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YESTERDAY’S announcement that Jersey will host a live televised world title fight eliminator, on 31 January, is certainly making the boxing world sit up.

ISLAND social workers are having to juggle almost twice the number of childcare cases recommended following the death in the UK of Victoria Climbié.

WITH Christmas approaching, the prospect of dining out with colleagues, friends and familiy is one of the traditional pieces in the annual jigsaw of celebration.

From Margaret Holland Prior. I READ with interest and concern the report on our first National Park (JEP, 25 November) to be created out of the dunes and ponds of St Ouen, St Peter and St Brelade.

INSOLVENCIES are on the rise, according to the Jersey branch of the Institute of Directors.

DEPUTY-elect Jeremy Maçon was forced to answer a question about his political independence yesterday: who is the real politician – him or his mother?

BREWIN Dolphin Holdings plc has reported a ‘resilient’ financial year to the end of September.

From Alan Le Rossignol. I FIND it intriguing that an additional sum of £500,000 of taxpayers’ money is being made available for speculative visits to India, China and London for 16 delegates from the finance industry to extend its promotion.

CHANNEL Islands tennis is on a high after the men’s team won promotion to Group 5 for the first time at the weekend in the Lawn Tennis Association’s Winter County Cup.

THE Jersey branch of Cable & Wireless has received an award for customer services as part of the phone company’s 2008 customer excellence awards.