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HISTORIC homes are at risk of having their interiors protected by Planning rules without being seen, leaving Islanders requiring permission before making interior changes, it has been claimed.

She is returning to the UK to be nearer to her family and pursue other career opportunities.

However, the benefits to those entering the market at the lower end and middle of the spectrum are likely to be balanced by a tax hike for those buying high value property.

The six-figure bonus paid to chief executive Graeme Millar has angered a politician who says that the company’s executives should pay the price financially for failures when the billing system changed last year.

REFORM Jersey is the ‘real opposition’ in the States, the party has claimed after it emerged that all but one question due to be put to ministers in the Assembly this week was from its members.

Senator Philip Ozouf has criticised the current system, which allows all Islanders to receive free medicine, and has said that by charging for prescriptions, the States would be able to provide a better standard of health care.

After a week that has seen many Islanders taking the Ice Bucket Challenge in aid of ALS (an American motor neurone disease charity), Andy duly accepted the challenge laid down by Treasury Minister Philip Ozouf.

The Island is raising the money by issuing a bond on the capital market for the first time. Many UK-based institutions wanted to lend the money and, as a result, the interest rate is lower than would have been the case if there had been fewer prospective lenders.