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Good evening and welcome. Tonight's top stories. Out of reach for the | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
past decade - the report which proves average families can't | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
afford a home of their own. Learning how to make a fresh start | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
- the new quarter of a million pound skills centre at Guernsey | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
Prison. And big plans for Jersey Rugby | :00:23. | :00:33. | |
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Club's expansion - but could all Jersey houses have been | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
unaffordable for the average family for at least a decade. The figures | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
come from a new report from the States' statistics office. High | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
prices have kept many families in cramped or rented accommodation | :00:51. | :01:00. | |
which simply isn't suitable, as Rachel Royce reports. | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
David Robin retired 18 months early to look after his wife, Diane, who | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
suffers from MS. He had worked for St Helier parish for 22 years as a | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
dustman, and they rented a house that went with the job. Buying a | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
house was always way beyond their means, but now they've been told | :01:13. | :01:23. | |
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they must leave their home. Quite worried at the moment. Very worried. | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
We just do not know what is going to happen. Yd you never buy an | :01:31. | :01:40. | |
house? Were have never been able to afford to. -- we have. The prices | :01:40. | :01:50. | |
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were too extreme. With two adults working and a 10% deposit saved, | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
the average family cannot afford the average house. That has been | :01:57. | :02:07. | |
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the situation for 10 years. The figures have been worked out for | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
the first time by the Office of Statistics, which has created an | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
index of affordability based on house prices, income and interest | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
rates. The mean average is over for under �1,000. The average household | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
has less than 80% of the earnings required to service a mortgage on | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
such a property. The Robins had hoped to stay where they are for | :02:26. | :02:33. | |
the rest of their lives. Now, like many others obliged to rent, they | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
find they have no long term security. Their bags are packed but | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
with nowhere else to go. Deputy Andrew Green is Jersey's | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
Housing Minister. He joined me earlier in the studio. I asked him | :02:44. | :02:51. | |
if Jersey was getting its housing policy completely wrong. I think we | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
need to get that into context. We are number 19 in the UK when you | :02:58. | :03:04. | |
look at different authorities. Devon and Cornwall Aaron a similar | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
position, as his London. We need to do something more about | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
affordability. In the old days, people used to buy a small flat, | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
move and buy a bigger one. That mobility is not in the market today. | :03:19. | :03:27. | |
That is the challenge. What do you say to people like the Robbins? | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
First all, I have to make sure the department is in contact with them. | :03:33. | :03:41. | |
I need to make sure they have got a secure home. For people in their | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
position or younger, I want to make sure they can afford to buy | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
something. That might be about shared equity. Will this report be | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
filed away? No. This report is incredibly useful. It helps with | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
information that we all knew what we have the real information and we | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
can target activities. The Council is determined to house our | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
community. The BBC has learned that Condor | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
Ferries - which recently pulled out of Weymouth when the port became | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
unsafe - hasn't had a written contract with the council for 20 | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
years. Weymouth and Portland Council says a contract with the | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
ferry firm was put on hold when redevelopment plans stalled. The | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
lack of a contract means no compensation is payable, and also | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
means Condor has no legal obligation to return if the port is | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
rebuilt. Inmates in Guernsey Prison are now | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
benefiting from a new Learning and Skills Facility. It's cost around a | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
quarter of a million pounds to build, and it's hoped the centre | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
will enable prisoners to gain qualifications while inside. Mike | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
Wilkins reports. Aiming to be a cut above the rest - | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
these prisoners are learning new skills that they hope will help | :04:51. | :04:59. | |
them make a fresh start upon release. Some field inmates should | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
be doing time and very little else. But Guernsey prison feels | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
differently. Behind me is a new education block which it hopes will | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
rehabilitate prisoners. When they leave, many of them lead | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
independent lives. We are teaching them some of the basic skills | :05:19. | :05:26. | |
required. I have just started an art class. It is OK. If I can get a | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
few more lessons every week, I think I will be good. It is good | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
for a rehabilitation. I want to try to gain some qualifications. It is | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
quite good. It has cost quite a lot of money. But rehabilitating people | :05:41. | :05:48. | |
can be worth it in the long run. This is quite good. It's cost a | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
quarter of a million pounds to build this education centre, and | :05:51. | :05:58. | |
some feel it's money well spent. You cannot lock somebody up for | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
their entire sentence and expect them not to reoffend. This is a | :06:02. | :06:08. | |
chance for people to learn new skills. Prisoners have a lot of | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
