycle more
• Alderney Week organisers announce list of events
• Police scrap two vehicles following spot checks

In issue 900 - Sat 05 Jul 2008

• Police show off booze seized from children
• Elizabethan wreck cannons arrive in London
• Butes resident kicks up a stink about toilets
• Public to be asked to comment on marina plans
• No incinerator until sports centre is built
• States sign £1m deal to develop Fort Tourgis
• Rees Bryant on why he didn't stand at by-election
• States to vote on £350k water project
• Artists in Alderney get chance to shine
• Utility bills in Alderney are on the up

In issue 899 - Sat 21 Jun 2008

• By-election postponed after no one is nominated
• First-time buyers being 'squeezed out' of the market
• Property expert slams States for not verifying survey
• AEL board changes essential says Colin Williams
• Aurigny and Blue Islands fares to increase
• Islands flock to quayside for glimpse of cannon
• Joy and relief for divers as cannon is raised
• Les Stuart wins Alderney's top golf tournament
• Animal Welfare celebrates its 50th birthday
• World War II bomb detonated near breakwater
• Fussy seagul is fed on smoked salmon and prawns

In issue 898 - Sat 07 Jun 2008

• Diver's death halts Elizabethan wreck excavation
• Bill Walden takes a final swipe at Richard Cox
• Electricity bills in Alderney could be slashed by 2011
• Success in Scotland is good news for tidal project
• Tough times ahead for Alderney businesses
• Rising cost of oil to push Aurigny fares up
• Adele Woodruff is crowned Miss Alderney 2008
• James Neill wins Journal's first Father's Day competition
• Alderney's world famous Photo Competition continues
• Five sailors talk their way through French blockade
• Junior chef wins best in show at Salon Culinaire
• Three of Alderney's best boxers pack a punch

In issue 897 - Sat 24 May 2008

• States members elected to serve in Guernsey
• Possible arson attack at Alderney Impot
• Work on Alderney's commercial quay begins
• Divers to resume Elizabethan wreck excavation
• Tidal turbine exhibition hailed a great success
• Alderney Wildlife Week information
• Health chief backs States over death row chickens
• Alderney Theatre Group performs Abigail's Party
• Voting continues to find the Journal's Dad of the Year
• Alderney's world famous Photo Competition returns
• Two Chelsea Pensioners visit St Anne's School
• Anchors fashion show raises cash for RNLI

In issue 896 - Sat 10 May 2008

• This issue in full colour!
• Richard Cox writes exclusively in the Journal
• Death row chickens continue to make headlines
• Residents told not to bank on free electricity
• Public told to expect rates rise at States Meeting
• Church roof desperately needs repairing
• Grants available for Alderney Week float builders
• Your chance to win a return trip to Guernsey
• Start voting for your Dad of the Year
• Price of oil pushes up cost of living
• Alderney Seafood Festival gets underway

In issue 895 - Sat 26 Apr 2008

• Outrage over plans to cull chickens
• Future of Fort Tourgis debated
• States bow to pressure and reveal members' pay
• Lucky the pigeon lives to fight another day
• Rare blue lobster found off the coast of Alderney
• Black poodle Mambo brightens up Daniele's life
• Success at last for Alderney's golfers
• Alderney Week logo winner announced
• Veteran rambler on the lookout for walking pals
• Drag legend Tony Densham dies

In issue 894 - Sat 12 Apr 2008

• Top cop pledges drink drive crackdown in Alderney
• Plans for Alderney’s commercial quay are unveiled
• Hospital opens again after £6.2m re-development
• Private jet nose-dives into Alderney airport
• Alderney car thief found guilty
• States agree to publish expenses
• Journal finds Morgan’s “Emmanuelle”
• Smiling Johnny Silvo talks of his love for Alderney
• Father’s Day competition launched. Win a meal for four
• Artist Paddy Campbell shows off his new prints
• Young footballers suggest Muratti success is imminent
• What’s On - your guide to Alderney events in April

