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FINANCE firm Ernst & Young have welcomed the Budget and urged States Members to heed the central message about controlling spending.

ISLAND representative Ben Skinner’s hopes of another medal at the World Surfing Games were crushed in South America yesterday, as he was knocked out in the third round.

IF you tried to pinpoint the moment at which you realised that all this deficit talk was going to end up with a proposal to increase GST, my bet is that it wouldn’t have been Friday’s Budget announcement.

THE senior police officer who led the response to the bombing of Aldgate underground station during the 2005 7/7 London terrorism attacks has been chosen as the Island’s next police chief.

SUPERMARKET group Waitrose has dismissed accusations that it is trying to freeze local contractors out of refurbishment work on the stores it has bought in Jersey.

From David Râtel. I WRITE as one of several bemused residents of St Brelade’s Bay. We are currently confronted with three redevelopment applications, all of which request permission to build very large, perhaps even huge buildings on sites on our shoreline.

THE draft Budget, made public last week, includes proposals that would not be countenanced in happier times. Cuts totalling £65 million, plus increases in GST and social security contributions, measures which are clearly going to hurt more than one sector of Island society, are, by any standards, stringent measures.

A DOCTOR whose botched operation led to the death of a Jersey mother of three has been allowed to return to work.

CUTS to the subsidies of fee-paying schools would be introduced in September of next year and would be phased in, the Education Minister has said.

ENVIRONMENT Minister Freddie Cohen says he would welcome a review of the Planning Minister’s powers and how decisions are made.