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A TEN-YEAR-OLD girl was left to walk home alone through St Helier late at night while her drunk mother visited her boyfriend, the Magistrate’s Court heard yesterday.

WE might take it for granted because it is so much part of everyday life, but we must never lose sight of the fact that the countryside is one of our community’s most valuable attributes.

A WEEK, according to former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson, is a long time in politics. But when the inmates of Charlie Chuckle’s Laughter Factory are at their navel-contemplating best, an hour can seem like a lifetime.

A TEAM from a Jersey church have returned from an ‘amazing but heart-wrenching’ trip to Kenya, where they worked with children who had been abused or abandoned.

FORMER US Open finalist Greg Rusedski will be in the Island next week for the International tennis tournament at Les Ormes.

From David Rotherham. I WOULD like to add my general agreement to the various calls for some trimming of public sector spending, to suit the harsh reality that we are both locally and globally entering the backstroke of the boom-bust cycle.

In the UK two weeks ago, I had the choice of going to the opera to see Romeo and Juliet or watching Jersey Rugby Club beat Dorking at the Big Field in Surrey.

COLLINS Stewart Wealth Management, which has its headquarters in Jersey, has bought a Guernsey-based investment management company.

From Katie Hooton-Dorey. ON Wednesday 10 March I was woken up to have my heart broken. My beautiful cat, Princess, had been killed by a hit and run driver outside my house.

WORLD CUP winner Richard Hill was suitably impressed with this year’s offerings at the Lord Jersey rugby tournament at St Peter yesterday.