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THE Transport and Technical Services initiative to encourage Islanders to make less use of private motor vehicles, which was launched yesterday, is likely to be applauded by anyone who has been caught in rush-hour traffic or has witnessed school-run gridlock.

JERSEY’S retirement age could go up to 68 because the ageing population is expected to empty the Social Security fund in just over 25 years.

From Brian Hotton. YOUR report (JEP, 26 September) headlined ‘New Island Plan proposes seven sites for rezoning’ makes no mention of the size of these sites – are they 50, 100 or 1,000 vergées?

A DRAGONS’ Den-style network of investors is to be set up in Jersey to help promising entrepreneurs.

LUNCH, according to the Hollywood villain and symbol of unrestrained 1980s corporate greed Gordon Gekko, is for wimps.

From former Senator Pierre Horsfall. I WRITE to express support for the National Trust for Jersey’s campaign to protect our precious coastline.

JERSEY police ‘conspired to pervert the course of justice’ and are ‘liars and cheats’, the jury in the £1m drugs conspiracy trial were told yesterday.

CHAMPIONS Victoria College are one point clear at the top of the Channel Islands’ under-18 football league.

THE Island’s immunisation programme aimed at protecting teenage girls against cervical cancer will resume today.

CONTROVERSIAL proposals for kerbside recycling in St Helier suffered a setback last night after parishioners voted in favour of delaying the scheme.