National day at St Peter

JERSEY go into tomorrow’s first home league game of the season against Sutton and Epsom RFC with a mainly unchanged team to the one that beat North Walsham so convincingly last Saturday 43-13.


Islands move closer on joint regulation

THE Chief Ministers of Jersey and Guernsey last night pledged to work together to cut red tape by producing joint forms that can be used by businesses working in both islands.


Mansells on track in Le Mans series

WHEN the Mansell family go for a drive, they don’t mean a leisurely run to L’Etacq and back.


Deterrent effect of publicity

THE expression ‘feral youth’ is a powerful one which, alas, is all too appropriate for some of the harder cases who trouble the general public, our police officers and our courts.


Phone boxes bugged ‘to foil £1m drugs plot’

UNDERCOVER police tactics including telephone tapping, car tracking devices and covert tape recordings led to a £1 million Jersey drugs plot being foiled, the Royal Court was told.


Please do not close the Occupation Tapestry

From Cynthia Rumboll. AS the overall co-ordinator of the Occupation Tapestry, the possibility that the Heritage Trust might be forced to close the Tapestry Gallery, and the tapestries either stored or displayed in some other environment which would most certainly be less sympathetic, is beyond belief.


Special ceremony for heroic hotel workers

HEROIC hotel staff who saved a drowning holidaymaker from the bottom of a swimming pool are being commended for their bravery tomorrow.


Tributes paid after businessman found dead

A BUSINESSMAN who disappeared earlier this week has been found dead in a disused property in St Helier.


Please do not close the Occupation Tapestry

From Mary Upton, tapestry co-ordinator, Parish of St Brelade. I WRITE on behalf of the ladies who dedicatedly worked on the Occupation Tapestry.


Channel Television revenue challenge?

CONFUSION reigns over the long-term future of a key source of income for Channel Television following moves by regulator Ofcom to beef up fines for breaches of its broadcasting code.

BIRD WATCH 2012

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The 11th Great Garden Bird Watch took place over the weekend, Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 February. JEP readers were asked to get on board to help monitor bird life in the Island.