AIRPORT firefighters and States negotiators resolved a new pay dispute at arbitration yesterday – but the result is not expected to be released until Tuesday.

MERGING the airport firefighters with the service in Town is just one of the ideas a value for money review will look at.

TOWN firefighters have received an inflation-busting pay rise.

AN ACCOUNTANT has begun a legal battle against a union official he claims is responsible for instigating firefighter action that closed the airport.

THE reaction by a distressingly sizeable number of deputies to the report delivered by the tribunal of inquiry into the airport firefighters’ industrial action is a vivid reminder of the tribal politics that dominate the Assembly.

SEVEN weeks ago, when the Tribunal report on the airport firefighters dispute was published, this newspaper argued it would be difficult to undermine the arguments of such an eminent body.

THE Policy Council has sought to limit recommendations on corporate government made in the airport firefighters tribunal report.

GUERNSEY’S airport firefighter dispute has been settled.

AN ANNOUNCEMENT yesterday that agreement has finally been reached with the airport firefighters over the long-running and probably most costly dispute in Guernsey’s history ought to be a cause for celebration.

With that final bold statement the tribunal of inquiry into the airport firefighters’ dispute concluded its report.