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THE exceptional standards at this year’s Commonwealth Youth Games in India are all too obvious for Jersey’s young athletes.

YESTERDAY’S Senatorial election was remarkable for two principal reasons — Ian Le Marquand’s outstanding poll-topping performance and the electorate’s failure to embrace the idea that establishment figures should be ousted in favour of a new breed of politician implacably opposed to current policies.

From Cathy Eglington. WELL done to Daniel Wimberley in choosing environment-friendly election banners.

AT last a Jersey building has won a national award – but it is unlikely that anyone will bother to collect it.

FINANCIAL incentives will need to be offered if film producers are to be attracted to Jersey, a seminar audience was told last week.

JERSEY’S own singing sensation swapped the microphone for her running shoes last week to take part in London’s first half marathon, Run to the Beat.

POLITICAL newcomer Ian Le Marquand, the former Magistrate, swept to the top of the poll and a likely new job as Home Affairs Minister in a Senatorial election which also saw Education Minister Mike Vibert lose his seat last night.

From Richard Murphy, Tax Justice Network UK. I NOTE that Jersey is to ask major European banking centres to extend savings guarantees to Jersey to protect depositors in the offshore finance industry on which the Island’s economy depends (JEP, 11 October).

Former Magistrate Ian Le Marquand has topped the poll in the 2008 Senatorial election.

PAUL Clements has conquered the heat in Hawaii to complete a gruelling ironman triathlon at the Ford World Championships.