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INVESTEC Bank in the Channel Islands has recorded its sixth consecutive year of profit growth.

A JERSEY Royal Marine commando has died while on a punishing training course to be part of the elite Special Boat Service, the sister unit of the SAS.

IT is now August and already sports are being affected, not by the weather, but by the summer bug.

BEFORE moving away from cricket to athletics, I do feel for those cricketers from the end of July who will have to give up their sport simply because there’s no more cricket for them.

From Willy Nieuwburg. IN May this year the Chief Minister, Frank Walker, spoke about Jersey’s environment during a speech to the Jersey Institute of Directors.

CHILDLINE founder Esther Ranzten has called for the Bailiff to apologise in the States to the victims of child abuse in Jersey.

ISLAND tennis players have reached five of the 12 remaining singles finals in the BNP Paribas Jersey Junior Open.

TO return to my favourite summer sport – athletics. In 2012 I want to be in London, because I think that the London Olympics will be a real knock-out.

From Colin Russell, chairman, Safer St Helier Community Partnership. I AM writing to you to recognise and applaud the recent football and touch rugby free summer sport session sponsored by Crimestoppers and G4S Security which offers free sport to children aged between 11 and 17 almost every day of the summer.

FRANCE’S Remy Arauzo won the European Longboard tour’s first round ‘Citi’ Log Jam 2008 event which ran alongside the 2008 British Longboard Championships in St Ouen last weekend.