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JERSEY athletes have achieved a tremendous eight top-six placings in the UK Ranking List for 2009.

ABOUT 80 front-line postal workers are to be made redundant as Jersey Post tries to compete in a changing world.

IT is all very well to talk about recession in abstract terms, looking perhaps at statistics relating to States income or the Island’s overall economic performance. The full reality of what recessionary times mean, however, emerges only when businesses falter or fail, jobs are lost and economic abstraction collides with ordinary people’s lives.

TWO long-established fitted furniture businesses have collapsed, with the loss of up to six jobs.

From Paul Troalic. I’M sure a great many people were pleased to see that the fees charged by doctors and dentists are at last under the microscope following a report that high costs were identified as a major factor as to why people are reluctant to attend these services.

From Gino Risoli. WE are living in a very fast moving technological time. We need a very much more responsive government that is free from the restraints of bias to respond to the changing world more accurately and with better expertise and awareness.

JERSEY Spartans’ cross country runners could miss out on representing Hampshire in this year’s Inter-Counties Cross Country Championships.

A WOMAN has been jailed for 2 years and 9 months and disqualified from driving for five years for causing serious injury to three women when she drove into them last April.

DETECTIVES are searching for ten thugs who attacked a teenager in broad daylight, fracturing his nose and ribs.

Most of the buses  were cancelled this afternoon because snow made the roads dangerous once again.