Heritage news


Trust president wants listing regime changed

STRICT protected building laws should be relaxed for some properties, National Trust Guernsey president Martin Ozanne has said.


Museum’s £1m. upgrade will last for the next 10 years

A MAJOR reorganisation of museum storage has been getting under way this week after nearly 20 years of waiting.


New museum tells the story of Royal Guernsey Militia

LT-GOVERNOR Air Marshal Peter Walker opened Guernsey’s new Royal Guernsey Militia Regimental Museum yesterday by using a medieval sword to cut the ribbon.


Residents upset as Summerfield Road loses cobbles

RESIDENTS of Route Summerfield say granite cobbles under the Vale road should have been left where they were.


Museum storage plan ready soon

A PLAN on how to spend £250,000 in funding for heritage storage should be prepared before the end of the year.


Fund cancer screening another way

MANY islanders are rightly angered that the States of Guernsey put museum storage above human lives when they rejected proposals for spending a comparatively small amount of money on a bowel cancer screening programme.


‘It would have been nice to have been asked for our view’

GUERNSEY’S National Trust is disappointed not to have been consulted over plans to get rid of historical buildings.


People offer Asterix a home

ISLANDERS have been offering their properties as potential homes for Guernsey’s Roman wreck, Asterix.


Cash vital to save our past

PROTECTING Guernsey’s heritage should be high on the list of the island’s priorities, the Culture and Leisure minister has said.


Heritage before health ‘is right’

PRIORITISING museum storage over bowel cancer screening has been defended by the States Strategic Plan team.

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