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A GROUP of leading businessmen is offering to help the States fund major capital projects.

A company which has offered to help the States fund major capital projects has already started investing in the island.

GUERNSEY’S top boxers have given the thumbs up to a possible return to the golden days of CI championship belts across the weights and ‘Muratti-like’ inter-island shows.

ALDERNEY looks set to ratify a plan to form a housing association.

LOOKING out over an expanse of broken branches and tree stumps, park keeper Dave Martel said: ‘It’s so disheartening to see someone come here to deliberately deface the wood.’

THE highlight of the bowls calendar – the WBT world indoor championships, staged, as ever, at Potters Leisure Resort in Norfolk – seems to get earlier every year, and, as if to prove the point, the first bowl of this year’s event was rolled yesterday.

THE DOGHOUSE will close its doors as a music venue for the final time on Valentine’s Day – but all is not lost for lovers of live bands.

ALICE LOVERIDGE reaped the benefit of two lucky edges in the deciding final set to make history at the Hougue du Pommier Stadium last night.

ALISON MERRIEN and Heather Watson have been shortlisted for the 2008 Sportingbet CI Sports Personality of the Year Award.

PETER STABLES eagerly awaits the draw for the Guernsey FA Cup semi-finals, although his dream final can no longer materialise.