The Cook Islands has " Home Rule " with respect to banking, similar to Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man.

Many examples appear on the Channel Islands of Jersey and Guernsey, such as La Pouquelaye de Faldouet, La Sergenté, and La Hougue des Géonnais.

GMT was adopted on the Isle of Man in 1883, Jersey in 1898 and Guernsey in 1913.

Compare those to Norman hoguinané and the obsolete customs in Jersey of crying ma hodgîngnole, and in Guernsey of asking for an oguinane, for a New Year gift ( see also La Guiannee ).

Proposals for Jersey independence have subsequently been discussed at an international conference held in Jersey, organised by the Jersey and Guernsey Law Review.

Jersey shares the Channel Islands Stock Exchange ( CISX / Exchange ) with Guernsey, where it is based.

( Guernsey, Liberation Day ( Jersey ))

The Channel Islands ( referred to as Îles Anglo-Normandes in French ) are historically part of Normandy, cover 194 km² and comprise two bailiwicks: Guernsey and Jersey, which are British Crown Dependencies.

In 1403, a Breton squadron defeated the English in the Channel and devastated Jersey, Guernsey and Plymouth while the French made a landing on the Isle of Wight.

In New England and Oklahoma, it is also used as a general exclamation as in Scotland and the Channel Islands of Jersey and Guernsey.

* Those intending to become advocates or solicitors in Guernsey ( or, until recently, Jersey ) must complete three months ' study of Norman law at Caen University ( Certificat d ’ Études Juridiques Françaises et Normandes ) prior to being called to the Guernsey or Jersey Bar, respectively.

On 25 July 1940, a few weeks after the arrival of German troops in Guernsey and Jersey, nine German soldiers landed on the island in a commandeered motor boat to shoot a propaganda film.

The closest airports are Guernsey Airport and Jersey Airport.

The first " official " flight to depart Gatwick following the reopening ceremony was a BEA DC-3 operating a charter for Surrey County Council to Jersey and Guernsey.

* HD Ferries to Guernsey and Jersey.

: " recognised dairy breed "- Ayrshire, British Friesian, British Holstein, Dairy Shorthorn, Guernsey, Jersey and Kerry.

In Jersey and Guernsey, the elected heads of the Parishes are titled " constables " ( connétables in French ).

The relation between the Crown dependencies of the Isle of Man and the bailiwicks of Guernsey and Jersey in the Channel Islands and the United Kingdom is very similar to a federate relation: the Islands enjoy independence from the United Kingdom, which, via The Crown, takes care of their foreign relations and defence – although the UK Parliament does have overall power to legislate for the dependencies.

Morrisons also sold Safeway's Channel Islands stores, in Guernsey and Jersey, to CI Traders where they continue to trade under the Safeway brand name, despite selling products from chains such as Iceland.

The Germans surrendered Alderney on May 16, 1945, eight days after the Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, and seven days after the liberation of Guernsey and Jersey.

Later he lived for some years in France, and after the Restoration was made a privy counsellor and governor of Guernsey.

The breed did not become established in Great Britain at the time, nor was it used in the islands of Jersey or of Guernsey, which bred their own special cattle named after the islands.

All must have seemed lost but Cadwallon raised an enormous army and after a brief time in Guernsey he invaded Dumnonia, relieved the West Welsh who were suffering a Mercian invasion and forced Penda, the pagan King of Mercia, into an alliance against Northumbria.

According to Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain ( which includes a fairly extensive account of Cadwallon's life but is largely legendary — for example, Geoffrey has Cadwallon surviving until after the Battle of the Winwaed in 654 or 655 ), Cadwallon went to Ireland and then to the island of Guernsey.

GG Golden Guernsey Dairy of Milwaukee, WI, originally owned by Foremost Farms ( and now Dean Foods ), retained the Golden Guernsey name long after they discontinued selling 100 % Guernsey milk.

CREST is the Central Securities Depository for the U. K., Republic of Ireland, Isle of Man, Guernsey, and Jersey equities and UK gilts, named after its securities settlement system, CREST.

The existing fort, with its white tower was originally built as a defence by the British in 1804 during the Napoleonic Wars, it was named after Charles Grey, 1st Earl Grey, who was Governor of Guernsey from 1797 to 1807.

