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PAID parking was thrown out yesterday in a vote that split the States down the middle.

ACTION was taken yesterday by the Health and Social Services Department to try to contain the damage caused by revelations that it had selectively quoted from a critical report about wheelchair provision in the Bailiwick.

CHIEF MINISTER Lyndon Trott has accused the Landsbanki Guernsey Depositors Action Group of misrepresentation.

GUERNSEY should fight for its independence.

NEW islanders Peter and Jane Makemson reckon it was fate that brought them to Herm.

WHEN commenting last week on the recent visit of Justice Department minister Lord Bach, I referred to him coming to Sark despite having already met the island’s General Purposes and Advisory Committee in Guernsey, who happened to be over there meeting politicians from that island.

EXPLORER Hannah Forrester conquered Mount Kilimanjaro earlier this month. Air traffic controller Hannah, 26, of Brickfields, reached the Tanzanian mountain’s 19,330ft peak following a three-day expedition.

The Guernsey Press has received reports of pods of dolphins being sighted off the coast of the island, and near Sark.

IN today’s Guernsey Press  – and on This is Guernsey – we report serious allegations that members of the Health and Social Services Department attempted to mislead deputies by presenting them with a heavily sanitised version of a critical report on the Bailiwick’s wheelchair service.

FEARS that competing in the Island Games this summer would cost Sarnians in excess of £1,000 each have been dispelled.