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HEALTH are considering banning all alcohol advertising, sponsorship and promotions

NO ONE who watched the International Air Display last week could fail to have been thrilled by the seat-gripping aerobatics of the RAF Red Arrows display team, whose apparently seamless precision defied the undoubted risks faced by such high-speed close-formation flying.

A former New Zealand High Commissioner was due to arrive in the Island on Thursday, 17 September, in the hope of meeting anyone who knew him or his parents when he lived here in the 1940s.

MARGARET Boothman, who died recently, was for 70 years a prominent figure in the St John Ambulance Brigade and later the Order of St John.

THE cult of the private motor car is so well developed and has so many fervent adherents in this Island that other means of transport sometimes seem to lack any real relevance.

NEWS that the States 48-hour rule on schoolchildren’s visits to the UK will remain, in a bid to prevent the spread of swine flu, could have a ‘huge impact’ on sports teams in the Island.

PLANS for the biggest redevelopment of the north of St Helier for generations have finally been revealed.

From Mike Stentiford, president, National Trust for Jersey. CALL me old fashioned – certainly! Call me biased – definitely! But didn’t the JEP’s colour centerfold on 14 September say all there is to say about the true character of Jersey?

From Madeline Bates. I HAVE just been reading your ‘Cancer figures shock’ article and I am amazed.

TV PRESENTER Nicky Hambleton-Jones will be in the Island this week to launch a new fashion store in town.