02/02/2012 BBC Channel Islands News


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Hello, good evening. Welcome to BBC Channel Islands. Attracting

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investment, hundreds of local jobs as companies from Sweden to

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Singapore set up shop in Jersey. Plus, islanders demand answers over

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another fatal cruise ship accident. And from college kitchen to de luxe

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dining. The school cook teaching Nine hundred jobs have been created

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in Jersey since 2008 thanks to a strategy to bring more companies to

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the island. Among them are mining, oil and gas firms, and a carbon

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trading business. But are local home grown companies being left out

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in the cold? Edward Sault reports. Here's a question for you, what do

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Sweden, Singapore, and Sheffield all have in common with Jersey? The

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answer - they're all competing against each other to get companies

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to locate in their jurisdictions. And for Jersey it seems to have

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paid off. Dr Tim Coughlin runs one of those companies that's relocated

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to Jersey. His company is called Lydian and it's a gold mining

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business - so why Jersey? largest shareholder is the Bank.

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They want us to domicile some were well regarded and soak Jersey

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happened to beat someone we already knew. And they've employed locals

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too. Heather Tibbo works for Vestra Wealth - they handle around two

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billion pounds worth of funds. And for this Jersey girl - it's a dream

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come true to see the business she works for relocate back to familiar

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shores. When we first set up the business 15 months ago there were

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two of us who moved over here with another local director but we are

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now 10 people and nine are people who local and we're proud of that.

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We will look to improve and grow over the years. Good news for the

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businesses and good news for jobs in Jersey. For others, it is a

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different story. The tenants of this shop are packing up after 26

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years' trading. The lease has run out. Paul Trollic is one of the

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bosses of the Gooseberry Bush. He says whilst he agrees with the move

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to create jobs local businesses should be helped first.

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government look at it from the point of view of the more revenue

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they can bring to the island the better but nevertheless you must

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look after your own. We feel we have not been looked after and

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there are many local businesses that have not been looked after.

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She to help local businesses first? We already are and have been. Jeers

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the enterprise looked after both small and medium-sized businesses

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specifically. They also did inward investment -- Jersey. We are

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splitting the Investment up. She is the enterprise is being rebranded.

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-- a Jersey enterprise. 87 new companies established themselves

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here in Jersey between 2008 and 2010, government officials say

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they'll continue trying to attract more of them and hope it will

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stimulate the struggling jobs market. The developer of Fort

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Tourgis in Alderney says he's satisfied there'll be new direct

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flights to and from the island, once the new hotel has been built

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on the site. Construction of the 70-bedroom development will get

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underway this summer, and is due to be completed by the second half of

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next year. Frans Verweij says he's spoken to several airlines and is

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optimistic new routes will be established. Meanwhile Jersey has a

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new air-route to Cambridge Airport coming later this year. There'll be

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flights between the university city and the island every Saturday from

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mid-May until mid-September. It'll be run by the Channel Islands-based

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airline Blue Islands. A Guernsey couple are still waiting for

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answers over a fatal accident involving a sister ship of the

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Costa Concordia. Chris and Ron Cleal were passengers on the Costa

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Europa, when it hit a quay in Egypt two years ago. Three crew members

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were killed but Italian authorities are refusing to release the

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findings of an inquiry into the incident. The couple told our

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reporter Mike Wilkins they'll never go on another Costa vessel again.

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We were in bed and heard a loud bang. Jumped up and realised we

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were in the port. Absolutely petrifying. Watching back the video

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of their dream holiday, which quickly became a nightmare. Chris

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and Ron Cleal were on a ship called the Costa Europa when they were

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woken early one morning to the news that the vessel had collided with a

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quay at Sharm El Sheik in Egypt. They filmed as events unfolded.

