内容摘要："There's a wonderful room downstairs, which turned out to be an informal party room with drawings on the wall of caricatures of the great and the good coming here to party over the last 40 or 50 years."

"There's a wonderful room downstairs, which turned out to be an informal party room with drawings on the wall of caricatures of the great and the good coming here to party over the last 40 or 50 years."

"We've had a lot of people complaining that we don't want to open the front doors now because of the stench that these bags are bringing out," he said.The Channel Islands, which is marking Liberation Day on Friday and Saturday, were the only part of the British Isles to be occupied by the Germans during World War Two.

From 1940-1945 Germans set up the only concentration camps ever established on British soil and turned the islands into an "impregnable fortress" on the orders of Adolf Hitler.Hundreds of islanders were deported to German prisons, while those who remained nearly starved.Jersey and Guernsey were liberated on 9 May 1945, and Sark the following day, after five years of Nazi rule. Most of the inhabitants of Alderney, who had been forced to leave, could not safely return until 15 December - now marked as Homecoming Day.

In 1939 the German army, the Wehrmacht, invaded the Low Countries before advancing through France.As the remains of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) were rescued from Dunkirk, Channel Island sailors reported seeing German troops occupying the peninsulas of Normandy and Brittany.

The Channel Islands were left defenceless when Britain pulled its troops out and declared the islands demilitarised.

Islanders faced the choice of remaining and risking invasion or leaving their homes for safety on the mainland.He added that the damage occurred either on Friday night or the early hours of Saturday morning.

"In all the years these events have taken place, this is the first time such deliberate vandalism has occurred," he said.Anyone with relevant information about the vandalism has been urged to contact police.

Sixty eight dolphin sculptures will eventually be placed around the island, which people will be able to track down via an app.The founder of a charity for vulnerable people has said she is "very cross" that its van containing "a few hundreds pounds worth" of gardening tools was stolen.