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Daily Archives: March 9, 2006

Sark votes to defy the UK over constitution

SARK’S Chief Pleas has voted to defy the British Government and retain land-owning tenants in its legislature.

Iraq service honoured

ON a day-to-day basis they are traffic wardens and builders, but ten Islanders who also serve with the Territorial Army were awarded medals for their service in Iraq yesterday.

Nuclear waste build-up

MORE than 1,000 cubic metres of uranium and plutonium nuclear waste are stockpiled at the La Hague reprocessing centre on the Normandy coast, a French inventory has revealed.

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Poll looms in St Martin

AN election for Constable in St Martin is a certainty now that a second candidate, Roy Travert, has come forward.

Pet cemetery is vandalised again

SEVERAL animal lovers have been left distraught after ‘heartless vandals’ desecrated the pet cemetery at First Tower.

Hundreds stranded by Guernsey accident

GUERNSEY closed its airport for almost eight hours yesterday after a freight plane overshot the runway.

Consultant moves into tourism niche market

AN Island businesswoman has come up with an idea for the short-break tourism market.

Record year at Rathbone

RATHBONE Brothers plc, which has a significant trust and investment management operation in Jersey, has announced ’strong growth’ for 2005.