Editing Alderney (section)

==Culture==

===Sport===
Island sports include golf, fishing and water sports, supported by clubs and associations. Alderney competes in the biennial [[International Island Games Association|Island Games]]. Athletes from Alderney have also competed at the [[Commonwealth Games]] as part of the [[Guernsey at the Commonwealth Games|Guernsey team]].<ref name="Le Poullain">{{cite web | title=Commonwealth Games: Guernsey's Billy Le Poullain loses unanimous points decision | website=BBC Sport | date=2022-08-03 | url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/commonwealth-games/62412546 | access-date=2024-04-05}}</ref> Every September, the Alderney Air Races attract a number of aircraft to compete in the deciding and final round for the European Air Racing championship, organised by the [[Royal Aero Club]]. This involves high-speed circuits round the airfield, lighthouse, [[Casquets]] and then back around.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.visitalderney.com/see-do/events/air-races/|title=Air Races {{!}} Visit Alderney, Channel Islands|website=www.visitalderney.com|language=en|access-date=1 March 2020|archive-date=1 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200301204218/https://www.visitalderney.com/see-do/events/air-races/|url-status=live}}</ref> The [[Alderney official football team|Alderney football team]] plays in the annual [[Muratti Vase]] alongside teams from fellow Channel Islands, Guernsey and Jersey. Since the competition started in 1905, Alderney's sole championship victory was in 1920.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68636552|title=2024 Muratti Vase: Guernsey beat Alderney 4-1 to book place against Jersey|date=23 March 2024 |publisher=BBC Sport|access-date=2024-06-05}}</ref>

===Pubs===
Partly because of the tourist industry, but mainly to the Ridunians' own drinking culture (there is a common expression elsewhere in the Channel Islands that Alderney is composed of 'two thousand alcoholics, clinging to a rock'<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/leisure/travelnews/reviews/10024499.print/|title=Channel hopping: Lucy Golding finds Alderney is a world away from commercial-centric holidays|work=Oxford Mail|date=3 November 2012 |access-date=28 August 2013|archive-date=24 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150624021809/http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/leisure/travelnews/reviews/10024499.print/|url-status=live}}</ref>), there are restaurants and public houses.

It was one of the last places in the British Isles to introduce a [[smoking ban]] in pubs, shops, restaurants and other indoor public places (Guernsey, Jersey, the UK, and the Isle of Man all having outlawed this already). The States of Alderney passed the anti-smoking legislation with the President's casting vote on 13 January 2010; the legislation came into force at 4{{nbsp}}am on 1 June 2010.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.alderneyjournal.com/readnews.php?id=1145 |title=Alderney introduces smoking ban |work=Alderney Journal |date=14 January 2010 |access-date=1 April 2013 |archive-date=7 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707104350/http://www.alderneyjournal.com/readnews.php?id=1145 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The island has an ageing population. Notable residents of Alderney include authors [[T. H. White]] (''The Once and Future King'') and [[Elisabeth Beresford]] (The Wombles), cricket commentator [[John Arlott]], cricketer [[Ian Botham|Sir Ian Botham]]{{citation needed|date=April 2021}}, [[The Beatles|Beatles]] producer [[George Martin|Sir George Martin]], actress [[Julie Andrews|Dame Julie Andrews]], and Olympic swimmer [[Duncan Goodhew]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Goodhew|first=Duncan|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/sunandsea/718363/My-kind-of-dive.html|title=My kind of dive|journal=Daily Telegraph|date=9 May 2001|access-date=1 March 2020|language=en-GB|issn=0307-1235|archive-date=1 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200301204535/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/sunandsea/718363/My-kind-of-dive.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Media===
Local TV coverage is provided by [[Spotlight (BBC News)#BBC Channel Islands|BBC Channel Islands]] and [[ITV Channel Television]]. Television signals are received from the island's relay transmitter situated in the eastern part of Alderney. <ref>{{cite web |url=https://ukfree.tv/transmitters/tv/Alderney|title= Freeview Light on the Alderney transmitter|date=May 2004 |publisher=UK Free TV |access-date=23 January 2024}}</ref>

