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RICHARD Sayers has been appointed as the new president of the Securities and Investment Institute in Jersey.

ARMED police were called to a secondary school yesterday afternoon after a man was found in the grounds with a gun. It later turned out to be a replica.

EIGHT D-Day veterans are heading to France this weekend to remember their fallen comrades as part of the 65th anniversary of D-Day.

ISLANDERS will have another opportunity to explore meditation in a Buddhist tradition at a weekend retreat near Dinan in June.

JERSEY’S new lifeboat blazed an impressively powerful trail into St Helier Harbour yesterday afternoon to begin her work in the Island’s waters.

A TOTAL of 50 runners took part in the Jersey Spartan Athletic Club’s Daphne Wagstaffe Memorial 5 km Run from West Park.

BACKBENCHERS launched a second attempt to change the Island’s population policy during the Strategic Plan debate in the States yesterday.

From John Craddock. OBVIOUSLY lots of British MPs can’t do sums, although some are, without doubt, frightfully clever in other ways.