Orlando Crowcroft

2 days ago | jerseyeveningpost.com | Orlando Crowcroft

JEP EXCLUSIVEButton pressed, water starts to stream. It takes 43 seconds to fill up the 2-litre bottle and I have other three. — What you need that much water for, David, swim in it? A laugh follows, opposite the fountain machine. — Yeah. I squeeze out a dry smile without looking at the inmate, fill the last bottle and walk back to my cell on gelatinous legs. It’s from the gym session moments ago.

1 month ago | jerseyeveningpost.com | Orlando Crowcroft

DURRELL will ban the killing of deer for sport at its Dalnacardoch Estate in Scotland at the end of the current hunting season in 2026, the JEP has learned. Asked this week when the decision had been made to end hunting – which it refers to as “paid deer management experiences” – at its Scottish estate, Chris Ransom, director of field programmes, said: “It has always been our intention to phase [it] out. We’ve never strayed from that.

2 months ago | jerseyeveningpost.com | Orlando Crowcroft

A GRIEVING mother has raised nearly £2,000 to fund a private ADHD assessment for an Islander following the death of her son earlier this year. Carolyn Connor said that her son Michael, who died in early 2025, had life-long mental health issues since early childhood that went unrecognised by the authorities. Ms Connor started a JustGiving page ahead of her son’s funeral, which takes place on Wednesday, and has asked that well-wishers and people who knew him donate to it rather than buying flowers.

2 months ago | jerseyeveningpost.com | Orlando Crowcroft

JERSEY Opera House has announced that Andy Eagle will stand down as interim director of the theatre just four weeks before it was due to open following a multi-million pound restoration project. The surprise announcement from the board of the Jersey Opera House on Tuesday came amid an ongoing spat with the government over technical upgrades that were not included in the five-year £12.7 million refurbishment project but which Mr Eagle said were desperately needed.

2 months ago | jerseyeveningpost.com | Orlando Crowcroft

GPs could face stricter controls on their powers to prescribe antidepressants and drugs like benzodiazepines as part of a new mental health strategy published this week.