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LAST Saturday I enjoyed 20 minutes of the under-18 football game in the County Youth Cup between Jersey and Kent at Springfield, before Kent took over and, eventually, dominated the match.

FEMI ‘Fire’ Fehintola is ‘200 per cent’ ready to take out challenger Ryan Barett at the Hotel De France on Saturday night.

THREE Jersey girls are preparing for the race of a lifetime — across the Atlantic. Former JCG students Sarah Sheehan, Jill Longson and Jane Bolle-Jones are going to be part of a five-woman and one-man crew taking part in the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers.

CHANGES to pensions legislation announced in the States Budget have been broadly welcomed by Island accountants.

GST has pushed inflation to a 16-year peak of 6.4 per cent.

From former Senator Pierre Horsfall. IT is with great sadness that I read of the death of ex-Senator John Le Marquand. I remember him particularly as a supreme States Member.

NOT so very long ago it looked as if the battle to control inflation in Jersey was being won hands down. In September 2005 the rate of increase in the all-items Retail Price Index had fallen to two per cent and there were smiles on the faces of Treasury staff and their political bosses.

AN Island company that provides offshore legal and fiduciary services has set up a new firm in Bahrain.

TWO men charged with sexually assaulting children at Haut de la Garenne as part of the historical child abuse inquiry appeared for the first time in the Royal Court today.

TWO of Jersey’s most accomplished students in the art of Tae Kwon Do have fought – and beaten – some of the best kickboxers in Ireland.