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Saturday November 17, 2007



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Bail us out, say Health
	WITHIN two months of taking over as Health Minister, Senator Ben Shenton is being forced to ask the States for more cash to bail his department out of a financial mess.

Pony doping suspect is banned from events
	A MOTHER accused of doping ponies so that her son could win a showjumping competition will be banned from the sport for four years.

Cash boost for the prison
	THE Council of Ministers agreed yesterday that La Moye prison was significantly underfunded.

Come on, girls - get technical!
	BEAULIEU Convent School is attempting to change the perception of IT as a male-dominated industry.

42 former CI Traders pubs up for sale
	FORTY-TWO Jersey pubs have been put up for sale.

Business adds support to GST exemptions bid
	THE States have been urged by the Chamber of Commerce to 'salvage some credibility' by exempting food and print from the 3% goods and services tax.

My mother the war heroine
	A BOOK on the final months of war-time secret agent Violette Szabo written by her Jersey resident daughter Tania was launched last night at the Jersey War Tunnels.

Complaints over spent convictions kept on file
	COMPLAINTS that Islanders' criminal records are not being wiped clean when convictions are spent have been made to Home Affairs Minister Wendy Kinnard.

St Helier backs Funchal twinning
	PLANS to twin St Helier with the capital city of Madeira have been unanimously backed by a parish assembly.

Islander foiled in £100,000 radio aution bid
	AN Islander was ready to pay £100,000 for a personal performance by singers Katie Melua and Aled Jones before he was outbid by a £250,000 offer on Terry Wogan's Children in Need auction on BBC Radio 2.