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WHILE there are numerous Islanders who help to make the Battle of Flowers the success that it is, it is safe to say that without the float builders there would be no parade.

CARNIVAL spirit takes over the Island today for the 106th year as the Battle of Flowers gets under way on Victoria Avenue – and fingers are crossed that the weather stays dry.

WORLD-class athletes will be offered the chance to train in Jersey’s best sports facilities ahead of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

FOUR teenagers drugged and beat a 14-year-old girl and shaved off her hair and eyebrows because she was ‘irritating’ them while high on ecstasy.

DESPITE the arrival of 100,000 rotten flowers last week and a number of funding threats over the past year, most of the float building teams for today’s Battle of Flowers were well ahead of schedule last night.

ROYAL Jersey player Dave Bushnell has clinched his first Royal victory and topped off a great run of results by being named the JEP/Itex Golfer of the Month.

A THICK plume of black smoke poured over St Brelade’s Bay yesterday after a fire tore through a group of outbuildings.

CENTURIONS Cricket Club won the second annual Summer Sixes knock-out cricket competition at FB Fields on Saturday, on a day that featured 11 teams notching up 2,187 runs between them.

ANYONE who grew up with the Battle of Flowers – especially the girls – will have had their favourite.

AS if Battle of Flowers week is not stressful enough, float builders around the Island were rocked by the news this week that 100,000 dyed chrysanthemums from Holland were rotten.