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AN 18-year-old unemployed man who used the internet to prey on schoolgirls as young as 13 and then met them for sex has been jailed.

THIS weekend’s first stage of the Tour de Bretagne is an open race that anyone could win, according to Tour de France stage winner and Eurosport pundit Magnus Backstedt.

TONY Buckingham is Jersey’s richest resident with an estimated wealth of £565 million, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.

AS public sector workers march in protest through the streets of St Helier today, Chief Minister Terry Le Sueur has vowed to stick to his guns on plans for cuts.

STATES departments are currently in the throes of a comprehensive spending review, launched by Treasury Minister Philip Ozouf. The review is intended to cut excess fat from the public sector and to counter criticisms, voiced over a long period, that government spending is excessive and even out of control.

WITH time on my hands last Sunday for the first weekend in months, I spent a few minutes researching Iceland. Not the supermarket, but the island country located in the north Atlantic.

AS tension over public sector pay reaches boiling point, with hundreds of States workers preparing to march through town tomorrow, a damning report has shown that ministers have ignored cost-cutting measures for almost two years.

TWO coaches, one common ambition. For Jersey RFC’s Ben Harvey and Taunton’s  Lee Waddon that ambition is, simply, to win tomorrow’s National III Champions Cup semi-final at St Peter and get to Twickenham.

From Nick Palmer, spokesman, Jersey Climate Action Network. YOUR correspondent Julius Olsen (JEP, 21 April) wonders how the emissions of the Icelandic volcano compare with greenhouse emissions ‘from the world’s motor vehicles and other sources such as flatulent cattle’.

JERSEY will not be treated any differently to the Isle of Man when Europe makes a decision about the zero-ten tax package, business leaders were told this week.