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IN response to Barbara Clarke’s letter (JEP 2 Aug) in which she ‘objects most strongly’ to seeing women breastfeeding in public areas, may I suggest she simply turns away if she can’t smile and give verbal support to someone nourishing their child naturally? Getting out of the home is vitally important for new mothers’ mental health and wellbeing. It can be incredibly isolating and depressing stuck at home all day.

THERE has not been a rise in recorded hate crimes in Jersey following recent terror attacks in London and Manchester, a States police officer has said.

JERSEY’S Home Affairs Minister has said she is ‘amused’ by claims that she has a ‘plan’ to become the Island’s first female Chief Minister.

THE Home Affairs Minister has refused to rule out appointing a candidate from overseas as the new States police chief.

DECISIONS on asylum and deportation cases will in future be made by the Home Affairs Minister after the States agreed to transfer the functions from the Lieutenant-Governor’s remit.

POLICE officers in St Helier and firearms officers at the Airport will have increased ‘visibility’ following the UK’s decision to raise its terror threat level to ‘critical’ after the Manchester Arena suicide bombing.

AN overhaul of Jersey’s more than 150-year-old bail laws will give greater protection to victims and witnesses and fill ‘gaps’ in the current legislation, the Home Affairs Minister has said.

A HELPLINE for victims of sexual assault is now live after a new referral centre was officially opened this week.

MORE police officers will be seen out and about in town and firearms officers will be on duty at the Airport after the UK raised its threat level to critical following Monday’s Manchester Arena suicide bombing.

A PR agency which boasts former Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell as one of its advisors has trained politicians on how to handle the world’s media when a report about the Island’s care system is released.