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AFTER four years with Plymouth Albion RFC, Ross Allan is back at home with Jersey RFC.

EVEN if you read this column regularly, it might surprise you to learn that this is its centenary outing.

From Christopher Davey. FOR how much longer, I ask once again, must we continue to cower, while our Island youth – male and female – walks all over us? When, pray, are we going to pass laws to enable our police to deal, in very short order, with these tiresome creatures?

THE former president of the Jersey Chamber of Commerce, Kevin Keen, might be accused of sowing the seeds of alarm and despondency by suggesting that the rate of GST could double by 2012.

DECLINING visitor numbers have left an estimated £10.5 million hole in the Island’s economy, new figures have revealed.

THE Island’s electricity provider has moved up to Level Two of the States Eco-Active Business scheme.

PARENTS can play a vital role in preventing a mass outbreak of swine flu – by keeping their children out of school if they have recently returned from abroad, Jersey’s deputy Medical Officer of Health said today.

JERSEY’S netballing world is said to be ‘buzzing’ following the news that Rena Nelson has been appointed netball development officer.

From Anne Barnes. WHAT a lovely happy photo of Raven the Belgian shepherd and Corporal Joe Jones (JEP, 28 August).

TWO goals in the first half proved enough to send St Peter into the quart-finals of the Wheway Memorial Trophy last night.