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UK police expert goes in four days

2010-03-22T15:03:39Z

A SENIOR UK superintendent walked out of the States police less than a week into the job after realising he had entered ‘the eye of a storm’, the Home Affairs Minister has claimed.

Union tells firefighters to call off industrial action

2010-03-22T11:36:47Z

FIREFIGHTERS may call off their planned industrial action and accept a two-year pay deal, the Fire and Rescue Service Association has announced.

Warren to be flown in under guard for appeal

2010-03-22T11:18:30Z

JAILED drugs baron Curtis Warren is expected to be flown back to the Island under armed guard tomorrow to begin his appeal.

Man ‘lucky not to die’ in noisy neighbour row

2010-03-19T16:54:18Z

A MAN who punched his 61-year-old victim to the ground and kicked him up to ten times in a row about noisy neighbours was jailed for 4½ years yesterday.

Football scheme kicks crime into touch

2010-03-19T16:25:37Z

YOUTH crime in St Helier has dropped by 50 per cent since a free evening football tournament for children was launched at Fort Regent.

Raise your glasses to a gallant Jerseyman

2010-03-19T15:59:16Z

A SPECIAL beer has gone on sale in honour of heroic Jersey soldier Lieutenant Ernest Briard, the first Channel Islander to die in the First World War.

Officers could be held to account from early next year

2010-03-19T16:02:36Z

SENIOR police officers could be held to account over targets, standards and spending by an independent authority as early as next year.

Girl (10) abandoned by mother in town at night

2010-03-19T18:39:43Z

A TEN-YEAR-OLD girl was left to walk home alone through St Helier late at night while her drunk mother visited her boyfriend, the Magistrate’s Court heard yesterday.

Childcare services are improving, says expert

2010-03-19T11:01:01Z

SIGNIFICANT progress is being made to improve Jersey’s child protection services, UK childcare expert Andrew Williamson said yesterday.

States cash boost for new wildlife park visitor centre

2010-03-19T11:09:01Z

THE Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust is to build a new visitor centre and café as part of a major redevelopment project after receiving a £1.5 million grant from the States.

Consumer chairman backs calls for third supermarket

2010-03-19T11:15:08Z

A THIRD supermarket would drive down prices and increase choice for Islanders, according to Consumer Council chairman Alan Breckon.

Development of historic coastal building is rejected

2010-03-19T11:22:48Z

CONTROVERSIAL plans to extend an 18th century building on the coastline have been unanimously rejected by the Planning applications panel.

Public sector jobs ‘will go’

2010-03-18T11:00:33Z

PUBLIC sector jobs will be lost as part of unprecedented plans to plug the States’ huge budget deficit, Treasury Minister Philip Ozouf confirmed yesterday.

Le Sueur warns firefighters: No backing down over pay

2010-03-18T11:04:54Z

JERSEY’S Chief Minister has warned firefighters that the States will not back down over last year’s public sector pay freeze – just 24 hours after they threatened widespread industrial action.

‘We do have room for a supermarket’

2010-03-18T11:10:48Z

A PERFECT site for a supermarket already exists in town, according to the director of one of the Island’s largest property companies.