Put your hand out for help

Name and address withheld. HAVING awoke this morning celebrating five years of being clean and sober, I was reflecting on how this happened to me.


Why are we still building homes where a window box is a luxury?

PARKING has gone up by 2p an hour. Correction: The parking price rise is ‘lower than expected’, according to a statement last week from the States department responsible for transport.


Knowing what’s in store

THREE generations of a family celebrated the 50th anniversary of their shop in Gorey Village this week.


Midfield the battleground

JERSEY’S under-18 footballers will be hoping to be the first home winners of the Junior Muratti in six years tomorrow afternoon.


Crackdown on unruly youths

The police have made 59 arrests involving children as young as ten years old during the month-long crackdown on anti-social behaviour in town.


Bungee business jumps to attention of jobseekers

IT may seem like the number of job vacancies in Jersey has plummeted since the start of the economic downturn.


Jersey’s Farag engineers English Universities title

FORMER Hautlieu student Mahmoud Farag, studying engineering at Bath, has passed his university boxing exams with flying colours – and received a call-up from England.


A skatepark that’s in the wrong place

From Michael de Petrovsky. THIS week, I needed to carry out work on a yacht in the town marina. After parking alongside the recently constructed skateboard facility, I found access to the marina barred by a somewhat ugly, steel fence.


St Lawrence lead the way in cardboard recycling plan

ST LAWRENCE have become the first parish to operate a kerbside recycling scheme which includes cardboard.


Police may soon be armed with stun guns

Police officers could soon be armed with Taser stun guns.

BIRD WATCH 2012

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The 11th Great Garden Bird Watch took place over the weekend, Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 February. JEP readers were asked to get on board to help monitor bird life in the Island.