Last collection (for some) for 2025 before we segue into 2026. And to clear the decks it's white/clear bags to recycle your paper and card please, plus black sack residual waste and your food caddy. Happy New Year 🥳 🎉 Bin night arrangements here – valeparish.gg/news/bin-night…

Back to normal with a chilly, grey week in prospect. Best warm up by recycling cans, plastics and cartons in blue bags please plus the "glass bag" for jars and bottles and your food caddy. Mind, 🕰️change in 83 days!!

A potentially life-saving device has been installed at Les Amarreurs – plugging a gap in the island's network – thanks to the Constables and Vale Douzaine. Details here: valeparish.gg/news/new-life-…

Refuse and recycling collections are cancelled for Thursday 8 January because of extreme winds. If your household was due a collection on Thursday 8 January, a rescheduled collection will take place on the evening of Friday 9 January. More here: gov.gg/stormgoretti

"Please move your vehicles" reminder as Vale car park improvements are imminent. Details here: valeparish.gg/news/car-park-…

Paper and cardboard for recycling this week please, plus black sack residual waste and your food caddy. Oh, and it's set to remain breezy all week so those white bags might need pinning down 📌 📌 🙂

Beat those Blue Monday gremlins with some positivity! Sort that recycling – blue bags (appropriate!) for cans, plastics and cartons please, plus the "glass bag" for jars and bottles and your food caddy. That's the spirit 🙂

🤞🤞🤞there may even be some sun this week as you sort that recycling – white/clear bags please for paper and cardboard, your food caddy and black sack residual waste.

The north of the island needs a national park to mitigate all the new houses planned there, says a leading deputy. More details here: valeparish.gg/news/national-…

A new States member who lives in the Vale has offered to spend up to half his time helping parishioners and seeing if he can make life a little better for them in the north. More details here: valeparish.gg/news/deputy-va…

Please note that there are some changes to our office opening hours that take effect from Thursday until 16 February. Full details here: valeparish.gg

Proposed bus changes could bring back the evening weekday bus to the north. Other changes, tomorrow's "explainer" meeting and how to have your say all here: valeparish.gg/news/have-your…

Just when you thought we'd forgotten...😇 your first collection of February will be blue bags please for recycling cans, plastics and cartons plus the "glass bag" for bottles and jars and your food caddy. Something else you can depend on!

2026 is the National Year of Reading, a campaign to reverse the trend of less people reading for pleasure. So, whether you’re sharing stories with a newborn, getting lost in a novel, reading a comic, a cookbook or sports analysis, this year is about making time to read for joy.

Ah, Valentine’s Day beckons 🌹💐🌹💐 so don’t forget your recycling! It’s a romantic white/clear bag week for paper and cardboard please, plus your food caddy, plus the smooch-fest that’s your black sack residual waste…

A new filter system is to be installed in the Vale starting tomorrow to improve safety at a particularly difficult junction. Where it is and why it's needed all here: valeparish.gg/news/vale-to-g…

More than half way through February already – which means it's blue bags for recycling cans, plastics and cartons please plus the "glass bag" for jars and bottles and your food caddy. Spring's ⛅️ on the way!

Audited parish accounts for 2025 and some forecasts of proposed expenditure for this year have been published today by the Vale Constables. More detail here: valeparish.gg/news/accounts-…

How's the new Barras Lane filter working for you? States Traffic and Highways is looking for feedback on the 12-month trial. Here's how to have your say: valeparish.gg/news/new-barra…

Last bin night of February, a drier 🌵 week in prospect and clocks ⏰ go forward in 35 days' time – so it must be white/clear bags for recycling paper and cardboard please, plus black sack residual waste and your food caddy!