SIX sports, athletics, badminton, boxing, shooting, tennis and weight-lifting will feature in the 2008 Commonwealth Youth Games in Delhi but not swimming, a sport which provided Jersey’s Daniel Halksworth with a gold and silver medal in last year’s Games in Bendigo, Australia.
JERSEYBORN footballer Brett Pitman has been voted Players’ Player of the Year by his youth team colleagues at AFC Bournemouth.
THE Island’s darts season comes to a climax this weekend with two big matches against Guernsey sides.
ALISON CAMACHO showed her hand in Belfast yesterday, when she won her first two group matches in the World Indoor Bowls Council women’s championship, and staked a claim for a place in the knockout stages.
THE Housing Committee will sell the eight bedsits at Caledonia Close in Pier Road for £650,000 to the owners of the Royal Yacht Hotel, if the States agree.
THE long-awaited States debate on tax reform will take place the day after celebrations commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Liberation.
THE Home Affairs Committee have supported a decision by police chief Graham Power to refuse a £6,000 donation towards the Gay Police Association conference in the UK.
PLANS to promote new growth in the Jersey economy were overwhelmingly endorsed by the States yesterday.
VOTING is under way to decide which local bands will battle it out for a place on stage at this year’s Jersey Live Festival.
LAST-minute legal advice from the Solicitor General scuppered moves in the States yesterday to protect green-field sites from developers.
