Both sides hail victory

BOTH prison officers and their management claimed victory yesterday when the result of an industrial tribunal over pay and conditions was announced.


Chalk this up to art

WERE they the musings of a broken-hearted writer or a college project?


Parish is told to look again at Sunday ban

A TRIBUNAL yesterday instructed a douzaine to reconsider its decision to stop a shop from trading on a Sunday.


Watson’s ever-rich pickings

IT IS not exactly ‘Who Wants To be Millionaire’, but winning at Eastbourne, which Heather Watson did for the fourth day in succession yesterday, virtually doubles the bank balance per round.


Clipper limps to port as five-hour fire smoulders

WITH two tugs alongside, Commodore Clipper this morning was listing and limping towards Portsmouth after a fire on the lorry deck.


Jersey expands office network

THE number of GuernseyFinance representative offices in other jurisdictions will be three fewer than its Jersey counterpart by the early part of next year.


Juggernaut may be near to turning

ONE OF the significant benefits of the latest pay deal struck with the island’s 1,700 civil servants is that it recognises that times change and so, too, must employer and employee attitudes and relationships.


‘The time is right to buy’

MORE Guernsey businesses are likely to be bought and sold in the coming months, according to a leading local advisory manager.


Garage to be turned into £3m. new shop serving the parish

RESIDENTS and hedge-veg sellers of St Andrew’s will be boosted by a new general store when a local food wholesaler relocates at the end of this year.


Prison officers ‘took efficiency money but failed to deliver’

PRISON officers have already been paid for new working arrangements management needs to introduce, said the States’ chief pay negotiator.