Sales period changed – but not extended

From Ken Vibert, chairman, Comité des Connétables. ON 5 October the JEP published an article with the headline ‘More time to buy fireworks this year’.


New UK lending rules

NEW rules unveiled by the UK’s financial regulator to tighten lending criteria will ‘indirectly’ affect borrowing in Jersey.


Let’s leave government to those elected to the job

THE name rang a bell, so to speak, but it took several days – not to mention a bit of prompting from Herself, who claimed to have known all along – for me to recall what it meant to me.


Don’t like wind and rain? Go cycling indoors!

If the weather and the shorter days are stopping you cycling, there is a way out, though it can never replace the real thing.


Basement boys can bite back hard

JERSEY RFC were the main beneficiaries of some stunning results in National III South East on Saturday.


Volunteers set to work in Kenya

A GROUP of ten Overseas Aid volunteers from Jersey are currently in the village of Pala, in Kenya, where they are helping to renovate the school.


A Week in Politics

I’M sorry, we don’t do God’ was the famous Alistair Campbell remark, cutting off a question to then-Prime Minister Tony Blair.


Syvret claims asylum in UK

SENATOR Stuart Syvret is claiming ‘legal asylum’ at the House of Commons, saying that he has no chance of a fair trial in the Island.


Learning to be less wasteful

IT is now accepted by most people that recycling waste materials and appliances should be a routine part of Island life.


Two fifth places for Jersey rowers

Jersey rowers produced two fifth place finishes in the World Coastal Rowing Championships in Plymouth over the weekend.

BIRD WATCH 2012

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The 11th Great Garden Bird Watch took place over the weekend, Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 February. JEP readers were asked to get on board to help monitor bird life in the Island.