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JERSEY dressage rider Simon Laurens has been told that he is not only competing as an individual at this year’s Paralympics on his mount Ocean Diamond, but is also one of the four riders making up the Great Britain team.

FURIOUS States tenants have had to endure four months of misery inside a tower block which has been turned into a noisy, dirty building site.

From John Arrowsmith. I READ with sadness of the U-turn by the Council of Ministers who have accepted that ‘food’, however that may be defined, should be exempt from GST. I did have high hopes that ministerial government would allow unpopular, although necessary, measures to be introduced. It is unfortunate that they have been put [...]

From Patrick Cahill. I AM writing in response to the letter by Superintendent Shaun Du Val (JEP, 3 September).

TWO cousins charged with beating two men to a bloody pulp with a wooden bat walked free from court yesterday after being found not guilty.

HD Ferries is to lose its ramp permit for dropping out of winter sailings.

LINDSEY Greechan flirted with defeat in the quarter finals of the World Champion of Champions in Aberdeen yesterday, but sneaked home on a sudden death extra end, and clinched a place in this morning’s semi finals.

From Terry Connor. I WAS quite nonplussed by Ben Quérée’s criticism in Monday’s JEP of the Environment Scrutiny panel’s attempt to send the Constables to a recycling centre in Cardiff.

THE number of unwanted dogs and cats being brought to the Animals Shelter has rocketed in the last year because of soaring living costs and tough rules banning pets from flats.

From R Guille. I AM a regular traveller with HD Ferries and I am disgusted with the way they have just pulled the plug on future sailings.