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A MULTI-MILLIONAIRE oil tycoon and former special forces soldier who once controlled one of the world’s most high-profile mercenary armies has become a tax exile in Jersey.

JERSEY-based fund of hedge funds firm Ermitage Group is opening an office in New York and has appointed a new London-based executive director.

SO you think you’re pretty nifty on a bike, then? Well, now you can put that belief to the test and become an advanced motorcyclist in Jersey.

From Jeremy Oxenden. I AM a keen third-generation all-year-round surfer and I have been surfing in one way or another since 1963.

CONTINUING work to upgrade the Jersey Evening Post’s press at Five Oaks has caused more delays to the distribution of the paper this week.

JERSEY Evening Post online readers have voted against the Island changing to Central European Time – but only by a small margin.

THE JEP’s Make a Plan campaign has been so successful that the Fire and Rescue Service has had to draft in retired firefighters to cope with the soaring demand for home safety visits.

From Senator Stuart Syvret. I READ with interest the comment in your Our Island series by Dr Elena Moran (JEP, 20 June) concerning the future of politics in Jersey.

From Deputy Roy Le Hérissier. YOUR paper continually espouses the importance of maintaining traditional community values yet another arm of your group, CIN, is acting to undermine them.

A TOURIST thinks there should be more signs in Jersey to warn people about ‘vicious’ birds after two seagulls attacked her at Durrell on Wednesday.