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From Daphne Minihane. DURING the States debate on whether or not a heating allowance should be made available to older people (not middle Jersey, of course), Deputy Rob Duhamel suggested that instead of increasing cold-weather payments elderly people should take in lodgers, or live together to share heating costs or body heat.

IT is all change for windsurfers heading to this year’s NatWest Island Games as the event is taking on a new format.

A JERSEY woman studying in earthquake-hit Christchurch has told the JEP that ‘there are bodies everywhere’ in the stricken city.

THANKS to the welcome intervention of Deputy Carolyn Labey, States Members have another chance to reverse the absurd and fundamentally anti-democratic decision to remove four Senators from our elected Assembly.

JERSEY was represented at a meeting of major European finance centres in Brussels last week.

TRY, just try, to come up with an interpretation of last week’s attempt to get rid of the Treasury Minister that doesn’t end with him coming out of it ahead on points. TRY, just try, to come up with an interpretation of last week’s attempt to get rid of the Treasury Minister that doesn’t end [...]

A REVIEW will be held into pay in the top echelons of Jersey’s civil service following last week’s revelations about the new Hospital director’s £216,000-a-year contract.

SUGGESTIONS that elderly Islanders struggling with heating bills should take in lodgers or live together to reduce energy costs have been condemned by the head of Age Concern.

A DISABLED man and his wife living on a housing estate at First Tower have said their lives are being made a misery by young people damaging the property and verbally abusing them.

A JERSEY-funded project to build an extension to a retirement home in one of the areas worst hit by last year’s Madeiran floods is due to be completed in May.