Transport policy proposals welcomed

This week I was lucky enough to get an invitation to the unveiling of Jersey’s Sustainable Transport Policy consultation document. 


Wind farm company for Jersey

A WIND energy company, whose share price soared last week, plans to move to Jersey.


A week in Politics

STATES budgets lurching into the red, a Millennium Town Park we can’t have by 2012 after all, our economy in the hands of people who don’t seem to like us all of a sudden – the news hasn’t been great recently, has it?


Please don’t shop on Boxing Day

From Elizabeth Drew. AS a retail assistant in one of the main Jersey stores, it concerns me that greed is overtaking our season of goodwill.


Sublime for Skinner

Jerseyman Ben Skinner surfed his way to a magnificent European title in front of friends and family at St Ouen’s Bay yesterday.


There is a new free thinker in the States – a ring binder

I CAN recall years ago reading a report of a hustings meeting in which an experienced Senator, trying to put down one of his younger, brasher and less experienced opponents whose down to earth comments were clearly getting him votes, said of his challenger that he was ‘amazed he could do his own coat buttons [...]


We’ve drawn the line!

AN estimated 7,000 Islanders stood shoulder to shoulder along St Ouen’s Bay yesterday for one of the most spectacular demonstrations ever seen in Jersey.


A festival firmly on the map

THE Branchage International Film Festival, which drew to a close yesterday amid general praise, is steadily growing in stature and popularity. Indeed, it can now be mentioned in the same breath as the Battle of Flowers, the International Air Display and Jersey Live, other attractions which do so much to put Jersey on the map.


Wildfire rages across dry headland

NEARLY 20 homes were evacuated as a wildfire tore across headland in St Ouen and St Peter on Saturday.


Jersey battle for vital victory

TWO tries from second-row Jim Brownrigg earned Jersey RFC a 16-13 victory away to powerful Old Albanians in National League III South West on Saturday.

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.