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Daily Archives: September 20, 2008

The oligarchs’ playground

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Russian oligarchs are moving in on the Cote d’Azur, with one spending a cool £392m. on a villa and another offering £80m. to divert a railway line that was bothering him. But they’re not the first of their kind to use the place as a playground.

Back in the crowd

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Bruce Foxton and Rick Buckler, formerly of The Jam, played at The Drift in Jersey on Tuesday. Colin Leach said hello hurray and took a peek at their artillery room.

Not your regular Johndoes

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I arrived with friends midway through the Johndoes’ thumping first set at the Rockmount’s public bar the Saturday before last in a squarish, rectangular room packed with people.

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BRITISH summertime, 1977. I’m stood in the playground of Holycroft Primary School, Keighley, West Yorkshire. The sun is beating down. There are blobs of tar oozing through the cracks in the Tarmac. Kids are running around.

Island well placed to see out storms

THOUSANDS of finance workers in Guernsey and money centres across the world will put their feet up this weekend for a well-deserved break and think, ‘What on earth was that all about’.

Experts see opportunity in the economic turmoil

GUERNSEY’S reputation as a stable business base could benefit from the current turbulence in the financial markets, according to Chief Minister Lyndon Trott.

GFA may ‘Dig’ way out of hole?

FORMER Sylvans boss Martyn ‘Digger’ de Garis is understood to be considering an offer to become the island’s new under-21 football manager.

Sir Alf backs Greens

SIR ALF was never easily pleased, but the great man gave the island football team much credit in holding the FA XI to a 4-0 defeat at the Track.

Alison’s best yet not good enough

ALISON MERRIEN came close to qualifying for her first World Bowls Tour event – the Scottish Open.

GFA leader placed in unenviable position

POOR Mark Le Tissier.