Jersey News
Drug smugglers have used the cars of innocent islanders to import heroin into Jersey. The drug has been fixed underneath cars parked in St Malo using magnets and string.
The smugglers make a note of...
Jersey News
Flamanville construction starts.
Work has started on building the new nuclear power station at Flamanville on the Normandy coast, some 30 miles away from Jersey.
Despite protests by environmental groups and a promise by the failed F...
Oxford News
Oxford allotments threatened by housing plans.
Oxford city council planners have identified three potential housing development sites on Priory Road in Minchery Farm near Greater Leys, Upper Wolvercote and Court Place Farm in Old Marston. All thre...
Copenhagen News
Copenhagen city council vetoes Tivoli tower.
Plans for a 102-m tower to be built in the Tivoli Gardens amusement park in central Copenhagen have been vetoed by a cross-party group of city councillors. Conservatives, liberals and members of the l...
Dublin News
IKEA opening: Dublin to get IKEA superstore.
Swedish furniture colossus IKEA has been granted planning permission to build a superstore at Ballymun in Dublin. The An Bord Plean
London News
Flexible parking penalty charges for London.
As of 1 July a new two-tiered parking penalty scheme will be in operation in the British capital, with illegal parking carrying heavier fines. In inner London drivers who park at bus stops, on pedestr...
Jersey News
Cracking down on money laundering.
Businesses and islanders are being asked for their views on plans to extend the Island
Jersey News
Jersey-Scandinavia tax exchange.
Jersey is no place for tax dodgers, according to the Bailiff, Sir Philip Bailhache.
Sir Philip, who, as Bailiff, is the chief civil power in the island, was addressing a dinner held in honour of a vi...
London News
Police treat Cutty Sark blaze as suspicious.
The fire which ravaged the 138-year-old tea clipper moored at Greenwich in the early hours of 21 May is being treated as suspicious by the Metropolitan police, who are examining CCTV footage from the...
Copenhagen News
Demolition beginning of the end for Christiania?
The demolition of the disused Cigarkassen building in Copenhagen
Madrid News
Fiesta di San Isidro in Madrid.
15 May is the feast day of St Isidro, the patron saint of Madrid, and the city is marking the occasion with a week-long programme of music, dance and performance. Traditional delicacies such as bitter...
Jersey News
Jersey celebrates Liberation Day.
The island of Jersey celebrates the 62nd anniversary of the liberation of the Channel Islands from the German occupation on 9 May.
Liberation Day, which is a holiday, is marked each year by a parade...
Jersey News
Jersey has a new brand logo that will be used to market the island
Jersey News
A one-mile-wide UFO has been sighted by two airline pilots near the Channel Island of Alderney.
One of the pilots, employed by the Channel Island airline of Aurigny, spotted a bright yellow light te...
Madrid News
Roughly 14.9 percent of Madrid residents live in relative poverty according to a report on living standards in the Spanish capital published by the trade union Comisiones Obreras (CC.OO). The
Amsterdam News
Queen’s birthday celebrations in Amsterdam.
Hundreds of thousands of people are expected in Amsterdam for the traditional Koninginnedag or Queensday holiday festivities marking the birthday of Queen Juliana, mother of the reigning Dutch monarch...
