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Daily Archives: June 23, 2008

Itex Walk: Hundreds complete the 48 miles

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HUNDREDS of Islanders donned their walking shoes to take part in the round-the-Island Itex Walk at the weekend.

Profit doubles at Jersey Post

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A MAJOR restructuring of Jersey Post has resulted in double the profits for 2007.

A Week in Politics

A warning – this could happen to anyone. You could be walking down the street, minding your own business, thinking about football and then BANG! You’ve become a States Member.

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A wheel without a fortune

THE Waterfront ferris wheel, which has been dubbed the Jersey Eye because of its similarity to the wheel that is so prominent on the London skyline, is not to everyone’s liking.

The Splash has been waiting a long time

AS Herself got into the car – actually she hadn’t got into it, she was watching me load bags into the boot – she told me that ‘with everything falling down and going to pieces’ around me I had to find something positive with which to start my next column. So here goes.

These plans will urbanise St Ouen’s Bay at a stroke

From David Beaugeard.
THE Watersplash plans are excellent, a well thought-out ‘resort plan’, beautifully presented, and in essence may very well be what Jersey needs.

I may sue, says rocket man

ROCKET man Terry McDonald is threatening to sue the States over the £43,000 bill for his cancelled world record attempt.

Britton’s finest

TWICE a World champion, John Higgins won the inaugural event in the World Series of Snooker last night at Fort Regent.

Indoor surfing facilities– at St Ouen?

From L Banks.
I THINK the Watersplash plans are far too extensive, urbanised, rather like Pontins, and with a great ugly observation tower smack on the seafront. I thought St Ouen’s Bay was a special area, so why are these plans for double the existing area?

Banahan try sets up Saxons triumph

JERSEYMAN Matt Banahan secured his first international rugby medal on Saturday, scoring England Saxons’ first try in their Churchill Cup triumph over Scotland A in Chicago.