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guernseypress.com | Juliet Pouteaux
Both northern parishes have said how disappointed they are with the latest setback to the Leale’s Yard redevelopment. The derelict site, which runs behind the shops on the Bridge, straddles the boundary between St Sampson’s and Vale. Both parishes have been keen to see the site rejuvenated and put back to good use.
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1 day ago | 
guernseypress.com | Juliet Pouteaux
The admission that the States has higher priorities than housing on Leale’s Yard has come as a surprise to the company working on the project. Omnibus Investment Holdings Ltd has been working on plans for the Channel Islands Coop-owned site for several years, with the States Assembly agreeing to examine the potential of investing up to £35m. in the Bridge regeneration. But Policy & Resources has now slammed the brakes on investing in Leale’s Yard.
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1 week ago | 
guernseypress.com | Juliet Pouteaux
Guernsey’s green waste site is gearing up for a busy Easter, and will be open every day over the bank holiday weekend. The site at Mont Cuet has just marked a year at its current location. The move last April came with changed opening times, so this will be the second time the site has been open over the full Easter period.
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1 week ago | 
guernseypress.com | Juliet Pouteaux
Moving education staff into the Sixth Form Centre aims to make best use of States property, a joint statement from States Property Unit and the Education Office has said. The bodies were expanding on the Guernsey Press story, which revealed that while sixth formers are being moved to the former La Mare de Carteret High School site – which needs work – education staff will get the custom-built sixth form building at Les Varendes.
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1 week ago | 
guernseypress.com | Juliet Pouteaux
Tetra packs, original dairy plans and cheese-making equipment are among the items on display at the newly opened Milk Tales exhibition. It was opened at a packed Candie Museum on Friday evening. It details the complete history of Guernsey’s dairy industry, from the home industry, to the founding of two dairies, to the single States dairy, which was built at the Hangman’s crossroads in 1951 – the site it still inhabits today.
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1 week ago | 
guernseypress.com | Juliet Pouteaux
The Jerbourg restaurant shut in 2019. Planners have given their backing to the plans for a four-bed home, which would make the most of the elevated east coast views. The redevelopment of the site had proved controversial in the past, with some islanders keen for it to return as a hospitality business.
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1 week ago | 
guernseypress.com | Juliet Pouteaux
Millions of local genealogical records are now available online through website ‘Findmypast’. The project, which saw local organisations work with the UK-based family tree company, will provide researchers and families across the world with access to local documents. It is estimated that 210,000 pages of archival documents have been digitised over the last year. Registers from Alderney and Sark are included in the digitisation project.
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2 weeks ago | 
guernseypress.com | Juliet Pouteaux
There may need to be more barriers around the cavalcade route, if more volunteers do not come forward to help out. Organisers of Guernsey’s 80th Liberation Day hoped to marshal the popular event with volunteers, but need 70 more community-spirited islanders to help.
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2 weeks ago | 
guernseypress.com | Juliet Pouteaux
Education’s International Baccalaureate programme has been put on hold for the upcoming school year as not enough students opted for it. Just 14 people signed up for the programme. Education, Sport & Culture confirmed they planned to pause the post-16 International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme at the Sixth Form Centre for the upcoming school year. Education, Sport & Culture president Andrea Dudley-Owen said the programme was still a valued part of the Sixth Form Centre’s curriculum.
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2 weeks ago | 
guernseypress.com | Juliet Pouteaux
The first three hornets of the year were caught last weekend, just days after spring queening traps went up around the island. Mr Russell said the easterly winds and unseasonably warm daytime temperatures for the last two weeks has had hornet watchers worried that the invasive insects would start arriving. The insects, which hunt honey bees and other native pollinators, have become endemic in France. Three nests were found in Guernsey last year and were treated and destroyed.