In issue 893 - Sat 29 Mar 2008

• Boy injures leg after fall on Longis Common
• Sir Fabian Malbon praises Alderney's individuality
• Brownies enjoy action-packed day at airport
• Work on £9.5m commercial quay to begin in May
• Plans to reduce voting age rejected by States
• Richard Cox ignites members' pay issue
• Public air their views at the Island Hall
• New editor arrives in Alderney
• French Romeo recalls holiday romance
• Easter Bunny spotted in Alderney!
• No commuter chaos after storms in Alderney
• Learn how to cook a crocodile at Braye Beach

In issue 892 - Sat 15 Mar 2008

• Trauma for Bounty after stable blows over
• Muratti disaster as Alderney crash out
• Dignitaries gather for re-enactment
• Alderney Records Centre launch
• Woodland returns to Alderney
• A first in the Islands for Alderney Library
• Channel Island Discs
• St Anne’s School celebrates World Book Day
• Pupils refl ect on memorable events
• Scottish manager arrives on island
• Alderney Society Museum re-opens
• Easter visit from Major Drew
• Beauties required for competition
• Salvation Army clothing bank
• February weather report
• Obituary - Richard Main

In issue 891 - Sat 01 Mar 2008

• Goodbye to all that
• UFOs - they didn't just visit us in 2007
• Lady Maris goes down
• Island welcomes mainland misfit
• Island gets its first speeding ticket
• How's your health?
• Local guitarist honoured
• Aurigny's birthday stories
• Alderney RNLI complete 600 shouts
• Become a friend of St Anne's
• A little bit of design magic wanted
• Finance Advisory Group
• Healthspan redundancies
• Island sends clothes to third world
• Fishing limit could stretch to 12 miles
• Could this be the year?
• Capital projects update
• A novel way to raise revenue...
• March gardening
• Indoor bowls
• Obituary

In issue 890 - Sat 09 Feb 2008

• Plane ditches off coast
• French time plan divides States
• Jersey in, Shoreham out
• Breakwater survey
• New commercial quay for Alderney
• Ormer ?readathon?
• Airport crash
• Local redundancies from Healthspan
• Channel Island Discs
• Hannah on her way to semi-finals
• RAMSAR boat gifted to AWT
• Capital projects progress
• Who does what
• Another blue moon for Alderney?
• Mullets are back...
• Highs and lows for local boxers
• January Weather Report
• February gardening
• Obituary - Prudence Rowley

In issue 889 - Sat 26 Jan 2008

• Anyone fancy a Trislander?
• Fingers crossed for the extra £2m
• States busy marketing the island
• Taz join us on the White List
• Medical evacuations
• Waste not, want not
• RNLI distance themselves from MCA
• Autoclaving
• Silent witness
• Water returns to Alderney
• Southern Softies to premier locally
• Quirky island properties
• Dog poo must go

In issue 888 - Sat 12 Jan 2008

• Festive fun
• New Head starts at St Anne’s
• Surge of gambling industry interest
• Braye Beach meal
• Alderney Week 2008
• Theatre group news
• Electricity prices set to rise
• December People’s & States meeting
• Anything for a pint
• Job done
• Rev Arthur Mignot steps down
• Nellie Gray’s support cyclone victims
• Throwing stones in glasshouses
• Royal Mint treats the kids
• Paintings for the hospital
• Lessons from Alderney’s past
• Capital projects progress report
• Care in the community
• Coming up for 40 this year?
• January gardening
• December Weather Report

In issue 887 - Sat 15 Dec 2007

• The Alderney Journal photo competition
• Christmas street market
• Ormer Nativity play
• Island resident survives collision
• Tighten your belts for 2008
• Police again warn island to ‘lock up’
• Frank walks the by-election
• Car of on-duty ambulance offi cer stolen and torched
• Christmas Greetings
• Smoking survey results - it’s close
• Questions over smoking questionnaire
• Hannah wins Bailiwick leg of national contest
• Journal comment
• Dick is the top fi sherman
• Mercury
• Fishing report
• St Anne’s Church news
• New playground / New Master
• Art club news / WI news
• La Vallee sewer replacement update
• Obituaries - John Derek Mark / Trevor Barker

