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STAMP specialist Stanley Gibbons Group has reported an 18% fall in profit for 2008.

UNDER normal circumstances I wouldn’t dream of admitting – well, not in such a public way – that Herself and I are off to examine the state of affairs in our colony of Guernsey for a few days, but given the way thing are here at present one can hardly call any set of circumstances [...]

JERSEY’S netballers once again reigned supreme against Guernsey, winning all but one of their inter-insular matches away over the weekend.

A PARKING space, a free Blackberry, £43,000 a year, a budget of £153m per year – come on, who wouldn’t want to be Health Minister?

From Tony Allchurch, chairman, Rotary Polio-Plus Committee. ALMOST unnoticed by the national media is the alarming news that an epidemic of polio has recently been reported in Sudan, centred around Port Sudan, but also spreading from there to the neighbouring countries of Kenya and Uganda and elsewhere.

I was both delighted, and somewhat surprised, when I saw that Sustrans, the people who brought 12,000 miles of cyclng and walking routes to the United Kingdom, had just launched a new website aimed at encouraging women to cycle.

THE States police are reviewing the files of an alleged potential mass murderer who worked as a ward nurse at Jersey’s General Hospital.

THE Treasury is dragging its feet on plans to recover £5m from companies which will pay no tax at all next year.

JERSEY’S Caversham International tennis tournament opened yesterday with the first rounds of the men’s qualifying.

From Brian Hotton. I AM amazed that the chief executive of the Waterfront Enterprise Board is ‘earning’ nearly as much as the American President, and that he is ‘regularly offered more – up to five times as much’.