Bug is under control
HOSPITAL wards that closed following the outbreak of a stomach bug could reopen by the weekend.
HOSPITAL wards that closed following the outbreak of a stomach bug could reopen by the weekend.
R. G. FALLA'S withdrawal of its tender to build the new clinical block at the PEH has ignited a political furore.
It was earmarked as a mental institution but never quite made it, thanks to invading Germans and the need for today's Princess Elizabeth Hospital. On the day it comes up for auction, Chris Morvan looks back at the history of Le Vauquiedor Farm
ILL-TEMPERED outbursts are part of the reason the Policy Council is not working, according to a leading Fallagate campaigner.
FALLAGATE was about Stuart Falla's financial position and not the tender process, it has emerged.
COMMERCE and Employment minister Stuart Falla has vowed not to read the minutes of the Policy Council meeting at which members discussed his position.
STATES members today received their copy of Policy Council minutes detailing the political events that led to the PEH clinical block costing an extra £2.4m.
BOSSES at Guernsey's leading building firm had every reason to be confident.
AN investigation will be held into why R. G. Falla withdrew its cheapest bid to build a new clinical care block at the PEH - but that will not delay the project.
MINISTERS were seething yesterday at the Public Accounts Committee's last-minute intervention in the hospital contract tender process.
MINISTERS have blocked R. G. Falla from a £25m. hospital contract because they were worried the building firm had too much States work.
LE VAUQUIEDOR Farm will be auctioned at the end of the year after the States failed to find a suitable buyer.
TWIN babies Logan and Louie Stevenson, who battled against the odds to overcome a near-fatal syndrome before their premature birth, have finally been allowed home after weeks in the special care baby unit.
Tissue paper or courtesy of Mother Nature? Either way, contestants in this year's Battle of Flowers are racing against the clock to affix the final blooms. Shaun Shackleton spoke to some of them - and discovered that Guernsey's Battle is just one of many around the globe.
A middle-aged man ends up in A&E, barely able to breathe. A woman of 75 is told she is on track to lose a leg. And a 62-year-old gives up her 40-a-day habit - all for the love of her grandson. On No Smoking Day, each tells the story of how they fought a lifetime's addiction to nicotine - and won.