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From David Rotherham. IF ever a picture painted a thousand words, it was the photo and overlaid chart illustrating your article on the proposed Jersey Development Company (JEP, 3 September).

BY Island standards, a gathering of 1,000 people certainly qualifies as a mass meeting. Moreover, when the vast majority of those who attend such a meeting express joint opinions and agree on joint courses of action, they must be taken seriously.

SALES of local seafood have risen since the first Jersey Fish Festival was held in July, raising £12,000 for three local maritime charities.

DISTANCE specialist Daniel Halksworth was just five seconds off claiming a world title today.

Ministers are looking at building houses on part of the Millennium Town Park site so developers and not taxpayers will pay for it, it has been revealed.

IN normal times, the recent Bank Holiday weather would have provided a bonanza for the tourist industry, with barely an unoccupied grain of sandy space in St Brelade’s Bay, an aromatic food festival in the most popular open show space in town, and not a car parking space the length of the coast from Gorey [...]

SO where did you all get to this summer, then? Now I know we’re knee-deep in recession, the pound’s decidedly anaemic against the euro and the weather hasn’t helped either, but you Brits are the French tourist industry’s nicest little earners – and frankly, you let us down big time this year, all you stop-at-homes.

From Patrick Cooper. ‘A SAD reflection on the state of Jersey’s tourism industry’ is how a friend of mine, visiting the Island for the first time, commented while passing the former Pontin’s holiday camp at Plémont.

PARENTS have been saved from an increase in the cost of sending children to university.

HOME Affairs Minister Ian Le Marquand did not abuse his powers by deciding that police chief Graham Power’s suspension should continue, the Royal Court has ruled.