18 « January « 2010 « « This Is Guernsey

Tidal power is issue for the Bailiwick

THE latest issue of the Sark Newsletter is critical of a Chief Pleas proposal to grant a two-year understanding with Ocean Electric Power to investigate the potential for tidal power in the island’s waters because it believes that the first step should be to secure a 12-mile limit and guaranteed access to the seabed.

Ambulance service has to work around budget cut

AN INDUSTRIAL dispute at the Ambulance and Rescue Service has been called off as staff, unions and management combine to fight budget cuts.

Clear communication is ‘vital for a government’

PR AGENCIES have defended their line of work in the wake of Treasury and Resources deciding that perhaps it did not need a director of communications.

Sensational shot can’t save Alison

ALISON MERRIEN made a little bit of bowling history at the weekend, when she took on the role of skip in the World Bowls Tour Mixed Pairs Matchplay event at Potters Leisure Resort in Hopton-on-Sea, Norfolk.

Some change but it’s not enough, says critical WAO

MUCH political currency has been made out of the word change in the past year. But change is coming. If slowly.

To the manor drawn

SARK’S La Seigneurie has a new tenant, it has been confirmed.

Young girl helped ice-slip pensioner

A PUPIL from Notre Dame du Rosaire played Good Samaritan to a pensioner who was at risk of falling on an icy hill.

Search is on for the local heroes

A LOCAL football legend has been back on home turf to launch a campaign to find Guernsey’s unsung heroes.

Moth patrol

HUNDREDS of brown tail moth caterpillars were removed from Chouet headland over the weekend by keen conservationists.

Hat-trick of singles wins leave Greens feeling good

THREE singles wins on the bounce, one after the other in the final session of the weekend, left Guernsey bowls feeling good about itself at close of play at the Hougue du Pommier centre yesterday.