Newsroom Live – 1 March, 2013
Friday 1st March 2013, 9:41AM GMT.
The three States members who walked out of yesterday’s Home Department briefing. Left to right, deputies Andrew Le Lievre, Lester and Laurie Queripel. (Montage by Peter Frankland)
The AFR case is continuing to keep the newsroom busy, and today we’re pursuing another angle on the story which has come to light and which we expect to make the news tomorrow.
We’ll also be catching up with some of the deputies who didn’t attend yesterday’s private meeting to discuss the situation to get their views on the matter.
A Suzuki jeep being sold in a car park at Vazon had its brakes cut recently, and police are warning owners of vehicles parked in the same area to be vigilant. We’ll be looking to talk to some of these owners today to get their reaction to the incident.
It was claimed in the States this week that some 700 local youngsters could have mental health problems. We’re expecting to hear from the Education Department today with their response to this.
We’ll also be talking to the owner of a dog whose pet was attacked by another dog while she was walking it at Cambridge Park earlier this week.
There’ll be a story in tomorrow’s paper about how a closed-circuit TV camera is being used to check sewers, and we’ll be visiting Le Rondin School which is receiving some new equipment today.
Tomorrow sees what is being touted as the biggest game in Guernsey FC’s history to date, as they visit Walsall to play in the quarter finals of the FA Vase. A couple of key players are returning for the game, and to follow its progress you can tap into our Twitter feed, @GuernseyPress. There’ll be a brief summary of the match on here as soon as possible after the final whistle.
In his Inside Track column tomorrow, Rob Batiste gives his thoughts on the newly announced College Football Academy, as well as his frank view on comments made earlier this week by a Jersey sports official who criticised the Guernsey Sports Commission.
And there’ll be looks ahead to the weekend’s rugby and netball, as well as the Guernsey men’s hockey team taking on EH Trophy holders Gateshead in the quarter-finals of the competition at Footes Lane.
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The flame is still burning on the AFR disclosure.Private briefings amongst the stronger detuties wanting to represent their electors with the true facts
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Harwood claims this isn’t a cover up, perhaps he should consider “a rose by any other name is still a rose”. This whole affair has made the all the deputies look either incompetant or supine. The electorate now want to know the whole truth, now more so than ever
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bemused
I get your rose quotation but would ‘You can put lipstick on a pig but it’s still a pig’ be more apt?
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Good old Yahoo, love the inappropriate advert for maxfactor lipsticks at the top! Because they’re worth it? :)
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Spartacus
Keep your lipstick off GM collar as its not worth it
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