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CHANNEL Islands surfers dominated the annual British Universities Surfing Championships at Fistral Beach in Cornwall at the weekend.

JERSEY'S Commonwealth Games triathletes' preparations for Melbourne have suffered further disruption.

THE Island is beginning to win the fight against smoking with the number of people calling a specialist quitline doubling in the past year, it was revealed today.

FERRY company Emeraude has two days to say if it will return to the Jersey to St Malo route. If the deadline is not met, it risks losing allocated docking times.

THE Environment Department are preserving fish stocks by limiting trawler sizes and empowering fisheries officers to enforce EU rules on foreign vessels.

REAL efforts are being made to improve conditions at La Moye prison, the Home Affairs Minister claimed yesterday - despite the fact that a large number of recommendations made by official inspectors in 2001 have still not been addressed.

THE man who died after falling through the roof of Normans has been named as 26-year-old Thomas Gibb.

AN innovative recycling scheme to be adopted in St John could soon become second nature to all Islanders if a six-month pilot is successful.

CIVIL servants earning up to £45,000 per year will be able to stand for election under new rules proposed by ministers.

MARGARET du Feu has been named the Woman in the Community 2006 in recognition of her exceptional and long-term devotion to caring for the elderly.