Taking up the challenge in Ben’s memory

A COUPLE have set themselves a challenge of cycling through Asia in memory of a Royal Marine who died on a training exercise in 2008.


College join club ranks

VICTORIA College 1st XI are to play league cricket in the Premier Division of the NatWest Weekend League for the first time next season.


How we tried to save our son

TWO heartbroken parents have told how they desperately tried to save their dying son after he was accidentally shot while playing at his aunt’s house in South America.


Thank heavens for the peace and quiet

From Terry Connor. DURING the recent snowfall, despite the traffic chaos and other vicissitudes, there was one redeeming feature – motorcycles were travelling about 70 miles an hour slower. The silence was golden. Deputy Daniel Wimberley must have been ecstatic.


No, Minister, you can’t pick planning before environment

AS photographs have shown us this week, the States’ largest ever capital project is fast taking shape on the Waterfront.


‘Let staff work past age of 65′

BUSINESSES should allow staff to work past retirement age to reduce the Island’s reliance on immigrant labour, says Chief Minister Terry Le Sueur.


Meeting backs Plémont purchase plan

ST Ouen residents gave overwhelming support for proposals to buy the former Pontins holiday village site and return the whole of Plémont to nature at a public meeting last night.


New hockey super league

A NEW Super League is being trialled for top-flight  men hockey players in the Island.


£100,000 relief aid for Haiti

THE Jersey Overseas Aid Commission has donated £100,000 towards life-saving emergency aid for the people of Haiti following Tuesday’s earthquake.


Scottish FC to play Premier League teams

Jersey Scottish FC will play in the inaugural Clydesdale International Football Tournament in Guernsey next month.

BIRD WATCH 2012

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The 11th Great Garden Bird Watch took place over the weekend, Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 February. JEP readers were asked to get on board to help monitor bird life in the Island.