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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.

JERSEY surfers Nathan Elms and Matt Chapman’s assault on the ISA World Junior Surfing Under-18 Championship in Piha, Auckland, has come to an end.

From Luke Small. I READ Mr Barker’s letter (JEP, 21 January) with absolute abhorrence. In fact I had to read it twice in order to reinforce my disbelief as to what I had just read.

A 15-YEAR-OLD boy who raped and robbed a 19-year-old woman as she walked home has been jailed for four years.