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Unfairly sacked bakery ‘bully’ compensated £4k

Wednesday 27 October 2021

A bakery assistant, who was fired over concerns that she threw a bread crate at a colleague and “bullied” her, has been awarded nearly £4,000 in compensation because the allegations were never properly investigated.Heard in the Employment Tribunal last month, Holme Grown worker of nearly four years Maria Mihalache...

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A Sark Saga II: The fence has fallen

Wednesday 27 October 2021

A fence at the centre of a bitter row in Sark has finally been taken down.Earlier this year, some of the trustees of La Seigneurie Gardens erected a fence without planning pe...

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GALLERY: £4.3m former BHS redevelopment taking shape

Wednesday 27 October 2021

The £4.3m development of the old BHS building is beginning to take shape, with some scaffolding and hoarding coming down this week.Flannels Fashion bought the empty building after high street stalwart BHS’s collapse back in 2...

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Police drop speeding case against Guernsey lifeboat coxswain

Wednesday 27 October 2021

Police have dropped their case against a Guernsey RNLI coxswain after initially charging him with speeding while he was responding to an emergency call-out.Jason Norman was due to appear in the island's Magistrate's Court this week, but Bailiwick Law Enfor...

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Up to £360,000-worth of heroin seized

Tuesday 26 October 2021

Up to £360,000-worth of heroin has been seized and two people arrested after a joint police and Customs operation at the weekend.35-year-old Tara-Lei Cowell and 44-year-old Michael Clohessy were arrested on Sunday afternoon and h...

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LOOKING BACK: Smuggling cheap liquor and tobacco at Portelet

Tuesday 26 October 2021

When we hear the word “smugglers” today, we tend think of the pub down in Ouaisné Bay - but over 170 years ago, it was further round the coast at Portelet where the owner of what is now another public house, the Old Portelet Inn, was undertaking some profitable but illegal activity.The Inn was previously known as Portelet Farm and was owned by the du Val family after it was purcha...

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