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From Valerie Harding. THE motto for the revamped departure hall at Jersey Airport should be ‘Shop ‘til you drop’ as there are very few seats for passengers and one cannot sit in the enlarged café area for ever and a day waiting for flight departures.

WHEN Hugh de la Haye stumbled across the remarkable Jersey Royal potato in the late 19th century agriculture was all about the sweat of men’s brows and technology meant little more than horse-drawn machinery supplemented by the occasional steam engine.

WHAT makes a hero in the era of the shallow Big Brother culture?

A POTATO company firmly established its roots in Jersey yesterday with the launch of its new £14 million packing shed.

THIRSTY Islanders supped one million pints of Jersey-brewed beer last year, bucking a decline in the UK beer market.

HOURLY rates charged by Jersey lawyers are ‘the most expensive on the planet’, according to a survey published this week.

THE first-ever women’s inter-insular cricket match resulted in a win for Guernsey last weekend.

FORMER world champion Mickaël Pichon made the Ronez International Motocross Festival one to remember at the weekend.

A MISSING fisherman is feared dead after search teams found his boat on the sea bed yesterday afternoon.

From Sam Le Breton. BUY local they said, so I did: three small, round, perfectly formed Jersey cheeses bought from the Co-op, Charing Cross.