14 August 2007 Archive » This Is Guernsey

Daily Archives: August 14, 2007

ONE of Guernsey’s leading female company directors has backed a call from a UK Treasury secretary to see more women in the boardroom.

GUERNSEY’S Institute of Directors has reached a double milestone this year.

A MONSTER shark has been caught off Guernsey.

James Allen, 26, spent nearly an hour battling to reel in a record-breaking 295lb porbeagle on his first trip out for the species.

IT HAS taken 35 years.

But a first-time shark fisherman has smashed the Bailiwick porbeagle record.

POLICE have named the man who died at the weekend when the boat he was on sank en route from Guernsey to Jersey.

GUERNSEY needs more police according to Home minister Geoff Mahy.

A LEADING figure in the island’s tourism industry is urging fellow hoteliers and industry staff to air their views.

HEATHER WATSON has stormed into the quarter-finals of the Ariel Junior Nationals at Bournemouth.

IAN LE MAITRE’S Alexa produced a superb class win at Skandia Cowes Week.

DANNY CARRE tore up the formbook to beat defending champion Tom Le Huray on the second extra hole of this year’s island junior matchplay final.