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ECONOMIC Development Minister Alan Maclean says that he did not know the axe was about to fall on the Heathrow route when he was touting its success at the Senatorial hustings.

From Adrian Walton. ON 15 January a Green Manifesto for Jersey was signed by a number of prominent environmentalists. They deserve support.

JERSEY will soon be advertised as ‘Europe without the euro’ in the UK to try to attract tourists to the Island.

A JERSEY cricket team will be aiming to set a Guinness world record this summer, in honour of one of their members, who suffers from cystic fibrosis.

ALAND are still claiming a record number of NatWest Island Games participants this summer, despite a fall of over 400 from their projected number last July.

JERSEY is sitting on a ‘health time -bomb’ and the new Minister in charge is prepared to put his career on the line to ensure that the service gets more funding.

GREAT Britain athletes Liz and Martin Yelling are holding a two-day training weekend in Jersey next weekend.

From Advocate Philip Sinel. IN his Christmas message, the Bailiff claimed that during his terms of office one of the changes has been that the Island has begun to see itself much more as a small nation, independently capable of great things.

From Mike Shaughnessy. I AM a Londoner visiting Jersey for a few weeks who is impressed with this beautiful Island and the nice people who inhabit it. I do, however, have one criticism. The bus service in Jersey is, I am afraid to say, very poor indeed.

From Michael Van Neste. CONSTABLE Mike Jackson is considering taxing private car parking spaces in St Helier, in his capacity of Transport Minister, according to your headline story of 22 January.