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JERSEY police ‘overreacted’ when dealing with a couple accused of assaulting children at Haut de la Garenne in the 1970s and 80s, a jury heard yesterday.

THE analogue age was well and truly consigned to the scrapheap at the weekend as record numbers of Islanders dumped their old televisions.

JERSEY’S dramatic ‘golden goal’ in the final seconds of their third round England Hockey Trophy match against Slough has been rewarded with a home draw for their next encounter.

A SMALL surf and beach sports company made big waves at this year’s Chartered Institute of Marketing awards.

From Phil Maguire. THE people of Jersey make me laugh. You argue passionately over the pros and cons of whether we should have had zero-ten. But it is all irrelevant.

THE latest employment figures are anything but encouraging but they offer no grounds for sudden alarm, let alone desperation. Although the figures, compiled by the States Statistics Unit, show that a record number of Islanders are registered as unemployed, the patterns of unemployment underlying the total are significant and require unpicking.

CONSULTANTS from the UK have launched a major review into the Island’s Health Service at a cost of nearly £800,000.

RECORD numbers of Islanders are now registered as unemployed, with 60 more people out of work at the end of October than a month before.

LEGAL group Bedell Cristin have acted as Jersey and Guernsey counsel in a £242 million London property deal.

TWO lifeboats and a fishing vessel battled to keep a sinking boat afloat yesterday, after it ran into trouble a mile out at sea.