Island Life

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.

The woman who brought homemade bunting to the seafront of St Peter Port is now behind a move to gift ‘little quilts and big hugs’ to the island’s most vulnerable. Catherine Gill found out more about the project from Megs Bailey.