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With the weekend looming here's a reminded that hedges and streams have to be cut by the end of this month and that the mandatory inspections will start after the 30th.

The Vale and St Sampson's Douzaines are joining forces on Saturday to hold a special drop-in surgery for parishioners, which will be held – where else? – outside the Mariners' Inn.

A large pile of glass-contaminated soil apparently dumped on L'Ancresse Common at Longree is to be removed shortly, the Vale Constables‘ Office has confirmed.

A new bus timetable that affects services in the Vale and north of the island comes into effect next week and the operator says it has been shaped by user feedback and is designed to improve the reliability of the island's bus routes while maintaining and enhancing access to key destinations.

A Guernsey student investigating which areas of the Vale and St Sampson's are most most vulnerable to flooding under different future sea level and extreme weather events is asking anyone who is interested in helping the project to do so before the end of next week.