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SEVENTY-six Jersey beehives have been destroyed in the first round of tests following an outbreak of American foulbrood disease.

THE news that Waitrose is to open three supermarkets in Jersey has been generally welcomed.

MISS Battle of Flowers has a new chaperone. Alicia Nerac has taken over the reins from Jackie Donald, who stood down earlier this year after seven years in the role.

MORE than 60 boats of various shapes and sizes sailed from Jersey to St Malo last Saturday to mark the 70th anniversary of Islanders’ role in a wartime evacuation of British troops from St Malo.

Would you rather be George Osborne or Philip Ozouf? I think it’s fair to say that even the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer would prefer to be Jersey’s Treasury Minister at Budget time.

IT could well be that Sandpiper CI have squared the circle of the third supermarket controversy by selling three of its largest outlets to a UK company.

JERSEY’S Luke de la Cour is in second place in the BMRC Stock 1,000 Championship after a successful weekend in round six at Silverstone.

From Senator Philip Ozouf. I WOULD like to express my support for the concerns voiced by the chairman of Jersey’s Institute of Directors.

JERSEY can feel legitimately aggrieved over criticism of its neutral corporate tax system, given that the UK is trying to promote itself as a low-tax state following this week’s emergency budget.

PLANNING has abandoned a seven-year battle against a controversial rural development – because it cannot risk paying to fight the developer in court.