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THANKS to the internet and, in particular, social networking sites such as Facebook, ideas, good, bad, smart and stupid, can fan out around the globe at an alarming rate.

WITH a large team of 13 going to the Isle of Wight the wheels are truly in motion for a good Island Games for this year’s cycling team.

A MAN bit a chunk out of another man’s lip after they bumped shoulders in the Live Lounge bar on Christmas Eve, an Assize jury heard yesterday.

PROPOSALS to build 4,000 homes, create a coastal national park and apply greater protection to nearly 600 vergées of green land are being debated this week as the Island Plan goes before the States.

FORMER Health Minister Stuart Syvret’s civil claim against the Chief Minister, the States and the Attorney General has been struck out and he must pay the respondents’ costs.

TRANSPORT Minister Mike Jackson has defended his department’s high spending on consultants, saying it would cost much more to permanently employ a set of engineering experts.

MORE than 1,200 people tackled a windswept, rain-sodden 21st Itex Rotary Walk over the weekend – with more than half completing the 48.1-mile route.

ISLAND Champion Trevor Gray was unable to add the Channel Islands crown to his trophy cabinet at La Moye yesterday, as he was beaten 7 and 5 by Guernsey’s Bobby Eggo.

EVEN in perfect conditions the Itex Rotary Walk is a formidable and daunting challenge.

From John Boothman. I SUPPOSE, in these troubled times, we should welcome a little light relief wherever it comes from – even the veteran anti-tax haven campaigner John Heys (JEP, 9 June). And he certainly deserves some credit for managing to squeeze so much nonsense into so few paragraphs. But there, I’m afraid, the praise [...]