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From Ernie Mallett. ALTHOUGH Jersey Live is a good music event, it is also highway robbery. The prices charged for food and drink inside were unbelievable.

THERE is no rift between the police and the Attorney General’s legal team, the man now in charge of the historic child abuse inquiry said today.

From John Dix. ABOUT this time of year we hear the perennial cry that we won’t have another air display unless business or the States comes up with more cash to guarantee the event. It is a wonderful show, but who are the beneficiaries, apart from the charities who collect money?

ISLANDERS could be protected from huge phone bill increases after the competition watchdog announced plans to renew caps on Jersey Telecom price rises.

JERSEY is in a ‘fantastic financial position’ that is ‘cause for celebration and congratulation’, said Chief Minister Frank Walker in opening the debate on the States Business Plan yesterday.

From Craig Leach. ANNA Plunkett-Cole (JEP, 13 September) and certain politicians, given their strong views on the immorality of taxation on food, must be agonising over where to take their holidays. In France the tax is 5.5%, in Germany and Spain it is 7% and in Italy it is 10%.

From John Clennett. I HAVE read with interest the letter of David Warr (JEP, 11 September) touching on those public services which are best run by the States and those which should be run by private enterprise.

From Mike de Petrovsky. YOUR proof-reading error in my letter of last Saturday makes a nonsense of the sentence in which it was contained.

ISLANDERS have raised almost £28,000 to help the British Red Cross fund an emergency relief operation in the hurricane-ravaged Caribbean.

A RECORD number of candidates have declared for the Senatorial election to be held next month.