FOLLOWING the death of a 23-month-old Mexican boy in Texas, the United Nations' World Health Organisation has raised its alert state to five, one short of the maximum possible.
ALL GPs in Guernsey have been issued with surgical face masks following the first death from swine flu outside Mexico.
AN OUTBREAK of deadly swine flu in Mexico is being regarded as a serious threat to the island by the director of public health.
He travels alone, flying a small plane, in the middle of Africa, landing in remote spots in some troubled countries. But never mind civil war gunfire – it's the Ebola outbreaks that concern him more. Professional pilot Bryan Pill tells Chris Morvan about his unusual working life.
FACEBOOK has spawned a dedicated website for islanders who love to pun.
Their transport was a clapped-out Batmobile, their mission - to make it from St Malo to Krakow in the ultimate European banger race. And all for charity. Tom Edwards rounds up his Ramshackle Rally adventures
GUERNSEY'S Institute of Directors has reached a double milestone this year.
IT'S not every day four 100-year-olds are in the same room.
Every 30 seconds a woman in Africa loses her child to malaria. In Tanzania alone, 100,000 die of the disease. To mark Malaria Awareness Week, Zoe Ash spoke to a local doctor who has launched a charity to help the children of the poverty-stricken country
DAVID Chamberlain and Natasha Axworthy are Guernsey's 2007 Dancefloor Challenge champions.
In the fifth in a series on a major data protection conference, Tom Bradshaw reports on the presentation of Toby Stevens, director of the Enterprise Privacy Group and chairman of the BCS Information Privacy Expert Panel
GUERNSEY must be prepared for a flu pandemic.
STUART MARTEL has become the island windsurfing speed champion.
PALLIATIVE care received a major boost from the States yesterday.
TELEMEDICINE should be the last option chosen by the States to care for people with an incurable illness.
