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JERSEY surfers Josh Letherbarrow and Fabian Baker have been rated as the top two at this year’s British Universities & Colleges Surfing championships in Newquay.

ANY local businessman who doesn’t take account of the dramas unfolding in the eco-nomies of the UK and around the world would be very foolish. But he would be equally foolish to take recent events too seriously.

A BUSINESS group is warning that even a small change in government forecasts would upset the Island’s economy.

YOUNG drivers in Jersey and Guernsey have been bragging about their high-speed car crashes on popular social networking site Facebook.

From Jurat Peter Blampied. SIR Philip Bailhache has served Jersey for 37 years with distinction – initially as a Deputy and then as Solicitor General and Attorney General and finally as Bailiff.

FIGURES which, finally, have been made public show that over the past three years almost £12 million has been spent by the States on consultants’ fees, ministers’ travel and ministers’ hotel accommodation.

From Peter Buesnel. IF an allegation of physical abuse is made against a teacher in Jersey, then surely, for the safety of both teacher and pupil, that teacher is suspended on full pay, and an investigation is held into the allegations.

THE economic downturn is expected to bring increased pressures for human resources practitioners in Jersey.

THE public inquiry into the £350 million Esplanade Quarter development on the Waterfront started yesterday.

THE Credit Suisse Jersey badminton team came within one mixed doubles’ match of beating a strong Middlesex side in their first competition in this year’s national inter county championship, Division II, eventually losing 8-7.