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TIMES are hard and some Islanders are apparently having to resort to waiting on tables to find a job.

At a time when public finances are under strain, when public sector workers face a pay freeze, and when valued services face the axe, the Island’s unnecessary exposure to millions of pounds’ worth of currency risk clearly requires the closest investigation.

PREMIERSHIP St Ouen and Championship Sporting Academics won through to the quarter-finals of the Dandara Jersey Football Combination’s Charity Cup last night.

TWO Jersey businesses have come together to form a new concept in department store shopping.

A FORMER house parent at Haut de la Garenne who is accused of multiple charges of indecency was nicknamed ‘the Perv’ by children at the home, a jury heard yesterday.

From Marcus Binney, president of Save Jersey’s Heritage IN your article (JEP, 7 August) on the proposed Zephyrus development on the waterfront, Stephen Izaat quotes me in support of these proposals.

JERSEY’S Darren Stower and crew Adam Beattie finished seventh overall in the Hobie Tiger European Championships in Italy last week.

JERSEY children will continue to be treated with anti-swine flu drugs, despite concerns over the effects that they have on youngsters.

From Peter Anthony Troy. PAULA Thelwell (JEP, 6 August) is quite right to pick up on the discomfiture of the UK’s Met Office, caught out over its April forecast that we were in for a ‘sizzling hot barbecue summer’.

JERSEY thrower Shadine Duquemin won two British titles over the weekend after impressive personal best performances in both the shot putt and discus at the U15 England Athletics Championships in Bedford.