内容摘要：Bitcoin was not the first cryptocurrency to be invented, but it did gain considerable attention with early adherents being "very quickly enamoured with it", Mr Bambrough said.

Bitcoin was not the first cryptocurrency to be invented, but it did gain considerable attention with early adherents being "very quickly enamoured with it", Mr Bambrough said.

As the Germans advanced westwards in 1940, the Channel Islands were demilitarised by the British Government because they were considered to be "of little strategic value", according to Trevor Davenport, author of Festung Alderney - a book on German defences in the island.Unaware of the withdrawal of the military, the Germans bombed St Helier and St Peter Port on 28 June, before occupying Guernsey on 30 June, Jersey on 1 July, Alderney on 2 July and Sark on 4 July.

Over the following years, the Channel Islands were clawed into Hitler's plans to create "staging posts" to invade Britain, as well as creating the so-called "Atlantikwall' - or Atlantic Wall - to defend the coastline of Europe from Norway to the Spanish border.The construction was carried out by Organisation Todt (OT), made up of largely forced foreign labourers - mostly slave workers from Russia - many of whom suffered harsh, cruel and inhumane treatment, according to historians.In Alderney the OT labourers were housed in four camps - Lager Helgoland, Lager Norderney, Lager Borkum and Lager Sylt - named after German islands.

According to archives, Lager Sylt, near the Telegraph Tower, was taken over in March 1943 by the SS, part of the so-called death's head formation that ran concentration camps.During that year, the number of forced labourers on the island reached more than 4,000, while there were said to be 3,200 German soldiers in the garrison.

British military investigator Capt Theodore Pantcheff arrived in Alderney in 1945, shortly after the island was liberated and in a book he authored said he had interviewed more than 3,000 witnesses and potential perpetrators.

Capt Pantcheff described "exceptionally hard work", for "undernourished" prisoners whose rations were habitually diverted to the SS canteen, including digging trenches of cable in "rocky soil".Det Ch Insp Brian Howie said: "We are in the very early stages of our investigation and my team of experienced detectives and forensic specialists are working at pace to establish the circumstances of this death.

"I can understand that this may be concerning for the community in Southall, who can expect to see an increased police presence in the area as we begin our investigation."The suspect, who is from Southall, remains in police custody.

The world's oldest Michelin-starred restaurant, Georges Blanc, has lost its third star, according to French media reports.Georges Blanc, the 82-year-old French chef in charge of the restaurant in south-east France, told the AFP news agency that they "weren't expecting it".