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The Island got into the Comic Relief spirit this year, contributing to the £60m that was raised across the British Isles.

JERSEY direct mail retailer Flying Brands halved its profit during 2008, the full-year results have revealed.

From Anne Le Brocq. OH dear – Paula, Paula, Paula! You knew when you wrote your totally one-sided article that you were setting yourself up for a battle and I really feel it is time for you to get off your relatively low Renault Clio bonnet (instead of your high horse) and stop slagging off [...]

I’VE got to admit it, sometimes this column pretty much writes itself.

HEALTH Minister Jim Perchard has admitted swearing at Senator Stuart Syvret in the States last week.

FORMER Australia under-19 captain Craig Hogan is to coach Jersey’s cricketers for the next two summers.

THE tax haven protesters who took to the streets of St Helier last week had a perfect right to stage their public demonstration but it can be argued that they chose the wrong place to make their point. The industry in Jersey has always stoutly resisted the tax haven label – a stance that has [...]

From Peter Ward. THE front-page headline (JEP, 3 March) ‘Health agreement with UK to end next month’, urging Islanders going to the UK to take out health insurance, comes as a blow in such unsettled times. Where is it all going to stop? Money all the time.

APPARENTLY, next Sunday is Mother’s Day or, as it was known when it had some sort of religious connotation, Mothering Sunday. I say apparently because it’s an occasion which tends to pass unnoticed at Chez Clement, as it is some years since either of us had a mother with whom we could celebrate.

FORMER Health Minister Stuart Syvret this week begins his bid to prove that Justice Secretary Jack Straw has a duty to intervene in the administration of justice in the Island.