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JERSEY’S new Lieutenant Governor yesterday pledged to do all that he could to promote and protect the Island and its people for the next five years.

THE agricultural industry is vitally important to the Jersey way of life and needs more support from the States – that was the message from the 13 Senatorial candidates last night.

I read from the very erudite blog Cyclists in the City, that top four accounting firm Deloitte is removing car parking spaces from its offices in the Square Mile to replace them with cycle parking.

A power cut hit Jersey, Guernsey and areas of France last night.

ISLAND companies are being encouraged to enter the Standard Chartered Jersey Marathon Relay Race, which runs alongside the main Marathon race on Sunday 2 October.

TOGETHER in the same white coffin, the bodies of a mother and daughter who were killed in a multiple stabbing attack in St Helier last month were laid to rest at the weekend.

TODAY the Island’s new Lieutenant-Governor, General Sir John McColl, and Lady McColl take up residence in Government House and prepare to launch themselves into their duties. We welcome them to Jersey, wish them well during their stay, and hope that they find our small community congenial and hospitable.

From Donald McGregor. Two articles in your newspaper of late have highlighted these problems in our education system.

SEVERAL fine saves from goalkeeper Danny Kitchen and a clearance off a goal-line were instrumental in helping St Peter to a 2-1 home victory against Trinity on Saturday.

ELECTION time is when the pub not far from Chez Clement really comes into its own. That’s not to say that the corner regularly occupied by the Last of the Summer Wine crowd – all of a certain age and most of us fortunately still with all the marbles, although perhaps in some cases not [...]