Jersey News
HD Ferries collision cancels service.
The beleagured HD Ferries is in more trouble after a collision Saturday evening 28 July in Jersey harbour with a vessel of its competitor service Condor Ferries. This is the second collision that HD F...
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Jersey has been right not to relax its cannabis laws, says the head of the island
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At a time when competitors in the famous Tour de France bicycle race have been shamed by tests confirming drug taking, the rather less famous Tour de Jersey has raised
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Drink-driving has caused 26 road collisions in Jersey so far this year, one more than the total figure for last year. Approximately 3,000 vehicles have been stopped and more than 100 drivers breathaly...
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Cherbourg route for HD Ferries.
HD Ferries has confirmed that it is starting a new route between the Channel Islands of Jersey, Guernsey and Alderney and the French port of Cherbourg in August. It will sail twice a week in the summe...
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Portuguese food festival returns.
Jersey is to stage a Portuguese Food Festival once again in August. This usually annual event was not held last year because of difficulties in finding an agreed location for it.
It still needs a
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Re-think on new supermarket chain.
A giant chain supermarket like Tesco should not be allowed to open a branch in the island until the effect of increased competition is more clearly understood, says a Jersey politician. deputy Geoff S...
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Drug smugglers have used the cars of innocent islanders to import heroin into Jersey. The drug has been fixed underneath cars parked in St Malo using magnets and string.
The smugglers make a note of...
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Flamanville construction starts.
Work has started on building the new nuclear power station at Flamanville on the Normandy coast, some 30 miles away from Jersey.
Despite protests by environmental groups and a promise by the failed F...
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A car ferry service from Jersey via the small northern Channel Island of Alderney to Cherbourg could start within a few weeks.
The carrier would be HD Ferries, which this year has provided a competit...
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Phone mast emissions in Jersey could be tested regularly by an independent body at the expense of mobile phone companies.
The minister for economic development, senator Philip Ozouf, has advised the...
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Cracking down on money laundering.
Businesses and islanders are being asked for their views on plans to extend the Island
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Jersey-Scandinavia tax exchange.
Jersey is no place for tax dodgers, according to the Bailiff, Sir Philip Bailhache.
Sir Philip, who, as Bailiff, is the chief civil power in the island, was addressing a dinner held in honour of a vi...
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Jersey defends off-shore record.
Jersey's chief minister, Frank Walker, has written to the United States senate finance committee to defend Jersey
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Blue Island airlines starts operating a new Paris route, starting from Guernsey with a stopover in Jersey on 25 May. The flights, to Paris Beauvais will operate six-days a week, not on Saturdays.
Th...
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New duty free for Jersey airport.
Jersey airport has introduced a new layout in its departures section. The once-spacious check-in lounge has been cut in half to allow for an enlarged duty-free shopping area. Passengers will now have...
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Jersey celebrates Liberation Day.
The island of Jersey celebrates the 62nd anniversary of the liberation of the Channel Islands from the German occupation on 9 May.
Liberation Day, which is a holiday, is marked each year by a parade...
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Jersey has a new brand logo that will be used to market the island
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A one-mile-wide UFO has been sighted by two airline pilots near the Channel Island of Alderney.
One of the pilots, employed by the Channel Island airline of Aurigny, spotted a bright yellow light te...
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From 1 May until 30 September all dog owners exercising their pets to the beach must make sure that they are on a lead. The summer-time ruling, which comes into force every year, coincides with the re...
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There were 243 reported cases of domestic violence in Jersey in 2006, an increase of 30 per cent compared with the previous year. 26 per cent of all violent assault in the island in 2006 was domestic...
