Light reading

Tuesday 19th January 2010, 3:00PM GMT.

Robert Kisch with his Christmas lights and 34-year-old JEP Picture: JON GUEGAN (00864437)

THE start of January is when we pack away our Christmas decorations for another year.

And for more than three decades, one man has wrapped up his festive lights in the same newspaper – an edition of the Jersey Evening Post from 10 December 1975.

When the time finally came to dump the old Christmas lights this year, Robert Kisch decided to have a flick through the 30-page paper, and was amazed to find that it was still in good enough condition to be read from cover to cover.

The JEP edition was from the day of a Deputies election in the Island and leads with a story about a UK driver dropping a complaint that he had previously made about honorary police in the Island.

The edition also includes one of the first photographs taken for the JEP by the now picture editor, Peter Mourant.