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No snow then? I bet that you’ve all been cycling around furiously to make up for lost time, or maybe not?

WHAT price can be put on our coastal landscape? That is the fundamental question facing States Members this week as, for the third time, they are called upon to ensure that the Plémont headland is brought into public ownership and returned to nature.

From John Clennett, former States Treasurer. SENATOR Ben Shenton is to be congratulated in raising the matter of potential savings in States expenditure identified about 18 months ago in respect of which no action appears to have been taken, but it is surely wrong that civil servants should be held to account for such failure. [...]

THE other week I took myself up to the crematorium to say a final cheerio to an old mate of mine who’s gone to a place where the snipe are always biting and calvados is free and on tap.

AND so, in a year in which the retirement age could rise, taxes could go up and services could be cut, what weighty matters occupy the parliament in their first sitting?

THREE Islanders will start the New Year on a high – by scaling three active volcanoes in Central America.

JERSEY RFC’s desire to win automatic promotion from National III South East, and earn the chance of a Twickenham Cup final, pulled them through a desperate last 20 minutes at St Peter on Saturday.

A DELEGATION from Jersey is in Hong Kong and China this week to make presentations on the Island’s finance industry.

AN anonymous donor has pledged up to £1 million to save the Plémont headland on the eve of a States debate to decide the future of the site.

ISLANDERS gave generously in town on Saturday, raising £6,000 in a British Red Cross collection for Haiti earthquake victims.