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LEE MERRIEN flew out of the island yesterday ahead of the most important race of his career – the World Championships marathon in Daegu a week on Sunday.

JAPANESE beetles could ravage the grape crop in the vineyards of Sark, if a ‘threat’ emailed to Sark Estate Management is to be believed.

OF THE 27 tax information exchange agreements signed by Guernsey only 16 are in force.

ONE of the predictable consequences of the Policy Council report on reducing the States subsidy to the island’s three colleges is that the £1.11m. clawback proposed over the next seven years has been criticised as too little, too slow.

JERSEY retained the touch inter-insular but it could so easily have gone Guernsey’s way.

A PSYCHIATRIST who had sex with a married woman patient on his consulting room floor at the Castel Hospital has been struck off.

FIVE people were rescued by Alderney’s lifeboat after their motor cruiser caught fire seven miles north of the island.

GOVERNMENT should not dictate to parents which one of them stays at home to look after a newborn baby, according to the chairman of the group putting forward proposals to introduce statutory maternity leave.

WITH as many as 44 entrants for the annual Guernsey Rifle Club Summer Prize Meeting the local club wanted fine weather and their wishes were granted with the range bathed in sunshine for the greater part of the weekend.

JAMES MCLAUGHLIN (pictured) produced a fantastic fifth place finish in the Ronde Finisterienne Road Race.