PUBLIC SERVICES was under pressure yesterday to explain why its expensive consultants had failed to come up with favoured options that are likely to shave millions off the airport runway repair bill.
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Daily Archives: July 4, 2009
Action is required – not threats
ONE of the unexpected outcomes of the chaos that was the capital prioritisation and funding debates in the States last week was the revelation that islanders might be forced to pay for blood tests because Health and Social Services can’t or won’t manage its budget.
Next stop Delhi
IT WAS worth the trip for Dale Garland as Guernsey’s 4×400m quartet smashed through the Commonwealth Games qualification barrier with a phenomenal performance yesterday.
‘Tourette Twins’ stay quiet in clinching second gold
DOM McLuskey and Patrick Ogier certainly do not like to make life easy for themselves.
Legislation keeps pupils on at school added year
YEAR 10 pupils have given their backing to a change in the law that will keep them at school for another 12 months.
Tostevin hat-trick clinches bronze
Guernsey 5, Isle of Man 0
THEIR best performance of the tournament came a day too late, but at least Guernsey ended their Island Games on a high yesterday after.
Four golds in final session rounds off brilliant week
A FANTASTIC meeting could hardly have had a better ending for Guernsey’s athletes in the Wiklof Holding Arena yesterday.
Chamber in U-turn on Leale’s Yard support
TOWN businesses could be ‘sucked dry’ by the Leale’s Yard development if it went ahead, according to the Chamber of Commerce.
Resident concerned over Victoria Avenue work blockades
A RESIDENT of Victoria Avenue claims builders in his road are putting people in danger with their efforts to reserve a parking spot for delivery trucks.
Fourth place in Aland a terrific effort
FROM a thousand miles or so away from the action it is as clear as the Aland summer skies this week that, viewed as an entity, Guernsey’s team has exceeded expectations.