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COMMUNITY service allows offenders to make amends for their crimes, a probation officer has said.

GUERNSEY have regained the Iles de la Manche Trophy.

WHEN fisherman Clive Brown found a large block, covered in barnacles, floating off the south coast, he had no idea it hid an emergency radio that might have floated across the Atlantic.

A GUERNSEY business has raced to help an island boy with the aid of a famous local driver.

YOUNG Guernsey vicars may be left out of pocket when they retire because shares in which the Church of England’s pension scheme invested have collapsed.

THE Trebert and Le Tissier families dominated finals day in the Creasey’s Junior Open.

OUR disclosures yesterday of the full significance of the States’ endorsement of the entire fundamental spending review package, including the delegation of cabinet-style authority to the Policy Council and a group of senior civil servants, has drawn a mixed reaction.

A STATES decision to award cabinet-style authority to the Policy Council has ripped apart the island’s system of consensus government, a leading opponent of executive powers has claimed.

NEW powers given to the Policy Council will go some way towards compensating for the island’s inefficient system of government, says Chief Minister Lyndon Trott.

ON THE face of it, Treasury and Resources’ wording in the October Billet d’Etat regarding managing the Fundamental Spending Review was benign: the vision for delivery rests with the States, strategy and political oversight with the Policy Council and day-to-day accountability for delivery with a new body, the Financial Transformation Executive (FTE).