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BUILDING firm Regal Construction is making six workers redundant as a result of a downturn in business caused by the recession.

THE Jersey Advisory and Conciliation Service has seen a three-fold increase in inquiries about redundancy since the start of the year.

LAST weekend was the turn of the pros at Hotel de France – and this weekend Guernsey’s Beau Séjour showcases some of the very best amateur boxing talent the Channel Islands has to offer.

JUST when you thought things couldn’t get any worse, the banksters are poised to distribute the last remnants of our savings as bonuses among the over-promoted barrow boys who got us into this mess – then a ray of hope shines through the gloom.

From Brian Villette. IT is always interesting to read letters by people like Mrs Lightbody moaning about 4x4s. One of her points is that a 4×4 is a gas-guzzler.

POLICE chief Graham Power took the fight to get his job back to the Royal Court yesterday, declaring that everything he was trying out of court was getting him nowhere.

KNOCK-on effects from the present economic downturn can be detected in areas far removed from the world of commerce.

From Peter Bewers. AS a local resident and summertime driver of Le Petit Train, I have been interested in the sudden flurry of interest in the possibility of the old rail track from St Helier to St Aubin being used again for public transport all year round by Le Petit Train to ease the overcrowding [...]

THE first batch of hundreds of retirement homes agreed by the States to be built on green fields was approved at a Planning meeting yesterday.

JERSEY athletes Matt Norris and Russell Allchin have grappled with some of the world’s best at the European Brazilian Jiu-jitsu Championships in Portugal.