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Hello and welcome to BBC News in the Channel Islands. A mounting | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
issue, but after decades of trying, has Guernsey States finally decided | :00:10. | :00:15. | |
what to do with the Island's rubbish? | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
Also tonight, drug concern. The number of people using these rises | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
to worrying levels. And prison visitor. Find out why a | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
group of actors ended up behind bars. | :00:28. | :00:38. | |
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How does this one end, Lieutenant? It's taken decades to get to this | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
stage, but Guernsey States still hasn't reached a decision on what | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
to do with the island's rubbish. And with space at Mont Cuet running | :00:54. | :01:00. | |
out, time isn't on the island's side. Penny Elderfield reports. | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
In ten years, this tip could be full according to figures out today. | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
And the task for Guernsey States this week is to decide what to do | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
about it. We asked the people of Guernsey what their tolerances and | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
what their aspirations were. What they think is important. That has | :01:18. | :01:23. | |
led us to this current proposal which is very high up on it | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
recycling, which is environmentally very beneficial and the export of | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
waste to the jurisdiction. there is concern that's a deal | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
which some way off. And that the 70% target may be too ambitious. | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
And Deputy Tony Spruce is worried a cheaper option is being ruled out | :01:36. | :01:42. | |
on island treatment. It doesn't have to necessarily be a | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
consideration, but that is normally the cheapest method of dealing with | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
waste. I just want them to come up with a proposal which is going to | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
have less impact on the general public. The States rejected his | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
attempt to keep that option open and are yet to agree on the actual | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
strategy. But a move to giving new parents more support was accepted. | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
In future they will get statutory maternity and patenity leave. It | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
could take a while though to introduce. It won't be for at least | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
two years because there have to decide on the funding and where | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
it's coming from and whether, overall, it is reasonable with | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
other areas which require funding, to bring this forward. But it will | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
be waste that's very much on the minds of members tomorrow, as they | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
look to finally make a decision, which has taken decades and cost | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
millions to reach. A 36 year old man has been remanded | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
until 24th September by Jersey's Royal Court for trial. Niall Linden | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
is charged in connection with a fatal crash last February on St | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
Clement's Coast Road. 27 year old Dita Pavarniece, who was a | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
passenger in the same car, died in the crash. | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
An internal investigation has been launched at Jersey Airport after | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
problems with the radar system led to delayed and diverted flights | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
last night. Air traffic control staff couldn't see flights entering | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
or leaving Channel Islands Air space. But officials say no lives | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
were at risk at any time. There was a back up plan to allow some | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
flights to operate but with a reduced schedule. | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
There has been an increase in the number of people needing help for | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
drug abuse in Guernsey. Latest figures from Drug Concern's annual | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
report reveal 54 more drug users were referred to the organisation | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
last year. A little earlier, I asked Drug Concern's Manager Tracey | :03:26. | :03:33. | |
Rear why there had been such a rise. We think it's one of two things. We | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
think other organisations are under pressure in terms of resources so | :03:36. | :03:42. | |
they are being more assertive with the referrals. But also we are | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
wondering whether there is not an increase in people who are using | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
substances or who are willing to come forward and ask for help. | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
your organisation cope with the increased workload? We certainly | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
struggled during 2011, so if there continues to be an increase like | :04:02. | :04:08. | |
last year, Ben no, we will struggle, so we will have to create waiting | :04:08. | :04:16. | |
lists. What hope do need to cope with that demand? What we are | :04:16. | :04:22. | |
looking at now is juggling some of the staff profiles, so as an | :04:22. | :04:29. | |
interim measure we are going to train a current measure to take on | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
new problems. That is not long-term sustainable. I had got the report | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
in front of me. Are any children being affected by drug abuse in the | :04:37. | :04:44. | |
island? We know that there were working with parents who are | :04:44. | :04:52. | |
substance users. So, if we consider the report from the UK, it would | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
suggest children are impacted by substance misuse and we are hoping | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
to respond to that by look at getting funding for a children's | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
programme to work with the family in the system and break the cycle | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
of generational substance misuse. Tracey Rear, thank you very much. | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
Plans to reform the way Guernsey's churches are funded could damage | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
the island's reputation, according to its Chief Minister. The | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
proposals wouldn't change the way the island's churches are funded by | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
taxpayers but would give parishes greater control. However, the Dean | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
of Guernsey has concerns and has threatened to petition the Queen on | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
the issue. It's a move the Chief Minister says could have serious | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
constitutional consequences. But the committee behind the plan is | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
standing behind its report. We don't like the idea of | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
