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If you want a real Christmas tree this year you're likely to have to pay more for it, especially if you want a tall one, according to industry insiders.

Play safe when fitting ceiling roses by keeping things light and manageable.

WELL, surprise, surprise. The silence from however many thousands – indeed, tens of thousands for all I know – of people who signed the petition clamouring for a Town Park is deafening, now that the inevitable has happened and those living in the immediate neighbourhood have started complaining.

THE boss of the Island’s biggest drinks business has written to all States Members to warn that it would be a ‘social and fiscal mistake’ to continue the current policy of continually raising duty on alcohol.

EMPLOYERS are to be offered significant incentives to employ young Islanders or the long-term out of work under multi-million-pound plans to fight unemployment.

From Charmaine Noel. WHILE staying at my mother’s house this week, I read with concern that Islanders could have to pay for tankers of water from Norway as Jersey is now so short of water. Importing water in this way is a desperate measure and will be expensive and is clearly not sustainable.

AS this month has progressed, Jersey has played host to – quite literally – a growing population of moustaches.

A FARMER has lost his main winter income after 150 of his chickens were killed by dogs at the weekend.

This time last year Islanders were either shovelling snow from their driveways or setting off for work on foot as Arctic conditions blasted the Channel Islands.

SENATOR Ian Le Marquand has been appointed Jersey’s Deputy Chief Minister.