30 « May « 2008 « « This Is Guernsey

WILLIAM KNIGHT has become the first Herm School student to pass the 11-plus exam.

THE cost of flying to and from Guernsey is set to rise significantly, airlines warned yesterday.

Blacklisting is an ‘anti-competitive move by Europe’

GUERNSEY will have to wait for a forthcoming International Monetary Fund report before it can lobby the EU for inclusion on its list of countries deemed to have top quality anti-money laundering controls.

‘Get out while you can’

THE owner of the award-winning Crab Cabin has advised his two sons to get out of the fishing industry before it collapses.

Little fingers will become green ones

AN INITIATIVE has been launched encouraging children to become green-fingered.

States surplus is ‘no pot of gold’ for student funds

A SURPLUS of £70m. in States finances should not mean the end of student loans, according to Treasury minister Charles Parkinson.

A quick departure for bad tempers

HAVING written only a few weeks ago about a Chief Pleas sitting being a bad-tempered affair, it’s only right that when all is sweetness and light, on one of these occasions I should record the fact.

Young chef’s salon win

A JUNIOR chef took top honours at Alderney’s Salon Culinaire for the second year in succession.