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JERSEY RFC Academy went clear as leaders of Hampshire U14 Division I on Sunday, but they were not at all happy about the result that put them there.

AN Islander took part in the fell-running marathon in Cumbria at the weekend that was cancelled amid reports that hundreds of competitors were missing in appalling weather.

From Margaret Hacquoil. HAS it law gone mad? I couldn’t believe what I was reading in the JEP on 24 October about the man who gave his step-son a few clips around the ear for being racist to a Muslim girl. Fair play to him is what I say.

THE Jersey Evening Post Home and Lifestyle Show at Fort Regent next week will go ahead and will not be affected by the liquidation of the show’s holding company.

COCA-COLA Football Combination women’s division champions First Tower United scored goals early and late in the second half to defeat second-placed St Paul’s 2-0 at La Hague Manor on Sunday morning. Island striker Jodie Botterill bagged both in a match St Paul’s bossed but it was Tower who took their chances in front of goal.

From M Thackray. I WAS appalled to read  (JEP, 23 October) that Senator Len Norman, Constable-elect to St Clement, has gone on holiday instead of attending States sittings.

A MOTHER campaigning to get the speed limit lowered since her young boy was knocked over and seriously injured in St Lawrence is celebrating after learning that the speed limit is to be lowered.

MINISTERS have been called ‘an absolute disgrace’ for letting spending on consultants almost double since 2005.

A JERSEY fisherman has been fined £3,000 and ordered to pay costs of about £1,500 by English magistrates for illegal fishing off the Sussex coast.

SECURITY at the Harbour and other small ports is to be increased after a spate of vandalism.