TENNIS: Despite drawing 12 matches all at the weekend, Jersey lost out on lifting or sharing the inter-insular Bucktrout Trophy as holders Guernsey retain the cup under the competition’s rules.
The annual double’s tournament was played on Sunday at the Caesarean Tennis Club.
Jersey won the men’s doubles 5-3, while they lost the ladies’ doubles 3-5 and both teams drew four matches each in the mixed.
BY beating England 3-2 at St Peter yesterday afternoon Jersey’s mixed touch team proved, for the third time in a row, that they are the best in Europe.
THE NatWest 72-hole strokeplay competition was a triumph for Royal Jersey, with Gavin O’Neill beating fellow club member Christy McLaughlin by just one stroke at La Moye on Saturday
IT was simply a tremendous weekend for Channel Islands athletics.
AGRICULTURAL subsidies have not worked and should be phased out.
That is the view of Economic Development president Deputy Gerald Voisin.
EIGHTEEN full and part-time staff at Aids charity Acet Jersey are facing redundancy.
CALLS for greater political commitment to the future of farming and rural life were made at the weekend launch of a new countryside campaign.
WATER bombs were thrown from Minden Place car park at a visiting dignitary during the official opening of the Salvation Army’s newly renovated headquarters on Saturday afternoon.
A 17-YEAR-OLD female was taken to hospital after being attacked by ten other young women as she walked home through Le Geyt Flats on Friday night.
CHARGES against a teenager arrested for allegedly breaching the peace have been dropped after Magistrate Ian Le Marquand said there was no legal case against him.
