Average house price up 7.7%, sales stronger

LOCAL market property sales could be on the move, estate agents have said, after figures showed the average price was up by nearly 8%


Condor is having good year despite difficulties

CONDOR Ferries has increased the number of passenger it has carried despite suffering a nightmare year with repeated engine problems.


Green Lions turn blue and white

WHEREVER Guernsey FC’s journey takes them this coming season, there is unlikely to be many stranger sights than kick-off at Hartley Wintney on Tuesday night.


Champion still reigns

A ROUND described as ‘one of the best of the year’ saw Tom Pattimore retain his Guernsey Junior club championship title at the weekend.


Ponte leads after 18

AIMEE PONTE leads both the scratch and the handicap competitions after the first of two rounds in the Royal Guernsey GC Ladies’ Section club championship.


B&Q joins Waitrose in giving in to pressure to have mobility scooter

MS PATIENT Gina Johnson has been successful in persuading another major retailer to have a mobility scooter.


Two 12-year-olds rescued after getting stuck on cliff at Saints Bay

TWO 12-year-old boys were walked to safety by the Ambulance and Rescue Service cliff rescue team after getting stuck on cliffs for three hours at Saints Bay yesterday evening.


‘Appalling estate’ is no more

HOUSING minister Dave Jones felt emotional signalling ‘the end of an era’ after getting behind the controls of a digger to demolish the last house on the Bouet estate.


Last-gasp strike denies Green Lions first away win

Hartley Wintney 2, Guernsey FC 2 IT MAY well be an old cliche, but last night saw the ultimate game of two halves as Guernsey FC came away with a potentially valuable point after a thriller in Hampshire.


Pro buses – where they add value

FOLLOWING yesterday’s Comment column and a number of similar ones over the months, we have been asked why the newspaper appears resolutely anti-bus and so, for the record, we emphatically are not.