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THERE’S no hiding it until the last paragraph or anything clever like that . . . this is the last Saturday column I shall be writing.

JERSEY swimmer Ian Black added another Island long course record to his already bulging collection after a massive drop in the 200 metres breast-stroke.

HUNDREDS of Islanders will have a better chance of owning their own homes thanks to a change of Housing policy.

From Jasper Jones (aged 10). ON 10 December me and my daddy put up some Christmas lights because we love looking at other people’s lights.

THE trustees of the Family Nursing and Home Care charity will be asked to justify the suspension of the organisation’s chief executive at an emergency meeting next month.

From Professor Adrian Demaid. IN the spirit of encouraging an informed debate, by people concerned with our environment, I welcome Nick Palmer’s response to my letter (JEP, 17 December) on why burning waste is environmentally friendly.

From David Eves. WHILE former Deputy, now Senator Maclean, has shown great promise in his role as Assistant Economic Minister, and now the actual Economic Minister, he needs to take serious note of your heading of 20 December ‘Two more hotels to become housing?’ in view of his responsibility towards tourism.

From Reg Le Sueur. THE letter from B Launder (JEP, 20 December) has a certain plausibility about it if we accept the cherry-picked nice references to Jesus, and ignore the less quoted ones; eg:

DURRELL’S pantomime ‘The Frog Prince: A Pantomime with a Hoppy Ending’ has lived up to its name by winning national commendation for its conservation message.

THE traditional ringing of church bells in the western parishes at Christmas came to a halt in St Ouen when the bell clapper broke.