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Thousands of Islanders are waiting anxiously to hear news of loved ones in Madeira where over 30 people are reported to have been killed in massive mudslides.

NOWHERE has the influence of the Business Party been more apparent than in the recent States decision not to approve Monday 10 May as a bank holiday.

From Peter Anthony Troy. MOST of the comments in the letters page and on the website of the JEP on the vexed subject of a bank holiday to mark the Liberation of Jersey on 9 May 1945 are focused on a day off. The issue is about celebration, not simply a day off work.

A HEROIN addict who tried to stab a man with a syringe told his victim ‘if this goes inside you will get a disease and die’.

JERSEY pose one of the biggest threats to a home victory in the World Cricket League Division V tournament which starts today in Nepal.

DEPOSITORS in a Guernsey bank that went bust are angry that a guarantee from its Icelandic parent now appears to be worthless.

THE Jersey Thai Boxing Club is hoping for even better things now that they have moved into a new gym on Stopford Road.

From Mike Truscott. JOHN Clennett’s letter (JEP, 15 February) suggests that the blame for our £100m black hole is down to the EU and company tax. I venture to suggest it is down to the States of Jersey and Senator Terry Le Sueur.

TWO anonymous donors have pledged to help a Turkish man left severely disabled in a vicious town attack after his story was published in the JEP last week.

THE Jersey dairy industry would not exist today if it were not for imported bull semen, a farmer claimed yesterday