IT’S a shame that Hollywood doesn’t do leading men in the shape of Senators Freddie Cohen and Ian Le Marquand, because there was a touch of tinseltown magic about both last week.
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Here comes the sun!
THE Island could have more of a Mediterranean climate in the future, if current predictions prove correct. Climate change could mean that average temperatures by 2080 could be 3ºC higher than at present, with much drier summers and winters with increased heavy rain but with almost no frosts. Such a climate in the Island could […]
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Fort Regent needs to have champion, says minister
THE Planning Minister believes that a ‘project champion’ needs to be found to drive forward a vision for Fort Regent – but he does not believe that he is the man for the job. Senator Freddie Cohen was one of a number of witnesses who met the Education and Home Affairs Scrutiny panel yesterday as […]
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Heritage groups lose battle of the cottage
PLANS to partly demolish a 200-year-old listed building have been approved by Environment Minister Freddie Cohen.
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We will provide land for allotments, says Cohen
ENVIRONMENT Minister Freddie Cohen has promised to look at finding land for allotments in the new Island Plan. He made the announcement after Islanders voiced their disapproval that plans for allotments on a field on Mont Cochon, St Lawrence, were refused. As reported on Monday, the Royal Jersey Agricultural and Horticultural Society wanted to build […]
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Planning offer speedier service to help economy
THE Planning Department has introduced a drop-in service and employed a senior planner to help fast-track ‘economically important’ applications. Andrew Raeburn (pictured) has been employed for a six-month contract as part of Environment Minister Freddie Cohen’s response to difficult trading conditions in the construction industry. Mr Raeburn, who started work in Jersey this month, has […]
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Well done the underdog who comes out on top
THERE is nothing the British people like better than an underdog or a modern day ‘David’ with the conviction to fight a cause regardless of overwhelming odds.
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Pollution testing review
AN independent review of pollution testing has been announced after it was confirmed this week that sewage was being discharged into the sea.
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New flats plan for former town chapel
PLANS to convert a burnt-out chapel in St Helier into flats have been approved, but the design has been changed and no longer resembles a nine-storey glass tower. Amended plans to build 58 one- and two-bedroom flats at Wesley Chapel in Wesley Street and preserve the façade of the 19th-century building have been approved by […]
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Planning ‘yes’ to homes in country
THE first batch of hundreds of retirement homes agreed by the States to be built on green fields was approved at a Planning meeting yesterday. In July last year the States voted in favour of rezoning almost 60 vergées of land in the countryside so that 350 homes for the over-55s could be built, and […]
