Jersey

EU member states to issue joint warning to UK over reduced fishing rights

Fourteen countries likely to take tough stance in future talks about fisheries if access to UK waters does not improve

Daniel Boffey in Brussels and Lisa O'Carroll in Dublin

11, Oct, 2021 @5:38 PM

France threatens to cut UK and Jersey energy supply in fishing row

French government pushing EU to take stronger stance in dispute over access to Channel waters

Daniel Boffey in Brussels

05, Oct, 2021 @5:33 PM

France warns UK of ‘retaliation’ as Jersey braces for blockade in fishing row

Channel island’s government rejected third of French boats and ordered them out of its waters within 30 days

Daniel Boffey in Brussels

29, Sep, 2021 @9:48 PM

Jersey becomes ‘ark’ for endangered lizards rescued from oil spill

Skinks and geckos saved from disaster on Mauritian islets have successfully bred in zoo

Patrick Barkham

23, May, 2021 @5:45 AM

Time to come home, Mrs Tiggy-Winkle | Brief letters

Letters

10, May, 2021 @4:32 PM

It’s a win-win if UK loses war with France

If victory eludes us in the row over fishing rights around Jersey, the prospect of Macron at No 10 has much to recommend it

Ed Cumming

09, May, 2021 @8:30 AM

From the Normandy coast, the Jersey whelk wars look like sabotage

Locals in the port of Granville think the row between France and the UK over fishing makes no sense

John Lichfield in Granville, Manche

09, May, 2021 @8:15 AM

‘We’re piggy in the middle’: Brexit has made life impossible, say Jersey fishers

Their families have been fishing here for decades but despite promises of frictionless trade, the market for their fish is disappearing

Steven Morris in St Helier, Jersey

07, May, 2021 @1:10 PM

The Jersey fishing standoff shows Brexit has only just begun | Marley Morris

Britain will need to find a way to cooperate with its closest neighbours without resorting to gunboat diplomacy, says Marley Morris of the Institute for Public Policy Research

Marley Morris

07, May, 2021 @12:03 PM

EU accuses UK as France seeks to ‘rapidly defuse’ Jersey fishing row

France moves to calm diplomatic waters but Brussels says Britain has breached terms of Brexit trade deal

Lisa O'Carroll, Jon Henley and Daniel Boffey

06, May, 2021 @6:34 PM

French fishers’ protest over Jersey rights is over but the dispute will go on

New restrictions and deep cuts to allowances mean both French and Jersey boat owners feel betrayed by Brexit

Jon Henley, Lisa O'Carroll and Steven Morris in St Helier

06, May, 2021 @5:08 PM

Now is not the time to draw battle lines against France | Letters

Letters: Gunboat diplomacy in a fishing dispute is wrong when we need to work together to tackle a pandemic, writes Rev Kenneth Cross, while John Richards says this is not worth losing a life over and Peter Hepworth blames Brexit for the tensions