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Up good evening. The top stories: the reason St Peter Port has empty | :00:19. | :00:28. | |
shops. On eve of Alderney Week, we find out what to expect. Enjoying | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
nature's bounty, why blackberries are here early and what you can do | :00:32. | :00:42. | |
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Retailers say Guernsey has too many shops for the size of population. | :00:49. | :00:56. | |
The number of premises in St Peter Port are closing, and there are as | :00:56. | :01:02. | |
many as 20 empty shops. Shop-owners a geography is to blame. We have | :01:02. | :01:12. | |
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It might seem like a vibrant place, but the empty shops tell a | :01:13. | :01:19. | |
different story. About 20 live Beacons, a sure sign of a | :01:20. | :01:27. | |
struggling high street. Shop owners say geography and size are to blame. | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
Owners have to read expensive warehouses to store stock. Some say | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
that the population is not enough to sustain the number of retail | :01:35. | :01:41. | |
outlet there are. This man runs a model shop. Many shops have closed, | :01:41. | :01:49. | |
and he says it is because of high rents. St Peter Port is not the | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
only town in the island, not the only trade. If you analyse how much | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
trade there is going on around the island, for every head of | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
population, you suddenly realised that Guernsey has a very high | :02:03. | :02:10. | |
number of retail outlets for a very small population. But are they | :02:10. | :02:19. | |
putting off shoppers? It is sad, it is not like the old Guernsey when | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
all shops were open. It does not put me off coming into town but I | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
am not happy about it. The managing director of one of the most | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
successful stories says building shops and offices eyes of town is | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
affecting. We are in trouble, with more retail applications in the | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
pipeline, and more retail space coming in the last -- in the next | :02:43. | :02:50. | |
five years, and the jury is out. Peter Port is seen by many as the | :02:50. | :02:57. | |
jewel in the crone of Guernsey. If that is to keep one shining, | :02:57. | :03:04. | |
retailers say landlords need to be more realistic about the rent. | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
Arman is in intensive care with burns on his hand up, arms and legs | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
after a chip pan fire in Guernsey. It happened in the early hours of | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
this morning in a top-floor flat on St Saviour's Road. Five people were | :03:18. | :03:25. | |
taken to safety. The man is in a stable condition but the fire | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
service says it could be fatal. Three illegal immigrants were | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
caught by Jersey's customs and immigration this week in a period | :03:34. | :03:42. | |
of just 13 hours. A man claiming to be from South Africa and seeking | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
asylum was arrested at and taken back to France. Ali the next | :03:47. | :03:57. | |
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morning a Jordanian national was taken and then a Madeiran man. He | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
was taking on a rival to the airport and returned home. It costs | :04:05. | :04:12. | |
each household in Jersey an average of �700 a week to run their home in | :04:12. | :04:22. | |
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2010. The figures come from a household spending survey. �68 a | :04:23. | :04:29. | |
week is spent on food. More than 2000 people recorded what they | :04:29. | :04:39. | |
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spent on their weekly shop, housing and transport. Later on, here is | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
Simon and Natalie. Why wild flowers are giving this new town and you | :04:44. | :04:53. | |
buzz. -- a new bars. If I said fantasy islands of the world, what | :04:53. | :04:59. | |
images would spring to mind? We will soon find out as that is the | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
theme in Alderney Week. Starting tomorrow, there is over one and | :05:02. | :05:08. | |
20th June events, ranging from cavalcade day to be -- cavalcade | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
day to the ever-popular man-powered flight competition. Planning | :05:13. | :05:20. | |
Alderney Week 2011 started very soon after the cleaned-up from last | :05:20. | :05:29. | |
year's events. I asked the organiser how it is going. It is | :05:29. | :05:38. | |
going very well. We are getting the right ready for the next week. | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
There are one and in 20 events, including the raft race, sandcastle | :05:44. | :05:54. | |
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competition, and the man-powered flight competition. We have 120 | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
events, the majority of which are free. This is the biggest festival | :06:02. | :06:10. | |
in Europe that last seven days. This year's theme, at the Sea | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
