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From Karen McEwen. AS a Jersey person born and bred but living in the UK, I consider my Island to be unique and one of the most beautiful places in the world, but recently my husband and I have become extremely dismayed at what is taking place with the new developments.

FLOAT builders across the Island are in panic mode after 100,000 flowers worth nearly £7,000 arrived in the Island rotten this weekend.

From Stephen Regal. I AM writing to you in my capacity as president of the Jersey Jewish Congregation and particularly in respect of the article in the JEP headed ‘Senator sparks Nazi e-mail row’.

HOW about this for joined-up thinking? We had a swimming pool at Fort Regent, publicly owned and well used.

THE company behind a £50,000 review recommending no new supermarkets is working for the biggest supermarket chain in the Channel Islands.

AN old picture of Le Rondin Stores, St Mary, printed in April, prompted one of its former owners to get in touch with her own memories and photgraphs.

IT is clearly essential for Islanders to pay into social security coffers if, in the event of adversity, they want to claim benefits. That is the fundamental principle of insurance, even when it is a state-run compulsory scheme.

JERSEYMAN Jonathan Le Cocq emigrated to New Zealand six years ago and has recently been apppointed as Head of Centre for Music and Theatre at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch.

WITH more than 30 years of dedication to the Battle of Flowers, it is fair to say that Steve is one of the key people when it comes to helping make the parade the success that it is.

THERE’S wisdom in graffiti — not all of it, I’ll grant you.