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THE wet weather didn’t hold back the many young explorers who visited the North Show last week. Over 150 children took part in the North Show Explorer competition which was organised by the show’s sponsor, De Putron Fund Management. A series of questions, on the many sights and sounds of the event, took the young [...]

Wave Telecom is calling all islanders who are planning to travel to Jersey for Jersey Live 2010 to get involved in its sister company’s initiative to create Jersey’s largest ‘tagged’ photo of the event. Jersey Telecom will take a crowd photo from the main stage of the event on Saturday 4th September at 6pm which [...]

A group of local companies joined forces today to clean up Saumarez Park which has played host to the North Show over the last two days. Coordinated for the second year by sponsors of the event, De Putron Fund Management, a number of employees worked hard to help to restore the area’s tidy appearance over [...]

ORGANISERS of this year’s Guernsey Specimen Fish Hunt are hoping for a record number of entries to celebrate the competition’s 20th anniversary. The West Coast Sea Angling Club is encouraging anglers to take part in the popular event, which last year attracted more than 120 entries. The three-weekend competition sees entrants being allowed to fish [...]

Kick-start your bank holiday weekend with the 2010 Harbour Carnival taking place in town this Friday from 6pm. Everything is in place for another great night along the seafront with all the old favourites including the ladies dinghy race, raft race, tug of war and, of course, the man-powered flight. Along with the traditional events, [...]

The £1 Million Lottery promoters have ensured that Guernsey residents have the opportunity to organise their syndicates with ease, by making syndicate forms available at all ten Guernsey Post branches. These are:

WITH just over a week to go before the North Show, the line-up of entertainers has been finalised as the competitors put the final touches to their entries. Opening to the public next Wednesday (25 August), the Show will begin with the judging of exhibits which will include classes from pets to flower arrangements and [...]

With less than a fortnight to go before this year’s North Show, the building and flowering of the floats is well underway. The Battle of Flowers, which provides the centre piece for the annual show, will see 40 entries compete for the coveted Prix d’Honneur and Prix De Papier trophies on Thursday 26 August. A [...]

Next Thursday’s (19th August 2010) ‘Digging for Britain’ programme on BBC2 will feature the largest Roman object ever found in Great Britain – a flat-bottomed ocean going ship discovered by local diver Richard keen in the 1980s. Local TV production company Spike Productions filmed the segment for the BBC in May this year. The crew [...]

Deputy Hunter Adam, Chair of the Policy Council’s Social Policy Group, said “I am pleased to announce that Family Matters, a Bournemouth-based charity, has successfully tendered to run an Independent Domestic Violence Service in Guernsey. Family Matters staff have a wealth of experience in this field and we very much look forward to working with [...]