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From Michael Green. AFTER reading the JEP report on the findings of Verita, it has become evident that serious failures of Hospital management have been allowed to continue without redress for many years.

THE life of a woman who made an extraordinary contribution to Jersey life for over half a century is being celebrated by Islanders of all ages and backgrounds.

MORE than 100 Jersey Telecom posts are to go, with 17 being forced out of their jobs as the company finishes slashing £4 million a year from its wage bill.

THE mother of a Jersey athlete suspended under anti-doping rules has today said that her son will fight to clear his name.

A MAN who is writing an account of life in a prison camp in Germany towards the end of the war is hoping readers can help provide information about a Captain J S Le Mesurier.

STATES spending has risen by almost 40% in the last five years despite repeated promises that spending would be cut.

ESSENTIAL though they might have been as a means of controlling excessive immigration, Jersey’s housing laws have never been fully satisfactory. Indeed, from the point of view of the many Islanders without full residential qualifications, they have been the dividing line between full membership of the community and a sort of social limbo.

THE word ‘legend’ has become an over-used cliché, thrown carelessly at former soap stars, wayward footballers and junkie rockers. Click on the headline above for the full story…

PLANS to change the law to allow Jersey companies to merge with overseas businesses are being put out to consultation.

From Vera Le Cras. SOME of us remember only too well the guns firing overhead with the shrapnel littering the lawn and even the house.