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From Nick Rice. ON Sunday morning I chanced to see a programme on Channel 4 called Freesports 4 which was covering the UK leg of the world BMX bike 6.0 circuit.

TWO victories and one defeat were recorded by Bedell Group Jersey Squash players in the National Championships in Manchester yesterday.

BEFORE the battle of the budgets comes the war of words. As politicians of different persuasions, nervous public servants and dogmatic union leaders peer from their entrenched positions towards the coming conflict over necessary cuts in States spending, there has been a certain amount of sabre-rattling but, so far, little in the way of action.

FOOTBALL’S first lady Karren Brady is to be guest speaker at the inaugural Jersey Director of the Year Awards.

MORE than 50 years ago Columbia Pictures released a delightful comedy about a tiny country that devised a novel idea to get itself out of an economic mess.

A MAN has been jailed for four years after stabbing his girlfriend’s brother just yards from a family rock festival at Howard Davis Park.

POLICE officers are so busy with prisoners and paperwork that sometimes there are not any on the beat.

From James Monnelly. I WRITE in response to the ‘new’ improved bus service introduced on 1 February. Quite frankly, I can’t see how it has improved things at all.

JERSEY play their second away game in a row when they take on Portsmouth RFC in National League III London and SE tomorrow with only two changes from the side which battled back to win 35-10 at Sutton and Epsom last weekend.

THE new HSBC Bank branch in King Street was officially opened last night to complete a £3 million refurbishment programme of three branches.