
ANN DE SAUSMAREZ GRANTHAM swears by the health benefits of swimming and is urging more parents to get their children in the water.
IT STARTED with a blank sheet of paper four years ago.
TWO proposals – one to reduce the voting age to 16, the other to increase the age at which a member of the public can stand for office – were hotly debated at this week’s People’s Meeting in Alderney.
VAT issue is lurking
FOR most islanders, Alastair Darling’s first Budget was an unremarkable affair even though it contained some significant backtracking on the tax treatment of ‘non-doms’, the wealthy professionals who make a major contribution to Britain’s commercial life.