[3] On 1 October 2019 it was announced that The Channel Islands Media Group Limited, a local investment company, had purchased the Guernsey Press Company and its wholly owned subsidiary, Guernsey Distribution Limited.
[4] The paper is currently published six days a week and has a circulation of 15,165 (average for December 2010 – June 2011).
[5] During the Occupation, the two papers, subject to censorship from the German authorities, continued to publish, eventually on alternate days given the shortage of materials and staff available.
After the Germans temporarily removed the editor of The Star, Bill Taylor, from his position, following an article which they deemed offensive, it was edited by Frank Falla.
Falla was eventually betrayed by an Irish collaborator and, along with his peers who helped to produce GUNS, was deported to Germany.