By Mick Le Moignan THE fundamental difficulty with most environmental pollution is the long time-lag between land, air or water being damaged and the harm being detected, measured and, if possible, rectified. Early coal miners, oil and gas prospectors and their successors were richly rewarded for providing fuel for domestic use and then energy for […]
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Former Jersey politician dies in the UK at the age of 63
FORMER States Member Gary Matthews, who served as a Deputy of St Brelade No 2 District between 1993 and 1996, has died in the UK at the age of 63. Mr Matthews was educated at Hautlieu and then obtained a degree in politics from Warwick University. On returning to Jersey he worked in a variety […]
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'Jersey’s greatest asset is the beauty of its coastline and countryside. Will the States stand up for our tiny rock?'
By Mike Beaugeard HAVE you ever found yourself walking, cycling or motoring around some of the most beautiful, secluded parts of our Island and wondered: how on earth did they manage to get planning permission to build there? No doubt a great many of you immediately conjured up a mental image of the proverbial large […]
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THROWBACK THURSDAY: Unhappy bus drivers but (mercifully) not a singing bin man in sight – the news from 24 March 2007
IT’S Throwback Thursday – where we look back on the news making the headlines on this day from a random year of our past. Today it’s 24 March 2007, a day when the bus company had a very good reason for its services running late (all the drivers had walked off), and Battle of Flowers […]
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Searson’s debut crew pips rivals to line in a final burst
AN epic battle between two quads which were just metres apart for the entire 7.2km length of the first Sunset Series race ended with Abi Searson and her crew overtaking their rivals in the final few strokes before the line. Searson, along with Jo Ahier, Debbie Rowland, Julien Morel and cox Jayne Chadwick, closely followed […]
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A quarter of a century of change on the Waterfront
THE past quarter of a century has seen massive change to the St Helier Waterfront, to the extent that it is hard to imagine – without looking at archive photographs – how the area looked before the mid 1990s.
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More than 100 Islanders attend child abuse protest
MORE than 100 people attended a protest in the Royal Square on Saturday to call for tougher sentences for child sex offenders.
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Protest over sex offence sentencing
PAEDOPHILE hunter Cheyenne O’Connor is urging Islanders to join a protest against Jersey’s sentencing policy for child sex offenders, which she says ‘laughs in the face of victims’.
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Protesters call for tougher sentences for paedophiles
MORE than 100 people attended a protest in the Royal Square on Saturday to call for tougher sentences for child sex offenders.
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Ex-minister: Waterfront pollution warnings ignored for decades
WARNINGS about potential marine pollution arising at the Waterfront have been ignored for decades, according to local environmentalists and a former politician who spent years fighting development on the reclaimed land.
