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From Sir Nick Young, chief executive, British Red Cross. FIVE years ago this Boxing Day the Asian tsunami unleashed a wave of almost unimaginable human suffering. Hundreds of thousands of people lost their lives and millions were left struggling to survive a disaster the like of which none of us had ever seen.

AIB Tigers swimmers were in fine form at the at the Plymouth Leander Open meet over the weekend with two Island records and five swimmers recording national qualifying times.

From Christopher Davey. FURTHER to the former States Treasurer’s most pertinent comments (JEP, 16 December) on the current tiresome, money-wasting works on Victoria Avenue, he failed to mention that the next phase, apparently, is to fell all the perfectly functioning lamp standards on the central reservation and replace them with slightly newer ones, on the [...]

DOUBLE-DECKER buses could be back on Island roads early next year.

From Nathan Jordan. I Am writing regarding Gino Risoli’s (rather disjointed) letter of 10 December. He begins by echoing statements of local Christians, asking us to reflect on the meaning of Christmas.

From A Singleton. I HAVE read, with interest, the many letters regarding the proposed new gym in Samarès Lane. I have also noticed (and I stand to be corrected) that every letter in support of this venture is not from residents of Samarès Lane.

JERSEY’S Beckie Herbert has moved on to 18 Great Britain caps after featuring in all the team’s test matches in a 4-1 series defeat away to Argentina over the past week.

HSBC bank upset one of its first customers in its new King Street branch when she discovered that £1 notes are not accepted by the paying-in machines.

An application to build 34 homes in Plat Douet Road has been submitted to Planning.

THE mobile phone company launched by Jersey Post got off to ‘a flying start’ on its first day of trading on Saturday.