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JERSEY’S cricketers face an uphill struggle to remain in Division IV of the World Cricket League after defeats in their opening two games over the weekend in Tanzania.

From Maya Hammarsal. ON the surface it looks simple. Food prices are high, so bring in a large chain supermarket and everything will be OK. Well, no. If you think things are bad now, they’ll just get a whole lot worse. Not at first, of course.

THE Victoria in the Valley has a new tenant who plans to give it a makeover and promote it as a traditional country pub serving real ales and home-made food.

DESPITE the terrible conditions, near 2,000 runners took part in the third Standard Chartered Jersey Marathon, relay and fun run yesterday.

A GROUP taking part in the Great North Run on Sunday in memory of a special friend have raised £10,000 for the lifeboat appeal in his name.

YEARS ago I was surprised, and not to say more than a little delighted, to receive a bottle of top-notch calvados from the agency in the United Kingdom which promoted the stuff and, unlike an old mate of mine who polished off a bottle of single malt given to him as a birthday gift at [...]

TIMING, it is said, is one of the most important skills a stand-up comedian can have.

From Brendan McDonald. I WOULD have thought that those top executives at the Milk Marketing Board who are being paid handsomely would be able to sit around the boardroom table and determine the price of milk. That is what they are being paid for, after all.

THE Standard Chartered Jersey Marathon men’s race on Sunday was won by Andrew Hennessy in a new record time of 2.29.05.

FOUR boats battled at the weekend to tug a stricken ship to safety off Jersey’s south coast in the biggest rescue operation of the year.