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A COUPLE and their two dogs had a lucky escape from a blaze at their home on Friday night.

TODAY’S announcement that two States departments are hiring consultants to look at the island’s retail sector has a disturbing edge to it for the very reasons it has been commissioned: developing an island retail strategy and whether the Leale’s Yard development should go ahead in St Sampson’s.

THE former boss of Credit Suisse (Guernsey) Ltd is claiming an unpaid annual bonus of nearly half a million pounds from his former company.

GUERNSEY manager Dave Hearse will wait until the last minute before he names his team to face hosts Singapore today in the opening match of the Pepsi ICC World Cricket League Division Six at the Singapore Cricket Club.

HAVE you ever seriously thought what sort of coach and tactician you would be, given the chance to manage any half-decent football team?

MATT LE BER and Dan de la Mare have made it a hat-trick of titles in the Travers Pairs.

OVERCROWDed Vazon is an accident waiting to happen, according to beach users.

GUERNSEY’S redundancy law meant NRG staff were an easy target, according to one employee.

LOCAL traders’ views will be taken into account if the Normandy Market is at the North Show next year, according to committee president Nick Dorey.

FOR most people a 10-minute dip in the sea is enough, but not for John Nelson – he swam from Guernsey to Sark last Saturday.