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Mid-evening, welcome to BBC Channel Islands. Our top stories tonight:

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Why a funding crisis means kidney patients may not get a specialist

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care they need. Plus, losing business, can Guernsey airport

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afford to turn away private planes? And we look ahead to the top of the

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table clash that could net Jersey Kidney patients could see their

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hopes for a dedicated green allows ad Jersey's General Hospital --.

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The Jersey kidney Patients Association had wanted to employ a

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nurse to work alongside current hospital staff, but now thanks to

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an economic downturn the charity does not have the money. What does

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this mean for patients? For Anna Mary Barlow had a kidney

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transplant in 2010. Before then she was on dialysis, both at home and

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at the hospital. It was traumatic, to be honest with you. It depends

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on the timings. I was very lucky I went on in the mornings and was on

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for about four hours, but it is time consuming. When you have got a

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family you are on dialysis, you come off and you come home and you

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have to carry on, but I could not carry on. I was coming home and

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feeling sick and tired. This is Annamarie at the renal unit when we

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visited her. It is staffed by hospital nurses, but the local

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kidney patients' charity wanted to fund a dedicated nurse to help.

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Staffing was something you we wanted to help with. Peter Morris

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told me that will not happen. have not been able to afford it.

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Currently the money that has come in this year that we have earned,

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while we have managed to cope, we are about �5,000 short of where we

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need to be, so we have to dip into our core fund for that money. While

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we are happy to do this, there is no way we could fund a been a nurse.

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Testing times, but what about the patients who use the renal unit at

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Jersey's General Hospital? Are they set to suffer? It is important to

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reassure everyone we will continue to provide the best possible care

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for our patients. One way of doing this is that last year we

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reintroduced community dialysis. For 2012 we plan to offer this for

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more patience, so more patients can have dialysis in their own home.

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For Annamarie life is back to normal. She now has a job and is

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able to get on with her life. But for the Jersey kidney Patients

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Association they need more money to fund a dedicated nurse. Something

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they do not have, not the new year they would have wished for.

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Guernsey police have arrested a man on suspicion of assaulting a police

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officer. It followed an incident at Salerie car park at 11 o'clock this

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morning. The officer, who was in police uniform, needed hospital

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treatment for a facial Enders -- injuries. Police are looking for

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witnesses. Private aeroplanes are a good

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source of income for Channel Islands airports, but fears are

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growing that Guernsey airport may have to turn away a light aircraft

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losing valuable business whilst work is under way to redevelop its

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runway. We have seen the plans and the

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artist's impression and very soon we will see some disruption at

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Guernsey airport. It is well known the airport will close for several

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days this year, much to the anger of some airlines. But now some

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light aircraft users are voicing concerns that even when the airport

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is open there will not be anywhere for visiting planes to park. There

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will be times when there will not be any parking available. Once that

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word gets out that Guernsey is perhaps close to visiting aircraft,

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it causes a problem. It takes a long time to build up the fat you

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are open again for business. This is where most light aircraft

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currently Park. As part as the �80 million redevelopment project it is

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due to be covered in tarmac which the authorities claim will make it

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better for all users. There will be disruption throughout various

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phases, which all airport users are going to suffer. In the end we will

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end up with far more hardstanding than there is grass parking at the

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moment. There will be better facilities for everybody. Work is

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due to start in two months' time and we should be prepared for some

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disruption, but it is too early to say whether it will put off others

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from visiting the island. �3 million is being spent upgrading

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the intensive care unit in Jersey. The first phase of the project

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opens next week. Hundreds of patients use the facility every

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year and we have been to see what they can expect.

