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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.

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.

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.

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.

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’.

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

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

POOR Mark Le Tissier.