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They say, if an opportunity comes your way, grab it with both hands.

‘Silly Season’ it certainly hasn’t been, but at least our political boys and girls have gone out to play and re-charge their batteries for one last push before the elections.

HAVING lived in central London for 35 years within brick-throwing range of the route of the Notting Hill Carnival, I can relate to the surprise and fear that has gripped law-abiding citizens across the country over the past week or so.

Having lived in Central London for 35 years within brick-throwing range of the route of the Notting Hill Carnival, I can relate to the surprise and fear that has gripped law-abiding citizens across the country over the past week or so.

I WONDER if you were as inspired as I was by the splendid aerial photograph published in the Temps Passé section of this newspaper recently, showing Fort Regent and the surrounding port area in 1972.

As an honorary member of ‘Friends of the La Collette EfW Plant’, I have been watching with great interest the precipitous increase in the height of what used to be a ‘grassy knoll’ facing Havre des Pas, which, we’re told, will be planted with site-screening trees by the year end.

WITHIN 24 hours of the launch of the Joint Charity Appeal for cash for the latest famine in East Africa, £6m had been pledged by a British public renowned for its generosity.

Last week I received an early birthday present. Sealed in an official brown envelope came an invitation from the Department of Work and Pensions to claim a monthly pension allowance for which, over the past 40 or so years, I have been contributing as a UK taxpayer.

The sun set on the ‘News of the World’ last weekend. It had more the appearance of an apocalypse than an eclipse, though don’t expect the space on the news-stands to remain empty for too long.

‘Welcome to the Rolls-Royce of bus travel’, declared Eric Le Roux when greeting his guests at the roll-out of the newest attractions to Jersey’s transport scene.