JERSEY’S triathletes won their third consecutive annual inter-insular competition at the weekend, with first home being Commonwealth Games man James Amy, more than three minutes ahead of his closest pursuers, despite nursing injuries.
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Daily Archives: September 23, 2004
Hockey:Major winners in Minor Cup
THREE Minor Cup fixtures were played at the weekend, with the younger teams going into action against the more senior players.
Scoring mistakes at World Bowls finals
JERSEY’S bowlers may well have done better in the recent women’s world outdoor bowls championships at Royal Leamington Spa than they were given credit for.
Badminton:Bulgarian title for Cann
ELIZABETH Cann won the Bulgarian Open Badminton title at the weekend, beating No 1 seed Susan Hughes, from Scotland - a player she had never beaten before - in the final.
Golf:Willman conquers conditions to go top
TESTING conditions for the golfers in the Baker Tilly Channel Island PGA Players Championship at Les Mielles yesterday as the day broke with gale force winds gusting to 40 miles an hour.
Football:Combination sign up for £18,000
JERSEY football scored a vital goal yesterday - netting £18,000 for the Jersey Football Combination and its member clubs.
Sharp rise in unskilled employees
THE percentage of the Island’s workforce that is ‘not proficient’ has trebled in the last three years, according to the latest skills survey.
Five teenagers in court over noise on estate
FIVE children aged from 13 to 15 have been charged with causing a public nuisance by allegedly playing loud music, shouting and swearing up until 2 am.
Phone rise ‘only hits the well-off’
THE chairman of Jersey Telecom has defended the company’s plans for pensioners’ phone lines and insisted it is only the well-off who will suffer.
Heroin smugglers jailed
THREE people who tried to smuggle heroin worth £22,000 into Jersey by posting it in a tub of moisturiser were jailed for sentences varying from seven and a half years to three years yesterday.
