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GUERNSEY’S men finished first, second and third in the annual Sark to Jersey rowing race on Saturday.

THE phrase ‘a good time was had by all’ both understates and overstates the quality of the experience provided by his year’s Jersey Live festival held in Trinity over the weekend.

From Brian Hotton. I WRITE re Bob Gaiger’s letter (JEP, 28 August) ‘It is not too late to reverse this political gesture’ which referred to the ‘about turn’ on GST on food.

OIL and gas exploration and production company Heritage Oil has announced an improved year on year performance for the six months to the end of June.

AT a time when it appears to simple folk like me that elected representatives on both sides of the Channel Islands’ pond are actively seeking ways of co-operating – and not before time, in my view, given the potential for saving money and resources – it’s disappointing that we now have elected representatives from both [...]

A TENT at Jersey Live which allowed festival-goers to snort, smoke and swallow legal drugs in front of police officers was shut down on Saturday.

SIR Alex Ferguson calls it ‘squeaky bum time’ – the point in the football season when time starts running out.

From George Smith. WHILE appreciating Bob Gaiger’s view on increasing the personal tax allowances to help poor people, I would ask him how it would help those people, and there are quite a few, whose income is so low they are not even asked to post a tax return as they do not qualify to [...]

JERSEY thrower Zane Duquemin won the under-17 discus event in the UK Schools Games – the country’s mini Olympics – in Bath at the weekend,

THREE former residents of Jersey children’s homes have announced that they are suing the States in a move which could result in multi-million pound compensation pay-outs.