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WITH numerous Islanders and tourists planning to pack Victoria Avenue tomorrow afternoon and on Friday night, keeping control of them all is no easy task.

STAMPS and autographs specialists Stanley Gibbons Group are bucking the trend so far this year and forecasting a strong second half.

A WEEK in London inevitably includes a leisurely hour or six on a sun terrace overlooking the Thames, rekindling exiled memories, quenched by cups of the latest American take on Italian coffee or something stronger, while café society waiters and waitresses flit between tables, hover, dispense libations and effortlessly scoop up tokens from departing guests.

ONE Islander was recently lucky enough to be invited to a special celebration held at Buckingham Palace.

HOUSE prices are up by almost a quarter compared with this time last year.

From Jane Churchill. ON Wednesday 6 August I read with dismay about the plight of Stephen Coleman, and by taking one look at the picture of him it was blatantly obvious that he is not ‘swinging the lead’.

TWO of the biggest names in Island football made it through to the last four of Jersey’s Charity Cup last night.

JAMES Gales has been conducting some family research and would like to make contact with any descendants of Joseph Barette, who died in 1924, and was married to Marguerite Barette (née Marett).

AS anyone trying to take that first vital step on the Jersey housing ladder knows only too well, we are now in the era of the half-million-pound three-bedroom house.

JOSH BAUDAINS, astride Strawberry Fragola, and Georgia Stevenson, on Free Spirit, were the overall Derby sash winners in the 148 cm and 128 cm classes respectively at the BSJA Summer Derby.