A year in pictures: Images of Jersey from 2023

BBC News looks back at some of the Jersey stories and pictures that hit the headlines in 2023.

In March A rare, bright blue lobster - said to be a "one-in-two-million find" - was caught by fisherman Morgan Bizec, who released the crustacean back into the sea off Jersey

A team of archaeologists came to Jersey in the spring to take another look at stone tools found at La Cotte à la Chèvre cave, to find out more about its Neanderthal past

In April, the Northern Lights could be seen across Jersey, including here at Grosnez Castle, in the north-west

BBC Jersey was invited in May to a vast underground storage cavern, built beneath St Helier in 1997 to store overflows of sewage and rainwater during storms

This Asian hornet nest - the biggest to be found in Jersey in 2023 - was discovered in August in a derelict house in St Brelades and later destroyed

Jersey's mail arrived by plane for the final time in August, with the service deemed "no longer commercially viable" by the Royal Mail

Fears over looting at the site where Jersey's largest hoard of Iron Age coins were discovered prompted archaeologists to ask for permission to re-survey the land at Grouville

In the summer, beach-goers were warned about the risks of being stung, after a Portuguese man o' war washed up at St Ouen's beach

A new roll-on roll-off ferry started operating to and from the Channel Islands, after the MV Condor Islander completed a refurbishment

About 4,500 customers were left without gas supplies for up to a week following a software failure at Island Energy's St Helier plant

Jersey felt the full force of storm Ciarán in November, bringing damaging high winds and a tornado, effectively cutting off the island

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