Hotels change rates in response to slowdown

TOP-end hotels are reviewing their prices after September’s arrival figures plummeted by nearly nine per cent.


Britons to clash at Les Ormes

JOSHUA GOODALL, the highest surviving world-ranked British player, has reached the second round of the Caversham ATP Men’s Challenger singles – where he is due to face fellow Brit Alexander Slabinsky.


I’ll fight back, warns Power

STATES police chief Graham Power, who was suspended yesterday amid allegations that he failed in his duty to ensure that the historical child abuse inquiry was conducted properly, will fight back against all allegations, he has told the JEP.


These boys will know what trench warfare was really like

From Anne Barnes. THE JEP’s 1918 commemorative supplement was a fine tribute to Islanders who fought in the Great War.


Another hotel could make way for flats

A DROP in tourism numbers has forced yet another hotel to propose closing its doors to make way for flats.


Police costs: £4.5 million

THE full cost of the excavations at Haut de la Garenne was revealed for the first time yesterday.


Questions remain over resignation of Kinnard

AS police chief Graham Power was suspended from his post pending the results of an inquiry, Senator Wendy Kinnard, who as Home Affairs Minister had political responsibility for the police until last month, when she resigned from office, was nowhere to be seen.


Car parking spaces at work are not taxable

From Paul Woodman. I REFER to the letter from John Dix (11 November) questioning whether non-elected States Members who are provided with parking spaces are declaring these as benefits in kind on their tax returns.


Graham Power should go, says Health Minister

POLICE chief Graham Power should go because of the mishandling of the Haut de la Garenne case, according to Health Minister Ben Shenton.


Will no one take on apprentices any more?

From Raie Binet. I WRITE yet again in support of another lady, Marion Kerr, who is desperately trying to find an apprenticeship for her son.

BIRD WATCH 2012

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The 11th Great Garden Bird Watch took place over the weekend, Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 February. JEP readers were asked to get on board to help monitor bird life in the Island.