TV company responds to complaint

The survey was in response to inaccuracies in the television drama

ITV has responded to a complaint from more than 1,000 Guernsey people about the television drama, Island at War.

Enid Campbell-White and Pearl White-Regan collected more than 1,000 signatures of people who objected to alleged inaccuracies.

The television company said a complaint that vehicles with Guernsey number plates were used in the programme, was a 'genuine mistake'.

Mrs Campbell-White says she is satisfied with the reply she received.

The people of the Channel Islands were incredibly courageous during the Second World War Rebecca Hodgson, Television development producer

Mrs Campbell-White says people were upset at apparent inaccuracies throughout the Granada-made series and most felt strongly the islands had been badly misrepresented.

She was delighted to receive a response from the television company within 48 hours.

Rebecca Hodgson, the development producer, says the drama is inspired by truth, but is first and foremost fiction.

In her letter, Ms Hodgson said: "The people of the Channel Islands were incredibly courageous during the Second World War.

"We on the mainland can only imagine what life would have been like for us if Hitler had succeeded in using them as a stepping stone to reach the UK."

Successful survey

Mrs Campbell-White says she is pleased she did the survey and delighted the television company took it seriously.

She said: "I must say that the survey has done its job.

"It's made them aware of the fact that we have found inaccuracies throughout the series and we've pointed them out."

"Otherwise how else would they have known how we felt in the islands."