In issue 886 - Sat 01 Dec 2007

• The Alderney Journal photo competition
• Seat on the States up for grabs
• Confusion and controversy from AEL
• Sandpiper put pub estate on the market
• Regulations ‘squeezing’ the trislander
• La Valle sewer replacement
• People’s and States meeting
• Alderney reps go for TRP amendment
• Antarctic ship visited Alderney
• The Alderney Journal polls
• The cost of living in Alderney
• Dean completes first rate season
• Shoo Shoo Baby
• Post Office dates
• Dog mess appeal
• Charity
• December gardening
• Obituaries (Nicholas Gaudion and Joannie Robertson)
• Alderney remembered

In issue 885 - Sat 17 Nov 2007

• The Alderney Journal photo competition
• Local lifeboat heroics honoured
• Delicious Shoo Shoo girls stage cabaret
• AEL hit by second resignation
• Alderney girls meets Princess Anne
• Hugh’s Alderney adventure is a TV hit
• Innovative kids fi ll 1009 boxes
• Alderney hit by unequal airport fee hikes
• Some sympathy but not enough support
• Change to the island’s government under discussion
• Alderney boxer takes shot at national title
• Bonfi re night / Trick or treat?
• Alderney resident parties with internet founding father
• What next for the Youth Club?
• Remembrance Sunday
• New Alderney tourism website
• Huffi n the Puffi n lends the RNLI a hand
• Peter May tackles the Appalachian trail
• Alderney table tennis club
• Obituaries (Levett & Dupont)
• NEW! Alderney Journal Crossword

In issue 884 - Sat 03 Nov 2007

• Alderney Journal photo competition
• Lieutenant-Governor visits island
• Alderney?s friend in the Lords
• People?s meeting 8 States meeting
• Landmark ?squatter?s rights? case
• Opinions please
• Alderney reps fight for airport in the Guernsey States
• Mercury
• Airport crew see off Terry in style
• Remembrance Sunday
• September visitor numbers up
• Improved recycling keeps rates down
• Autoclaving still on the cards
• Chez bar opens
• Discovering Alderney
• Old favourite in new hands
• Mr. Miggins cheats death
• If you need something done...
• Airport fees and charges scandal

In issue 883 - Sat 20 Oct 2007

• The Alderney Journal photo competition
• Biggest burglary in island's history
• Jewellery box missing
• Car taken and torched
• 'Change your culture' Alderney people warned
• Tidal project explained to islanders
• Half way there
• Jeep flipped
• Art and Design Exhibition
• Victims of Windy Corner re-united after two years
• Family re-united
• Sponsored walk success
• Dig reveals Alderney's Roman past
• The improving waste situation
• Angling festival
• Brownies visit the power station
• Ceillam sets his sights on the world
• Alderney Bowls go to Island Games
• Junior football kicks off
• Junior Table Tennis

In issue 882 - Sat 06 Oct 2007

• Alderney Journal photo competition
• Gambling money put into water
• The ‘people’s church’ crumbling
• Islanders get their say on smoking
• Fishing boat blaze
• Air Races crown new British champ
• Penny praises Alderney
• Museum given stuffed Shag
• Mercury
• Hot stone massages not just for girls
• 50 km walk around the island
• Alderney comes dancing
• Cricket - under 40s vs over 40s
• Alderney Post Partnership Board trip
• Gardening
• Obituary

In issue 881 - Sat 22 Sep 2007

Note: This issue was numbered and dated the same as issue 880 (red cover) in error

• Journal photo competition
• Kids design new weathervane
• ARE test the water of public opinion
• What was that traffic warden getting up to?
• The Peli-book
• Housing survey
• Air Races decide British champ
• The Alderney foot races
• Bomb goes off half a century late
• Reduce, re-use and recylce
• Island visitor new Judge of Appeal
• Local artist wins with oils
• Alderney Week in the picture
• Fishing report
• Football report
• New Jurat sworn in

