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1 week ago | 
guernseypress.com | Andy Brown
Pierre Lenfestey was voting at the Styx Centre at St Peter’s, and said he had used AI to help him come up with preferred candidates. ‘There are just too many candidates to choose from and too much information, so I used AI to whittle it down,’ he said. Mr Lenfestey uploaded the PDF of the manifesto from the election website and then used a piece of software called Google notebook LM. This took the document and turned it into a conversation between two people he could then listen to.
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1 week ago | 
guernseypress.com | Andy Brown
Sark’s government is moving ahead with plans to force a compulsory purchase of the island’s sole power provider. Chief Pleas has been in a long-running dispute with Sark Electricity Ltd and passed laws to enable a compulsory purchase back in 2021. A potential sale to a third party appeared to collapse earlier this week.
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1 week ago | 
guernseypress.com | Andy Brown
Aurigny has failed in a bid to secure extra slots at London airports this winter, despite applying for over 2,000 extra. Aurigny has reportedly applied for 1,232 landing slots for London Heathrow – about two return flights a day over the course of a year – but received none. It has also been reported that it applied for an extra 862 Gatwick slots, but received none, although it did retain its current allowance of 1,838 slots at London’s second airport.
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1 week ago | 
guernseypress.com | Andy Brown
Skip to main content The sale of Sark Electricity appears to have fallen through again, with the company’s owner blaming the island’s government. SEL had been due to be sold to Island Power, a company registered in Scotland, in early July, for a sum believed to be in the region of £2.4m.
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2 weeks ago | 
guernseypress.com | Andy Brown
Skip to main content Guernsey’s new chief fire officer is loving life in Guernsey, despite the challenges of running one of the most isolated Fire and Rescue services in the British Isles. ‘I absolutely loving being here,’ said Les Britzman, who took up the role only two months ago. ‘I have a brilliant team on a beautiful island. ‘I can’t get over where I live.
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2 weeks ago | 
guernseypress.com | Andy Brown
The St Peter’s douzaine has come out against controversial plans to enable large scale development on a countryside site in the parish – but a parish constable is backing the idea. The douzaine has objected to the Development & Planning Authority’s proposal to zone the land at Les Caches Farm, opposite Morrisons St Peter’s, as part of its review of the Island Development Plan.
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2 weeks ago | 
guernseypress.com | Andy Brown
The publication of the annual combined substance use strategy report details the island’s response to nicotine, drugs and alcohol. The data showed a decrease in a range of metrics across alcohol consumption from 2018 to 2023, with those never drinking increasing from 11.4% to 17.7%, while there were drops of one or two percentage points across all frequency categories, from those who drank monthly to those who drank four or more times a week.
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2 weeks ago | 
guernseypress.com | Andy Brown
A teacher at the Dyslexia Day Centre believes the island’s Education Committee is being shortsighted if it believes it can achieve the same results in-house. The centre has announced it will be finally closing its doors at the end of the academic year due to a lack of funding, after almost 40 years helping both children and adults conquer dyslexia.
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2 weeks ago | 
guernseypress.com | Andy Brown
Skip to main content Nicotine patches could be offered as a final intervention to help young teens stop vaping, as Public Health looks to work in secondary schools to stem the tide of addiction. Director of Public Health Dr Nicola Brink said a suite of legislation had already been brought in to try to stop young people vaping. New services, particularly aimed at young people, are set to be introduced to support those laws within the next few weeks.
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2 weeks ago | 
guernseypress.com | Andy Brown
Skip to main content The States has racked up £60,000 in legal fees trying to evict the tenants of Fermain Beach Cafe before the case has even made it into court. The information came to light after a Freedom of Information request asked why States Property Services engaged a private law firm to handle the case, rather than use its own lawyers.
