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COMMONWEALTH Games shooter Mary Norman was the clear winner in the top pistol competition of the Eastern Air Rifle Club’s recent Jackson Fox Air Gun Open.

From Nick Le Cornu. THERE was a time when a critical letter like that from John Boothman (JEP, 27 November) would have sent progressives scattering for cover. The humiliation, the curtailed career prospects, the shame, the ostracism of friends, the averted gaze on King Street, would all have been too much.

JERSEY Finance has launched a website in Mandarin Chinese to try to boost business in the Far East.

THE crimes for which Leonard Vandenborn has been convicted and jailed were abhorrent and few would suggest that the 12-year sentence that he is now serving is either inappropriate or disproportionate. Nevertheless, there is a feature of his treatment by the judicial system which raises difficult issues.

A JERSEY company intends to launch satellites into space that will allow three billion people in the Third World to access high-speed internet connections.

GIBRALTAR next November is the provisional date for an inaugural small nations football tournament involving Guernsey and Jersey.

THE Treasury Minister has today lodged a last-minute amendment to the Budget which means that the States will now decide if GST should be taken off all food and domestic heating.

A FORMER Miss Battle of Flowers who was sitting just feet away from a gas explosion which ripped through a luxurious Mexico hotel, killing seven people, has told of her horrific experience.

ISLANDERS have been urged to give the bus a try as the States begin a major debate which could shape the future of transport in Jersey.

HEALTH officials this morning issued an urgent warning about a food supplement which turns into a dangerous industrial-strength bleach when used as directed.