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THE Jersey and Singapore trust businesses of Rathbone Brothers plc have been sold to their management team.

STATES Members took to last week’s four-day States sitting with all the decorum, emotional maturity and restrained calm of a screaming toddler on a long-haul flight.

THE picture of the burned out building on the front of Wednesday’s JEP was very shocking, and the only real surprise in the aftermath of the raging inferno that swept through what was home to around 50 people, is that none of them was hurt – in itself that must be something of a miracle.

From Pamela Karimjee. WHILE we are grateful for prescription charges having been dropped (although there are still prescribed items we need to buy frequently that are not on the list of free items), and more time allowed before the loss of benefits proposed for many people when the new Income Support system comes fully into [...]

ONE of Jersey’s best-known sportsmen has described the terrifying moments when he was savaged by a dog bred to guard sheep from bears and wolves.

ZANE DUQUEMIN’S magnificent summer keeps on getting better and better, with a superb debut for English Schools U17s on Saturday earning him another gold – and an official Jersey record.

JERSEY’S footballers drew 1-1 with Havant and Waterlooville on Saturday, having lost to the side 4-0 on Thursday.

THE Portuguese Consul has made an emotional appeal to Islanders not to forget the victims of the Broadlands lodging house blaze.

From Astrid Kisch. IN response to Mr McCredie’s letters (JEP, 3 and 15 July), please would you permit me to explain in more detail?

SOME inter-island flights and ferries were cancelled this morning as a result of an unofficial strike by Guernsey’s public sector manual workers.