3rd May 2011
Princess Royal opens Zoo’s visitor centre
As a patron of the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, Princess Anne visited Jersey to open the zoo’s new visitors centre, café and shops. She remained in Jersey until the following day, and also opened new buildings at Mont a L’Abbe school.
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Other events that occured in May
Plane scrapes the runway at Jersey Airport
- A DC-8 flying into Jersey came in with its nose too high and its tail too low. The tail struck the runway and scraped along it.
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Potato diggers start work but end up in court
- Philippe Simon appeared in court when he refused to pay the labourers he’d employed to dig up his potatoes.
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A marriage mix-up means marrying twice
- When the registrar recorded that a marriage had happened in the wrong church it was declared void and had to be repeated.
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Measles outbreak at the boys’ home
- Measles infected 35 residents of the Jersey home for boys in what came to be described variously as an “epidemic” or “plague”.
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