Abramovich hit by multibillion-pound crackdown on assets in Jersey and France
More than £5.4bn of Chelsea FC owner’s assets frozen in Jersey and 12 luxury French properties seizedRussia-Ukraine war: latest updatesRoman Abramovich has had more than £5.4bn of his assets frozen in...
View ArticleDouglas Coxell obituary
My grandfather Douglas Coxell, who has died aged 100, spent most of his life flying – initially in the second world war before training RAF pilots in peacetime, and then for a civilian airline in the...
View Article‘The island lives in hope’: Alderney out to end 102-year wait for win
Channel Islands’ Muratti Vase kicks off with its smallest team, for whom football is never easy, up for the challengeOne hundred and two years of hurt. Alderney’s losing streak in the Muratti Vase, the...
View Article‘We’d have perished’: woman, 91, returns to Jersey where she fled Nazis in 1940
Irène Probstein travels from US to remember her family’s escape and thank Channel islanders who rescued them She was last on these sandy shores eight decades ago when her family – just about – managed...
View ArticleJersey fishing boat believed to have sunk after collision with ferry
Major search and rescue operation launched off coast of Channel island after incident at 5.30am on ThursdayA Jersey fishing boat with a skipper and two crew members onboard is believed to have sunk in...
View ArticleSearch resumes for three fishers off Jersey
Fishing boat believed to be resting on seabed after collision with Condor Ferries freight vesselThe search for three fishers whose boat sank in the Channel after a collision with a freight vessel...
View ArticleSearch for skipper and crew of sunk Jersey fishing boat called off
No chance of finding skipper and crew members of L’Ecume II alive after collision in Channel, rescuers concludeThe search for a skipper and two crew lost when their Jersey fishing boat collided with a...
View ArticleSt Helier explosion: footage shows flames and smoke billowing from building –...
Footage posted on social media shows flames and smoke billowing from a building in St Helier, Jersey. At least one person has died after an explosion at the block of flats and about 12 people are...
View ArticleAt least three killed and a dozen missing after Jersey flats explosion
Police say there could be more fatalities after 4am collapse of three-storey building on Channel Island At least three people have died and about 12 people are believed to be missing after an explosion...
View ArticleJersey explosion: criminal inquiry possible as five confirmed dead
Nine people feared killed after blast destroys block of flats in the capital, St HelierNine people are feared to have been killed and a criminal investigation could be launched after a suspected gas...
View ArticleInvestigation into Jersey’s gas system as seven missing people named after blast
Nine people are believed dead after explosion destroyed block of flats in St Helier on Saturday night Jersey’s entire gas system has been put under investigation, it has emerged, as police released...
View ArticleJersey energy firm says it attended site before deadly blast
Fire service says it handed over reported gas leak to Island Energy seven hours before explosionJersey’s energy company is facing questions over the deaths of up to nine people after the island’s fire...
View ArticleTwo bodies found after fishing boat collision in Channel off Jersey
It is not yet known which of the three fishers onboard have been recovered or exactly where their bodies were discovered The bodies of two fishers have been found near a boat that sank in the Channel...
View ArticleEighth person confirmed dead after suspected gas explosion in Jersey
Death toll from blast on Saturday rises, with one remaining missing person An eighth victim of a suspected gas explosion at apartments in Jersey has been confirmed dead, the island’s police have said,...
View ArticleJersey explosion: nine people confirmed to have died
Investigation continues into blast as police say they believe no more residents are unaccounted forNine people are confirmed to have died after a suspected gas leak that flattened a three-storey block...
View ArticleNine people killed in Jersey explosion formally identified
Chief minister pledges ‘rigorous and independent’ inquiry as police confirm the dead are nine missing after blast The nine people who died after an explosion at a block of flats in Jersey have been...
View ArticleWoman, 73, becomes 10th person to die after Jersey explosion
Kathy McGinness, who lived adjacent to flats that collapsed, died in hospital on Christmas DayA woman injured in an explosion at a block of flats in Jersey earlier this month died on Christmas Day,...
View ArticleTory donors own UK properties via more than 150 offshore firms
People including property developers and peers who have collectively donated £21m named on new registerConservative donors who have collectively given the party more than £21m since 2001 have been...
View ArticleGulf royals own more than £1bn of UK property via tax havens
New government register shows how offshore jurisdictions used for ownership of nearly 200 properties including hotels and country estatesThe royal families of Gulf states including Saudi Arabia, the...
View ArticleArtist reproduces Alderney ‘Nazi execution site’ in London
Piers Secunda will tell story of bullet-damaged wall and forensic examination supporting theory A dark chapter in the story of a tiny British island is to be depicted in a reproduction of a Nazi...
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