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The Vale Douzaine has issued a cautious welcome for ambitions plans from the Guernsey Development Agency to regenerate extensive areas of the area around St Sampson's harbour. This follows members discussing the proposals in detail at their last meeting.

The dates of two important meetings affecting the Vale have been confirmed – that of the parish meeting, which effectively sets the budget and rates for the year, and the annual general meeting of the Vale Commons Council (VCC).

The Vale's Senior Constable has praised efforts by a Bridge resident to help make the area a better and brighter place. Bernie Coutu recently launched a one-woman campaign to improve it and Richard Leale said he was delighted by her efforts.

Suggestions that some of the States’ funding earmarked for helping to kick-start the development of Leale’s Yard could be used for education purposes instead underline how unsatisfactory the whole regeneration project has become, according to Vale parish officials.

Users of Bordeaux have been warned by Police not to park on the newly-painted safety "pavement" on the sea wall side of Castle Road as they risk committing an offence and being fined.

A field in the north of the parish has been saved from possible development in the future after its owner left it in perpetuity to the National Trust of Guernsey.

Dog owners in the Vale are being reminded that they have until the end of the month to get their dogs licenced – and an awful lot are leaving it late to do so!

Postie Lawson Pipet is one of the best known faces in the Vale. After all, he's been delivering letters and parcels in the parish for nearly 25 years. But there's something not many people know about him – he's got 57 tortoises in his back garden and he even "delivered" some of them himself. And before you say, that's a lot of tortoises, he used to have 81.

Measures now being taken at Bordeaux to make the road safer for pedestrians have been welcomed by the Vale's Senior Constable, Richard Leale.

The best way to facilitate house building in the Bridge and Lowlands areas is by creating flood defences across the mouth of St Sampson's harbour, the Vale's Senior Constable has said.