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JERSEY hockey star Beckie Herbert helped her UK club to victory in the National Indoor Hockey Championship yesterday.

THE red tape burden on small firms is being cut by changes to rules governing GST returns.

UNPRECEDENTED spending cuts were signalled today as ministers announced ambitious plans to cut States spending by £50 million a year from 2012.

I DOUBT whether the powers that be at Flybe any longer read the many and varied references to them made in this newspaper and elsewhere, because they must be fed up with defending, not to mention often seeking to justify, some of their business practices.

From Stephen and Pauline Harewood. HOW sad that the Plémont headland seems lost for ever to entrepreneurs, basically due to our ministers’ reluctance to spend money on conservation and the environment, despite the public’s wishes.

AFTER many broken promises and much delay, government seems at last to be taking seriously the fundamental issue of overspending in the public sector.

And this week I’ll finish my reprise of last year’s news.

A DANCE teacher from Jersey has been chosen to judge one of the biggest dance competitions in Europe.

Jersey Rugby Club supporters were kept on tenterhooks before a narrow National III South East victory was secured on Saturday.

A FORMER States Senator who also served for many years as a Methodist lay preacher and was a JEP columnist for almost five decades has died, aged 87.