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TWO Islanders who completed the New York marathon raised over £8,000 in sponsorship and gave the money to Diabetes Jersey at the weekend.

SO Jersey is on the world’s white list. Weh-hey, and whoopee! Now we can all breathe again and open the champagne and we will all have jobs and the finance bosses will be able to buy new cars and yachts and designer labels.

JUST a few short years ago, Jersey was rattled twice daily by the sonic boom of the French Concorde arriving at or leaving from Paris.

JERSEY’S public sector workers should not get a pay rise this year, Treasury Minister Philip Ozouf has said.

From Don Filleul. I WAS surprised to read that Deputy Le Hérissier felt so strongly about the fracas between Senators Perchard and Syvret that he thought it reasonable to lodge a no-confidence motion – against only one of them.

A HORSE which came fourth in the prestigious Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe in 2004 will be racing in Jersey this season.

Two people died on Good Friday when their light aircraft crashed on its way to Jersey.

TRINITY’S footballers are red-hot favourites to secure the Island’ Premiership title today, needing only a point from their home match against Grouville to do so.

A CALL has been made for the States to act to help Islanders financially suffering in the wake of the collapse of an Icelandic-owned Guernsey bank.

From Nellie Maçon. JERSEY was governed for centuries by unpaid, wealthy States Members with few voices of opposition in the States or among the public because nobody dared or could afford to oppose them.