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From John Arrowsmith. I AM grateful that your correspondent Joan Romeril (JEP, 12 October) should propose that readers speak out concerning the sale of fireworks to private individuals. I gleefully accept her invitation.

JANET Jackson and her sister Val are hoping for a reunion with their brother Michael Mitchell when they visit the Island on 24 October.

When Hampshire Seniors golf captain George Wirgman lost one of his three Channel Island-based stars from his team before today’s South East League Final, he called up his secret weapon … former F1 champion Nigel Mansell.

CELEBRITY chef and restaurateur Marco Pierre White is to open three restaurants at the Castle Quay development at the Waterfront.

I DON’T know about you, dear reader, but I am confused.

THE Island, the financial services industry and critics at home and abroad have repeatedly been told that our zero-ten tax régime, designed to meet the requirements of the EU code on business taxation, would be acceptable to all concerned parties. This, alas, does not now seem to be the case.

A 15-YEAR-OLD BOY has been charged with raping a teenage woman in an attack earlier this week.

From Roger Rive. I HAVE to agree with the comments made by Richard Baudains about the threat to our poultry from fast-breeding ferrets (JEP 9 October) and would like to add my own.

A brother and sister were among the winners of races in the Primary Schools Open Cross Country event yesterday.

DIRECT flights from Jersey to the Mediterranean and Tenerife have taken off so well this year that more departures have been added to the 2010 service.