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Ellen Groves
Guernsey-born journalist and communications professional, formerly Visit Guernsey's PR representative in France, now launching the bilingual newsletter îles.
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Oct 24, 2026
#101 Pilgrimage for Armageddon; Ellen Groves and An Ordained Ending
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16:36Ellen GrovesGUEST
It's got something, well, the one that they use in France is called CS gas and apparently the chemical is cyanide.
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16:44Ellen GrovesGUEST
But yeah, there's been a considerable number of people in the demonstrations.
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Dig Deeper - The Quarry Live: introducing a new bilingual newsletter for the islands and France
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Nick MannHOST
I don't want you to give everything away that's coming up in your coverage, but I think it'd be nice to give at least one example of a story about Guernsey that you think should be told in France.
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7:26Ellen GrovesGUEST
Well, this one is very close to my heart because it's one that I've been involved with all my life, pretty much.
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7:32Ellen GrovesGUEST
But this year, the Channel Islands Longest Running Festival celebrates its 50th anniversary, which is a phenomenal achievement to think that in 1976, in that long hot summer, a group of... friends, including my dad, which is why it's close to my heart.
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7:49Ellen GrovesGUEST
They started this event in a castle, somehow got permission to use it and created a festival that still exists 50 years on.
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7:59Ellen GrovesGUEST
And it actually There have been French acts who've come over over the years, but the full festival story has not been told in French and has not been told in a way that encapsulates, you think that it encapsulates so much of what is wonderful about Guernsey, the voluntary aspect, the fact that there's no...
