Dodd reigns after thrills and spills

SURREY’S Gary Dodd won the elite cylists’ Rubis Jersey Town Criterium on Sunday, but not before there had been a series of quite spectacular falls along the course.


End of a ministerial career?

IT has been alleged that Housing Minister Terry Le Main has attempted to prevent a housing law prosecution by personal intervention. It has also been alleged that he did so because of long-standing friendship with the person accused of the housing infraction.


There are real concerns that jobs will be lost

From Charles Webb, executive director. I WRITE in response to the editorial entitled ‘Common sense or dogma?’ (JEP, 27 May).


Minister facing an inquiry steps aside

HOUSING Minister Terry Le Main is stepping aside from duty temporarily while inquiries are carried out into whether he tried to stop the prosecution of a long-term friend for breaking the Housing Law.


Of all the miserable excuses, this one takes the biscuit

OF all the miserable excuses for the expensive failings of the sort our highly paid public sector managers have been accused of in the last few years, that trotted out by Prime Minister Terry Le Sueur when commenting on the shambles that is the Health department really does take the biscuit.


Two who walked the walk

TWO women have completed a 26.2-mile walk in memory of a friend who died of breast cancer.


Law firms’ merger expected

THE merger of two major Jersey and Guernsey law firms to create the largest Channel Islands’ practice was due to be officially confirmed today.


A Week in Politics

I’D have to say that it would be a fairly loose interpretation of the role of Housing Minister that included: a) lobbying the Law Officers to drop a prosecution under the Housing Law; b) moaning to the Royal Court about flaws in the law that you’ve personally been in charge of administering for around a [...]


Final flourish adds to record-breaking Jeux des Iles campaign in The Azores

JERSEY took a record breaking haul of medals at this year’s Jeux des Iles finishing with a total of 25 and sixth place overall.


Island faces EU tax review over zero-ten

JERSEY faces a review by the EU Code of Conduct Group on Business Taxation in September over the discredited ‘zero-ten’ corporate tax system.

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.