Out-of-print paper modelled by former Press shop manageress
ANGELS, soldiers and Hawaiian girls were just several of the costumes worn by shop assistants in the Guernsey Press shop in the 1980s and 1990s, to try and increase sales.
View ArticleMasters of the web accumulate near 70 working years as a father and son in...
A FATHER and son team have clocked up nearly 70 years between them in the print rooms of the Guernsey Press.
View ArticleLOOKback special - All the rage
Today's LOOKback special recalls the Island Games football competition in Guernsey in 2003, when a female referee failed to impress the Rhodes football team.
View ArticleGuernsey Press was 'born' in a shop in Le Pollet
A 250-copy, four-page first edition on green paper was so in demand that by the end of its first month the print run was increased to 550 copies, as Damian Wrigley explains...
View ArticleLOOKback special - When disaster struck the Sark boat
A routine sea crossing between Sark and Guernsey in April, 1906, turned into a disaster in which 10 people lost their lives.
View ArticleLOOKback special - The long and short of it
Today's final LOOKback birthday special flashes back to 1999 and a major change for Guernsey's only daily newspaper....
View ArticleTV reports on newspaper's 200th birthday
A CHANNEL TV crew was filming at the Guernsey Press yesterday for a report to mark the newspaper's 200th birthday.
View ArticleThe Guernsey Press and Star is 200
TODAY the Guernsey Press has been at the centre of our community for 200 years, writes Suzanne Heneghan. The bicentennial milestone marks not only a special birthday for the newspaper but also a...
View ArticleAt the heart of your community
THE Guernsey Press prides itself on being the voice of the community, writes Suzanne Heneghan.
View ArticleGuernsey Press's 200th birthday cake big enough to feed 200
YOU only celebrate your 200th anniversary once, so you have to do it properly. And there’s no more proper way than with a specially commissioned cake.
View ArticleThank you for making it our 200th birthday...
SOME years ago, two senior UK government officials who each had responsibility for an overseas territory were talking to the editor of this newspaper.
View ArticleGovernment works better with a critical media, by Peter Roffey
The days when a reporter’s story on an acting-magistrate’s dreadful gaffe was squashed are long gone.
View ArticlePam is witness to digital change after having served the paper under four...
DEALING with hundreds of islanders and picking up on their stories made Pam Pennington’s life as a Guernsey Press secretary ‘far from run-of-the-mill’.
View ArticleProfile of sport in Guernsey 'has gone through the roof'
GUERNSEY Press sports editor Rob Batiste has revealed that a serious injury he received on the football pitch landed him his first job at the newspaper.
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