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THE women in Two Degrees North took the honours from 26 rival boats in the Lower Heads Race from Havelet Bay to the Lower Head buoy and back.

A GROUP of Guernsey’s top athletes have been preparing for this year’s Commonwealth Games with a week of warm-weather training in Portugal.

A TV crew from S4C was in Herm last week to interview our Welsh residents and staff for the shows Wedi 3 and Wedi 7, which were screened earlier this week.

THE island’s beauties are being encouraged to enter this year’s Miss Alderney contest, which takes place tomorrow.

MANY people who visit Sark for more than a day trip remark that it is an ideal place in which children can grow up and of course that can also mean that it’s ideal for children on holiday.

PANDEMONIUM is not a word normally associated with cemeteries but one we visited in Estonia was certainly a place of ‘wild and noisy disorder’.

‘HAVE any of you guys heard of a little album called Back in Black?!’ screamed Daz (Brian Johnston) to The Doghouse crowd on Friday, at which point the entire place roared.

A new song from The Raffle, ‘Is a Dream Coming’.

AS ISLANDERS are now aware, how words, particularly ‘special event’, are defined can have a material effect on individuals, having a bit of fun, and even a business making a quid or two.

INCOME TAX will have to rise if Health and Social Services spending continues to grow unchecked, the Treasury minister has said.