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From Keith Shaw. I HAVE just read your front page report (JEP, 16 March) claiming that Senator Alan Maclean supports the scrapping of existing countryside protection, in favour of the building of a new supermarket.

THIS weekend’s planned strike by British Airways has thrown Jersey’s International tennis tournament into chaos.

JUST what use is the Public Accounts Committee? Not much, it would appear. Having failed to identify any really significant savings in the public sector, members of PAC remain undeterred.

FORMER fire chief Brian Mallett, who led the team which heroically tackled the gas explosion and fireball in Tunnell Street in 1982, died on Thursday 25 February, aged 70.

IN the USA it might have been called a state of the nation speech. Here it was an address at yesterday’s Chamber of Commerce lunch by Treasury Minister Philip Ozouf.

PUBLIC sector jobs will be lost as part of unprecedented plans to plug the States’ huge budget deficit, Treasury Minister Philip Ozouf confirmed yesterday.

JERSEY will be one of the most attractive islands in the world in which to live and work in future, according to the results of a survey by global accountancy practice KPMG.

JERSEY manager Jon Welsh has hinted that there could be one or two new caps in his starting team away to Alderney in the Kleinwort Benson Muratti semi-final on Saturday afternoon.

JERSEY’S Chief Minister has warned firefighters that the States will not back down over last year’s public sector pay freeze – just 24 hours after they threatened widespread industrial action.

From Kim Carpenter. YOUR newspaper recently reported on the Environment Minister’s plan to implement an emissions tax on vehicles.