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A TRIAL of a one-way system in St John’s Road will help “provide a safer and more liveable urban environment”, the Infrastructure Minister has said in response to a petition calling for the plans to be scrapped.The three-month scheme – announ...

ISLANDERS are facing a lack of local meat products this Christmas after Storm Ciarán caused “extensive damage” to the abattoir – which will remain closed until the middle of December.Infrastructure Minister Tom Binet described the situation as...

THE planned phased approach to building Jersey’s new hospital leaves it at risk of being further delayed by future governments, a panel has warned.Forty-two key findings and 16 recommendations have been made by the Future Hospital Review Panel ahea...

NEW car parks could be created on the outskirts of town to help solve Islanders’ parking woes, if the States back moves planned by St Helier’s Constable to relax restrictions in the Bridging Island Plan.Simon Crowcroft wants the parish to take th...

A GERMAN bunker at Bouley Bay is being leased out by the government for five years to provide a temporary home for the harbours dive centre while a luxury home is built on the former hotel site.Benches and a large metal winch currently sit on of the...

WORK on a project of road improvements in Trinity will begin on Tuesday, the government has confirmed, in spite of lingering dissatisfaction in the parish that has led to a further meeting being scheduled later in the week.Parishioners, who had alrea...

A 1.8KM coastal path could be built at La Collette as part of government plans to increase the height of a mound of hazardous waste that has been growing there for decades.If the planning application is approved, a mound which runs down the eastern e...

THE government is buying a property in the Parade as part of plans to build a new outpatients’ centre on the site of the current General Hospital.Infrastructure Minister Tom Binet, who is leading the government’s New Healthcare Facilities Program...

AN urgent parish assembly is being held next week to vote on changes to Trinity’s road network after disgruntled parishioners invoked an ancient legal device.The requête – which allows Islanders to demand that a parish assembly takes place – h...

AFTER more than ten years of being tipped straight into a UK landfill site, the 1,900 tonnes of ash generated by Jersey’s incinerator every year will now be put to better use.Following a change in contract, it will instead be used to make concrete ...