In 1703, he was created Baron Guernsey and a privy councillor, and after the accession of George I in 1714, Earl of Aylesford, being reappointed a privy councillor and made Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, which office he retained till February 1716.

After just one week, he suffered a breakdown, and after treatment he and his family moved to Guernsey.

Channel Island milk ( sometimes called gold-top milk after the colour of the milk bottle top ) is creamy, light-beige coloured milk from the Jersey and Guernsey breeds of cattle native to the Channel Islands.

Astell died in a hospital near her home in Guernsey, aged 93, seven months after the death of her husband.

period, local issues were used in Guernsey and Jersey after British stocks ran out.

A 2009 article in The Times reported that hundreds of wealthy financiers and entrepreneurs had recently fled the United Kingdom in response to recent tax increases, and had relocated in low tax destinations such as Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, and the British Virgin Islands.

** WWII: German forces land in Guernsey, marking the start of the 5-year Occupation of the Channel Islands.

Preachers from Guernsey visited regularly, and in 1796, land was donated by Jean Vaudin, leader of the Methodist community in Sark, for the construction of a chapel, which Jean de Quetteville dedicated in 1797.

It was decided that a raid by 140 men would land on the island of Guernsey and attack the airfield with the purpose of destroying aircraft and buildings, as well as capturing or killing members of the garrison.

In Guernsey and Jersey, the Jurats, as lay people, are judges of fact rather than law, though they preside over land conveyances and liquor licencing.

This was overcome in 1843, when, with the help of William Le Lacheur, a Guernsey merchant and shipowner, a regular trade route was established.

An aerial shot showing Herm in the centre with Jethou next to it, Sark in the background and Guernsey in the foreground.

Guernsey turned his idea into a story about an American traveling salesman who travels to the Middle East and is mistaken for a fictitious agent, becoming " saddled with a romantic and dangerous identity.

* Guernsey: Herodias ( Rides with witches at sea )

Bailiwick of Guernsey Laws and United Kingdom Acts of Parliament can ( the latter as also in the case of all the other Channel Islands ) be extended to Sark with the consent of Chief Pleas.

The county name originated with one Thomas Ogier, of Les Duvaux, Guernsey.

Brock's childhood home on High Street, St Peter Port, Guernsey still stands, and is marked with a memorial plaque.

Hait, A. H. Malcolm, and Guernsey Smith, came from Fort Dodge with an ox team along the Des Moines River and until they reached the NE corner of Des Moines Township.

The present flag of Guernsey was adopted in 1985 and consists of the red cross of St. George with an additional gold cross within it.

Guernsey also operates a non-ministerial system of government in which government departments are headed not by ministers with executive authority, but by boards or committees of five members.

The States of Guernsey ( the island's parliament ) last endorsed the system of consensus government by committees in 2002, when it rejected, by a very significant majority, a proposition to replace the system with executive / cabinet-style government.

Immigration is the responsibility of the UK ( UK law applies ), with day-to-day operations carried out by the Guernsey Border Agency.

In addition to the transferred services, both the UK and Guernsey may legislate on other matters with the consent of the States of Alderney.

There are several flights each day from Southampton, Jersey ( via Guernsey ) and Guernsey, with links to many parts of the United Kingdom and Europe.

It is lawful in Guernsey to have an abortion in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy so long as specific criteria are met: it is still lawful but with more stringent criteria between 12 and 24 weeks.

The five hexagons below represent the five main channel islands: Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark and Herm, and the ident is animated so that each hexagon appears in turn accompanied by one note of the jingle, along with the name.

A. H. Weiler in the New York Times commented, " Joan Crawford should be credited with a truly professional performance ", and Otis L. Guernsey, Jr., in the New York Herald Tribune wrote, " The scenario ... is designed to allow Miss Crawford a wide range of quivering reactions to vicious events, as she passes through the stage of starry-eyed love, terrible disillusionment, fear, hatred, and finally hysteria.

As with all British coinage, the technical specifications are the same as those of coins issued by sterling zone territories such as the Isle of Man, Guernsey, Jersey and Gibraltar.

, Red Ensigns charged with the local emblem are available to be used by ships registered on several of the component registers of the Red Ensign Group: Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Jersey, and Isle of Man.

It is possible that he fled Guernsey with his mother in 1645.

In 1903, he moved to the island of Guernsey, where he worked with his brother Francis George Fowler.