A RIDER in next weekend’s Tour de Grouville will be following in his great-great-grandfather’s footsteps when he competes on a penny farthing.
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Daily Archives: May 30, 2008
Bank scoops award again
HSBC Bank International has been named the Best International Bank Group.
If we want change, we must vote for it
From Gino Risoli.
IN your Our Island page (JEP, 8 May), Ruth Le Cocq finishes her article by asking the question: ‘Why are children who are crying out for help not getting it?
Safety review ordered for Castle vehicles
A REVIEW of safety procedures for the vehicles that ferry people to Elizabeth Castle has been ordered after Jersey Heritage announced it would take over running the craft.
This ‘cycle-friendly’ Island should resurface its track
From Gary Bowman.
AS a regular cyclist into St Helier from the west of the Island, I find it a shame that the cycle track, from St Aubin into St Helier, has degenerated into such a poor state of repair.
£8,000 cap sought on Senatorial campaigns
CANDIDATES in this year’s Senatorial elections could have their campaign spending capped at around £8,000.
A telling tale of one man’s rage against decency
AT the time of writing Joey Barton is in prison, at the taxpayer’s expense (£2,000 a week), although I would imagine that Newcastle are still paying all, or most of his £60,000-a-week wages.
Gurkha regiments have won 26 VCs in 200 years
From Edward Le Conte.
FURTHER to my correspondence concerning the Gurkha Victoria Crosses (JEP, 3 April), when I mentioned that there were a number awarded ‘in the field’ in Japanese-occupied Burma, I have since received further information and detail from the organisation Friends of the Gurkhas, of which I am a member and benefactor of the […]
We had 7,000 people at the Boat Show who weren’t disappointed
From Nick Rice, general manager, Freeport Marine Ltd.
I AM sorry that Mr Gait and his family (JEP, 12 May) were disappointed by their visit to the Jersey Boat Show – probably the only disappointed people out of 7,000 who came down the gangplanks on to the pontoons in the three days of the show.
An opportunity to make savings manifests itself…
From Cameron McPhail.
THE whole Island must have been heartened and relieved by the news from the Auditor General that our public sector is a model of efficiency and that no further savings could be made without cutting into muscle and so undermining the services provided to a grateful public.