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ISLANDERS are being encouraged to learn more about fire safety after figures showed a dramatic increase in accidental fires in the home.

MINISTERS want to slash an extra £15m from States budgets by 2013, bringing the total amount of proposed cuts to £65m, the Treasury Minister confirmed last night.

ONCE again Jersey Rugby Club go into the unknown as they host Dings Crusaders, from the Bristol area, at St Peter tomorrow.

TEN jobs will be lost at the end of the year when Alpha Bank Jersey Ltd closes.

THE time has come for a rebrand of the motley collection of beloved Island politicians that masquerades as a parliament.

Dans chu monde, nou n’peut dgéthe dithe qu’autcheune chose est cèrtaine, sénon la mort et les taxes. Chu diton vînt, à chein tch’i’ pathaît, d’la plieunme d’l’Améthitchain, Benjamin Franklin.

From Senator Paul Routier, Assistant Minister, Economic Development. I AM writing in response to the recent letter by Cally Noel (JEP, 3 September) and wish to clarify some of the points she raised in relation to the Island’s cruise market and European air services.

CHANNEL Islands Great War Study Group member Barrie Bertram was recently sent the accompanying photograph, taken by A Laurens in Jersey during the Great War, and asks if any Islander can identify the faces and the occasion.

THE 25th anniversary of the consecration of one of Jersey’s most distinctive Catholic churches will be marked with a number of special events this weekend.

MEMBERS of the Jersey Old Motor Club are well accustomed to negotiating the Island’s narrow lanes in their pre-1951 cars, but a recent 500-mile expedition to the Cotswolds provided a change of scenery – as well as posing a few challenges.