[100] Those classed as non-employed and under pension age pay a rate of 10.7%. The Population Management Law applies only to the island of Guernsey and its territorial waters. Alderney's end of the Booth Tunnel can only be accessed in Alderney City along Asahara Road. It is the second largest of the Channel Islands, an island group roughly north of Saint-Malo and west of the Cotentin Peninsula. Today, residents are finally asking: Why has the British government done nothing, when it has evidence of German war crimes on its soil? The story you just read is a small piece of a complex and an ever-changing storyline that Coda covers relentlessly and with singular focus. "I watched the blown-up bodies moving with the tide.". We seem to have become engaged in what I think is possibly a slightly bizarre competition, Dent, the former politician, said during the meeting, describing how people were constantly trying to top each other by quoting ever-larger death tolls. They alleged that the island's government had acted corruptly in its dealings with FAB, and that people within it had a significant conflict of interest in ushering forth the project while standing to financially gain from it. I visited the colony yesterday and saw their graves. The beauty of an online site, she told the Alderney residents, is that its invisible.. Weve launched both the Alderney Pollinator Project and the Alderney Queens Jubilee Woodland campaigns as part of our celebrations of 20 years of striving to ensure Bunny Pantcheffs report remained a secret for decades. The sheer number and size of the fortifications built in Alderney between 1940 and 1945, some argue, make the official death tally dubious. From the end of this year, all official Salvation Army services and activities will come to an end and the worship meeting hall and the officers quarters will sold. [68], Public services, such as water, wastewater, the two main harbours and the airport are still owned and controlled by the States of Guernsey. God bless the sisters and those involved in their care. The island has a mixed British-Norman culture, although British cultural influence is stronger, with English being the main language and the pound sterling its primary currency. We are not attempting to impose any regulations on the Islands home and landowners. The Guernsey pound is not a separate currency, but a local issue of standard pound sterling. [122], A local delicacy is the ormer (Haliotis tuberculata), a variety of abalone harvested under strict laws from beaches at low spring tides. Alderney Wildlife Spring/Summer 2022 - 20 Years of the AWT The policy should not be relied upon as an indication of the outcome of Permit applications made after the review date. A mass of obstacles had been placed in the path of the truth, he wrote in his book, The Alderney Death Camp, published in 1982. The thing is, if we reveal that the Holocaust happened on Alderney, and that quite a number of Jews died there, and that the government covered it up and prevented French Jews in particular getting justice, then where does it leave our program of teaching British values through the Holocaust? said Marcus Roberts, founder of an Anglo-Jewish heritage organization called Jtrails, who has been studying the German occupation of Alderney for over a decade.