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THE Council of Ministers apparently remains confident that its proposals combining increased taxation and spending cuts are capable of balancing the Island’s books and maintaining acceptable public services.

AFTER the days of plenty in May-time, we are now entering the annual period of famine.

ISLAND Tennis player Andrew Evans has been selected for the Great Britain veterans’ team at next year’s World Team Championship.

From Guy de Faye. WHILE your recent article entitled ‘When “oops!” is the only thing to say’ (JEP, 23 August) was amusing, as the former Minister for Transport and Technical Services, I need to advise both you and your readers that the section making reference to the 2008 redesign and resurfacing of the Bel Royal [...]

RADICAL plans to cut States spending by £50 million over the next three years are ‘insipid, toothless and unlikely to succeed’, according to a damning Scrutiny report.

THE judge who conducted the inquest into the death of Princess Diana and the executive director of the Society of Editors will be among the speakers at a conference to be held in the Island in October.

EMPLOYERS have told ministers to go back to the drawing board and find more cuts before proposing any tax increases.

CLOCKWORK Sodomy won the Junior Battle of the Bands final on Tuesday night.

PLANS for a one-way traffic system around St John’s Road at Cheapside have been scrapped.

PLANS to transform Les Ormes into a ‘mini Center Parcs’ have been submitted to Planning.