History in the city

SIX children from the Herm School last week took a trip to London to learn more about Tudor palaces.


Island clean-up littered with helpers

LAST Sunday was the first day of spring and as such an appropriate day for Floral Sark to hold its Spring Litter Pick.


Upset in Hougues Magues at industrial development

ANGRY St Sampson’s residents have called for a rethink on Environment’s plans for industrial development.


Divided on waste we will all fall

WITH Suez dead and buried – for there can surely be no return – the Public Services Department must wake from its States-induced coma.


Guernsey rocked by Rihoy blow

GUERNSEY are going into their biggest match this year without their talisman Dave Rihoy in the starting line-up.


Champion proves doubters wrong

YES I had doubts. Big ones, over whether Ian Champion would make a success of the Bels job.


GTA ‘would be safe with skills agency’

COMMERCE and Employment’s chief officer used yesterday’s IOD lunch to try to allay fears that setting up a skills agency would create more bureaucracy and stifle the GTA University Centre.


Partnerships for gays well down the list

IT LOOKS unlikely anything will be done on legislation to introduce civil partnerships in Guernsey for at least four years.


Portinfer residents jubilant as yard plans are rejected

RESIDENTS of Portinfer Road were celebrating yesterday after winning a two-decade fight with the Environment Department.


‘Cross’ stars travel

WITH January’s county championship being cancelled, Guernsey’s distance runners have been largely starved of external competition but will be travelling en-masse to Jersey this weekend for the annual inter-insular cross-country championships.