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A special invitation has been extended to all parishioners to attend a Service of Remembrance at the Vale War Memorial on Sunday.

The Vale Parish is looking for a part-time secretarial assistant to work in its busy office. The post offers an interesting opportunity to be involved in the administration of one of the island's largest parishes.

A total of 19 parochial and church posts are set to be filled at tomorrow's parish meeting at the Vale Douzaine Room, starting at 7.30pm.

Vale Senior Constable Richard Leale has responded cautiously to the announcement that the States has spent £6.5m buying Kenilworth Vinery off Lowlands Road to be used to build up to 135 affordable new homes.

Up to 313 new homes could be built at the former sites of Belgrave and Fontaine Vineries now that a draft development framework has been approved for the area. The decision has caused dismay because it runs counter to multiple representations against it, including from the parochial authorities.

Matt Gale from First Central, which has been helping to clean up the area around the Little Chapel. (Picture by Peter Frankland, 30016756)

Parishioners have been asked by the States to give their views on parish kerbside collections and any visits they may have made to waste sites, such as the bring banks, the Household Waste & Recycling Centre, and the Chouet Green Waste Site.

Vacancies have arisen for one of the best outdoor jobs available in Guernsey – helping to maintain L'Ancresse Common, the largest area of open land in the island and used by thousands every year.

The Planning Department has approved its own development framework for the construction of more than 300 new homes on a St Sampson’s site situated at sea level and at risk of flooding. This comes just one week after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published warnings of increasingly extreme weather events, and it ignores multiple public representations, including that of St Sampson’s Douzaine, which details the potential dangers to public safety.

A new Vale douzenier was elected last night following a deferred ballot which attracted possibly the biggest ever turnout for such an event.