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A MAJOR search was under way today after a fisherman vanished at sea.

WELL, it was the ninth day of the ninth month of the ninth year of the century – a suitable date for apocalyptic portents of gloom, which may explain the air of negativity spread across the two political news pages of that day’s Jersey Evening Post.

TREASURY Minister Philip Ozouf was on target when he described this week’s Panorama programme about alleged tax dodging in the Jersey finance industry as ‘sloppy journalism’.

FINANCE industry spokesmen have lined up to insist that the Lloyds salesman featured on Panorama’s bank ‘exposé’ on Monday was not typical of Jersey’s banking sector.

From Clive Tomes. I NOTE that Jersey Gas are increasing their prices by 15 per cent due to wholesale energy price increases.

EMPLOYEES who, in the judgment of an employment tribunal, have been unfairly dismissed will in future qualify for reinstatement or re-engagement as well as damages payable by the employer.

JERSEY has two British longboard surfing champions in Grace Davies and Ben Skinner.

From Barrie Bertram. I WAS interested to read your Temps Passé article (JEP, 20 August) regarding Frank Le Villio and his death in September 1946 from an illness that had resulted from imprisonment by the Germans during the Occupation.

POLICE officers have revealed that they secretly filmed a group of men accused of plotting to flood Jersey’s streets with £1m of imported cannabis.

THE creator of a stunning design that appeared on Plémont beach on Saturday is a carpenter from St Lawrence.