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OFFSHORE finance centres like Jersey play a key role in supporting economic growth around the world, according to an independent report.

A States’ grant of up to £800,000 is to be used to bail out troubled Jersey Heritage.

JERSEY’S Mary Blampied has been selected for the England women’s indoor netball team.

A VISUALLY impaired runner and her guide completed a section of the Standard Chartered Jersey Marathon in September, their team raising £300 for charity.

From Michael de Petrovsky. IN a democracy, what gives the right to a single individual, undemocratically elected, to decide the purchasing rights of nearly 100,000 members of the populace?

I HAVE been watching with interest the arguments boiling up between the Island’s gas and electricity suppliers.

THE head of the British Bankers Association will be in the Island next week to talk about the future of the banking industry.

JERSEY’S Lieutenant-Governor has called for Islanders to support the war in Afghanistan and warned that losing the conflict would ‘condemn our children to decades of terrorism’.

From Madeline Bates. THIS terrible hum has kept me awake on many occasions, during the past five years. I am a very light sleeper, which probably explains why some people hear it and others don’t.

THE courage of a man who died in a commando raid during the German Occupation, Captain Philip Ayton, was marked at an annual service in Trinity yesterday.