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Hello and welcome to the programme. The headlines: of �40 million | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
lifeline. Jerzy's government raised its | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
savings it took a state recession. From neglected to protected. But | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
just who will place in the animal welfare was? | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
And power potential, as energy prices soar, could wind turbines be | :00:28. | :00:38. | |
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Jerzy's government is planning to inject �40 million into the economy | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
next year. It will be spent on capital projects in a bid to boost | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
the economy. The Government has already spent millions of pounds on | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
projects, including renovating the opera house, be servicing Victoria | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
Avenue and the Advance to Work scheme. That did not stop the | :01:02. | :01:08. | |
economy declining by 5% last year. Unemployment rose to record highs | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
and businesses reported a week climate. I spoke to be tested at -- | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
the Treasury minister a few moments ago and began by asking him if this | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
investment was too little, too late. The fiscal stimulus that we did | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
last year was incredibly successful at keeping people in work. We have | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
seen a downturn in people's conference. We have seen | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
international pressure in the global economy. Because Jersey has | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
made responsible decisions, we can react. I am not putting your money | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
in, but I am moving existing money and ensuring that it is being spent | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
in the economy, at peak -- keeping people in work. I am ready for | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
capital projects that would have been carried out later. Not | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
breaking any fiscal rules. Tell us about these projects and how you | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
can guarantee they will help. have set money aside for the police | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
station, which obviously did not happen. We can get on and build a | :02:04. | :02:11. | |
new police station. It will be up to �20 million, keeping a large set | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
of construction workers in place. Parcel of the planning that was in | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
place. I think it is important any downturn to invest in | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
infrastructure. Councillors are discussing IT projects which could | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
help Butterley the other a new sector to the economy, but puts | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
jersey and a fantastic place. you promise any business orders | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
watching that we will get the promised high-speed broadband next | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
year? It is that infrastructure that businesses are really looking | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
for, rather than a short-term construction project which may not | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
help in the long term. The stimulus projects which we did last year had | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
a war range of initiatives, employee advance and Advance to | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
Work schemes. Where we can put Jersey in a competitive position, | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
high-speed broadband very well. More on that subject after I have | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
discussed it with the council ministers later on this week. | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
remember earlier on this year, you said that there was no more money | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
coming from the rainy-day fund this year. This has come across like | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
they like a panic measure. Why this should not see this prolonged | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
recession for Jersey coming? have always said, and I take advice | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
from the fiscal policy Powell, that at the economic situation continued | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
to be difficult, will be wooed back. What I am not doing is finding any | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
new money. I am using existing money and directing it and | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
targeting it to help businesses and the economy. | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
Moving on, a significant overhaul of Guernsey's animal welfare laws | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
could be complete by next year. New laws are being put before the | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
States next month to help the authorities crack down on people to | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
mistreat animals. This report contains some images that some | :03:48. | :03:55. | |
viewers may find distressing. Animals in Guernsey are being | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
abused and neglected every day. This is Mocha, who was found | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
abandoned on the street with tumours are growing out of his ear. | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
He has undergone surgery, and it is still unclear whether he will pull | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
through. Although animal welfare legislation came into force in | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
Guernsey in 2008, its introduction was delayed while amendments were | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
made to reflect changes to UK loss. These included criminalising the | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
position of criminal recordings of animal fights, gains on animal | :04:21. | :04:27. | |
transport and licensing. Fairly small changes that need to be made. | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
When the state of Italy agreed in 2003, times have moved on. With | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
these changes, that we are bringing in November, it will mean we can | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
finalise the ordinances and hopefully get them completed and | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
out there as the beginning of next year. With greater legal powers, it | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
should be easy for the authorities and places like EDS PCA to crack | :04:49. | :04:56. | |
down on animal cruelty. -- the the GSPCA. Unfortunately, the island's | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
legislation have not been able to impress on convictions for cruelty | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
after it has happened. The new legislation will mean that we can | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
be more proactive on preventing cruelty. That is something we are | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
looking for a tooth. As the states approve the new laws, then these | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
could is will be much better protected in future. The delay in | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
implementing the legislation has meant that those like Mocha have | :05:20. | :05:28. | |
been made to suffer and endured miserable lives. | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
Jersey fishermen have not ruled that protesting and St Peter Port | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
harbour over proposed timing of fishing regulations in Guernsey. | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
