ISLAND football manager Dave Matthews has announced an initial training squad of 22 players as he begins his preparations for the Ambassadeur Bowl under-21 Muratti in Guernsey on 9 April.
This Is Jersey
Daily Archives: March 18, 2004
Cricket:Jersey go for international innings
JERSEY and Guernsey are both to apply for membership of the International Cricket Council.
Squash:Men’s efforts not enough for Jersey
While Guernsey retained the overall inter-insular squash trophy 18-12, Jersey did put up their best fight for some years over the weekend.
Cross-country: Mont Nicolle spring a surprise
THERE was a surprise in store for teams competing in the Jersey Primary School Sports Association’s cross-coutry run at St Ouen’s Manor yesterday, when the boys from Mont Nicolle school came from nowhere to win the race ahead of reigning champions St Martin’s who, until then, had been ahead from the start.
Junior fencing continues comeback
THE first Jersey Junior Fencing Championships in over 20 years took place at Fort Regent at the weekend when 30 young fencers aged between nine and 16 years competed for age group trophies at foil, epée and sabre.
Monopoly’ claims over growers’ new group
A NEW marketing group made up of five of the Island’s biggest Jersey Royal potato growers was accused of being ‘a single monopolistic and exclusive’ group in the States on Tuesday.
Immigration: ‘No bar to EU families’
THERE is nothing to stop work permit-holders bringing their families to Jersey once their countries join the European Union this May.
Fountain work is scrapped
MONTHS of restoration work on the Central Market fountain is to be ripped out because it may not be historically accurate.
Civil service ‘must work side by side’ with States
CIVIL servants’ leader John Moulin is urging his members to work ’side by side’ with the States in radically overhauling the public sector.
Mother Nature takes on pollution
AN innovative system that uses nature to clean up polluted rainwater has opened at the Airport.
