Housing quallies reduced further?

JERSEY’S property market has stalled and an emergency measure will be taken to reduce housing qualifications by two years.


How on earth can a young family afford to live here?

From Claire Landers. I AM a married mother of a small child. I have lived in Jersey for nearly ten years and my husband was born here. We have always worked, yet we are finding it increasingly difficult to afford to live here.


Kosovo Kid ‘ready’ for Woods

ELVIR Muriqi is hungry for a world title – and has told former light heavyweight champion Clinton Woods: ‘I’m ready for you.’


It ain’t half hot, mum

THE trouble with being in the public eye is that when something goes wrong you are still there.


Flybe provides tourism boost

JERSEY’S troubled tourism industry received a boost this week when Flybe announced new and more frequent routes to and from the Island.


Hunt for missing man

A MISSING persons investigation has been launched after a jetski belonging to a man who vanished from his UK home was mysteriously found washed up in Jersey.


There is a perfectly suitable site in the Island for the new incinerator – and it’s not La Collette

From Nick Manley. I HAVE noticed that considerable concern continues to be expressed about the wisdom of siting the Island’s new incinerator waste disposal facilities at La Collette.


Jersey youth take on Twickenham

JERSEY RFC U19s will need to be at their very best to knock Twickenham RFC out of the National Plate at St Peter tomorrow.


Senators break code of conduct

HOUSING Minister Terry Le Main and Senator Stuart Syvret have both been found to have broken the States Members’ code of conduct for sending offensive e-mails – but neither will face any action.


Jersey aim to kick on

AS now rubber-stamped by the RFU, from next season onwards Jersey will be classified as a National league Division III side, providing they are not relegated from London I.

BIRD WATCH 2012

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The 11th Great Garden Bird Watch took place over the weekend, Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 February. JEP readers were asked to get on board to help monitor bird life in the Island.