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John Gates, of Victoria, Australia, will be travelling to Jersey next May in the hope of tracing information about the ancestors and descendants of his mother’s parents.

THE first of October 1969 was a momentous day in Jersey’s history.

JERSEY Archery Association marksman Mike Coward has qualified for the Commonwealth Games in India next year.

A PARTY of 18 Islanders is travelling to Rome next week to join celebrations for the canonisation of Jeanne Jugan, the Mother Foundress of the Congregation of the Little Sisters of the Poor.

A JERSEY flower business will no longer be delivering flowers from the Island.

WHEN they drive off the ferry in St Malo, most Brits and quite a few Beans tend to hit the expressway south with white knuckles and a fixed grin and don’t chill until they cross the Loire, little realising all the glories they’re missing on the way.

THE magnificent sweep of St Ouen’s Bay embodies all that is most truly valuable and special about Jersey. On Sunday, it will be the fitting scene of a unique event aimed at conveying the importance of those qualities to the politicians who, deliberately or otherwise, have lost sight of it.

A HOSPITAL surgeon has revealed the shocking rise in facial injuries caused by alcohol-fuelled violence on the streets of St Helier.

From Michael Green. AFTER the vote was recently cast in favour of the long-awaited funding for the Town Park (albeit by an indecisive hand), I waited with bated breath in anticipation of some ruse to prevent the park from immediate construction.

Two serious fires were among the news stories which produced spectacular pictures during September.