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From Gregory Jones. RECENTLY I have been horrified to read and hear negative comments by people regarding the GST changes to attract super yachts.

ISLANDERS showed off their pulling power during a tug-of-war to raise funds for the Jersey Women’s Refuge.

A MOTHER’S fight to stop her daughter being given the swine flu vaccine was due to go before the Royal Court today.

TEACHERS have moved closer to taking strike action in January over the States pay freeze.

Whilst I was putting this week’s blog together, I came across the story about Aileen McGlynn who won a Gold Medal at the 2008 Para Olympics in Beijing.  Aileen is partially sighted and she was the stoker (that’s the person at the back) of a tandem bicycle that raced in the 1 kilometre Time Trial. [...]

THE fourth man charged in the historical child abuse inquiry Ronald George Thorne (71) was jailed  for a year yesterday for acts of gross indecency with a boy 25 years ago.

FRESH ideas to entice holidaymakers to Jersey are being sought from Islanders who work in the tourism industry.

From Keith Shaw. YOUR report regarding the heavy metals present in Jersey’s shellfish (JEP, 19 November) is sad news for everyone who enjoys shellfish, but is this news really a surprise to the Harbour authorities or the fishermen?

I HAVE some sympathy for the States Senator who has voiced objections to the widespread distribution of Tamiflu to the healthy.

From Patrick Tobin. SHOULD we be angry? Can we be angry with someone who we don’t even know and will never know us? I am talking about an unknown lorry driver who took the life of someone who, to my wife Sandra and I, became a lifelong friend.