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GUERNSEY RFC's 2nd XV are favourites to win the JRA/Emeraude Lines League after beating league leaders Beeches 17-12 at Foote's Lane on Sunday.

PLANS are almost complete for the Northern Ireland Under-16 football squad to play two matches in the Channel Islands.

SPORTING Academics beat third-placed St Peter 5-3 away on Sunday morning to enhance their chances of winning the Lloyds TSB Junior League under-18 Division II title.

SHOCKWAVES have been reverberating around the netballing community today after St Brelade A beat Convent A last night in their Division Ia encounter at FB Fields.

THE size of the hole in the States workers' pension scheme is less than had been feared - at £78.1m. Senior politicians had been bracing themselves for double that figure.

THERE has been 'a quite remarkable transformation' in the way Jersey sees its Occupation history according to the controversial Occupation historian, Guardian journalist Madeleine Bunting, from a 'guns and tin hats' to 'a warts and all' attitude.

A PENSIONER claims he is one of Le Squez's 'forgotten residents' and says he is being made a prisoner in his own home by gangs of young troublemakers.

COMPULSORY basic motorcycle training will restart at the end of next month.

THE number of Methodist churches in the Island could be cut from 16 to seven, if one option suggested by a Church report finds favour with members.

ISLAND businesses were given approval to create nearly 2,400 new jobs last year.