Jersey two big wins from title

JERSEY Rugby Club missed out on amassing 1,000 points for the National III South East campaign on Saturday, but that was a mere aside as they garnered another four points away to Dorking on their march to promotion.


Getting in the right gear

With the weather still rather chilly, perhaps it might be time to evaluate your cycling wardrobe?


400 Health jobs ‘in cash crisis threat’

UP to 400 jobs could go at Health under secret plans to slash ten per cent from every States department, according to a union leader.


Battle of the sexes that never seems to end …

It’s been a chilly old winter, hasn’t it? So before she put my big new woolly jumper in the machine for the first time, I told Mme Masstairmann to make sure she had a quick look at the washing instructions, because you can’t be too careful, eh?


These water proposals are better than flooding another valley in the Island, I suppose

WELL it was a long time coming – 30 years or so, by my reckoning, perhaps even longer – but the Waterworks Company have finally got round to reading the Guthrie report on water resources, and as a result we’re all going to have this essential commodity metered.


Stop playing political football on harbours

From Chris Fairbairn. POSSIBLY the only positive thing to emerge from the recent conflict between the beleaguered Jersey Harbours and the strength of feeling of the boat owners of St Helier over the flooding of the Old Harbour was the intervention of the Economic Minister, as reported in the JEP on 5 February.


Ban for trust company head

THE head of a former trust company, who has debts totalling £1 million, has been banned from working in Jersey’s finance industry.


Crete carries a challenge

A GROUP of former servicemen are braving extreme conditions on a trek across a desolate Cretan mountain range in aid of Holidays for Heroes Jersey.


Healthy signs of growth

THE Island’s potato distributors might be warning that this year’s crop of Jersey Royals will be late, but that is a minor setback in what has been a period of healthy growth in the industry in recent times.


If we need helmets for cycling, what about other activities?

From Keith Davis. MOST people, including consultants working in A & E, have a narrow viewpoint and limited experience of the full pros and cons of introducing legislation to force the wearing of cycle helmets.

BIRD WATCH 2012

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The 11th Great Garden Bird Watch took place over the weekend, Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 February. JEP readers were asked to get on board to help monitor bird life in the Island.