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From P Hedditch. ON the front page of your paper (JEP, 20 May) you ask ‘Why is our food so expensive?’ You’ve already been given part of the answer by a Waitrose spokesman quoted (JEP, 4 March). By sourcing their Hovis 400g loaf from a UK baker they can sell it at 60p here, by […]

NO matter which way you look at it, a salary of sixty-five grand a year – well over £1,000 a week – is not to be sneezed at, and I am certain that there are many (this bolshie little crapaud included) who would jump at the chance of pulling that down every week.

WELL, surprise, surprise. The silence from however many thousands – indeed, tens of thousands for all I know – of people who signed the petition clamouring for a Town Park is deafening, now that the inevitable has happened and those living in the immediate neighbourhood have started complaining.

WHEN, earlier this week, the States decided that food and domestic fuel should not be exempt from the goods and services tax there was anything but unanimity in the House. Indeed, although 29 Members decided that a flat rate of GST should continue to be applied, 22 disagreed, many of them vehemently, and two chose to abstain.

MANY people regard whaling as a barbaric activity that has no place in the modern world. This is hardly surprising, given that the activity involves the slaughter of intelligent mammals by cruel means that include the use of explosive harpoons.

THE latest cost of living figures, which were published yesterday, indicate that the Island is anything but safely out of the woods in economic terms.