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water pouring out down there. We do not know what has happened

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whatsoever. No information whatsoever. I went to another

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member of the crew and said it looks serious should be get the

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life jackets and would hold it was only an exercise. 4 o'clock in the

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morning. Look at this listing. waited an hour for any announcement

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from the crew and then it took many hours to get off the boat. They

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were so angry about the way the incident was handled they

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complained to the UK marine accident investigation branch.

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should happen with an incident like this is the findings should be made

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public and people responsible should pay a penalty for that. You

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can see the angle we are at. There are still big bangs occurring.

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Costa Cruises has told the BBC they carried out an internal

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investigation and produced a report with they shared with the Italian

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authorities but they won't share it with us. And the International

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Maritime Organisation who're the regulators and are supposed to

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receive the findings of all major investigations haven't got this

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report either. It's been two years since Ron and Chris's terrifying

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experience and they're still keen to cruise, just not with Costa

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Cruises. We were not impressed and would not take another cruise with

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them. A definitely not! And a special radio documentary on the

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Costa Europa presented by Simon Cox will be broadcast tonight at 8pm on

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Radio 4. You're watching the BBC in the Channel Islands. Later in

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Spotlight with Justin and Victoria making themselves at home - the

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The remains of some German anti landing devices have been found on

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Guernsey's west coast. They were discovered at low water on Saline

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Bay near Grand Rocques. Although not uncommon on the island's

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beaches, these ones are particularly well preserved. The

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ageing obstacles were found by a man taking a walk along the beach.

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We opted to go for a walk and coming back heading across the bay

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we know it is these concrete objects lying in the sand. And I

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recognise them as being anti- demanding obstacles which the

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Germans placed on this beach. you've been out for a slap-up meal

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in Jersey recently, your chef could have been taught by Eileen Buike-

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Kelly. A former chef herself, Eileen's head of catering at

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Highlands College, and she's now been recognised for her outstanding

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contribution to Education with a City and Guilds Medal for

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Excellence. Rachel Royce ventured into her kitchen to find out more.

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What are we doing tonight? roast chicken breast, sage and

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onion risotto. In the kitchen, she is the boss. Her enthusiastic and

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hands on ways have brought her an impressive award. Her boss is

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absolutely delighted. The City and Guilds Medal for excellence is

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presented to the best lecturer in the country in their discipline.

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And for Eileen who has transformed our catering, it's an amazing

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achievement. It really means she is the best areas. Eileen's second

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year students are preparing a meal for highlands restaurant - open to

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the public tonight to showcase the students talent and to help them

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train for a job in the real world. It's part of the winning formula

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that has made Highlands catering department a big success. I am

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pleased that hospitality is back on the menu. There was 10 years ago

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when students here were so little in numbers we nearly got close down.

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Tiki it from there to rarity is now has been an absolute fantastic

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achievement and can only be done with a good team around you. They

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will be enjoying a restaurant standard food, it is made Eileen

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and the college award-winning. If you cannot stand the heat, get out

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of the kitchen. There is no heat coming Weather-wise. David has the

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forecast. Hello, with the wind chill it has felt like minus three.

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That is how it feels because of the That is how it feels because of the

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dry air and low temperatures. Tonight, the wind will drop. More

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moisture arriving but it might throw one or two light sleet or

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snow showers. Easterly wind again this evening, overnight it will die

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away. A quieter day but tomorrow morning more moisture or in the

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English Channel with wintry showers. Saturday, a warm front approaching

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from the West and again this could be giving it sleet or snow. It

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could be quite win treat for a time. -- wintry. Not much of frost on the

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ground or car windscreens because the area so drive. There is little

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moisture. Temperatures between zero and minus two. The risk of some

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wintry showers passing by B&C and Alderney. The sunshine returning

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and pushing westwards through the day. -- Guernsey. The coastal

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waters forecast: good visibility. The times of high water: for most

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of the beach is one of two feet. The Albert moving into the weekend,

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-- the ads look. A cloudy day on Saturday, later in the day rain or

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sleet coming. By Sunday, it will be brighter. Quite a bit warmer.

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