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Election: Stuart Syvret’s eligibility remains unclear

SENATORIAL by-election candidates will be formally nominated in three weeks – but it is still not clear whether Stuart Syvret will be able to stand.

The Planning Department need greater powers for regulation

From Keith Shaw. ON 17 April you reported that the Planning Department had refused an application for a change of use of a farm shop, stating that the proposals were ‘unacceptable’ and the current percentages of local food being sold did not comply with the previous consent, agreed by the applicant.

Empire Games athletes recognised 50 years on

FIVE surviving members of Jersey’s 1958 Empire Games team have been recognised over 50 years on.

Jersey Water profits up

JERSEY Water recorded profits of more than £4 million last year – a 1.3 per cent increase on 2008.

Planning decisions a ’cause for concern’

THE Royal Court has expressed its concern about disagreements between the Planning minister and his civil servant advisers.