In issue 880 - Sat 08 Sep 2007

• Midge - the King of Burhou
• Graffiti attack exposes poor English
• Stranded - this time by choice
• We pay a lot more in Alderney...a lot more
• Local builder remanded in custody
• Softer in the South?
• Marina for Alderney considered
• Saved from the lion’s jaws
• Wildlife weekend
• Sewage leaks from drains which needed ‘urgent attention’15 years ago
• Blooze Crewz news
• Sport - Junior Golf Open
• Wedding bells
• Probus donate again
• Weather report
• Gardening report

In issue 879 - Sat 25 Aug 2007

• Alderney Journal photo competition
• Alderney whiter than white
• Alderney's flying centurion
• Channel Island Discs
• Senner stoning case closed
• Alderney Week round-up
• Alderney Week team appeal
• Hammond Memorial
• Alderney Week sport
• Alderney Methodism celabrated
• Mercury
• and lots more

In issue 878 - Sat 11 Aug 2007

• Alderney Journal photo competition
• Alderney Week under way
• Cavalcade day
• New Police group
• HD Ferries give up on Alderney
• First ever fun triathlon
• Dressing up for the Quarry Party
• Man-powered flight
• Clamour fails to hammer States
• Oscars ball
• Poetry corner
• Shooting stars
• Summer bird notes
• Fishing report
• Obituary - Jan Carr

In issue 877 - Sat 28 Jul 2007

• Alderney Journal photo competition
• Riduna no more / Local author outsells Potter
• Petrol will be over £1 a litre
• Education dept blocks Brian's talk
• Sports Centre - closer than ever
• July States Meeting
• Quay FM pushes for year-round license
• Where have all the flowers gone
• Channel Islands discs
• All at sea with the C-permits / Water
• $tock £xchange pays out
• Alderney Sailing Club Regatta
• Belle Vue buoyant after ban / Music Society
• Michaela's hair boutique expands
• Sport - table tennis
• Island games
• Fishing report
• Cricket vs Sark
• Gardening

In issue 876 - Sat 14 Jul 2007

• Shipwrecked
• Ferry-tale ending
• Youths stone regular visitor
• Waste and water posters
• Apprentice of the year
• Tax update
• Desert Island discs
• Specsavers design competition
• Wings around Britain
• The Great Alderney Journal Photo competition
• Island of Ghosts
• Viewpoint
• July gardening
• Fishing report
• Weather report

In issue 875 - Sat 23 Jun 2007

• The Great Alderney Journal Photo competition
• Waste not want not
• Autoclaving - the people speak out
• Regular ferry service now likely / Tourism would benefit
• Health dept fail local family
• Princess Anne visits
• The little people enjoy the visit
• The right lady for the job
• Award for the Alderney Record Centre / Sold - the Grand Island site
• Alderney is faring well
• No nominations / eBay bus goes
• The shrinking roads of Alderney
• Ulay is top dog
• Alderney Week update
• Yoof dance
• Summer play scheme
• Author defends Panorama Prince
• Sport
• Obits

In issue 874 - Sat 09 Jun 2007

• The Great Alderney Journal Photo competition
• Miss Alderney 2007
• Regular ferry link considered
• New wing at the hospital
• Wombling around the world
• Salon Culinaire
• Support the lifeboat
• Penny Smith drops in
• Tax concession slips away
• Claire goes to Kew
• Shed shotgun blast
• Wrecked
• MV Explorer visits
• School news
• Elizabethan wreck
• Hammond memorial service
• Golf Open

In issue 873 - Sat 26 May 2007

• Alderney is a fine filly
• Miss Alderney Weekend
• UFO explanation (click for photos mentioned in Journal 873)
• People’s meeting
• Chris Main resigns
• Seafood festival
• Wildlife Week
• Milk-o-punch
• Café Lou Lou
• Ronez tea party
• Eryn’s Mermaids
• Art exhibition
• Fishing report
• Sport - boxing
• Sport - cricket
• Yoof trip to Calshot

