Island Life

In the first of our reviews of 2025 in pictures, Guernsey Press photographers Peter Frankland and Sophie Rabey pick their favourites from January.

Not everyone left Alderney in 1940, and by the end of 1945 only about a third of those who left had come back, but as Simon De La Rue reports, Homecoming Day – which the northern isle celebrates today – was when the island’s recovery from occupation really began to take shape.