Related category: Community(Jersey News) Author: Jamesq on Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Jersey News, 20 April 2010 – The sub-post office in the Central Market is to be moved to the Co-Op Homemaker Store in nearby Don Street. The new service in the Co-Op will open on Tuesday 4 May but the existing one in the market will not close its doors until 30 June. There will [...]
Related category: Community, Finance & Business(Jersey News) Author: Jamesq on Thursday, April 1, 2010
Jersey News, 1 April 2010 – The birds whose melodious songs make a woodland walk an enjoyable pursuit feature on a new stamp issue from Jersey Post. Woodland Birds is the latest instalment in the Jersey Birdlife series. To maintain the continuity of the series – which has also featured garden, migrating and songbirds – [...]
Related category: Charity, Sport(Jersey News) Author: Jamesq on Monday, March 22, 2010
Jersey News, 22 March 2010 – Jersey Post is supporting a community event for young Island gymnasts to showcase their skills. The Jersey Post Recreational Championships 2010 takes place in May and is the highlight of the year for gymnasts aged from four to 12 years. This year sees the 30th anniversary of the competition [...]
Related category: Community(Jersey News) Author: Jamesq on Friday, March 19, 2010
Jersey News, 19 March 2010 – A floodlit summer’s night scene of Mont Orgueil came top in a Jersey Post competition to find the Island’s most popular stamp of 2009. Last December, Jersey Post invited Islanders to vote for their favourite stamp from six shortlisted issues/stamps: Jersey Nature, Jersey Railways, Jersey Birdlife, Jersey Scenery, Astronomy [...]
Related category: Community(Jersey News) Author: Jamesq on Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Jersey News, 9 March 2010 – Rocks that make up the Island feature on a new set of postage stamps released by Jersey Post under the title of Petrology. Petrology is the branch of geology that studies rocks, and the conditions in which rocks form. The stamp issue is dedicated to this discipline and follows [...]
Related category: Community, Telecommunications(Jersey News) Author: Jamesq on Friday, February 26, 2010
Jersey News, 26 February 2010 –The Jersey Post Group is offering free calls on its pay-as-you-go mobile phone network, me:mo and MoneyGram transactions to members of the local Portuguese community who are wishing to contact and help loved ones in Madeira. The me:mo offer is available to anyone with family members or close friends living [...]
Related category: Finance & Business(Jersey News) Author: Jamesq on Thursday, February 18, 2010
Jersey News, 18 February 2010 – Jersey Post is extending its SecureDrop delivery service to St Helier following successful trials last year in other parishes. SecureDrop is a convenient and free service designed to provide Islanders with an alternative parcel delivery location. The purpose is to enable householders to nominate a place on their property [...]
Related category: Finance & Business(Jersey News) Author: Jamesq on Monday, February 8, 2010
Jersey News, 8 February 2010 – Jersey Post is issuing a stamp that glows in the dark as part of a Europe-wide stamp issue celebrating popular children’s story books. Having chosen Edward Lear’s Dong with the Luminous Nose to feature on the 80p stamp, Jersey Post asked the artist Michael Pollard – an accomplished book [...]
Related category: Finance & Business(Jersey News) Author: Jamesq on Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Jersey News, 19 January 2010 – The Health and Safety Manager at Jersey Post, David Grimes, has been made an accredited trainer by the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health. The Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) is the chartered body for health and safety professionals and Mr Grimes is a Chartered Member. He [...]
Related category: Community(Jersey News) Author: Jamesq on Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Jersey News, 13 January 2010 – Jersey Post’s first stamp issue for 2010 marks the centenary of the Girl Guides, a youth organisation with ten million members worldwide and more than 500 in the Island. The Girl Guides were founded in 1910 by Robert Baden-Powell a lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer and founder of [...]