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Five years in jail for drugs in surfboard

A 22-YEAR-OLD Liverpudlian was jailed for five years yesterday for smuggling almost half-a-million pounds worth of heroin in a surfboard.

Tower walk tall in title triumph

THE number 13 proved to be lucky for First Tower United Ladies Football Club as they gained the point they wanted to win the Ladies’ Combination League ahead of second-placed St Paul’s.

Syvret: ‘It was like cops and robbers’

SENATOR Stuart Syvret says that his arrest yesterday was like something out of a ‘New York cops and robbers TV series’.

That’s the way to do it!

JERSEY United Banks beat Guernsey 2nds 65-0 at St Peter on Sunday to book their place in the final of this year’s Sugden Cup.

Released . . . and unrepentant

AFTER seven hours in custody, Senator Syvret described his arrest as ‘intimidation’ and vowed to continue writing his internet blog despite being warned to stop.

Brown leads superheroes in a 10k springtime romp

UNLIKE at the previous day’s Grand National, the hot favourite for the Jersey Spartan AC Fitness First Spring 10K romped home.