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AS The Reader may recall, over the last few months I’ve been kept entertained in my quieter moment by looking at the online comments made about news stories and the like – comments which, I have to say, are often more entertaining than Letters to the Editor.

THE visit of two International Island Games Association executive committee members to Jersey ‘could not have gone any better’.

From Barrie Bertram. I READ the occasional references to an independent Jersey with great interest, and none more so than ‘Goodbye to all that’ (JEP, 21 January), a title not to be confused with Robert Graves’ book of the same name.

Do you know that it’s been a year since I started writing this blog?

IN common with teachers, States Members enjoy long holidays. Also in common with teachers, Members would say that their work does not cease when they are on leave – the conscientious in both camps look, respectively, towards preparation and constituency or departmental affairs.

SOME time ago we showed this photograph of Oxenford House School, St Lawrence, sent to us by the Channel Islands Great War Study Group.

A JERSEYWOMAN will carry the Olympic flame on part of its 45,000 kilometre trek across Canada.

YOU’LL have been glued to your radio all week, no doubt, following the progress of the States. I can’t say I blame you. Whether ministers should get free BlackBerrys, the size of the quorum, the make-up of a panel reviewing the future of Fort Regent – these are big questions that affect every single one [...]

ONE of the Island’s biggest accountancy firms is predicting a strong year ahead for its own business and the Island’s finance industry as a whole.

AN apprentice carpenter who kicked and stamped on a stranger’s head until he blacked out has been jailed for a year.