Island Life

An event at Government House this evening will launch a fundraising campaign to save and transform the crumbling cafe at Masnieres where hundreds of Guernseymen engaged in fierce fighting in late 1917. RGLI Association chairman Chris Oliver tells Simon De La Rue the story of bravery, commitment and tragedy that led to those few days being dubbed ‘Guernsey’s finest hour’.

Cobo Post Office was not always on the corner of the coast road as Rob Batiste discovered when charting the story of the business that closed last year.