Take me to the river

Botswana is home to some of the world’s most varied and vibrant wildlife. Tim Earl heads to the Okavango Delta, where he finds a plethora of species – but it’s the birds that hold his attention…


Sportingbet have done ‘Little Heath’ so proud

HOW dare that man at the Daily Mail say Heather Watson is from Jersey. I’m delighted his email inbox has been clogged with complaints.


Murray’s mum joins Heather fan club

HEATHER WATSON has ‘broken through the ceiling’ with her heroics at the Australian Junior Open.


Saved schools celebrate

LOUD ties pupils wore yesterday in aid of charity shone more brightly when news came through that the States had saved St Sampson’s Infants and St Andrew’s Primary.


Saved, or is this merely a reprieve?

ONE of the questions left hanging as a result of yesterday’s dramatically narrow decision not to close St Sampson’s Infants is whether the school has been saved – or merely given a reprieve.


Success was a long time coming but worth the wait

In the third part of an eight-week series Rob Batiste looks back at the finest players to pull on the Sylvans shirt


Fifty jobs at risk as NRG looks to go Dutch

UP TO 50 staff at NRG International are set to lose their jobs as proposals to move the company to the Netherlands look certain to get the go-ahead.


‘Ending VAT rule would just send trade elsewhere’

HEALTHSPAN chief executive Derek Coates, pictured, has hit back at comments made in the House of Commons about the effect a VAT concession which favours mail order companies in the Channel Islands is having on independent businesses.


Jersey has zero interest in sharing cost of our tankers

JERSEY will not pay toward the costs of Guernsey buying two tankers to keep the northern isle supplied with fuel.


Smiles all round at St Andrew’s School

SMILES returned to the faces of pupils, parents and teachers of ‘saved’ St Andrew’s School yesterday as they celebrated for the second time.