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INTERNATIONAL tennis will be coming to Jersey in November after successful crisis talks between all parties, the Lawn Tennis Association has announced.

TWO men were arrested after a four-hour armed police siege in St Helier yesterday.

A £7.6 million project to refurbish and extend Les Quennevais secondary school could be carried out, if States funding is approved.

TWO new States funding initiatives are to be offered to businesses as part of the £44 million economic stimulus package.

JERSEY Rifle Association captain Bruce Horwood is the Island’s leading marksman in the Grand Aggregate at the Imperial Meeting at Bisley – currently led by Guernsey’s Peter Jory.

From Alan Hall. IN the JEP of 15 July your banner headlines intimated that the cost of living in Jersey is falling. Well as they say, there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.’

From Chris Whitworth. I WAS pleased to read (JEP, 30 June) that St Juste, the Ornée cottage within the grounds of the Merton Hotel, is to be saved. However, I was less than pleased to realise that this is only on account of three sides disappearing to build a bowling alley.

JERSEY discus thrower Kathryn Rothwell threw a massive personal best over 40 metres to help England to a Home Nations win at the Aviva SIAB Track and Field International in Belfast on Saturday.

HEALTH officials have said that the cost of senior staff suspensions could force them to cut patient services.

From Ray McCredie. WHO said: ‘There is no such thing as a free lunch’?