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SPORTING activities often amount to personal challenges. Those who engage in sport are often as eager to test themselves against personal standards as to break records, beat opponents or secure a podium place.

From Stephen Harewood. I WRITE with regard to the controversy surrounding the lifeguard issue. There has been unprecedented support for keeping the Australian lifeguard team as opposed to utilising a much respected RNLI team, at huge savings.

JERSEY Rugby Club produced an excellent explosive performance to beat Lydney 24-7 in the National 2 South League on Saturday.

GENERALLY speaking, I have little sympathy with those who break the law, but having read last week that about 50 motorists had been fined for failing to heed a No Entry sign near Marks & Spencer in St Clement – nice little earner, Mr Constable, which should help keep the rates down and ensure re-election [...]

A MAN dressed only in his underpants stormed into his neighbour’s flat brandishing a two-foot machete above his head, the Royal Court has heard.

UK government cutbacks appear to be slowing up Jersey laws coming into force and causing difficulties for the Island’s finance industry.

A WOMAN was lucky to be alive today after she accidentally set fire to her living room when she fell asleep while smoking.

FARMERS and flower growers are being starved of valuable land because Planning will not make a decision about the future of derelict and disused glass houses, the Assistant Economic Development Minister says.

PROPOSALS to hand over States reform to an independent commission with a wide brief covering all States seats, terms of office and voting rules have been formally published today.

WILDLIFE wardens should be employed to protect Jersey’s animals from jet-skiers and other watercraft, say the Société Jersiaise.