18 « September « 2009 « « This Is Guernsey

Public swung by alternative waste disposal proposition

NOT one hand was raised in favour of an incinerator at last night’s public discussion of an alternative to mass burn.

Fourteen tonnes of uranium and one of plutonium? No worries

THE emergency planning officer is reassuring islanders that nuclear facilities 40km away in Normandy are safe.

TWO brothers returned together to Alderney this week more than half a century after their first visit. Paul and Vernon Bowers, from Royton, near Oldham, came to the island on a school trip as teenagers in August 1954.

The show must go on

HERM experienced a welcome dose of live music as a Take That tribute band came over to rock the island for two nights in a row.

Whether or not the weather’s good is anyone’s guess

I WAS probably tempting providence last week when I wrote about weather forecasting and the effect a relatively rough sea had on the autumn flower and produce show.