Education minister tenders her resignation

EDUCATION minister Carol Steere has offered her resignation in the wake of her handling of the GCSE saga.


True colours

THERE was a strange and disturbing story on the front page of the Guernsey Press recently about a senior advocate overhearing a policeman addressing a black adult as ‘boy’.


Plan to increase funding for doctors’ fees fails

A BID to increase States support towards doctors’ fees that would have cost an extra £1.1m. a year has failed.


Education has failed its children

THERE is only one word to sum up Education’s approach to GCSE results: deceit.


Interior design conman jailed

CHAMELEON INTERIORS owner Martyn Bachelet has been jailed for three years after admitting defrauding his customers and deceiving a finance company out of more than £140,000.


‘If you provide cheaper and better, you’ve got a market’

HAVING an idea is not the be-all and end-all of being an entrepreneur, according to the founder of Confused.com.


Referees falling like ninepins

THE number of active referees has dropped by a third in one season.


Watson into the eighties

HEATHER WATSON’S performance in the Aegon GB Pro-Series event in Shrewsbury has earned her a career high world ranking of 87.


Phased funding cut gives colleges seven years falling income

GRANTS for colleges will be cut by £1.1m. over seven years after deputies voted through Policy Council proposals in yesterday’s debate.


Barton’s injury compounds the agony

BLAIR CAMPBELL’S side produced a far better performance away to Sidcup in London One South, but still came second best to a score 22-21.