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BARS and restaurants have been challenged to freeze prices next year after the States rejected duty increases on drink.

CHELSEA fan Calvin Haycock could not hide his delight when he met one of his football idols.

AS the Island prepares to go into Battle again this weekend for the Christmas parade, it has been revealed that this year’s summer events were a financial success.

From Jon Scott. ROGER Trower claimed in his letter (JEP, 9 December) that our Treasury Minister has been printing money to prop up States expenditure.

JERSEY’S ministers should have fought harder to protect the reciprocal health deal with the UK instead of meekly accepting its cancellation, according to a UK MP.

BADMINTON Island Games medallist Kim Ashton has moved to Denmark in what she hopes will be her first steps on the path to professionalism.

I HAVE to confess that I have yet to feel the festive urge to spend money.

From Gavin Smith. WITH reference to an article in the JEP on 1 December, ‘We don’t want a gym here’, I was absolutely astounded to read that there are people who do not want a gym for the kids in this Island.

THE shocking level of alcohol-fuelled violence on the streets of St Helier was laid bare again yesterday when a 24-year-old man was jailed for a ‘frenzied, savage and relentless’ attack.

THE fifth anniversary of the Boxing Day tsunami in 2004, which devastated South-East Asia and claimed over 225,000 lives, is being marked in Jersey next month with an evening of reflection.