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From Daniel Sheil. THE proliferation of telegraph poles in our Jersey fields continues and your correspondent Adam Knowlson has raised the matter once more in his letter of 27 October.

A LEADING UK academic was facing jail yesterday after admitting travelling to Jersey for sex with a 13-year-old girl he groomed on the internet.

CONSTABLES will get wide powers to allow shops to trade on Sundays next year after the States backed sweeping reform to the Sunday trading law.

AN Old Victorian awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Force Cross for his courage and devotion to duty during the Second World War will be among those at a Remembrance Day Parade on Sunday in his home town of Bourne, in Lincolnshire.

BEING a determined critic of the Jersey financial services industry and the rules and regulations which enable it to thrive must be a frustrating occupation.

TREASURY Minister Philip Ozouf’s first Budget brought back memories of a Monty Python sketch about a befuddled highwayman who ended up robbing the poor to give to the rich.

AN emotional States Deputy has claimed that her concerns about child abuse within a family were ‘snubbed’ by Social Services three years before the father was jailed for abusing his daughters.

NEXT year’s Jeux des Iles competition will be held in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores.

DESPITE the withdrawal of funding from Jersey Tourism this year’s Bar Billiards World Championship has undergone somewhat of a makeover.

ISLANDERS who eat out should tell restaurants about booking changes as soon as possible, particularly in the run-up to the party season, according to the president of the Jersey Hospitality Association.