THURSDAY 9 August

Morning:

Street sale of paintings

Film: Meet the Robinsons at the Alderney Cinema

Clay Pigeon Shooting at Fort Albert

Odd Spot competition

Hollywood Fashion Show with a spectacular appearance: stunning original Hollywood costumes worn by screen goddess Marilyn Monroe in “Some Like it Hot”, “Gentlemen prefer Blondes” and “Bus Stop”.    

Five-a-Side Junior Coca-Cola Football Competition - Braye Common—Open to all.       

Young Pavement Artists Competition - Lower Victoria Street . Part 2 - aged 8 to 10 years old.

 

Afternoon:

Beach Olympics

Putting & Chipping Competition

Cream tea and private film screening at the Braye Beach Hotel of Hollywood Blockbuster “The Rosebud Series” produced in Alderney. The Alderney Grand Prix Pedal Kart Race & Sprint  at The Cuttings :  it’s the Monaco Grand Prix – but not as we know it!

Coca-Cola Five-a-Side Adults Football Competition -  Braye Common—Open to all.  

Evening:                       

Alderney Blowers Concert  - St Anne's Church  - open to all

Film: “Pirates of the Caribbean- At the World’s End” – at the Alderney Cinema

BATTLE OF THE BANDS—Corporation  Quarry   

 

 

And below is a report by ITV Channel Television’s Alderney reporter and cameraman Nigel Soane-Sands:

 

ALDERNEY WEEK DAY 6 (THURSDAY) AFTERNOON EVENTS: BEACH OLYMPICS & GRAND PRIX PEDAL KART RACING

 

The Greek gods must have been smiling as it was perfect weather for the Alderney Week Beach Olympics for children on Braye Beach.

Speed, dexterity and strength were tested to the limit in six events : standing long jump, the bouncy stepping sideways challenge, target javelin, and a deviously designed obstacle course with more hurdles than Aintree.

 

On to the noble art of welly wanging which isn’t as easy as it looks and can be pretty scary, and finally a modern version of good old-fashioned sack racing.

 

Then Alderney Week slipped into overdrive to identify potential Andy Priaulxs with Formula One pedal kart racing.

 

Eight state-of-the-art and heavily sponsored karts were put through their paces by around 70 boy racers around a new 400-yard anti-clockwise circuit at The Cuttings at Braye whose tight left-hand bends pushed raw nerve to the very limit.

 

Guernsey’s Garth Brown was victorious in the 12 to17-years old category, Richard McCubbin from Petersfield triumphed in the 18 to 25’s race and set a scorching lap record of 1 min 4.1/2 seconds, and Alderney’s 34-year old Richard Main pedalled his socks off to clinch gold in the over 25’s competition.

 

 

 

FASHION SHOW

 

The Alderney Week  Fashion Show just gets bigger and better each year and this morning (Thursday) around 250 people gathered around the catwalk at the Butes Stage to admire the latest collections of Alderney’s own fashion outlets.

 

Local models strutted their stuff to enthusiastic applause in an exciting array of ensembles ranging from elegant casual wear to smart and comfortable leisure wear for men, women and youngsters with some of the outfits designed and produced exclusively on island.

 

The sun shone, the setting was perfect, the acknowledged Godfather of Alderney Week Ray Parkin compered faultlessly, there was a quality champagne bucks fizz bar and the Hollywood Show simply sang. And an exciting extra X-factor – courtesy of Jerseyman David Gainsborough-Roberts and in direct keeping with the official Alderney Week logo of Marilyn Monroe – was the parading of several original glamour dresses worn by Marilyn in “Some Like it Hot”, “Bus Stop”, “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” , for the front cover of Life Magazine and in “Let’s Make Love”.   

  

 

The evening concert by the Alderney Blowers took place in St. Anne’s Church which was packed to full capacity. The repertoire of the Alderney Blowers was simply stunning and the concert was an absolute treat for music lovers.

 

 

 

Late Thursday night marked the start of this year’s  Battle of the Bands which took place at Corporation Quarry and attracted large crowds. The bands battling it out included Blooze Crewz,Thee Jenerators, Gay Army and Stratosfear and carried on until the early hours of Friday morning. This event, now in its second year, was again hosted by Wave Telecom.

  

 

These photos were taken by Ilona Soane-Sands, Joanna Parmentier, James Adair, Ian Laurence and Kyra Kentopp  and can be downloaded for your personal use. Any commercial use of these photographs requires the prior authorisation of Alderney Week. Please email info@alderneyweek.net  with your request. More photographs are published on the official Alderney website. Click here

 

 

An even larger number of digital high- resolution photographs of today’s and all major Alderney Week events, totalling in excess of 1,700 images -  are available on a DVD (Cost £5 + postage) and will be released by mid-September.  To order, simply send a cheque for £5 payable to Alderney Week  (for off-island orders please add £1 for package & postage) and let us have your full postal address details.