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From Bob Henkhuzens, chairman, tourism committee of Jersey Chamber of Commerce. AS expressed by recent writers to your letters page, it was not happy news that even more hotels in the Island are now to close. Particularly saddening are the recent sentiments quoted in your paper: ‘The hotel was something we intended to pass on [...]

A GANG of teenagers caused more than £5,000 worth of damage when they went on the rampage inside a former St Saviour hotel.

From B Launder. REGINALD Le Sueur’s letter (JEP, 27 December) is I believe based on the false premise that God and Jesus do not exist. I would assert that there is ample evidence that God does exist and that Jesus was a real person in history.

DAVID Speller wiped out the opposition in this weekend’s Earth, Wind and Water Channel Island Bodyboarding Championships, nailing the open, junior and drop-knee contests despite freezing air temperatures and icy seas.

MORE than 5,000 Islanders have signed a petition in support of Woolworths staff who were denied redundancy payments following the collapse of the retailer last month.

FOLLOWING a 6-0 win at St John on Saturday, St Brelade will meet Grouville at Springfield in the final of the Trinity Shield tomorrow night.

From Gerard Baudains. I WRITE to express concern regarding the recent exhortation by consultant Dr Muscat with regard to flu vaccination. Whether he was speaking on behalf of Health and Social Services or privately is not made clear, but the problem remains that the article was misleading.

A HATE campaign has forced a former Constable out of the running for a parish position.

THE first three sets of official statistics to be released locally this year will give an indication of how the Island’s economy fared at the end of 2008.

THE end of an era was marked at the weekend when the Borsalino Rocque served Sunday lunch for the very last time.