XANTHE'S
STAMP MAGAZINE

We always review every issue from Great Britain, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. Unfortunately, as we have been doing different things over the summer, we missed the Tales of St Helier issue from Jersey, which was released on 10th August. I have heard of the town of St Helier on Jersey, but I don't know much about the person it was named after. Jersey Stamps & Collectibles tells us more about these stamps and St Helier: "Tales of Saint Helier illustrates the most

Monaco has create a new stamp to celebrate 50 years of the Larvotto Marine Protected Area (MPA) in 1976. Larvotto was the first MPA in the world located in an urban environment. The WOPA website tells us that "it shelters a rich and diverse biodiversity and serves as a veritable natural laboratory" and is a base for important "scientific monitoring programs". We see from the stamp how close the MPA is to the city of Monte Carlo. The protected sea area is basically right nex