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JERSEY’S rich and varied coastline is perhaps its most important natural asset.

It’s August, and as you should be thinking of a holiday soon, here are some more extracts about cycle touring taken from an article I wrote for Bicycle Magazine.

BOTH the Jersey and Bournemouth RFC coaches took great heart from a game which the home side won 12-7 at St Peter on Saturday and for similar reasons.

JERSEYMAN Peter Nicolle is taking on a big challenge next month – riding a bicycle from London to Paris in three days.

A  row has broken out after an historic flag flown to signify that the Queen is in residence appeared above a block of town flats.

OLDER readers may well recall seeing the by-line above articles in this newspaper of one ‘WJ Job’ – Wilfred James Job, known to all who came into contact with him as Jimmy Job – who until his retirement on the day the EP moved from Bath Street to Five Oaks was the editorial department’s chief [...]

BLUE Islands has been awarded a licence to fly its biggest aircraft yet.

IT was a summer of heroes. Former US President Bill Clinton flew to North Korea on a one-man rescue mission deep behind enemy lines, and flew back triumphant with two freed female American hostages (although exactly what happened on the eight-hour flight back from Pyongyang to the US remains a mystery).

From Robert Kisch. LORD William Wallace is quoted by Ben Quérée (JEP, 10 August) as regarding constitutional charters granted to Jersey 800 years ago by King Charles as irrelevant.

OPTIMUS moved a step closer to becoming the first winners of the NatWest Channel Islands League following a 49-run win against Guernsey’s Argyll Investment on Saturday.