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IN certain respects, the plan to transform the part of the Harbour which dries at low tide into a basin perpetually filled with water has much to commend it. It is undeniable that such a basin would be more attractive than the expanse of mud which is revealed when the tide goes out.

RICH City workers fleeing the UK to avoid rising tax rates will be welcomed into Jersey, according to the politician who approves residency applications from wealthy immigrants.

A MAN who claimed to be a super-rich Jersey 1(i)k resident and dreamed up a plan for a floating hotel in the Harbour has gone on trial in the Royal Court accused of fraud.

THE possibility of an all-Channel Islands final in the FA Carlsberg National League System Cup is still alive after Jersey and Guernsey were kept apart in the quarter-final draw made yesterday afternoon.

From David Rotherham. I READ the article on plain English (JEP, 7 December) with interest and some sympathy.

BY coincidence, last Tuesday’s edition of this newspaper featured an intriguing gallery of related environmental snapshots.

From Geoff Cook, chief executive, Jersey Finance. I READ with interest the article entitled ‘When the future was full of Middle Eastern promise’ (JEP, 5 December).

THE Greenfields secure unit is one of the best of its kind in Britain, according to the man responsible for implementing a new plan to improve child protection services.

GREAT Britain came so close to victory over world number two hockey nation Argentina yesterday, with Jersey’s Beckie Herbert in the thick of the action.

CHAMPIONS RWB MacInvest must wait until early in 2010 to see if they will retain the Division I title in the Jersey Hockey Association’s Women’s League.