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From Mike Etienne. IT was with great interest that I read about the proposed feasibility study of the bridge to France. I am a great fan of bridges (having lit some in the past) as bridges link cultures and places.

GUERNSEY was coming un-der mounting pressure yesterday to bail out Landsbanki customers after the Isle of Man announced that it was using £150 million of taxpayer’s money to pay back depositors there.

A TRAINING programme aimed at keeping graduates and school leavers in the finance industry has been launched.

From Thomas Houghton. THAT our Environment Minister should even contemplate a serious investigation into the feasibility of a bridge to France amazes me, and has lowered my opinion of him.

JERSEYMAN David Carpenter has made his full Australian Rules Football international debut for Wales, helping them defy the odds to beat European champions England in Reading.

DESPITE one politician branding the incinerator a ‘carbuncle’, the design of the £106m energy waste plant at La Collette has been approved by Environment Minister Freddie Cohen.

From John Avery. I SEE that a report is being commissioned on building a bridge between Jersey and France. The argument put forward was that there was one between Denmark and Sweden which would be of similar length.

GOVERNMENT House turned back the years yesterday when four previous Lieutenant-Governors returned to the Island.

IN a couple of weeks time the Island will be losing Lynne Davis as she is moving to Torquay.

A TRIO of Island film-makers whose work impressed judges at the Branchage International Film Festival are calling for more people to get involved in their next big screen project.