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AN ISLAND primary school has been branded unfit for 21st century education, with inadequate toilet facilities, classrooms which are too small and roofs that leak.

FOREIGN-OWNED companies like Normans, the JEP and BhS should pay to trade in Jersey when ordinary Islanders are facing GST at five per cent on essentials like food and clothes, says Deputy Carolyn Labey.

Former British and Irish Lion Austin Healey has warned Jersey rugby star Matt Banahan against taking an international gamble at centre – insisting his best position is on the wing.

A COUPLE have each been found guilty of eight charges of assault on children in their care when they worked as house parents at Haut de la Garenne 30 years ago.

MECHANIC Martyn Allenet is is hoping that three years of tinkering and tweaking with his beloved low-rider cruiser motorbike will pay off this weekend.

Just over a week ago I read in the JEP: ‘More Twenty/20 games in wake of World Cup qualifier’.

IN 1854 Jersey pioneered a new development in postal services. In the wake of a report by Anthony Trollope, the great novelist who was also a senior Post Office employee, St Helier was successfully used as a proving ground for pillar boxes before they were introduced into the UK.

A 62-YEAR-OLD accountant who was jailed for 12 years for rape and a string of indecent assaults in the 1970s and 1980s has been ordered to pay prosecution costs of almost £190,000.

A JERSEY resident and former chairman of a Premier League football team was knighted in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace last week, in recognition of his services to football.

JERSEY RFC face the first of two vital away games tomorrow both against promotion rivals determined to remove the Island side from a top-two berth.