time inside to reflect on what they've done. It's now hoped that | :06:11. | :06:19. | |
they'll be able to do a lot more than just learn from their mistakes. | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
Bigger viewing areas, better facilities and more parking - all | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
part of plans submitted by Jersey Rugby Club this week for its St | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
Peter ground. The islanders are favourites for promotion to the | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
second tier of English rugby, the Championship, next season, and fans | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
are flocking to watch. But does it make financial sense for an island | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
the size of Jersey to invest in one facility - when more sports could | :06:39. | :06:49. | |
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Big players, big crowds, big plans. When Jersey Rugby Club secured | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
promotion to National League One last year, bosses started thinking | :06:52. | :07:02. | |
big. Coach Ben Harvey was even calling for a big multi-sport, | :07:02. | :07:10. | |
state-of-the-art grounds and facilities to help all sports grow. | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
If you get good facilities in, you will attract good coaches. There | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
are good coaches and they need to be helped out. Now, plans have been | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
submitted to add a terrace, extend viewing areas and build a bigger | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
clubhouse. With crowds of over 2,000 paying �10 each, the club can | :07:25. | :07:34. | |
afford to think big. I have been in Jersey 30 years, and this has | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
always been Jersey rugby club. I think now this is Jersey rugby | :07:38. | :07:45. | |
Island Club. We are looking at a five-year plan. Time will tell. | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
does Jersey need another big stadium, when it's already got | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
Springfield? This stadium holds a thousand people seated - up to | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
seven thousand altogether. So could this be Jersey's super stadium of | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
the future? If it were limited to top teams, like football's Muratti | :08:00. | :08:10. | |
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final, perhaps - but that's not what football here is all about. | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
are a community sport. Everybody wants to play at Springfield. It is | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
the pinnacle in Jersey. It has, though, worked in the UK - Reading | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
Football Club and London Irish Rugby Club both use the Madejski | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
Stadium. So if the facility was right, and the money was there. | :08:26. | :08:34. | |
Well, as Bill says. You can never say never. Somebody may turn the up | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
with a better idea and the will to do that. Could you spare a few | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
hours to help one of the hundreds of charities across the Channel | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
Islands? A new website in Guernsey has been launched to try and pair | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
up would be volunteers, with organisations that could use a few | :08:48. | :08:56. | |
more helping hands. Penny Elderfield reports. | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
Julie-Ann's been volunteering at the women's refuge for two years, | :08:58. | :09:07. | |
starting after a close friend experienced domestic abuse. | :09:07. | :09:15. | |
she's part of a charity there to help. I was made aware of the | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
refuge when my friend was going through this. I thought I can help, | :09:19. | :09:25. | |
I will volunteer. We listen to women, offer them support. Even a | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
cup of tea and a biscuit makes all the difference. Seeing a woman walk | :09:29. | :09:35. | |
out the door, straight with pride, you cannot put a price on that. To | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
see that, that makes the job worthwhile. But for many charities, | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
people like Julie-Ann are far and few between. That's why she's | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
lending her support to a new website, launched here yesterday. | :09:44. | :09:53. | |
It aims to find would be volunteers their perfect charity. If they are | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
looking in one particular area, they can search and they can find | :09:56. | :10:02. | |
and visit to charities and find what is on offer. It is like a | :10:02. | :10:09. | |
great big dating agency with lots of faces to look at. So the hope is | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
it'll pair up people like Julie-Ann with the charities in Guernsey that | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
need more manpower. Without that support, many wouldn't be able | :10:15. | :10:25. | |
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offer support to those that really There's been a significant drop in | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
the amount of litter on Guernsey's beaches, according to the | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
Beachwatch Survey carried out last year. The volume found has halved | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
since 2010, and is now less than a third of the UK average. However, | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
50% of it still comes from beach users, a figure the States are keen | :10:40. | :10:50. | |
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to reduce. Now the weather with Good evening. After some of rain | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
today, tonight it will turn misty. From tomorrow, we are looking at | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
dry weather which will continue through the weekend and much of | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
next week. A little area of low pressure will trickle away tonight, | :11:05. | :11:11. | |
moving across central parts of Britain. South-east winds drying in | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
dry air. A little list. As we move into the weekend, high pressure | :11:16. | :11:23. | |
returns. We are expecting some high temperatures. Showery rain tonight | :11:23. | :11:29. | |
will move away. The mist and fog will form by the morning. Overnight, | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
temperatures down to six degrees. Tomorrow, Mr in the morning. Hayes | :11:34. | :11:44. | |
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in the afternoon. -- missed in the morning, Hayes in the afternoon. | :11:44. | :11:54. | |
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Probably one of the warmest days this year. The times of high water: | :12:02. | :12:11. | |
and for surfing, the waves will be big but usable. The forecast as we | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
move into the weekend and next week does not change. We will have | :12:17. | :12:23. | |
south-east winds for the weekend. Saturday and Sunday dry. The winds | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
becoming easterly as we move into his Sunday. When we see and north- | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
east breeze settle in, it will bring more cloud. Jersey seen the | :12:32. | :12:38. |