Action on electricity prices

From Clifford Wilson. ASSUREDLY the facts speak for themselves. This week Jersey’s sole electricity provider announced a huge 14% increase in its profits, this despite an unprecedentedly challenging commercial backdrop.


The Deputy has been soundly thrashed

From K Porteous. DEPUTY Southern, like a leopard, never changes his spots, it would seem. No sooner have all the elections, both outside the States and within, finished than he is whingeing away about the results and stating that ‘the ministers have shown themselves not only to be crass but politically inept’.


St Clement ease through

TRINITY Shield holders St Clement moved comfortably into the last four of this season’s competition with a 6-1 quarter-final victory over St John on Saturday.


A blinking good idea

A JERSEY company believe that they are the first people in the world to come up with a truly eye-catching advertising campaign.


The minister should look into ferry prices

From Ron Le Hérissier. SOME time back Condor Ferries stated that their prices had not increased since the demise of HD Ferries. On Monday 15 December I entered their website to book a passage to St Malo, leaving Jersey on Thursday 18 December, returning on Friday the 19th. Price quoted £242 return, this for a [...]


Neighbours rescue man in flat fire

NEIGHBOURS rescued a man who was asleep in a town lodging house after his midnight meal caught fire and his flat was filled with toxic smoke early yesterday morning.


‘Please do not call 999 for a free lift to town’

DRUNK Christmas revellers are putting lives at risk by calling ambulances to get a lift into town, the Ambulance Service has warned.


This appalling bus service

From John Avery. I MUST once again complain about the appalling service of Connex at peak times. I get the bus in from Millbrook at between 8.30 and nine o’clock in the morning and the timetable may as well be put in the fiction section of the Public Library, as buses never arrive on time, [...]


Turkey warning

HEALTH Protection are urging people to be careful with their turkey this Christmas.


Nativity: Mont Nicolle Primary School

FOUR animal friends learned all about the meaning of Christmas in Mont Nicolle’s production of Cock-A-Doodle Christmas.