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BY coincidence, the announcement of an MBE in the New Year Honours list for special gymnastics coach John Grady coincided with news of the death of disabled campaigner Gill Curtis.

THIS year some 350 Islanders decided that plunging themselves into the sea on Christmas Day was a splendid idea.

ONE word – youth – dominated the 2008 sports pages. The ‘oldies’ are still there but one by one they are having to give way to a younger generation coming through.

A SHOCKING draft report has revealed huge flaws in the new States-run £64 million Income Support benefit package.

JERSEY athletes competing in the NatWest Island Games in Aland next summer could well be facing a former European champion.

From Christopher Davey. BACK last May my wife and I responded to one of Landsbanki’s many ads in the JEP, and deposited therewith a quarter of our life savings/pension. The subsequent sorry tale is now history.

JERSEY Finance intends to open an office in Hong Kong in the second quarter of next year.

A JERSEY accountant has been arrested in connection with an alleged multi-million tax fraud in Australia.

THIS grand occasion has posed a few questions for us here at Temps Passé. The picture was found by Christopher Brough during a recent house move.

From Brian Le Fondré. I NOTE with interest Meridian’s adverse comments in his article Under the Clock on the subject of tidal power for Jersey (JEP, 29 December).