Gazette – douzaines left out

Thursday 28th February 2008, 2:29PM GMT.

PARISH officials said yesterday that the States had not asked their views before voting to scrap La Gazette Officielle.

Guernsey Douzaine Council chairman Shane Langlois said the douzaines had not been consulted on the proposal. They had been asked only to provide their annual costs of publication. ‘I think the douzaines would have supported the States renegotiating the cost, but not necessarily abandoning Press publication,’ he said.

Guernsey Press director and general manager Mark Lewis said the wrong decision had been reached. ‘Naturally we’re very disappointed as a company by the decision which in our view has no basis in fact or on the information presented in the Billet,’ he said.