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AS a business reporter I am often asked how I see the economy shaping up and ‘what is really happening out there, in the real world behind the headlines and spin’.

From Gwen Tucker. LAST year I wrote to the JEP about Deputy Huet wanting this Island to give up to £26 million to overseas aid. Now I am doing the same about her successor, Deputy Gorst.

JERSEY’S Under-15 cricketers lost out on the ICC European Division I title after a rain-hit final day yesterday, having led throughout the week in Dundee, Scotland.

PUZZLED motorists are being fined for unwittingly flouting Sunday parking laws – even though the day is not marked on paycards.

NOW is the time to increase investments in the stock market, says the chief economist at ABN Amro Bank.

STOPPING baby milk supplies to new mothers and reducing the temperature in the hospital by five degrees are two of the money-saving ideas put forward by the Health Department.

ELLA Dias has become the first AIB Tigers’ swimmer since Simon Le Couilliard in 2005 to claim a national medal after winning silver at the ASA National Age Group Championships in Sheffield yesterday.

From Joy Anthony. IT is greatly to be hoped that no one will take the action suggested by the letter from your Middlesborough correspondent (JEP, 20 July) ‘Dispose of Grouville Station bus shelter’.

From Len Vautier. I AM so distressed at reading of the terrible things the children of our Island are doing to themselves and to us – violence, vandalism, binge drinking, etc. More and more, and it will get worse, with the latest cases involving a boy of 11 and a girl of 13.

SWINE flu clinics are to be set up to help doctors cope as the virus continues to spread across the Island.