islands of the world, should give plenty scope for those responsible | :06:14. | :06:21. | |
for cavalcade day floats. -- Battersea. What else is in store? | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
We have got apical at race. We have 10 pegs that will be lining up and | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
racing all afternoon so people can sponsor the pigs and hopefully | :06:29. | :06:36. | |
raise money for Alderney Week. Traditionally, it ends with a | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
spectacular torchlight procession, however this week it will start | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
with a grand parade through St Annes. Everyone is invited to join | :06:43. | :06:53. | |
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him. Should men at 6:30pm every week for | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
pictures of Alderney Week. Next, a Jersey yachtsman is taking place in | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
one of the biggest races in Europe. Philip Sharpe will join in the | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
annual Championship of solo sailing. It Cris crosses the Channel and has | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
competed annually since 1969. Despite it being his first time, he | :07:15. | :07:21. | |
feels confident. I am hopeful of getting to the top of the Ricky | :07:21. | :07:28. | |
fleet, the newcomers. There's a lot of experienced guys, so to beat | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
them is that unlikely, but hopefully I finish in the top half, | :07:33. | :07:39. | |
and who knows, there might be a chance of something better. | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
involves getting scratched to pieces by brambles, getting stained | :07:42. | :07:49. | |
fingers, but you often get apply at the end of it. Blackberries have | :07:49. | :07:59. | |
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come as early across the Channel Islands this year. We have been to | :08:01. | :08:11. | |
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track down some of those juicy blackberries. Black Bury pecking, | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
it is one of those seminal childhood moments. Normally you | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
have to wait until September to get them, but this year they have | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
started springing up all over the Channel Islands early. Here to tell | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
me what to do is Brenda Smith from the Women's Institute. What is the | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
best recipe for children? Blackberry and apple crumble. Get | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
your blackberries, your apples, stew them down, get your flour and | :08:50. | :08:57. | |
margarine, breadcrumbs, and sugar, put it on the spot -- put it on the | :08:57. | :09:03. | |
top and that it to the oven. There are also more sophisticated | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
puddings like souffle, summer pudding, blackberry wine. Very | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
tasty. A lot of islanders are very secretive about where they go, do | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
not like to divulge information. What Jaguar top tips? The best | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
place is country lanes or difficult places like gorse bushes. As | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
difficult as possible. Difficult to get but all the more rewarding when | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
you do. They are not many things that grow right on your doorstep so | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
I suppose you should get at your hedge Rows and pick them before | :09:38. | :09:47. | |
they disappear. They went down a treat. Now the | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
They went down a treat. Now the weather for blackberry picking. Not | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
a great deal happening in the weather Department for the Channel | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
Islands at the weekend. It may turn a little misty but it is warm and | :09:59. | :10:09. | |
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remains dry. We have two weather front out there on the Atlantic. | :10:12. | :10:20. | |
They are coming in from lunchtime on Saturday. We may see cloud ahead | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
of that, but it will not come to the Channel Islands. This evening | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
and night, the main problem will be mist and fog, which will appear | :10:29. | :10:35. | |
after midnight and towards dawn tomorrow morning. It will be quite | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
mild, and misty and restart. It will improve and perhaps people | :10:40. | :10:47. | |
will have some travel problems. It will be gone by the afternoon. | :10:47. | :10:54. | |
Quite a warm feel to the day, 23 degrees. For the coastal waters | :10:54. | :11:03. | |
forecast, very light wind at first. The visibility will improve. The | :11:03. | :11:13. | |
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times of high water at St Peter Port, 7:04am. For anyone who likes | :11:13. | :11:23. | |
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to go surfing, hardly any waves. The forecast all the way through | :11:24. | :11:34. | |
and including the start of next week, it will become more and | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
settled in Monday and Tuesday. There will be a weather front | :11:38. | :11:46. | |
coming in on Monday. Showers may be possible. Have a nice weekend. Here | :11:46. | :11:49. |