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THE Parish of St Saviour has won the Prix d’Honneur at this year’s Battle of Flowers.

TODAY’S sell-out Battle of Flowers will finish with the most visually stunning finale to be seen at the parade for many years, the organisers promise.

THE longest serving Battle of Flowers stalwart is today celebrating her 75th anniversary of entering floats into the parade.

Organisers of a reunion of pupils who attended a grammar school in the Isle of Wight 50 years ago are trying to trace Jane Hurst to send her an invitation.

A NEW award is to be presented for the first time at today’s Battle of Flowers, in memory of a parade stalwart who died last year.

A JERSEY business that started as a website is planning to expand into the UK high street.

JERSEYMAN Ben Skinner has struck bronze at the ISA World Surfing Games in Costa Rica.

From James Woodhouse. I REGARDED the artist’s impressions of the new buildings proposed for the Waterfront with incredulity.

IT is tempting to remind William Wallace, also known as Baron Wallace of Saltaire, of the fate of a gentleman who shared his name and who also had strong views on independence.

THE wonders of modern technology usually fail to amaze me but I was astounded last weekend to discover that a country as important and powerful as the UK was supposedly being run using little more than a Blackberry and, moreover, from a luxurious private holiday getaway in Corfu.