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THE anglisation of the Island from the early19th century led to a social divide between the predominantly English-speaking urban population and the rural folk, who spoke Jèrriais and French.

From Jeremy Mallinson. I READ with considerable concern the reason for Senator Shenton’s criticism of the States of Jersey Planning and Environment department (JEP, 17 March) in their recommending for approval a major development in the green zone overlooking St Ouen’s Bay. However, I fully acknowledge that the planning application panel is unlikely to take […]

IT’S a strange thing that people look to the natural world for evidence of the changing of the seasons.

AS photographs have shown us this week, the States’ largest ever capital project is fast taking shape on the Waterfront.

THE space allotted to this column is far too short to list all of the good things about the Blue Note Bar in Broad Street. That’s a shame, because I could write at Tolstoyesque length on this subject – about the beer, about the music, about the strange and slightly frightening ornaments, about the new stools…

APART from giving the world sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, the Romans are also credited with introducing New Year resolutions.