vinery

An enormous fellow, with a great red face and cropped moustache, occupied my poor father's place; he it was who had replaced our fruitful vineries with his stinking stables; but I am bound to own he looked a genial clod, as he sat in his fat and listened to the young bloods boasting of their prowess, or elaborately explaining their mishaps.

The vehicle is believed to have hit the lamppost at around 5.30pm in Woolton, between the junctions with The Vineries and Vale Road on Menlove Avenue.

Plant nurseries are called vineries in Guernsey because it was originally famed for its grapevines - as was Jersey.

Full instructions are available from January 10 on the CPRE website at www.cpre.org.uk/starcount EMMA MARRINGTON, rural policy campaigner, Campaign for the Protection of Rural England & BOB MIZON, co-ordinator of the Campaign for Dark Skies, 38 The Vineries, Colehill, Wimborne BH21 2PX

to remove the company's name from Gush Shalom's list of settlement products.<p>The Gush Shalom spokesperson told the company's representative that as long as Barkan Wineries continue to maintain vineyards on the Golan Heights, which is an occupied territory, Gush Shalom will continue to regard it as a settlement company, despite its having completely removed its plant from the industrial zone of the Barkan settlement from which the vineries originally derived their name.

APPROXIMATELY e1/410 million in EU funds were distributed this year among Cypriot wine-makers and vineries in a bid to encourage investment in the sector.