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A LEADING Jersey finance company has been closed down by the Jersey Financial Services Commission following a police investigation into investment schemes which allegedly led to Islanders losing hundreds of thousands of pounds.

INVESTEC and the Jersey Sports Association for the Disabled took their relationship to new heights this month when they chose the Jersey Eye as the location to renew their partnership agreement.

THANK goodness for the credit crunch and the strong euro.

From Alan Anderson. IF the claim (JEP, 18 July) of Senator Le Main that the purchase of share transfer flats by non-residents does not adversely affect local buyers is accepted at face value, the Housing Minister ought logically to allow non-residents to buy (although not to occupy) any property in the Island.

JERSEY netballer Serena Guthrie is off to Australia this weekend with the England under-21 squad who are touring as part of their build up towards the 2009 World Youth Championships.

ALEX LANGLEY was fourth in the Queen’s Prize stage two at Bisley yesterday, one of four Jersey fullbore rifle shooters to qualify for this major final.

A JERSEY couple are one million pounds richer today, but instead of popping champagne corks in the Island, they are celebrating their win in St Malo.

From Centenier Tim Tindall. THE cattle breeder that you pictured with a report on the vote to remove the long-standing ban on bull semen imports (JEP, 21 July) was my great-grandfather, Desiré Reynel.

IT is hard to know whether it is gratifying or not that a States department could have as much trouble with GST as any other shopkeeper.

JERSEY Telecom has said that it will ‘keep an eye’ on developments in the UK after six of the biggest internet providers agreed to launch a major crackdown on online piracy.