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From John Clennett. I READ in the JEP of 1 May that the States have backed the police in the dispute involving Senator Syvret.

JERSEYMAN Jack Boyle has been offered a one-year contract at Southampton Football Club after completing a successful six months on the south coast this week.

INCREASED funding that the States have given to educating prisoners will help them stop offending and stay out of trouble, says the assistant minister responsible.

BUSINESSES have been urged to review their continuity plans in the light of the present swine flu scare.

JERSEY’S bowlers were in the spotlight yesterday, when they humbled mighty Scotland in the Atlantic triples championship at the impressive Wanderers club in Johannesburg.

JERSEY snooker champion Gary Britton is playing in the World Snooker Series final tomorrow.

From Bob le Sueur. HAS the JEP fallen a victim to Orwellian double-speak? You report that a ministerial order is likely to be issued to make Liberation Day ‘an Islandwide festival’ so that, in effect, people who work in the retail trade may no longer take part in it.

From Kim Noble. I AM often surprised at the reasons why some members of the public feel that the Constables should not sit in the States and why they feel that they should abstain from voting on certain items on the agenda of the day.

From Maureen McGuigan. LIBERATION Day is a day for thanksgiving and to take time to reflect, a time for families to get together to celebrate, street parties, and to remember the day we were liberated, and it must never be forgotten.

ALL of the Island’s major supermarkets are due to open on Sunday.