Island Life

Eighty years on from its first unseasonal iteration, Guernsey Athletics’ Liberation Day 7-mile run has grown into a pivotal part of our annual celebrations of freedom. Simon De La Rue has been looking into the event’s origins.

In wanting Guernsey to conduct a traditional census – 25 years after the last one – Simon De La Rue knows he’s barking up a tree, just not whether it’s the right one.