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CHIEF Minister Terry Le Sueur has defended controversial cuts proposed in the Business Plan, saying that they are needed to cope with unprecedented financial difficulties.

JERSEY’S Under-23 cricketers wrested possession of the inter-insular trophy from Guernsey at Grainville yesterday, winning by six wickets.

JERSEY company directors and shareholders are being advised to engage the services of an accountant to make sure that they are complying with new corporate tax requirements.

SOME years ago a senior civil servant I met at a gathering of some sort or another bent my ear, without knowing who he was talking to and until Herself took pity and rescued me, about how the contents of this column exposed the Island, its government and – as he put it – its [...]

THE Island’s fishermen let their hair down on Saturday by soaking each other in a fun and colourful water carnival at the Jersey Fish Festival.

AS someone quite famously said just over 40 years ago, it was ‘a small step for man, a giant leap for mankind’. The 2010 Business Plan published last week was a high point, a zenith, and the product of many, many hours of hard work.

From Kenneth Godfray. THE digital TV switchover is not a matter of choice. Now in progress, it will be operational in Jersey in 2010 and is expensive.

YESTERDAY’S annual Green Island to Havre des Pas swim, organised by the Jersey Swimming Club, resulted in a new name on the trophy as Steph Proud from Chester-le-Street SC, Co Durham, finished ahead of the field in a time of 30.00 min.

IT may have started a day late but Jersey audience’s were treated to the first night of Kyran Bracken’s Ice Party on Friday.

From Peter Zunino. I WRITE with reference to your news story on 23 July relating to the refurbishment work being carried out on States accommodation at Clos des Quennevais.