GROUVILLE has been named the best ‘Small Town’ in Britain and St Helier’s Waterfront has earned the parish a silver award in the 2007 Britain in Bloom UK finals.

St Helier was presented with the Silver Gilt Achievement Award for its transformation of the Waterfront area and for its ‘impressive quality of plants’. Grouville also won a second award for demonstrating the best floral displays throughout its entry. The Constable of Grouville, Dan Murphy, who was at the ceremony in Coventry yesterday, said: ‘It is the first time that Grouville entered the awards and parishioners put an enormous amount of community effort into it. We had a huge amount of support. The co-ordinator, Betty Hambly, who was here with me, organised 150 people to clean up the lanes for the competition. We were gobsmacked when we won the best floral display too – it was the icing on the cake.’ Committee chairman Bernard Rebours and co-ordinator John Le Maistre were also there to pick up the award.