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A guide to help Vale parishioners with their long term personal and financial planning has been released by the States in an easy-to-read format following recent legal changes in this complex and sensitive area.

Details of next week's Vale parish meeting have been published and ratepayers and electors are invited to attend the Douzaine Room on Wednesday 6 November at 7.30pm to elect various officials and transact other business.

Tributes have been paid to one of the Vale's most prominent residents, whose death was announced over the weekend. Rodney Collenette was hailed as one of Guernsey's great inspirational characters and one of the men who helped to save St James Concert Hall.

The Vale Douzaine has today published its considered response to the wide-ranging draft Harbour Action Plan, which could direct future development and use of the island's two harbour areas.

Parishioner concerns that roads in the Vale are becoming overgrown because verges are left unweeded could be addressed by the Douzaine – but only at a cost to ratepayers, the Constable has warned.

A new report which aims to protect and enhance the island’s biodiversity and natural environment within a generation has been launched today – and has particular relevance for the Vale.

A Vale couple who asked planners for permission to create a tea plantation and glamping site on land off La Folie Lane with an associated workshop for drying the tea and acting as a community area for campers and others have had their application refused.

Vale Senior Constable Richard Leale has apologised for a software glitch that prevented access for nearly two weeks to the essential database that underpins much of the work done by the Douzaine office.

Property owners are reminded that the deadline for ensuring that hedges and streams are cut and cleaned is approaching and that inspections will start immediately after 30 September. By law, there is no period of grace.

Vale householders are being reminded to use the right container for recycling glass on "bin night". This follows a number of complaints that jars and bottles left in carrier bags haven't been collected by the contractor.