Mauger was chosen as a Jersey Olympic torch bearer but pulled out after the charges were brought in March 2012.

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Mauger had been chosen as an Olympic torch bearer in Jersey but pulled out following the charges being laid in March.

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Anthony Lewis, who was a senior journalist at the Jersey Evening Post until he had a stroke five years ago, will also be a torch bearer.

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Many saw him as the torch-bearer of the party's old ideology after Mr Lafontaine's exit.

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Nowadays Barack Obama is boxed in by a pincer movement of political correctness: his race on one flank, his squeaky-clean image as the torch-bearer of hope and change on the other.

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To win the leadership, Ms Davidson, who said too many see her party as "a brake on the aspirations of Scotland and not a torch-bearer", saw off a challenge from the party's then deputy leader, Murdo Fraser.

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