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A UK planning inspector will be allowed to comment on other potential sites for the new hospital after the States agreed to expand the scope of an independent planning inquiry.

THERE can be ‘no more excuses’ for failing to deliver swift improvements to children’s services, the Children’s Minister has said, as ministers and senior civil servants signed up to an eight-point pledge to better protect Jersey’s vulnerable young people.

THE average Jersey family cannot afford a mortgage on a two-bedroom house – and getting onto the property ladder has become harder in the past five years, new figures show.

JERSEY house prices have risen by six per cent in the past 12 months and are now more than £100,000 higher than the Guernsey average.

A TEMPORARY ban on Islanders without housing qualifications purchasing new buy-to-let properties and restricting landlords to rent increases matching the cost of living are measures being considered by Jersey’s government to tackle housing affordability. In response to an e-petition calling for rents to be capped, Housing Minister Sam Mézec has lodged an official response outlining a number of work streams his department is carrying out to improve the ‘quality and affordability of housing’ in the Island.

A NEWLY elected Deputy has called on Islanders to stop abusing politicians on social media.

THE Housing Minister must be given more powers in order for the role to be effective, former minister Anne Pryke has said.

THE new Chief Minister has apologised for failing to disclose that he had signed an agreement with Reform Jersey before the election for the top political job.