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MORE than 200 Island performers are currently preparing to play their part in next month’s Liberation Festival.

FOUR Islanders who are suspected of having swine flu have been quarantined and are being treated in Jersey.

TRAINING schemes to get Jersey young people off the unemployment register and into work are under scrutiny tomorrow.

ISLAND boxer Danny Kennedy is at full fitness going into his ABA quarter-final clash in Sheffield tomorrow night.

From Will McMahon, chairman, and Jim Goddard, secretary, Care Leavers’ Association UK. DURING the last three weeks, while we have been busy in dealing with cases of past child abuse of children in care in the UK, we have followed with concern and alarm the recent police proceedings against Senator Stuart Syvret.

LIBERATION Day is nothing less than our national holiday and, even more importantly, a celebration of what was perhaps the greatest single event in the long history of this Island.

A 25-YEAR-OLD man has been killed in an accident on a French motorway after a lorry smashed into his parked car.

SNOWDROPS signal the decline of winter, daffodils bring the expectation of warmer days to come, but nothing symbolises the spring more than the English bluebell.

AN eight-year-old gymnast from Jersey will compete at the Elite Grades national final this weekend for a chance to be crowned British Champion for her age group.

From Chris Whitworth. I WAS interested to read your front-page article (JEP, 24 April) ‘Marine life put at risk’ regarding the pollution caused by the works at La Collette.