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It may look empty now, but soon seriously ill patients will be

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treated here at Jersey's new intensive care unit. Money has been

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spent upgrading the facilities to provide more space, more beds and

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better infection controls. As a heart surgeon Andrew Mitchell

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will spend most of his time here. Medical care is having the right

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people and the right staff in place. If we have got the right place now,

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and if people come in and I looked in a specialist unit like this,

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they will do better. This is just one of the projects aimed at

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improving care at the hospital. They will have a new ventilation

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units and plenty of room for visiting relatives, but it is

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costing almost �3 million. At a time when you are making cuts, is

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this a vital thing? Absolutely. You cannot provide acute care on the

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cheap. You either do it properly, or you do not do it at all. We have

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been able to maintain good hospital services and we need to continue

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that investment. I hope we will. The doctors hope the new unit will

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improve the chances for those treated here.

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Bus users in Guernsey are being encouraged to come forward with

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ideas to improve the island's bus service, according to the Bus Users

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Group. It follows the announcement that CT Plus will take over the

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operation in April. They are part of their London base social

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enterprise organisation, which some feel that the bus users will have a

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greater say. It is a company limited by guarantee, which is an

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interesting structure. It is not owned by shareholders. It is owned

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by bus users, I would imagine. Directors of the company will not

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be paid as I understand. The company will have to follow very

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closely what the bus users thought they needed. You are watching the

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BBC in the Channel Islands. Later: How to stop an alien a planned

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invasion that is threatening rare, local wildlife in Spotlight.

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Jersey post is to produce the first British stamp adorned with a real

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diamond. It is to honour the queen's diamond jubilee and it will

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cost �125. The limited editions stamp show the diamond in the

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queen's crown and it is expected to sell out quickly. They go on sale

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on 6th February. In sport hundreds of islanders will

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be making the trip to the UK tomorrow to watch Jersey Rugby Club

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take on Ealing Trailfinders. A win would put Jersey at the top of the

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table. We joined them training to see how they are gearing up for the

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challenge. There is no room for error. For

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Jersey Rugby Club this weekend is the biggest match of the season. It

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could see them go top of the table in National League One. It is not

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pressure, we know what we do and we have our patterns and our systems

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in place. We know how we are going to play and how we are going to

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beat them. On a windy night, Jersey have been putting in final

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preparations for their clash against Ealing. They have been

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going over set plays again and again and again. A little bit of

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fear is good, certainly in young men. Nerves show they are ready to

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play the game. Temper them and make sure they are calm and collected.

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They have to be calm and collected because it is an important game.

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The Ealing Trailfinders are currently top, and Jersey are one

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point behind. The island side are level with Rosslyn Park could they

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take on next week. I am not bothered whether we chased the lead

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or as if we are top of the lead. Performance is the most important

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thing. If we can continue to perform as we are doing, the league

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table will look after itself. is a hugely important match and if

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they win tomorrow it will get them one step closer to promotion.

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You can listen to highlights of that match from the UK on BBC Radio

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Jersey. Jersey Rugby Club were training on

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a chilly January night, but last year was the warmest years since

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records began in Jersey. With more details about a record-breaking

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2011 was an unusual year, it was the warmest on record. Most of us

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remember the year because it was so dry, particularly through the

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spring and the early part of the summer. Until December when the

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heavens opened and the rain arrived. The average is 124. This is the

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Year's rainfall total and we are a little bit down. For a sunshine we

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did quite well. The sunshine average is just shy of 2000 for the

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year and we had over 2000. But the rainfall amounts we saw through

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December helped the reservoir levels. On the left-hand side that

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was the 1st December level. By 6th January it was 89% fall. That is

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because of desalination, but also because of some heavy rain. Let's

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look at the forecast for the next couple of days. Not a great deal of

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wet weather coming our way. A high pressure in the south is getting

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closer and closer, which means a lot of dry weather, but also rather

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cloudy conditions. Tonight perhaps a few bits of drizzle and

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temperatures no lower than nine or 10, so quite a mild night. Tomorrow

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it will brighten up for a time with a bit of sunshine coming through

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every now and then. The winds will The surf will be reasonably messy

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because of an onshore breeze. Here is the outlet. On Sunday it is

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rather cloudy, the cloud quick enough to give some light drizzle.

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By Monday it is beginning to clear and it will feel quite warm as well.

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