There is currently three male protection at around Danzig, but | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
the islands have negotiated an agreement with the UK to extend it | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
to 12. The fishermen say that the Fisheries Management Agreement does | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
not recognise their rates and terms of access. They want an amicable | :05:52. | :05:59. | |
solution. The fishermen's livelihoods at stake. We're not | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
just talking about their rights, but their livelihood. There are | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
simply saying, we will do what we have to do. If that means sending a | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
fleet across and going across all together on time to Guernsey to the | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
harbour there as a show of solidarity then that is what they | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
will do. What they would actually like is to just be involved and | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
included in talks. A fishing boat had to be rescued in | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
force seven lines of the Jersey coast yesterday. The 33 ft boat | :06:28. | :06:34. | |
which had one person on board broke down in choppy seas. Ace and | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
capstans a lifeboat would it back to its moorings. | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
Guernsey's Chief Minister said there could be scope to increase | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
the number of states members. It is in response to suggestions that the | :06:46. | :06:53. | |
number of deputies can be cut by up to a third. We probably have more | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
representatives than we need. If you look at the parliament in the | :06:56. | :07:03. | |
UK, they have around 650 representatives for a community of | :07:03. | :07:11. | |
50 or 60 million. We have 47 for a community of 62,000. We probably | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
are over-represented. Jersey Best has been David Kirch | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
has had to borrow money to give his annual Christmas present to the or | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
the 70s this year. It is the sixth year that he is given these | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
shopping vouchers to pensioners. This year, he said it has been hard | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
to make the gesture without support from his bankers. The voters will | :07:29. | :07:35. | |
be available from parish halls from the first of December to the 16th. | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
Next, it certainly has been blustery, but could gainsay be | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
doing more to make the most of the once? Research has begun to look at | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
the viability of having a wind farm of the north-west coast, helping to | :07:47. | :07:55. | |
generate electricity for the island. It may not look like much, but this | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
small piece of technology could bring about big changes in Guernsey. | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
It will be recording wind speeds over the coming months. Having | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
identified the north-west coast of Guernsey as the best spot for | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
turbines, scientists now need to work out if we have enough wind to | :08:10. | :08:17. | |
make them work. We have done a feasibility study looking at | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
between three and 10 per brings off the west coast. That would power | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
just over 10% of Guernsey's electricity. This will give us a | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
good opportunity to see whether there is a viable be sauce for wind | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
turbines of the Korsten future. is inevitable having power base of | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
the coast will have an impact on the view. The research will look at | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
whether it is something the public would accept. As well as the impact | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
on wildlife and those who use the area, such as fishermen. There is | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
no shortage of wind in Guernsey today, so how long will it be | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
before we can search using some of its share advantage? It could take | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
five or more years to get wind turbines off the coast. The fastest | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
case, it could not be up within a couple of years. It is not | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
something which will appear overnight. It is too early to say | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
whether this will be the future for don't say, but we could soon be a | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
little closer to knowing whether it will. | :09:13. | :09:22. | |
Some unsettled weather around this week. It is mainly in the form of | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
showers. That does mean some dry and sunny weather in between. | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
Tonight, BCD low-pressure in charge, and there are some fairly heavy | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
showers for a time. Still fairly breezy for tomorrow, and shower has | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
been on and on that piece today. Some of these showers can be fairly | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
heavy later on. Wednesday will be similar. We'll keep an eye on this | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
low-pressure down to the south. We will keep this up -- an eye on the | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
heavy rain down to Thursday. There will be some showers and some | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
people may miss them overnight, but there will also be some dry and | :09:58. | :10:04. | |
clear spells. It will be breezy from the south-east. Senators will | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
be be to 11 degrees Celsius as the minimum -- temperatures will be | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
down to 11 degrees. The when so will become south-westerly tomorrow | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
morning. -- the winds will become south-westerly tomorrow morning. | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
There is also some sunshine to be found through the day tomorrow, 15 | :10:23. | :10:29. | |
Celsius the maximum temperature. Marine forecast, the wines will be | :10:29. | :10:36. | |
a 5-7 at worse, and become a 4-5 later on. -- the winds will be a 5- | :10:36. | :10:44. | |
7 at worst. The times of high water tomorrow will be 628 and 1846. The | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
high tide tomorrow at St Hilaire will be 5:40am and eight minutes | :10:49. | :10:59. | |
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past six. With the South West wins, it will become choppy in the water. | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
For the week ahead, some the showers around for tomorrow. From | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
Wednesday it is a similar picture with subtly winds. It feels like it | :11:07. | :11:15. | |
could be pretty wet for Thursday, but things settle down by Friday. | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
Finally, at this year's Gorey Fete raised the record amount. The | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
offender 18th August raised �20,000. All the money will be shared among | :11:23. | :11:29. | |
local charities at a presentation at St Maarten's Hall on Friday. | :11:29. | :11:35. | |
Organisers say they are delighted. On video and the morning, we speak | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
to the wealthy to any business -- wealthy Jersey businessman | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
determined to help the airline's pincers until the day he dies. Also | :11:43. | :11:47. |