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The Vale and St Sampson parishes are holding a joint celebration for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee on Friday 3rd June from 11am-6pm at L’Islet Common. All islanders are invited to enter the following two competitions which will be judged on the day.

Details have been released about how Liberation Day will be marked by the Vale this year, with the Education, Sport & Culture Committee deciding not to hold centralised celebrations and instead leave it to the parishes.

Proposals from the Channel Islands Co-operative Society finally to develop Leale's Yard have been welcomed by Vale Senior Constable Richard Leale as very positive and well thought-out. A formal application for a £200m scheme to build more than 300 affordable homes, a new supermarket and provide 300 car parking spaces go to Planners today.

An announcement which could finally see development starting at the Leale's Yard site off the Bridge is expected this week, it has been confirmed. The Channel Islands Co-op has told the States that an application for development there is to be submitted shortly.

Two significant developments affecting the Vale parochial cemetery were approved at this week's parish meeting. The first was managing part of the area in a more environmentally-friendly manner. The other affects the cost of using the cemetery.

Vale parishioners are being asked to take care over what they throw out in "black bag" waste or try to recycle through the kerbside collection system. A poster has been prepared by the States to highlight the problems that can arise if the wrong things are binned.

Nine trees have been planted by the Vale Douzaine as part of its contribution to the Queen's Green Canopy, an initiative created to mark Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee in 2022 which invites people from across the United Kingdom to “Plant a Tree for the Jubilee”.

Nearly £632,000 needs to be raised to meet parochial and ecclesiastical requirements for 2022, a Vale Parish meeting will be told later this month.

Concern about the effects of the States introducing a goods and services tax (GST) was the main topic of discussion at a special tax review "drop-in" session held in the Vale, according to media reports.

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