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THE financial services’ regulator’s pension deficit has effectively increased by around £2m. in the past two years – even though the defined benefit scheme is closed to new entrants.

WHEN the States meets at the end of next month to consider whether to spend a total of £9.4m. on a centralised computer system pulling together the whole of government, it will face a significant test of its resolve.

THE big guns of Guernsey table tennis are all available for the first round of the new season of the British League.

AROUND 50 civil servants could lose their jobs if the States approves proposals radically to overhaul its administration and IT systems.

FOUR of the country’s top 1000cc sidecar crews will be in the island tomorrow to test the Vazon Bay track for next year.

NEIGHBOURS hoping to stop an incinerator’s emissions have begged deputies to block a request to make its owners eligible for burning waste wood.

SUPPLIERS have been asked to scrap sell-by dates to stop so much food being wasted.

GUERNSEY’S Luke Walton and Nikki Neal were crowned GraniteMan and GraniteWoman following convincing wins in the Guernsey Triathlon Club’s third instalment of the 70.3-mile event.

AIRTEL Vodafone has said that the political reaction by members of the Environment Department who rejected the company’s application to erect a mobile phone mast was ill-informed.

LESSONS learned from past overspends have been used to try and make sure the project to reform States administration and IT systems finishes on time and on budget, according to the man who will head the scheme.