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STUDENTS under-performing in maths was the cause of St Sampson’s High’s low GCSE pass rate this year, its head teacher has said.

THE Guernsey Gaels senior men’s team did well to reach the final in the first of three rounds of the European Gaelic Football Championship, played in Brussels.

GUERNSEY’S first floodlit encounter against Hayward’s Heath at Footes Lane in London One South tomorrow evening is already a must-win encounter.

JOHN MAPLEY made a successful return to downhill racing after breaking his collar bone, winning the penultimate downhill of the 2011 series at Talbot Valley.

GETTING Guernsey Police to be proactive not reactive when dealing with crime remains the key aim of its chief officer one year after taking up the post.

AN ADVOCATE and a businessman have settled their dispute over a claim to a property owned by the wife of debt-ridden former Guernsey restaurateur Howard Holland.

EDUCATION minister Carol Steere has been joined by Matt Fallaize and Mike Collins in offering to resign from the department.

HORTICULTURIST Rae Beckwith visited the island last week to deliver the first 10 bulbs of the official new flower, the Herm daffodil.

MY COMMENT at the end of last week’s column – that I was not going to refer to the free trip for island residents on the Sark Belle until after it had happened as it had been frequently postponed because of the weather – made me the target for some good-natured banter when the trip [...]

A COUPLE from the Isle of Man stormed to victory at the Alderney Air Races.