Normal service now resumed after short intermission
Caption: Media circus? THERE has been a short intermission to this service of news and opinion features relating to the rural and community life of Jersey. As they used to say on the television (and maybe still do – I haven’t really watched it since our own set was hijacked by our nine-year-old son – […]
The landscapes of an island home
The late Jersey resident, Sir Francis Cook (1907-1978), made Jersey his home , with his studio at what is now the Sir Francis Cook Gallery. MELISSA BONN profiles the artist (This is an expanded version of the article that appeared on page 60 of the Spring issue of RURAL – Jersey Country Life magazine) […]
Planning for the Future
Does Reforming our planning appeals system make sense? A view by our Planning correspondent, SONIA SMITH, a property lawyer at Lambert Legal This is an expanded version of the article that appeared in the Spring issue of RURAL – Jersey Country Life magazine WE are all accustomed to reading about high profile planning appeals in the Jersey press. […]
Jersey Symphony Orchestra Spring Concert
THE spring concert took of the Jersey Symphony Orchestra took place last night (Saturday 12 April) at Fort Regent, Jersey. There must be many definitions as to what the term ‘civilisation’ might mean, but surely one of the best must be the capacity of a community to create a symphony orchestra. The majority of […]
National Butchers’ Week in Jersey
THIS is National Butchers’ Week; it began on Monday 24 March and goes on to Sunday 30 March. The plethora of national ‘weeks’ to mark or promote this, that and the other are not often marked in Jersey, but this year the St Peter-based ‘Classic Herd’ invited the Atlantic Hotel’s executive head chef, Mark […]
Farmhouse bequeathed to National Trust for Jersey
The National Trust for Jersey has announced that it has been bequeathed a historically important farmhouse in the Parish of St Saviour. Located along La Route de Maufant, the main 5 bay 2 storey house dates from the mid to late 19th Century and includes a rear farmyard with an impressive range of surrounding outbuildings. It is […]
Next steps for Jersey’s Coastal National Park
THE formation of the Coastal National Park has taken another step forward. The Department of the Environment has invited fifty people, representing a wide range of organisations and interests to work together on how the national park will work in practice. The first workshop takes place on 13March. The day-long event will look at […]
The Bumper Book of Channel Island Jokes’ – book review
‘The Bumper Book of Channel Island Jokes’ – Redberry Press; £8.50 WITH five contributors including the late Art Wallser, whose cartoons help make this more than a series of jokes about one Island set against the other, ‘The Bumper Book of Channel Island Jokes’ is worthy of being any Easter gift. Some of the jokes […]
Celebrated Swiss Wildlife Artist to be exhibited in Jersey for the first time
THE work of the late Swiss artist and environmentalist, Robert Hainard is being exhibited in the Island between 13 March and 20 March at the National Trust for Jersey’s house in St Helier, 16 New Street.Robert Hainard was a sculptor, woid engraver and painter, but also a forerunner of the ecology movement. The exhibition will […]
Royal Progress -3rd update, 19 February
By the sales and marketing director of the Jersey Royal Company, William Church THE last couple of weeks have been extremely wet and the ground is saturated which has dramatically affected planting. In a normal year the plan is to commence outdoor planting at the start of January and sequentially to plant through to the […]