Swine flu: Schools stick to timetable

ISLAND schools will reopen as planned on 3 September but children who have just returned from overseas holidays should not go back immediately due to the risk of spreading swine flu.


Facebook warning after woman sacked

A TEENAGE worker in Jersey has been sacked after making negative comments about her boss and employers on the social networking site Facebook.


Warm way to raise funds

MANY Islanders opted for the beach on the last sunny Saturday in July, but Stuart Fell and Pauline Alderman chose to cycle in a town store for six hours – wearing Postman Pat and Jess the Cat costumes.


Dirty Harry asked the right question

From Nick Palmer, Jersey Climate Action Network spokesman YOUR correspondent, Peter Anthony Troy (JEP 11th August), claims that the ‘whole (global warming) theory has come under increasing suspicion because, as CO2 levels continue to rise, temperatures have failed to follow suit as the IPCC’s computer models predicted they should’.


GB call up Halksworth

DAN Halksworth has been chosen to represent Great Britain not in triathlon, his main sport, but in aquathlon (swimming and running) on the Gold Coast on 9 September.


Harper refused order to return

FORMER deputy police chief Lenny Harper refused to return to Jersey when the Royal Court issued a summons for him to do so.


There are some jobs which are worth more than money

WHAT is wrong with waiting on tables? Not a lot, unless you happen to be working in Jersey.


Chamber sets up stimulus forum

THE Jersey Chamber of Commerce is organising a business stimulus forum featuring a panel of key politicians.


Potential in Select team from junior rugby clubs

PLAYERS from the Jersey Rugby Association League are good enough to make a JRA XV the second strongest side in the Channel Islands.


What happened to the nursing shortage?

From Brian Hotton FOR some time now we have been informed by the Health Authorities here in Jersey that up to a third of the population could succumb to Swine Flu.

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