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More than 100 Vale residents have still to pay their parish rates and an urgent request has gone out to them to clear the outstanding amounts before further action is considered against them.

Leale's Yard and the 300 new homes planned there may be able to go ahead after all, despite the States withdrawing public funding for the Bridge redevelopment scheme.

A freshly cleared and levelled area at Bordeaux is again being used by boat owners in the bay now that steps have been taken by the Vale Constables to stop unauthorised parking on the site.

Parishioners in the Vale are being reminded that the deadline for paying parish rates expired on 12 June and that their bills need to be paid now.

Users of Bordeaux have been asked not to park on an area of land there that has just been cleared and levelled for use as a boat lay-up during the winter.

A reminder for all parishioners with streams or hedges on their property that the deadline for ensuring that they are properly cleaned and trimmed is the 15th – this Sunday – and that the inspections will begin immediately after.

Biodiversity has been improved in large areas of the north of the island because volunteers have been removing invasive species like sour fig from the coast and the Common. And new pictures show what an amazing transformation has occurred.

Two recent events have highlighted the north of the island as an important area of nature conservation and biodiversity. The first was Bioblitz 2025 at L'Ancresse East and the second was publication of the four-year Bailiwick Bat Survey.

Vale senior constable Richard Leale has expressed his profound thanks to everyone who helped to make this year's landmark Liberation Day such a special one in the parish and the island generally.

Plans to install flood defences at the Bridge to protect businesses there and facilitate new house building off Lowlands Road are to be progressed – and the Vale Douzaine is to be consulted on the final designs.