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Old Victorians v Sporting Club OLD VICTORIANS are reaching their peak now and have just had a comprehensive win over Springfield when they managed to score 311 off 45 overs with Player of the Week Chris Jones (145) and Johnny Gough (100) scoring the bulk of the runs. They look a far different team than the one that lost by 132 runs to Sporting Club earlier in the season, but they will be without Tom Minty.

THE cream of Channel Islands golfers come together this weekend in Guernsey for the annual Alexander Forbes Channel Islands club championship.

YOUNG high jumper Josh Cowdrey collected one of the four athlete-of-the-match awards as the combined Guernsey/Jersey team produced their best UKA Young Athletes League result of the season in Basingstoke.

THREE demolition workers were injured when they fell two storeys at the old Le Rocquier School yesterday,

ENVIRONMENT Minister Freddie Cohen may have inadvertently dropped a hint that UK supermarket giant Tesco is seriously interested in opening a store in Jersey when he told a press conference today that he had no financial interests in the company.

ST Martin Centenier Mike Messiter was arrested and questioned for nearly six hours by States police officers after arriving at Police Headquarters thinking he was going to discuss a case.

THE official boundaries of a Napoleonic fort on Grouville Common were formally approved last week - nearly 200 years after it was built.

RESIDENTS of St Brelade are in a spot of bother over a pesky insect with a toxic touch - and they have no idea how to get rid of it.

THE Jersey Live festival will be over two nights for the first time this year - and number one sensation Sandi Thom will be among the headline acts on the first night.

PLANS for funding elderly care in the future will be published in the autumn and are likely to be debated in the States early next year.