26th December 2005
ITV broadcasts drama filmed at Hamptonne
ITV’s boxing day broadcast was an adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s Under the Greenwood Tree, starring Keeley Hawes. Much of the two-hour drama, which was set in the 1850s to 1870s, was filmed at Hamptonne, Jersey’s country life museum in St Lawrence, alongside many of the island’s churches and beaches.
ITV later provided the film’s star, Hawes, with another tangential link to Jersey. She played Louisa Durrell in The Durrells which, although set in Corfu, depicted the childhood of Gerald Durrell who would go on to found Jersey Zoo.
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Channel Island cargo ships collide
- Two British Transport Commission cargo ships serving the channel islands collided in December 1955 resulting in significant damage.
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Old-school pornographer is sentenced to hard labour
- A pornographer printing photographs for distribution worldwide was sentenced to a year's hard labour as punishment.
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An unknown man is arrested in Jersey
- An unknown man was arrested in Jersey on suspicion of murdering his wife who was discovered stabbed in her bed.
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Jersey Airways is founded
- Jersey Airways flew its first commercial flight between Jersey and Portsmouth on 18 December 1933, just nine days after it was founded.
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