The island is also served by both [[BBC Radio Guernsey]] on 99 FM and [[Island FM]] on 93.7 FM which both broadcast from [[Saint Peter Port|St. Peter Port]]. Alderney has its own radio station, [[QUAY-FM]], which broadcasts on 107.1 and online. Initially it only operated at seasonal highpoints such as the summer Alderney Week festival, but from 2015 it has broadcast 24 hours a day. <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.radio-uk.co.uk/quay-fm-1071|title=QUAY FM 107.1 live|website=www.radio-uk.co.uk|language=en|access-date=1 March 2020|archive-date=1 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200301204722/https://www.radio-uk.co.uk/quay-fm-1071|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Alderney Week===
Alderney Week is the island's annual summer festival, beginning the first Monday of August and lasting six days, it involves islanders and attracts visitors.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.alderneyweek.net/wp/|title=Alderney Week – The Channel Islands' Biggest Annual Carnival and Community Festival|website=Alderney Week|access-date=25 March 2018|archive-date=26 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180326141454/http://www.alderneyweek.net/wp/|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Miss Alderney ===
Miss Alderney is chosen during the Easter Holiday weekend each year at a public event held at the Island Hall. Application to the event is online, with the winner chosen by a panel of judges made up by non-residents and holidaymakers<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.alderneyweek.net/wp/miss-alderney/|title=Miss Alderney – Alderney Week|website=alderneyweek.net|access-date=25 March 2018|archive-date=26 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180326064304/http://www.alderneyweek.net/wp/miss-alderney/|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Comedy Rocks ===
Comedy Rocks is an annual run of live stand up comedy gigs mid to late July and early August. The shows feature well known and established comedians from the UK comedy circuit, and have so far featured [[BBC Radio 4]]'s [[Marcus Brigstocke]], [[Zoe Lyons]] and ''[[I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!]]'' runner-up [[Joel Dommett]].

=== Alderney Annual Motor Sprint and Hill Climb ===
Every year in mid-September Alderney hosts a motorsport weekend that is organized by the Guernsey Kart and Motor Club. The event has been held for more than 20 years. The event attracts Guernsey drivers who come to Alderney with high powered cars, motorbikes, sidecars and karts.{{citation needed|date=May 2017}}

Race vehicles are shipped to Alderney two days before the event. On the Friday, a sprint is held on the public roads of Fort Corbelets in the east of the island which are closed for the event. The following day a hill climb is held at Fort Tourgis in the west of the island and on a public road which is closed for the event. Spectators travel from Guernsey. Local Alderney people watch as the closed roads have vehicles racing at high speed where normally speed limits of {{convert|35|mph|abbr=off}} apply.{{citation needed|date=May 2017}}

=== Alderney Performing Arts Festival ===
The annual Alderney Performing Arts Festival began in 2013, and features music, dance and theatre.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.arts.gg/alderney-performing-arts-festival-24th-26th-may-2013/|title=Alderney Performing Arts Festival 24th–26th May 2013 {{!}} Guernsey Arts Commission|website=www.arts.gg|language=en-GB|access-date=8 June 2017|archive-date=9 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809014723/https://www.arts.gg/alderney-performing-arts-festival-24th-26th-may-2013/|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Alderney Literary Festival ===
The Alderney Literary Festival began in March 2015, with talks and events relating to historical fiction and non-fiction. It is organised by the Alderney Literary Trust.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.alderneyliterarytrust.com/ |title=Alderneyliterarytrust.com |access-date=28 March 2021 |archive-date=21 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210121215053/https://www.alderneyliterarytrust.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Alderney Stones===
In April 2011, sculptor [[Andy Goldsworthy]] completed a project called Alderney Stones, commenced in 2008, in which 11 large dried-earth spheres were placed at different sites on the island. The intention is that each stone will gradually erode, at different speeds depending on the location, and in some cases revealing objects buried inside.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.alderneystones.com |title=Alderney Stones |author=Andy Goldsworthy |access-date=1 April 2013 |archive-date=14 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130514081452/http://alderneystones.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Materials included clay, earth, chain, old work gloves, bricks, hawser, wheat, wire, blackberries, poppy seeds and tools.<ref>{{cite book |last=Goldsworthy |first=Andy |author-link=Andy Goldsworthy |date=2017 |title=Projects |url=https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/andy-goldsworthy-projects_9781419722226/ |publisher=Abrams |page=114 |isbn=978-1-4197-2222-6}}</ref> Goldsworthy has stated that he selected Alderney as "It seems to have a strong sense of layered past and a wide variety of locations in a small area."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.artandislands.com/andy-goldsworthy/ |title=Andy Goldsworthy « Arts & Islands |publisher=Artandislands.com |access-date=1 April 2013 |archive-date=2 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402205122/http://www.artandislands.com/andy-goldsworthy/ |url-status=live }}</ref>