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For any Vale residents with hedges or streams to cut and clean, this is the last weekend available to do so before inspections start after the 30th – and tomorrow's the better day from the forecast, with heavy showers predicted for Sunday afternoon.

Short-term projects aimed at materially improving the Bridge area that have been released by the Guernsey Development Agency (GDA) are to be discussed with the Vale Douzaine at its meeting next week.

News that the forthcoming States Budget for 2027 might contain money to tidy up the Vale's overgrown and untidy roadside verges has been welcomed by the Constables, who hope this will avoid the parish having to take matters into its own hands.

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.