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FERRY operator Finist’Mer has taken over Manche Iles Express, which runs the links from Granville and Carteret to Jersey.

IN the superstitious past, Islanders might have said that it was cursed. Now, however, the St Helier Waterfront is regarded by everyone – save a tiny minority who refuse to take off the rose-tinted spectacles – as a long-running disaster and a striking example of how a vital project in a vital area can be [...]

STAFF associations from across the public and private sector have formed a new organisation to fight ministerial cuts.

GORDON Brand Jnr won the Matrix Jersey Classic yesterday with rounds of 63, 66 and 72.

From Deputy Paul Le Claire. SENATOR Terry Le Main may not be everyone’s favourite politician or person. There have been times over the past 15 years or more that I have known him when, I must be honest and say, he’s not been one of mine.

WELL, young Philip Ozouf has published details of how he proposes to knock 12 million quid off what that lot in the Big House spend, and interesting reading it makes too, although whether it’ll do any good or actually be achieved is another matter altogether.

WITH a scathing report on the sell-off of States properties apparently looming, a new Housing Minister will be elected tomorrow.

From Pat Lucas. THE JEP (1 June) reports that Jersey faces a review by the EU Code of Conduct Group on Business Taxation in September over the discredited ‘zero-ten’ corporate tax system.

THIRTEEN people were made redundant at RBC in Jersey and Guernsey recently.

THE heart of the Waterfront could remain a ghost town for months following the liquidation of the company sub-letting the boarded-up bar and nightclubs.