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Plans for a pre-election tax cut have been shelved after a major hole emerged in tax forecasts for the next two years, prompting a package of emergency measures to balance the books.The 2015 Budget is announced this morning, and it shows the States income tax receipts are predicted...
Read More »Inflation has dipped slightly to 1.6% in the latest official figures out today.Minor increases in the costs of household services, alcohol, travel and housing contributed to the q...
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The Budget is the annual debate about taxation, and how the States will get the money that they need to support spending plans for the following year.This year's Budget shows a surprising £95 million shortfall from 2013 to 2015 against the targ...
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A coroner will deliver his conclusions at the inquest of an Eton schoolboy mauled to death by a polar bear that also attacked a Jersey schoolboy before being shot by tour leaders.Ian Singleton, assistant coroner for Wiltshire and Swindon, adjourned the week-long hearing last Fri...
Read More »Jersey Police have so far made 18 arrests in a three-year covert investigation into people accessing indecent images of children online.Operation Lexus was designed to protect children, identify offenders and secure evidence....
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Around 40% of patients treated in A & E could have gone to their GP instead - a figure which is verging on three times the average number for a UK hospital.The figures are contained in an internal hospital audit, which shows that last year Emergency staff ...
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