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FOR the past ten years the headland at Plémont has been blighted by the decaying remnants of what was once Pontin’s holiday camp.

GAVIN O’NEILL warmed up for this weekend’s south-east group league final for Hampshire by winning the  Royal Jersey Golf Club championship on Sunday.

Jersey surfer Ben Skinner came close to beating the world champion in the second round of the Eurosurf longboard competition yesterday.

POLITICIANS responsible for the Island’s economy will be grilled by business owners when the Chamber of Commerce holds its third annual business stimulus evening next week.

They look so cute, those three-dimensional architects’ models which cost a fortune to produce and reveal so little – a toytown of neat blocks with trees a-plenty, rarely a car in sight, and certainly no people.

THE ten-year battle to save Plémont from development could be all but lost tomorrow just days before a major demonstration to safeguard Jersey’s coastline.

From Doug Smith. I HAVE never written to a newspaper before, but after reading in the JEP of 25 September that four of our States Members abstained from voting on free lunches, I wonder why they can’t make a simple decision. It’s very easy – either ‘Yes’ or ‘No’.

A former New Zealand High Commissioner recently spent a week in the Island learning more about those who knew him and his parents when he lived here as a boy.

From Chris Whitworth. ALTHOUGH it is excellent news to read that Jersey is top of the class when it comes to financial regulation, I do wonder if it actually makes a great deal of difference when tax avoidance matters are raised.

ISLANDERS are being asked to cut down on car use for the benefit of both the environment and their own health.