Four Islanders in Honours List

FOUR Islanders have been recognised in the New Year’s Honours.


Jobless figure passes 1,000

MORE than 1,000 Islanders were registered as unemployed and were looking for work at the end of November.


Bells ring out on Christmas Eve

AROUND 40 Islanders took part in a Three Bells walk in the western parishes on Christmas Eve.


Get tougher on violent crime

From Alan Anderson. Your Editorial (JEP, 29 December) comment, ‘The jail terms that they (the drug mules) receive are disproportionate when compared with those imposed on too many perpetrators of violent crime’ contains contorted logic.


We must tell our own story

AS midnight strikes tonight, we shall be saying goodbye not just to a year but to a decade, the first of the century.


Football out of Island Games?

FOOTBALL could be run separately from the main Island Games week in future, if enough support for that suggestion is found in the returns to a consultation document.


For art’s sake, let’s get our spending priorities in order

ONCE upon a time a king ruled over a land far away. He was a very powerful, but extremely vain monarch full of self-importance who liked nothing better than to spend a fortune on fine clothes and regalia.


St Saviour stride on to Trinity Shield semi-finals

IN-FORM strikers Craig Leitch and Jamie Savory took advantage of a weakened St John last night scoring all St Saviour’s goals in a 7-2 Trinity Shield first round win at Les Quennevais.


Boxing Day confusion

From Peter Falle. WANT something organised? Then don’t ask a politician, especially a Jersey politician. Now, let’s see, Christmas Day, Friday the 25th.


Lucky escape

TWO women had a lucky escape after their car dramatically caught fire in Town yesterday afternoon.

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