Bailiwick Podcasts

Investigations are now underway into the island's twin tragedies: one in St. Ouen's Bay and one on Pier Road, which together claimed 13 lives.

Each one of those was a major incident for the island's emergency services. So how did they cope, and what do the coming months hold for them?

On this Bailiwick news pod, Rod McCloughlin put the questions to Police Chief Robin Smith...

We’re now just a few days on from one of the worst tragedies in Jersey in living memory. Islanders are struggling to come to terms with events on Pier Road on Saturday 10th December. With nine islanders missing after a major blast rocked St Helier, the island is still in shock.

Expert teams are still searching the site at Haut du Mont flats for evidence, and with the even tougher objective of confirming exactly what happened to the islanders who lost their lives.

It’s only to be expected that ever since the explosion, just before 04:00 early on Saturday morning, information as to the cause has steadily been coming out, mixed in with rumour and supposition.

Join James Filleul for this news podcast special, as we establish exactly what we know, so far.

Karl Marshall talks to Laura Clayton about recent opposition to the event, and how it has affected their 2023 plans.

Alan Bates, Guernsey Electricity's MD, talks to Laura Clayton about the European energy crisis and how we can help.

Proposals for changing the way tax and social security contributions are levied and weighted have been published in Guernsey. Laura Clayton takes a look at the proposals in a nutshell with a look at the first public meeting held to address the suggested changes and the reactions.

A year ago, a damning report into Adult Mental Health Services in Jersey was published, concluding that while there were examples of good practice, the service was essentially unsafe.

Express talks to Andy Weir, the man employed to turn things around.

This week you're going to hear a lot of statements like: “Together, we will make Jersey a thriving community." It can only be Common Strategic Policy week in the States Assembly.

We cut through the chat on Politics Disassembled this week, with Town Constable Simon Crowcroft. From a Town Park to a Country Park to the fact that the new hospital seems parked...Constable Crowcroft talks green spaces, primary schools, walking and cycle routes and actually getting stuff done. Maybe.

There's also the removal of GST on food - Constable Crowcroft explains why he wouldn't have GST in the first place...but he would keep it on food.

Express finds out more about the life of Occupation hero Bob Le Sueur MBE through the recollections of historian, broadcaster and author Chris Stone, who helped Bob record his memoirs, which were published in 2000.

It’s become a comedy, and perhaps for some, a tragedy…but this is one project which really matters. And so far, 10 years on, it is still in very major doubt. When the new hospital review came out, it said the previous plans for Overdale were unaffordable, and using multiple sites was less risky.

Deputy Lyndon Farnham was the one cajoling, persuading, lobbying - doing all he could to get the island’s new hospital-on-a-hill delivered by 2026.

Well, it looks like that won’t happen. So what happens now? Deputy Farnham joins James Filleul on the Politics Disassembled Pod.

Major Bob Place tells Express what the Royal British Legion does in Guernsey, how its work supports ex service personnel and their families and how we can support it by buying and wearing a poppy.