Jobs risk at Press from States move

By Simon Tostevin

The newspaper centre at Braye Road, where the Guernsey Press, including La Gazette Officielle, is put together. (Picture by Adrian Miller, 0538622)

LOCAL jobs are at risk if the States stops putting official notices in the Guernsey Press, the newspaper warned today.

A Policy Council plan to close the 166-year-old La Gazette Officielle in the Guernsey Press would also damage communication with islanders, said the company.

In a letter to all States members, general manager and director Mark Lewis said the proposals were ill-thought-out and not properly costed and would be damaging to employment prospects.

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