FORMER competitor and current tennis world number one Rafael Nadal has sent a good luck message to all those taking part in next week’s Jeux des Iles competition in Palermo, Sicily.
Lawyer ‘humiliated’ after all-day drinking session
A JERSEY lawyer described his ‘humiliation’ at being caught driving while three times over the legal limit after an all-day heavy drinking session.
Limit on election expenses
CANDIDATES in the October’s elections will have a limit on what they can spend on their campaigns following a States’ decision to tighten up rules on election spending.
Warning over wildfire threat
THE Island is the brink of a major wildfire after weeks of dry weather, firefighters have warned.
Neighbours’ battle over tall trees takes them to court
A ST Martin woman’s 30-year battle to get her neighbours to take a chainsaw to three 100-year-old oak trees has ended up in court.
£100,000 review proposed to boost States efficiency
A MAJOR review of the way that the States works and the jobs that politicians and top civil servants do has been proposed by the Council of Ministers.
Getting information is ‘like pulling teeth’
GETTING information out of the Health department is like ‘extracting teeth’, Members were told.
Time to change pension increase measurements
From Alan Hall. AS many of your readers will be aware, the annual increase in Jersey pensions is linked to the Average Earnings Index. As a result, in recent times, pension increases have fallen behind the various retail price indices.
Culkin and JFA make peace
JERSEYMAN Craig Culkin will lead Jersey’s defence of the NatWest Island Games football title in the Isle of Wight next month.
Why is M&S unpatriotic?
From Sylvia de Gruchy. WHY is Marks and Spencer so unpatriotic towards Jersey’s economy? Whenever one shops at their stores and pays in cash one never receives one pound notes in return, always it is in English one pound coins.