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THOUSANDS of local jobs in Jersey’s funds industry have been secured by the deal agreed by EU finance ministers this week.

FOUR Islanders raised £4,000 after completing one of the toughest charity challenges in the UK.

A TOTAL of 246 full-time States posts are to be lost as part of the public sector cuts programme.

HUNDREDS of parents packed the Town Hall last night to share their views on plans to cut subsidies to fee-paying schools.

JERSEY’S underlying rate of inflation has dropped to its lowest figure in ten years, even though prices of essential items including food and fuel rose slightly in the past three months.

THE Central Market will continue to have a post office after Jersey Post vacates the building at the end of this month.

GST is to rise, higher earners are in line to pay more Social Security and States departments are to be dramatically cut under a hard-hitting Budget plans announced today.

THE annual production by the St Martin’s Musical Society has been packing in audiences at the Opera House all this week.

THE Jersey Sports Council is ready to thrust Island sport into the political spotlight.

THE latest revelations about the tax paid by some of the Island’s wealthiest residents are nothing less than shocking.