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BBC News
20-07-2025
- BBC News
Parts of Elizabeth Castle to be opened as part of pilgrimage
An annual pilgrimage to Elizabeth Castle in Jersey to commemorate Saint Helier is due to take place event is held every year in remembrance of Saint Helier, the patron saint of walk to the castle, where Helier lived at the hermitage, will begin at the Town Church in St Helier at 07:30 BSTAfter the ceremony, the dean and the lieutenant-governor will open the Officers' Quarters and military hospital, which were part of the restoration project at the castle, organisers said. Guests and States members will then be given a tour of the Officers' Quarters, which provides group accommodation at the castle, as well as the military hospital, which is to be opened to the public for the first time in decades. A free open day at the castle is planned at the end of the year, said organisers.
BBC News
10-07-2025
- Politics
- BBC News
Plans for youth facility on Jersey Gas Place rejected
Politicians have rejected plans to use a site earmarked for a primary school to temporarily be used for youth members rejected Deputy David Warr's proposals for Gas Place, St Helier, with 30 politicians voting against them, six voting in favour and six Minister for Children and Families, Deputy Malcolm Ferey, welcomed the decision to reject the plans and said any temporary facility would have interfered with building a school on the Warr said he was "baffled that there was so much negativity" in the debate. He said: "Teenagers of this island are underserviced, we have seen the shutting down of Fort Regent, the shutting down of the skate park in town, just all these facilities that are no longer available to our young people."To do a meanwhile use at Gas Place for me was a no-brainer. [It] was easy to do and it just baffles me that so much negativity came out at that debate."However, Ferey, who voted against the plans, said: "I think also the plan was to have a play area in that space and we already have well-formed plans for a new youth facility on the Ann Street site which will encompass a climbing wall, a sports hall and a kick pitch on the roof tops."So there will be a youth centre and a type of play facility in that vicinity in the coming years. "So I was concerned that if we redirect our energies and resources into a different project it could jeopardise two of those big projects for St Helier. One being the school and one being the youth centre." 'Considerable cost and effort' Minister for Treasury and Resources, Deputy Elaine Millar, argued that a meanwhile use for the site would only last a few months as ROK Construction was using the site as it completed the Maisons les Arches housing said: "They will have occupation of this until June 2026."It's estimated that enabling works for the new primary school would begin in October 2026, so this meanwhile use would only be for a few months at considerable cost and effort."But Warr disputed it and said: "ROK are not currently using the whole of the site, in fact if you go in the Gas Place showroom right now its three quarters empty already."A lot of people need to go up there and see the reality of how that site is used."
