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THE Jersey Financial Services Commission is planning to increase the number of visits that it makes to Island financial services firms by a substantial margin.

A DOCTOR working at the General Hospital has been arrested and escorted to the UK to face charges of fraudulently obtaining prescription drugs.

IF 221BC is the one year in China’s history you should know, then 1 October is the one date in China’s calendar you should know. It’s Liberation Day – and in China it warrants not just one but three days of public holiday.

From Sue Monks. I AM writing to you in reference to the report (JEP, 27 February) regarding the possibility of Jersey entering into a health agreement with France instead of the UK. I ask the politicians to please, please think of the patients involved, who may not all speak and understand French.

THERE was a programme on the other night about the Krays, and whilst it was interesting to see how they rose to prominence within the ganglands of London, I thought of equal interest was the reaction of the general public to them.

INCREASING efforts are being made to protect this Island’s wildlife and the range of environments on which species as diverse as seabirds and wild flowers depend for their survival.

JERSEY’S men’s volleyball team will be looking to make history tomorrow when they take on favourites Middlesbrough in the semi-finals of the National Shield.

THE chief executive of Jersey Finance Ltd, Geoff Cook, has launched a blog to comment on developments in the financial services industry.

DRAMATIC proposals to pedestrianise much of town have been opposed by Transport Minister Mike Jackson.

From Richard Whatmore. I WAS delighted to hear of the long overdue crackdown on alcohol by the Medical Officer of Health, Dr Rosemary Geller, and just as plea-sed that she now plans to tackle obesity, presumably by some sort of food rationing. Her reforming ag-enda, she says, consists of five issues.