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JERSEY has again escaped the worst effects of the first day of a second round of strikes by Royal Mail workers, but will not be so lucky tomorrow.

JERSEY’S brother-and-sister duo Jamie and Rachel Macdonald take on some of the best young bowlers of the world in the WIBC World Indoor Under-25 Championships at the Victory Club in Portsmouth today.

From Roger Benest. DESPITE our vast intelligence resources and, of course, our wonderful statistical department, the same old tax increases are focused on the pint.

From Terry Connor. MR Martin Summers’s letter (JEP, 21 October) on his (unusual) speedy encounter with the mail service to and from Edinburgh prompted my reminiscence of days gone by before the expensive sorting machinery (et al) was installed to deal with and speed up mail processing.

A WAR of words has broken out between the Island’s gas and electricity companies over both the cost and the carbon footprint of imported electricity.

OBJECTIONS from three heritage bodies about the partial demolition of a 200-year-old listed building were withdrawn before a Planning meeting last week.

From Matt McNulty. WE have politicians who have done a deal with the EU on our behalf, as regards zero-ten tax.

JERSEY can now boast a double world cup title-holder in martial arts.

SECONDARY school head teachers could be forced to explain why problem pupils and their parents are being ‘badly failed’ by the system.

WHAT sort of Budget should Islanders expect in the midst of the most serious recession for decades? The answer – like it or not – is something very much in the mould of the one that has just been tabled by Treasury Minister Philip Ozouf.