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THE States have voted by a narrow margin against buying an area of Plémont headland to return it to nature.

TEENAGER Kelsey Le Maistre became the first Jersey girl to win a banded section title in an Open table tennis tournament in England last Saturday.

NO matter how laudable their aims, charitable institutions as well as commercial businesses are liable to suffer in recessionary times.

AN oil company which has its headquarters in Jersey is likely to sell its stake in Ugandan oil fields for US$ 1.5 billion – at least ten times more than it spent in the country.

AS a self-confessed amateur public transport anorak, I treasure the photographs I took back in the late 1960s of fully laden double-deck buses – the old open-platform variety – caked in snow and plying through the city outskirts of Leeds and London, as they did most winters.

The Curtis family at the Palace: Christopher, Victoria, Brian, Pamela and Philip A RETIRED accountant who helped set up a ‘community bank’ has received his MBE at Buckingham Palace. The Curtis family at the Palace: Christopher, Victoria, Brian, Pamela and Philip A RETIRED accountant who helped set up a ‘community bank’ has received his MBE [...]

THE police raided a doctor’s surgery yesterday morning after a GP was thought to have fled the Island, leaving thousands of patients’ records locked away.

From Robert Kisch. YOUR Ben Quérée reported (JEP, 13 January) on Deputy Southern’s proposed poverty survey for Scrutiny.

JERSEY Wanderers lifted the Willis Memorial Trophy for the sixth time last night following a 6-0 demolition of St Ouen at Springfield.

THE two men convicted of sex attacks on children have claimed that the ‘media frenzy’ surrounding the historical abuse inquiry meant that they did not get fair trials.