Sewage warning for ferry passengers sailing here

TOURISTS boarding ferries in Weymouth and Portsmouth today will be warned that Guernsey pumps 16,000 tonnes of raw sewage into the sea each day.

Surfers Against Sewage said hundreds would never come back to the island after it waged war on Public Services' proposals not to have full sewage treatment that will be debated at this week's States meeting.

As well as posting messages on its Facebook group and urging members to hijack the networking site's Guernsey page with messages of disgust, SAS visited the island last week with a cardboard cut-out of a surfer covered in excrement.

Asked about the impact on the island's reputation and tourism industry, SAS campaigns officer Dom Ferris said 'don't shoot the messenger'.