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THE cost of living in Jersey has risen by 3.1 per cent in the past year, the Treasury Minister announced today as he warned of more challenging times ahead.

THE potential for Jersey Spartan athletes to reach the highest competitive standards has been boosted by a £4,000 sponsorship deal with Heritage Oil.

One of the few remaining privileges accorded to passengers arriving at London’s Gatwick airport from the Channel Islands is the discrete passage which bypasses the need to queue up with overseas passport holders at Immigration Control.

HOME Affairs Minister Ian Le Marquand made little attempt to mince his words when he explained why more senior police officers have been recruited from the UK. He said that there were no ‘suitable’ local officers to step into any of the four top jobs which needed to be filled.

ISLAND Games newcomer Laurence Carter boosted his sailing profile last week by finishing fourth in the Spitfire multi-hull class at the Youth National Championship at Hayling Island.

A WORKMAN was seriously injured yesterday when he was impaled on a metal bar at a St Saviour construction site.

MOTHERS could be legally entitled to maternity leave sooner than expected after the Chief Minister confirmed plans to get legislation to the States before the next election.

AN apprentice plumber who kicked a man in the face in a street attack after drinking 15 pints of lager was jailed for a year by the Royal Court yesterday.

A MAJOR air and sea search was launched yesterday after a boat was found adrift and sinking with no one aboard, eight miles off Jersey’s west coast.

CAMPAIGNERS last night demanded new measures to tax foreign-owned companies at the first of series of public meetings calling for GST to be scrapped on food and household heating bills.