AROUND 200 patients will have their operations postponed after equipment failure caused by the hot weather led to three of the Hospital’s seven operating theatres being closed for at least a fortnight. The failure of the main chiller unit serving the trio of theatres, as well as the adjacent recovery unit, was ruled to be […]

THE current heatwave has now become one of the most severe seen in Jersey: the fifth occasion where maximum temperatures have exceeded 30°C for four successive days – at any time of year. Yesterday’s high of 33.4°C was just short of the maximum temperature recorded on Tuesday, 34.2°C, which was more than five degrees above […]