PUBLICATION today of the regulator’s 70-odd page final decision on tariff charges for Guernsey Post means that in principle, from 1 April next year the utility faces unrestricted competition on all packet mail and a small percentage of its letter post.
Businesses rally around Aqua-Star as it fights Chinese name plagiarist
BUSINESSES have rallied around Aqua-Star in its battle to stop a Chinese motorboat builder using the name it has spent more than 40 years building up.
Post loses its monopoly and faces £800k cost cut
GUERNSEY POST must face increased competition, says the Office of Utility Regulation.
Jamie’s SA winter call
GUERNSEY fast bowler Jamie Nussbaumer is hoping to force his way into the Sussex county second team by training at the county’s winter academy in South Africa.
Nothing Rocky about the Tropics
ROCKY TROPICS wrapped up the first half of the indoor mixed netball season with victory in the Grant Thornton Finals Day.
Island’s pensioners often ‘too proud to get help’
GUERNSEY pensioners should not have to skip meals to beat the recession, according to the local chairman of Age Concern.
Gasification plant builder ‘had its chance to tender’
THE States would have to overturn its decision to build an incinerator and restart the whole tendering process if a new proposal for a gasification plant is to be considered, Public Services said yesterday.
‘Seven shilling’ rhino carving fetches £15K
THE slaughter of a rhinoceros in the 19th century may not have been in vain.
Improving Loveridge gets into last eight in Portugal
GUERNSEY girls Alice Loveridge and Kate Stubbington exceeded expectations at the 17th Portuguese Youth Open table tennis Championships in Tavira at the weekend.
No stopping Desperques – king of the green baize
MARTYN DESPERQUES finishes a memorable 2009 as the holder of the three major titles available to him in Channel Islands snooker.