Seafront promenade to get facelift

THE seafront promenade along Victoria Avenue is to get a £300,000 facelift to improve the surface for cyclists and pedestrians.


UK review is ‘not an independence plan’

MOVES by Westminster MPs to clarify their understanding of the relationship between Jersey and the UK are not a step towards independence, the acting Chief Minister has said.


Town Park fits the fiscal stimulus bill, says Deputy

A TOWN Deputy has come up with a plan to finally make the Millennium Town Park a reality – and help kick-start the economy in the process.


Heritage plans to run its own shops

JERSEY Heritage is planning to run all its shops itself next year, following advice from a UK consultant.


To err is human (and easy to blame on someone else)

WHAT an unedifying spectacle of blame apportioning we have been witnessing over the incinerator cost débâcle.


The punk was not lucky

From Nick Palmer, spokesman, Jersey Climate Action Network. THANK you for publishing our ‘Dirty Harry’ letter (JEP, 22 August). Unfortunately, my omission of quotation marks on the (verbatim) presentation extract from Richard Lindzen made it appear as if the numbered paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 were my words instead of Lindzen’s.


‘King Street rents’ leave Liberty Wharf units empty

SHOPS at the former abattoir site are not being leased because the rent is ‘significant’, it has been claimed at a Scrutiny hearing.


St Paul’s click to reach Charity final

CUP-HOLDERS St Paul’s will defend the Dandara Jersey Football Combination’s Charity Cup in the final next month after defeating Grouville last night.


The Underground win Battle of the Bands

BROKEN drumsticks and faulty microphones did nothing to dim the spirit of the young musicians that gathered in Bar Rock for the final of the Junior Battle of the Bands last night.


Rise in pay at a 14-year low

WORKERS in Jersey now earn an average of £32,240 a year – a rise of three per cent in 12 months but the smallest increase in 14 years.

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