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From Brian Villette. OUR wonderful Council of Ministers are vociferously recommending we all support local businesses or see them collapse.

THE first Jersey Dinner Boxing Club event of the year will feature Jersey’s finest amateurs taking on a City of Belfast Select for the Capita Group Gold Cup.

From Cameron McPhail. A PARADOX of failure is that even the most inexperienced consider themselves to be professionals, well capable of taking on previously unimaginably ambitious tasks.

From Bridget Murphy. ‘IT is down to the people who believe in this particular God to maintain the building where they worship and definitely not the people of other beliefs.’

THE Planning applications panel have called for a policy on wind turbines.

THE recent cold snap may not have been everyone’s cup of tea, but it has been good business for one local entrepreneurial outfit.

INTEREST in non-religious services to mark special occasions in a person’s life is growing, says a humanist practitioner who visited the Island last weekend.

FIFTH-placed Luton take on third-placed Jersey in another intriguing rugby match in London Division I tomorrow. And, despite Jersey’s 17-0 win at home earlier this season, coach Ben Harvey knows that he can take nothing for granted.

FAMOUS children’s author and illustrator Babette Cole is bringing some of her rarest illustrations to the Island for a special exhibition.

THE Royal Court could provide a last-gasp lifeline to get compensation for laid-off Woolworths staff.