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Towards the end of 2009 I had the pleasure to interview our first, and currently only Commonwealth Games-qualified swimmer, 20-year-old Ian Black, who could represent Jersey in the 400m IM and conceivably the 200m IM as well if he swims as quickly as he believes he can in Sydney in March.

AFTER three and a half months’ sabbatical in California, would Monsignor Nicholas France be greeting me with ‘Peace, man’ rather than ‘Peace be with you?’

Here is another selection of snow pictures sent in by JEP readers

From Don Thompson, Jersey Fishermen’s Association. CAN I correct some very misleading suggestions in a letter entitled ‘Once upon a tide’ (JEP, 5 January) by the wonderfully eloquent and flamboyant Chris Fairbairn.

ANY UK residents who did not meet a deadline to declare the contents of offshore bank accounts now face the prospect of immediate investigation for tax evasion.

JERSEY’S Beckie Herbert has been named in the England women’s indoor squad for the EuroHockey Indoor Nations competition later this month, in Rouen, France.

ISLANDERS are being urged to call on their elderly neighbours during the freezing weather.

MAISTRE Wace, our great medieval poet, has his Royal Square plaque, Lord Coutanche, our wartime Bailiff, lives on in effigy nearby, and both metaphorically rub shoulders with a gilded statue of King George II set on a high plinth and, for obscure reasons, done up in the garb of a Roman centurion. By contrast, the [...]

A woman who received a Christmas card from her sister living in Jersey is hoping that she will now get in touch.

IN October the wreck of a First World War submarine, E18, was located in the Baltic by the Swedish survey vessel, the MV Triad.