withdrawing. We feel our suggestions and recommendations are | :05:36. | :05:44. | |
not that innocuous. And therefore we support them and stand by them. | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
Work on a new police station in Jersey could begin by the end of | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
the year. Plans have been drawn up for a �21 million building on part | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
of Green Street car park. The government has been looking for a | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
new base for the force for more than a decade. Rachel Royce reports. | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
What's wrong with the existing police headquarters? Well, just | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
about everything according to the people who use it. Age has started | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
to take its toll on the building. You can see there's a number of | :06:11. | :06:19. | |
cracks. Throughout the building Prasad. We have had to do a lot of | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
restoration work on it, and it cost a lot of money. Inside the police | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
station, the age of the building really shows. In the custody suite, | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
the custody sergeants desk is a walk away, one minute to get | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
through the locked doors and if you look inside a prison cell, it | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
hasn't changed since the 1960s, because the modern cell would have | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
up toilet and washing facilities. They don't even need current Home | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
Office guidelines. The police have wanted a new headquarters for at | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
least a decade but plan after plan fell through until today when it | :06:50. | :06:58. | |
seems a solution may have been found. We had a setback last year, | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
but there has been magnificent work done getting this project back on | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
the road again. It is very exciting, because this time we get everything | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
on one site. The proposed new station would be built on the | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
outside area of Green Street car park, knocking out around 80 spaces | :07:14. | :07:20. | |
but keeping the multi-storey. The �21 million, five-storey building | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
would be a one-stop cop shop complete with 20 new cells that do | :07:23. | :07:33. | |
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meet Home Office guidelines. A group of actors went behind bars | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
at Jersey's La Moye prison today. Not because they broke the law but | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
to conduct a drama workshop. A UK theatre group is in the island to | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
perform a show at Jersey's Opera House this week. But today they | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
made a special visit to the prison to try out a new rehabilitation | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
technique. Emma Chambers went along. I can't remember what they were | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
called but I knew when they were going to end badly. | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
How does this one end, Lieutenant? It ends well. Not the venue these | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
actors are used to working in, but this performance could be their | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
most inspiring. This theatre group is giving prisoners here at La Moye | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
a sneak preview of their play, Our Countries Good, before taking it to | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
the Jersey Opera House. It's based on true events about a group of | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
British convicts in 1788 being sent to Australia. It's the first time a | :08:22. | :08:28. | |
practical drama workshop has taken place in Jersey's prison. I've | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
always had the idea since I came to the island. It was getting to the | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
point where we were able to do that and, because of the nature of this | :08:37. | :08:44. | |
play, I think it gave us a level to come into the theatre. I think it | :08:44. | :08:50. | |
proved that, in a way today. I have been involved in drama workshops | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
and seen it first hand, people come away feeling like they can come | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
away with a role that could help with interviews and help them get a | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
job, inevitably. About 20 inmates got involved in the drama workshop. | :09:05. | :09:11. | |
It was nice to get out of work this morning. We got a big surprise. I | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
think it's good. Totally different from that Norman present-day life, | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
something to think about four months in here. -- normal. We | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
haven't got much to think about in prison. But can theatre be therapy? | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
Today's success could see this drama workshop being the first of | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
many helping prisoners turn their lives around. | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
Guernsey's cricketers beat Argentina by 29 runs in the third | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
match of their ICC World Cricket League Division Five campaign. In a | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
rain-affected game, Guernsey, seen batting here, hit 213-7 from 42 | :09:44. | :09:50. | |
overs. Argentina needed a revised total of 163 but fell 30 runs short, | :09:50. | :10:00. | |
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ending on 133-9. Hello. Good evening. More fine | :10:04. | :10:10. | |
weather tonight and tomorrow. But, thereafter, it turns a little more | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
damp with rain settling in towards the end of the day tomorrow. Windy, | :10:14. | :10:20. | |
too, by the end of the day. As we move into Thursday, we have a much | :10:20. | :10:26. | |
milder feel to the day. 12-13 Celsius. Two weather fronts to the | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
West at the moment, a long way off. A ridge of high pressure not moving | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
particularly fast over the next 12 hours, but by later tomorrow, the | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
weather front makes progress and brings mild air and also it will | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
bring some wet weather. The rain becoming quite Teddy into the early | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
evening and accompanying it strong wind, too. On Thursday, the high | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
pressure stays close by. There is every chance we will see good | :10:52. | :10:59. | |
temperatures. Possibly as much as 12-13 degrees. Tonight, a lot of | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
clear skies. A dip in the temperatures, down to six degrees | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
tomorrow. A bright start, clouding over by the end of the day. Turning | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
quite wet and windy. The wind increasing through the day and by | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
early evening, strong winds from the south, 10 degrees. These are | :11:18. | :11:28. | |
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As for the rest of the weekend, Thursday, bright and dry. Some | :11:44. | :11:48. |