07 « November « 2009 « « This Is Jersey

Two Island distance runners have recently smashed their best times for the marathon.

Cavity walls were in Jersey before the war

From June Beslièvre. MAURICE Boots’s letter about cavity walls (JEP, 4 November) interested my husband Peter, who remembers these from before the war.

Use of handcuffs after crash ‘a disgrace’

POLICE officers who locked up a woman involved in a car crash and forced her to wear handcuffs for more than three hours were told in the Magistrate’s Court that their behaviour had been ‘disgraceful’

Peirson Park

From Margaret Senior. WHY not name our new town park after Major Peirson?

States reform: Members vote against referendum

PLANS to let the public have their say on removing Senators and Constables from the States have been rejected.

Weather threatens bonfire parties

AUTUMN storms have threatened to take the sparkle out of this weekend’s fireworks displays after one major event was cancelled and another was left hanging in the balance.