It’s chocs away for retiring chief airport fire officer…
Tuesday 12th March 2013, 1:00PM GMT.
AFTER being one of several in his family to work in airport firefighting, the chief airport fire officer is retiring.
Adrian Le Pelley, 58, has spent 37 years with the Airport Fire Service.
Mr Le Pelley, pictured, joined on 22 April 1976 and, after a time in various other roles including station officer, took on the position as chief airport fire officer on 22 December 2003.
Prior to joining, he was a mechanic at Ruette Braye Motors.
‘I wanted to be involved with the public and the emergency services,’ he said.
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Adrian good luck on your retirement, see you in Herm when it brightens up for lunch.
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Retiring at 58 from a job many people would give their right arm for! ( as long as you don’t get easily bored I suppose)
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Whilst I wish Mr Le Pelley well, sureley something needs to be done about firemen, policemen etc retiring whilst still relatively young.
The vast majority of people in the private sector couldn’t even dream of retiring at such a young age.
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“something needs to be done” ?
You’re right! Curse them for being happy and enjoying life!
We should stop them from eating meat, maybe that will put an end to their boisterous hooliganism.
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@Johno
I’m glad you are wishing him the best but I think your rant is on the wrong page!
Pensions is coming up in the headlines soon, wait for that!!!!!!!
Good Luck to you Mr Le Pelley! Enjoy your retirement.
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Hartley
What on earth are you on about, obviously a Civil Servant!
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johno if you had been paying in a pension for all the years you worked you could do the same,lets not forget that he as paid in to this every pay day and off course the state pension as well.Thank you my le pelley for all the years you have done for guernsey hope you have lots of good days in herm.I dont no you but do no your son in law. Johno why dont you apply for the new post or start doin some overtime.then you can join mr le pelly for a cold one in herm.
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andy b
I HAVE been paying into a pension all my working life, unfortunately it isn’t gold plated!
As for overtime, I am self employed, so trust me I do plenty and all for free.
I wish Mr Le Pelley all the best, particularly as he was a local in a top civil service post, a rarity these days!
Its the system that is seriously wrong and unfair to the average islander and taxpayer.
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plenty of overtime for free? Most self employed work for profit or what’s the point?
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Spartacus
Its bloody hard work making a profit these days I can assure you. Get out in the real world and give it a go!
Without all the private business, small companies etc working as hard as they do where would we be?
I see the income Tax office office was shut yesterday and the teachers got another day off (paid no doubt) most employers I know had no choice but to get staff to lose a days pay or take it from their holidays.
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Congratulations on your retirement daddy, I have heaps of jobs for you to do, hope you’re ready, love ye millions xxxx
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Johno,
Your statement “I wish Mr Le Pelley all the best, particularly as he was a local in a top civil service post, a rarity these days!”
Couldn’t be nearer the truth I’m afraid.
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DaveR
Unfortunatley it is true Dave.
Is it just a coincidence that we get more cock ups, the more high level civil servants we import! I don’t think so.
Excellent letter in the press yesterday, which I felt was intimating the same thing, COPY BELOW:-
THE UK government is engaged in numerous behind the scenes battles to try to avoid implementing, or to have removed, a range of EU directives.
Most, they are lumbered with, even though they impede courts, business and the traditional British way of life.
Meanwhile, over the years, a number have been adopted by Guernsey, when in some instances we are neither compelled to adopt them nor do we apparently really benefit from so doing.
Although may will deny it, it is clear that Guernsey, which sadly now has to depend greatly on its finance industry, is in a ‘future preserving’ battle with low-tax centres ranging from the giants of Singapore, Hong Kong and Dubai to the minnows of Monaco, the Isle of Man and numerous others, even our neighbour Jersey.
Our advantage over the UK is that in many instances we can say ‘no thanks, we don’t want that restrictive rule or regulation’.
With some effort, we could create a great example to the UK of what life without endless rules and regulations can be.
Clearly, whether it is health and safety, security, issues to do with banking or issues surrounding food supplements, there are many regulations that have emerged in recent years that make enormous sense.
But then there are also those within the same ‘directives’ that are plainly daft and irritating and have the potential to blight our lives.
To spot the difference and carefully steer us away from the restrictive, the bureaucratic and those that are nonsense, States members, ministers and Guernsey regulators must constantly emphasise to all our civil servants that we don’t want to be a small, low-tax UK. We want to be a state that offers a truly different way of life in a special environment.
JULIAN MOUNTER
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