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Daily Archives: February 7, 2009

Car ‘tax’ has an outcome for airport

WHILE islanders’ jaws were dropping with incredulity at the truly inspired level of foolishness embodied in the Environment Department’s Billet d’Etat seeking to justify introducing a £26 car tax masquerading as paid parking, two significant matters were lurking in the small print.

Car ‘tax’ is doomed, says man who asked for it…

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ENVIRONMENT does not believe the States will accept its paid parking proposal.

Stacey boys mix it with superkids

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THE Stacey twins represented Guernsey at the recent Eurokids table tennis camp in Malta.

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GFA hand out olive branch

THE Guernsey Football Association want to bring the ‘social leagues’ back under their umbrella and ease them into buying into their plan for the game.

The Blues won’t go away

It all gets a touch incestuous as Rob Batiste continues the eight-week look back at the island’s finest players club by club.

Flybe may demand £100,000 to pay for airport disruption

FLYBE is likely to be seeking more than £100,000 in compensation for last weekend’s disruption and the figure will climb if Guernsey Airport again fails to provide adequate fire cover for its operations.

‘Bringing in temporary cover is fine with us’

THE airport firefighters’ union has denied blocking attempts to bring in temporary cover.

‘Back door car tax will hit tourism’

HIRE car companies could have to pay out thousands of pounds to buy new parking discs for all their vehicles.

‘My £70,000 was not part of the Landsbanki estate’

A DEPOSITOR’S instruction to remove her money from Landsbanki Guernsey the day before the company went into administration was not carried out, the Interlocutory Court heard yesterday.

Flights disrupted over weekend

FLIGHTS into and out of the island are being disrupted this weekend, with illness among the airport’s firefighters again causing a lack of adequate fire cover.