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A MOTHER is celebrating her new arrival – after giving birth on an Aurigny Trislander between Alderney and Guernsey.

A DEBT-ridden Jersey property developer who owes nearly £7 million has been given two weeks to get his finances in order as he tries to avoid being declared bankrupt.

THREE low water fishermen were rescued almost a mile out to sea yesterday after being cut off by one of the biggest tides of the year.

BUSINESS opportunities with India will remain strong despite an important tax agreement not being signed, Jersey Finance said today.

Sprint Bonuses Monday was the first day of spring – and it seems very spring like too! So have you been cycling?

From Gerard Baudains. ONCE again, Jersey people might be required to have a compulsory Identity Card. It didn’t work during the Occupation, when sanctions were somewhat more severe than Senator Routier proposes today, and won’t work in the future.

THE big moan which led to the centralisation of the benefit or welfare system – and in the process replaced a largely, although not entirely, honorary system of administration with a salaried one – was that on occasions there was no uniformity between parishes in terms of what was received by claimants.

MORE than ten years after the issue was first raised, Islanders are within just a few steps of having access to a Freedom of Information Law.

CLOSER links between Jersey’s finance industry and a region which already accounts for more than $31 billion of investments in the Island have been forged by the opening of a Jersey Finance office in Abu Dhabi.

Jersey’s Great Britain and England international hockey star Beckie Herbert helped Leicester to the women’s England Hockey League title at the weekend.