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TWO Hautlieu students are spending two months in India to train in advanced IT skills.

EDUCATION Minister James Reed insists that Jersey students will not be denied university funding, despite an expected 7.8% rise in the number of applications this year.

GROUVILLE last night avenged a recent Coca-Cola Combination Premiership defeat by Jersey Scottish to reach the Wheway Cup final.

From René Liron. WHEN the EEC declared 1 May as Labour Day, the then Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, decided that the UK would have a bank holiday on the first Monday in May.

CHIEF Minister Terry Le Sueur will meet politicians representing all parts of the British Isles on Friday at his first British-Irish Council meeting since taking over the top job.

A FORMER Jersey professional footballer turned paramedic has been using his medical skills in Afghanistan to teach the staff of an engineering company how to cope with wounds caused by mortar attacks.

From Barrie Bertram. I RANG the number for Mandy as advised by Peter Rhodes in his column (JEP, 13 February).

A MAN has been found guilty of a grave and criminal assault which left his victim with a fractured rib, a punctured lung and unable to work for over seven weeks.

IT’S time to raid the loft and dust those family heirlooms – the Antiques Roadshow is coming to Jersey this summer, for the first time in more than a decade.

PLANS to develop Westmount Quarry into flats, sheltered homes and community buildings have been approved by Environment Minister Freddie Cohen.