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JERSEY’S cricketers must avoid defeat against France today at the FB Fields to retain realistic aspirations of playing in the Twenty20 World Cup global qualifier in Dubai next March.

THE cost of living in Jersey increased sharply last month following the rise in GST. According to figures released today, inflation increased by 4.5 per cent during the year leading up to last month.

THE most far-reaching reforms of Sunday trading laws for 50 years were agreed yesterday and could soon mean all but the Island’s biggest 36 stores being allowed to open.

AN 85-year-old farmer was run over by his own tractor yesterday.

From Douglas and Rosemary Legg. WHAT an excellent letter from Deputy Le Hérissier (JEP, 16 July). Everything he states is absolutely right and known only too well by ‘the man in the street’ – but ‘the man in the street’ has no power and those in power have been proven to have different agendas.

THE reclaimed land at La Collette is one of the first glimpses of Jersey afforded to people arriving here by sea. It is also included in the zone covered by the Ramsar Convention, the international agreement intended to protect precious wetlands.

THE future of Jersey Post is being put at risk by a regulator ‘recklessly’ pursuing the ideology of competition.

From Tony Keogh. IN his letter (JEP, 12 July) Pierre Horsfall does not seem to deny that the Privy Council petitioners had an element of constitutional vandalism. However, the real vandalism, according to him, has taken place in the States.

It’s shameless plagiarism, I know, but I’m going to repeat what a fellow commentator wrote in a sister publication a few weeks ago.

INVESTIGATING accountants have been called in to review allegations of mishandled Airport contracts.