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TRADITIONAL netball rules go out of the window with the start of the World Netball Series tomorrow.

AFTER weeks of damning criticism and abuse from defence lawyers, the States of Jersey police are celebrating the capture and conviction of Britain’s biggest drug baron.

JERSEY’S Royal Court has been the imposing setting for much human drama over the years, but few cases brought there can have rivalled the significance of the Assize trial which ended yesterday.

THE States should have nothing to do with running public businesses because they ‘make a mess’ of it, says Senator Sarah Ferguson.

From Roy Travert. THE subject of environmental taxes has already been voted on by the States and thrown out on a standing vote.

THERE is a sentimental but wonderful film starring Kevin Costner titled Field of Dreams which tells of a farmer from Iowa who risks bankruptcy by ploughing up a field of corn to build a baseball pitch where the ghosts of the legends of America’s national game drift out from the corn stalks to play.

The States Police have released a secret tape recording of discussions which formed part of the plot to smuggle cannabis worth £1 million into the Island.

From Diane Weber, fund-raising chairman, Jersey Hospice Care. ALTHOUGH Jersey Hospice Care has replied directly to Mr Hatton, who complained in the JEP Letters page about the cost of bringing celebrities over to make the draw for our recent £1m Lottery, it is clear that the public criticism from Ann Phillips is based on inaccuracies.

GROUVILLE moved into the semi-finals of the Wheway Memorial Trophy last night with a 3-0 win over St Ouen at Les Quennevais.

CAESAREAN Cycling Club’s Robin Ovenden completed the Jersey racing season by winning the Bouley Bay hill climb on Sunday morning.