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TWO racing drivers with strong Jersey connections will be competing in this year’s World Series by Renault drivers’ championship which starts in April.

THE current recession is not only affecting our pockets. It has also sparked the use of terminology which many of us would not have given a second glance, in happier climes – and not exclusively in the States Chamber where, apparently, the prose has been more purple than is desirable.

THE town centre is being plagued by teenagers who are threatening shop workers and throwing stink bombs inside busy stores.

From Terry Connor. ON reviewing some of the recent decisions/ratifications made by the States I wonder if it would be advantageous to expect all newly elected candidates to undergo a simple examination to determine their fitness to govern, before they take their seats in the Chamber.

EIGHTEEN firefighters tackled a blaze in St Lawrence this morning after an agricultural shed went up in flames.

From Barrie Bertram. JOHN Boothman’s analysis (JEP, 11 March) of the demilitarisation of the Channel Islands prior to the years of Occupation is spot on. However, to go a stage further in that analysis, I would suggest that the pre-war British defence policy for the Islands consisted of two elements.

JERSEY’S Island Games athletes have been preparing themselves for the stringent drugs testing that is expected in Aland this year by attending special seminars with a sport science expert.

From Michael de Petrovsky. SOME weeks ago, I wrote to the JEP stating that Jersey needed a regular air service to Stansted to enable Islanders to make use of the cheap flights from that airport to Europe, while boosting the flow of European tourists to Jersey.

A WOMAN whose 12-year-old daughter was knocked down and seriously injured when she tried to cross the coast road in St Clement is campaigning for speed bumps to be introduced.

From Victoria Hinault I am writing to express my absolute disgust at the recent comments about the skatepark.