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IT was a tin of lychees that finally took me over the edge.

ISLANDERS have been urged by the Bailiff, Michael Birt, to support the Jersey Side by Side appeal for Madeira following the weekend flood disaster.

JERSEY footballers could soon being playing on an international stage in a tournament being backed by the Football Association.

THESE are the three great fibs of Jersey politics: • I can make government more efficient. •We must keep Jersey special. •The States must work more closely with Guernsey.

IT took five days on a boat, a long-haul flight and another boat trip to get here, but now an accountant from St Helena is settling in well to his new role with the States of Jersey.

JERSEY’S hopes of promotion to Division IV took a severe jolt today with a 66-run defeat by the United States of America in Nepal.

From Colin Clarke. THIS is the modern world and as far as I’m concerned, you can keep it. I recently had occasion to resort to the owner’s handbook of a recently manufactured motor vehicle.

FORMER Senator Christopher Lakeman has died at the age of 42.

From Jonathan Perrée. GIVEN the recent debate on whether we should have an extra day’s holiday on Monday 10 May, may I, through your pages, ask your dear leaders the following questions?

SCORES more people have been evacuated from their homes in Madeira amid fears of fresh landslides after storms devastated the island over the weekend.