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Yahoo
19-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Investigation work set to begin on Gorey Pier
"Intrusive" investigation work is set to get under way at a listed pier after cracks were discovered. Ports of Jersey said work would begin at Gorey Pier, St Martin, on Tuesday 27 May, subject to planning permission being granted by the Government of Jersey. A report showed parts of the historic pier were cracked due to a combination of age and the effects of Storm Ciarán in November 2023, with specialist company Terra Firma set to be on site for between four and six weeks. "Every effort will be made to minimise disruption and complete the work before the peak summer season," a Ports of Jersey spokesperson said. "These investigations are essential to gather detailed information on the condition of the pier, which will inform the best method for its stabilisation." A series of trial pits and boreholes would be opened on the pier arm, pier head and the base of the wall on the harbour side but no work would be undertaken along the bulwarks where the restaurants and residences were located, they said. Following this work, planned repairs include replacing the concrete landing deck, reinforcing the western wall, repairing a stress crack in the pier road and demolishing the terminal building. The initial investigations work has been timed to coincide with the upcoming spring tides, when low tide will go down to 1.35m (4.4ft). "The challenges of working in a tidal zone mean we are scheduling the digs at low tide to reduce the risk of sea water filling the holes through the pier," the spokesperson said. They said as the tide comes in, water might need to be pumped out through a filter basket into the harbour. The work is due to involve intermittent access restrictions for vehicles, parking bays and the public. More news stories for Jersey Listen to the latest news for Jersey Follow BBC Jersey on X and Facebook. Send your story ideas to Permission sought for 'intrusive' work on pier
BBC News
19-05-2025
- General
- BBC News
Investigation work set to begin on Jersey's Gorey Pier
"Intrusive" investigation work is set to get under way at a listed pier after cracks were of Jersey said work would begin at Gorey Pier, St Martin, on Tuesday 27 May, subject to planning permission being granted by the Government of Jersey.A report showed parts of the historic pier were cracked due to a combination of age and the effects of Storm Ciarán in November 2023, with specialist company Terra Firma set to be on site for between four and six weeks."Every effort will be made to minimise disruption and complete the work before the peak summer season," a Ports of Jersey spokesperson said. "These investigations are essential to gather detailed information on the condition of the pier, which will inform the best method for its stabilisation."A series of trial pits and boreholes would be opened on the pier arm, pier head and the base of the wall on the harbour side but no work would be undertaken along the bulwarks where the restaurants and residences were located, they this work, planned repairs include replacing the concrete landing deck, reinforcing the western wall, repairing a stress crack in the pier road and demolishing the terminal initial investigations work has been timed to coincide with the upcoming spring tides, when low tide will go down to 1.35m (4.4ft)."The challenges of working in a tidal zone mean we are scheduling the digs at low tide to reduce the risk of sea water filling the holes through the pier," the spokesperson said. They said as the tide comes in, water might need to be pumped out through a filter basket into the work is due to involve intermittent access restrictions for vehicles, parking bays and the public.
Yahoo
29-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Financier Hands checks into holiday parks operator Lovat
The investment firm founded by financier Guy Hands has struck a deal to buy a portfolio of British holiday parks. Sky News has learnt that Terra Firma, which Mr Hands ran for decades, is buying Lovat Parks, a privately owned leisure group, in partnership with Angelo Gordon, a specialist backer of real estate assets. Lovat Parks operates premium holiday homes and luxury lodges at nine sites across the UK, including locations in Cornwall, Norfolk and the New Forest. Money latest: Raoul Fraser, the company's founder, will continue to run the business. The deal is one of Terra Firma's first acquisitions since it announced in 2023 that Mr Hands would step back from day-to-day involvement with the firm. He set up Terra Firma in 2002, and through it acquired companies including the record label EMI and the care homes operator Four Seasons Health Care. Last December, it struck a near-£6bn deal to sell 36,000 military homes to the UK's Ministry of Defence, bringing an end to a long-running battle between Mr Hands' firm and the government. The price it and Angelo Gordon were paying for Lovat Parks was unclear on Tuesday. Read more from Sky News:Food inflation highest for more than a year - more to come, industry warnsMandate solar panels on all new homes to cut bills, councils argue In a statement issued following an enquiry from Sky News, Terra Firma managing director Richard Hands - the son of Guy - said: "Lovat Parks operates some of the highest quality holiday parks in attractive destinations around the UK, in a sector that has proven resilient and durable. "Through our partnership with TPG Angelo Gordon, we are excited to bring our operational and strategic expertise in multi-site asset-backed businesses to deliver on the company's ambitious growth plans."
Sky News
29-04-2025
- Business
- Sky News
Financier Hands checks into holiday parks operator Lovat
The investment firm founded by financier Guy Hands has struck a deal to buy a portfolio of British holiday parks. Sky News has learnt that Terra Firma, which Mr Hands ran for decades, is buying Lovat Parks, a privately owned leisure group, in partnership with Angelo Gordon, a specialist backer of real estate assets. Lovat Parks operates premium holiday homes and luxury lodges at nine sites across the UK, including locations in Cornwall, Norfolk and the New Forest. Raoul Fraser, the company's founder, will continue to run the business. The deal is one of Terra Firma's first acquisitions since it announced in 2023 that Mr Hands would step back from day-to-day involvement with the firm. He set up Terra Firma in 2002, and through it acquired companies including the record label EMI and the care homes operator Four Seasons Health Care. Last December, it struck a near-£6bn deal to sell 36,000 military homes to the UK's Ministry of Defence, bringing an end to a long-running battle between Mr Hands' firm and the government. The price it and Angelo Gordon were paying for Lovat Parks was unclear on Tuesday. In a statement issued following an enquiry from Sky News, Terra Firma managing director Richard Hands - the son of Guy - said: "Lovat Parks operates some of the highest quality holiday parks in attractive destinations around the UK, in a sector that has proven resilient and durable.
CBC
08-04-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
Devotional Forensics by Joseph Kidney
With dazzling wit and brittle tenderness, multi-award-winning poet Joseph Kidney catches all in his highly anticipated debut collection. Kidney's rich, innovative imagery finds the durable in the contemporary and articulates a new vision of human vitality from inside a world that always seems on the verge of ending. Channeling influences as wide as Shakespeare and Anne Carson, Virgil and John Ashbery, Devotional Forensics takes full advantage of the liberties of language, playing with its boundaries. This formally inventive collection exalts the ordinary and fleshes out the metaphysical, constructing theologies out of wildfires, classical music, and garbage collection, while engaging seamlessly with everything from renaissance literature to family intimacy, from modern art to biological science. At once timeless and urgent, Kidney's poems dance through all the miniature apocalypses that compose the evolution of time into history. (From Goose Lane Editions) Joseph Kidney is a writer originally from B.C., now working as a lecturer at Stanford University. His previous works include the chapbook Terra Firma, Pharma Sea. Kidney's poems have been featured in Best Canadian Poetry 2024, Arc, Vallum, The Malahat Review, Oberon, The Fiddlehead and Periodicities, among others. He won the Short Grain Contest from Grain and The Young Buck Poetry Prize (now the Foster Poetry Prize) from CV2 for the best poem by an author under 35, and was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, the Bedford International Poetry Award, The Malahat Review's Far Horizons Contest, The Malahat Review's Long Poem Prize, a Canadian National Magazine Award and the Arc's Poem of the Year three times.
