thisisjersey.com

IT wouldn’t have made a global news scoop, but the recent cowardly attack by a pack of local girl gangsters on a pair of visiting French students was nonetheless a significant embarrassment.

BUSINESSES should be planning now for staff absence because of swine flu.

BEECHES didn’t even need to lift a bat last night to claim the NatWest Evening League Division I title.

A JERSEY politician has proposed increasing speed limits in green lanes to 20 mph – but doing much more to enforce the limit and penalising those who break it.

From John Clennett, former Treasurer of the States. I WAS not surprised to read (JEP, 4 August) that the Treasury Minister believes that more central control of the Island’s  finances is the key to better financial management.

A MAN who hid more than £700,000 worth of heroin in the garage of his girlfriend’s parents’ home has been jailed for eight years.

From Gino Risoli. THE most important development  this century, that has and will continue to change the world utterly and completely, is information technology: the ability to move information to the other side of the world or simply down the road in seconds.

THE Constable of St Helier, Simon Crowcroft, says that he was ‘moved almost to tears of shame’ by racist comments made by some of those who objected to the renaming of Rue de Funchal.

VICTIMS of swine flu now total 85 in Jersey and Tamiflu has been issued to 802 Islanders.

THE Consumer Council has had to publish a front-page correction after erroneously claiming that Islanders were being ripped off by local car dealers.