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From Dr Susan Turnbull, Deputy Medical Officer of Health. A NUMBER of issues raised by Hedi Green (JEP, 11 Jun – Prescription drugs also carry risks) are in need of clarification.

TWO teenagers who were arrested on Tuesday night on suspicion of starting a fire which burnt out three cars in St Brelade have been charged.

MINISTERS will again request Jersey Post to keep the Market post office open, after a proposition was agreed in the States yesterday.

THE new St Catherine station lifeboat powered ashore yesterday to start its new life covering waters around the Island.

HEATHER Watson’s first round performance at Wimbledon yesterday made the Channel Islands very proud.

From Stanley Perkins, Professor Emeritus. IT was with deep regret but interest that I read in the Jersey Weekly Post, Thursda, 13 May, of the death of Sir Cecil Clothier who had contributed such great public service to the Island with his ‘Review of the Machinery of Government in Jersey’, 1999 – 2001.

From Christopher Bee, director. I WRITE in response to the article in the business section (JEP 17 Jun) entitled ‘Swiss post link boost for fulfilment firms’.

IF I think back to the 1950s and ’60s, I can’t quite imagine Miss Coad, Miss Cabot or Miss Fitter shutting up shop at St Clement’s School and lining up behind the banners of the Nottinghamshire NASWT, or Wigan and North-West Teachers, to march in protest against local pay and negotiating conditions.

EXPERTS are urging Islanders in business to read and respond to new proposals to reform the corporate tax system.

DEPUTY Geoff Southern is a conviction politician whose preferred policies are based on the belief that the rights of the little man should take precedence over those of the rich and big business. It also has to be said that he has courage – or a very thick skin.