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JERSEY’S increasingly close relationship with Portugal will be put to the test in the most traditional fashion at the weekend – when the Island’s football team takes on Madeira for the first time.

From Ruth Curzon. REGARDING the letter (JEP, 22 October) from Lauren Perkins, a disappointed young voter, I noticed, when queueing to vote at St Brelade, a young girl in the queue with her mother.

MORE than 60 of the Channel Islands’ best squash players will be battling for titles at this weekend’s Bedell Group Channel Islands Championships.

From Barrie Stevens. THE danger for investors who bank with Irish banks, allegedly now covered by legislation securing 100% Irish government guarantees, is that they are effectively acting as foreign exchange dealers taking a bet on the future of the EU, the Irish economy and the euro’s stability.

ISLANDERS who qualify for a discounted home under the Jersey Homebuy shared-equity scheme could soon be excused from paying stamp duty.

TRANSPORT Minister Guy de Faye has accused Senator-elect Alan Breckon of politically motivated bias after he publicly criticised him for failing to attend his own election nomination meeting.

From Teresa Hughes. IS it appropriate to impose a probation order on a single mother (JEP, 3 November) who is clearly having immense difficulties rearing three children?

VISITOR numbers at the Jersey Archive have rocketed since the launch of the Jersey Heritage What’s Your Story? campaign.