THE number of violent assaults on the streets of St Helier last month was the highest since March 2002, Home Affairs Minister Wendy Kinnard told the States yesterday.
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Sewage smells to be dealt with soon
BELLOZANNE residents have been promised that ministers will do all they can to speed up work to sort out the sewage smell that prompted a 434-signature petition to the States.
Police in new drive to target speeders
POLICE have started to target speeding drivers after figures for the first three months of this year showed a drop of nearly 300% in the number of motorists reported for speeding compared with last year.
Planning application notices get bigger
SITE notices will have to be double the size from now on after complaints that Islanders could not read them.
Weekend sport in brief
MARATHON: Belgrave Harriers’ Paul Freary, pictured right, won the Modern Hotels Half-Marathon yesterday.
Happy Wanderers
STRIKER David Kenyon’s acute angle finish earned Jersey Wanderers a 1-0 victory away to St Paul’s in under-18 Division I on Sunday morning.
Former officer to ask questions on bike sale
QUESTIONS about the decision to scrap the police motorcycle unit and sell its machines are to be asked in the States next week by former States Police motorcycle officer Deputy Ben Fox.
Chelsea Pensioners boost for Poppy Appeal
CHELSEA Pensioners are doing their bit to make sure Jersey’s Poppy Appeal raises buckets of cash for ex-service folk.
Other Sport
DINNER BOXING: Jersey won the first Jersey Dinner Club boxing event of the season on Saturday night at the L’Horizon Hotel, St Brelade.
Protesters try again over town skateboard park
RESIDENTS of the People’s Park area are to ask a parish assembly to overturn a decision to allow a skateboard facility to be built there.