In issue 872 - Sat 05 May 2007

• The Great Alderney Journal Photo Competition
• Anti-Smoking-ban march
• UFOs visit Alderney
• Alderney Journal website
• Rotary Casino night
• April States meeting
• WAG report
• Police meeting
• Miss Alderney 2007
• Mercury
• Wildlife week
• Sport - football
• May gardening

In issue 871 - Sat 21 Apr 2007

• Hospital renovation - late, out of control and embarrassing
• Princess Royal to visit Alderney
• Good Friday procession
• Steve Wright tackles the Arctic...again
• Easter train special / shark egg hunt
• Alderney inspires Island Stories CD
• Rotary shoebox success
• Rotary and Aurigny support the yoof
• Counterfeit fivers
• Out-of-control dogs kill chickens
• Bar Manana
• People’s meeting
• Foyles café
• Carducci String Quartet
• Big island clean up
• Victor Hugo sails again
• Water Mill coming on a treat
• Sport
• Fishing
• Spring bird notes
• Weather report

In issue 870 - Sat 07 Apr 2007

• Big adventure for Cavalcade regular
• Marilyn wears Alderney
• Fire at the recycling plant
• New EPR at Flamanville
• March States meeting
• Opposition to smoking ban grows
• Scottish experience worries publican
• Giant rabbits invade Alderney
• Sportingbet move back to Channel Islands
• Direct flights to Jersey no more
• Jersey six-a-side appeal
• Work permits
• Alderney resident publishes Ghana memories
• Island games preparations
• April gardening

In issue 869 - Sat 24 Mar 2007

• Alderney goes tidal in a big way
• Deborah's box the first of 1000
• Muratti
• Smoking ban
• People's meeting
• Trover first at Crufts
• St Anne's Red Nose Day
• Prostate Cancer awareness week
• New badges for the Militia
• Alderney girl wins scholarship

In issue 868 - Sat 10 Mar 2007

• Profile - Don Cosheril
• La Cucina
• House prices on the up
• Sewage report
• Guernsey horse-molester guilty
• Clonque suprise
• Waste update
• Lunar eclipse
• Guernsey's women's refuge
• Trover coats to the rescue
• Police checks on bikes
• Six Miss Alderney's missing
• New stamps

In issue 867 - Sat 24 Feb 2007

• Milking the Napoli
• Public meeting on Tourgis
• Water situation under control
• Ask the people - Fort Tourgis
• Once in a blue moon
• Borat comes to Alderney
• Bird and bat box building
• Zest for food
• Organic food comapny launched in Alderney
• Recyclables used in road
• Ghost in the Chez
• Notice to poultry keepers

In issue 866 - Sat 10 Feb 2007

• Fort Tourgis
• AGCC appointment
• Questions over company
• Nikki's night at the Sports Oscars
• Wildife Trust bus tours
• Mini crime-wave
• WRVS veteran honoured
• Alderney singers donate some of their loot

In issue 865 - Sat 27 Jan 2007

• Commercial Quay
• New look states
• Incinerator decision
• Alderney bus on ebay
• French TV flop
• 'Yoof' club
• Jubilee Sailing club
• Music Society
• YOGA

In issue 864 - Sat 13 Jan 2007

• Phantom marksman on the loose
• Retiring states members
• New Years Day dip
• French TV to broadcast live from Alderney
• Mount Hale saves Marais soak
• December People's and States meetings
• Policy and Finance shake-up
• Nikki Neal nominated for C.I. Sports Personality 2006
• Bookseller finds success
• High jinks at Quay FM
• Alderney Week
• Fostering good relations abroad
• Alderney Angling re-opens

In issue 863 - Sat 30 Dec 2006

In issue 862 - Sat 16 Dec 2006

In issue 861 - Sat 02 Dec 2006

In issue 860 - Sat 18 Nov 2006

In issue 859 - Sat 04 Nov 2006

In issue 858 - Sat 21 Oct 2006