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WITH their sad little faces, bottom lips stuck out and shoulders shrugged in despair, when the reception children at Plat Douet School appeared in this newspaper the other week staring helplessly at a rotting hole in their playground I’m sure I wasn’t the only one who would have given them the money to fix it, had I been in a position to.

FORMER Assistant Treasury Minister John Le Fondré is quite right to say that ‘fog’ surrounds the Esplanade site and plans to redevelop it. He is also right to suggest that a report on the area, which he alleges was kept secret by ministers in 2008, might help to disperse the fog if it were now made public.

AS most Islanders would agree, we have seen far too many rainy days so far this summer. Whether the very real rain which has been falling has a counterpart in the storm alluded to in the popular name for the Island’s reserves, the rainy day fund, is, however, open to question.

THE ease with which the right of same-sex couples to enter into civil partnerships was passed into Jersey law by the States this week was as historically noteworthy as it was welcome.