HEALTHSPAN chairman Derek Coates has warned local business that it must take steps to adapt to the likely loss of low value consignment relief business from the island.

BLUE ISLANDS has fought off a claim for unfair dismissal from its former head of marketing.

HEALTHSPAN has been taken off the market, it was confirmed yesterday.

BLUE ISLANDS’ marketing department redundancy was not genuine, its process was not correct and the effort made to avoid it was not adequate, a former employee’s representative told an industrial tribunal yesterday.

THERE is much contradiction in the stance taken today by the boss of Blue Islands.

ALDERNEY has denied Derek Coates’s claim that Blue Islands offered to contribute £100,000 to its marketing budget.

HEALTHSPAN will pull its financial support for Alderney tourism this year after it claimed the refusal of a new Southampton route had made the venture unviable.

HEALTHSPAN boss Derek Coates has confirmed his nutrition business could be sold.

HAVING belief, a passion for business and a clear vision of where you want to go with it is the bedrock of running any successful company, according to Healthspan and Blue Islands boss Derek Coates.

BLUE ISLANDS will not be taking over Aurigny.