18th December 1991
Police reveals theft of Jersey’s war achives
Although the theft was discovered in the November, it took until December 1991 for the files’ removal from the States Building to be made public. They’d been taken over a two-month period and offered for sale in Europe and the US. Police recovered more than 90% of the files through a two-year investigation, but authorities can’t be certain that none of their contents were removed.
Further papers turned up in Guernsey in 2013, bringing the recovered proportion up to 95%. The files, which had originally been kept in the Bailiff’s chambers throughout and after the war, are now looked after by the Jersey Archive.
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Jersey is granted its own flag
- Although it had flown a red saltire for some time, it wasn't until the 1980s that Jersey finally, officially, got its own flag.
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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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TV naturalist wades into seagull row
- Plans to kill a playful seagull called Gulliver attracted the attention of a television naturalist, and the States of Jersey changed its plan.
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Christmas Eve plane crash at Jersey Airport
- A plane crashed at Jersey Airport on Christmas Eve when one of its wing tips touched the runway as it came down to land.
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