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Holders stride into semi-final

HOLDERS St Saviour will entertain St Lawrence and St Martin host St Clement in the Trinity Shield semi-finals on Monday 2 January.

Sporting round-up

SAILING:Henry Perkins aboard his Laser beat Emma Speller by one second to win the St Catherine's SC Boxing Day race. The pair were closely followed by Lydia Carter and Ruan Simpson.

Cohen names planning team

THE politicians who will decide planning applications for the next three years have been put forward for States approval.

No white Christmas – but snow could be on the way this week, warn the Met Office

JERSEY may have missed out on a white Christmas Day, but as we head towards New Year it looks like the Island could see some snow showers.

Time for the ghost hunt to begin

JERSEY-BORN ghost hunter Nicky Sewell has reported a great response to her appeal for information about possible hauntings in the Island.

Flames of hope for Asia

THE first anniversary of the tsunami that ripped across the Indian Ocean passed on Boxing Day with Islanders marking the occasion by lighting candles in their windows.

Splashing out at Christmas

HOW many JEP readers can say they wake up on Christmas morning desperate for a festive dunk in a freezing sea?

Bargain hunters turn out in force

FESTIVE sales in town on Boxing Day and yesterday exceeded expectation in many stores as shoppers queued outside for the best of the bargains.

Island of farmers and wenches

JERSEY is being hailed as the new Thomas Hardy country in a feature in the Daily Mail today that followed the broadcast of the drama 'Under the Greenwood Tree' which went out nationally on ITV on Boxing Day.

Candles are lit in tsunami victim’s memory

JERSEY'S only Asian tsunami victim, Pete Harrison, was remembered on Boxing Day in a simple but touching ceremony at his memorial in Havre des Pas.