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Good evening and welcome to the BBC Channel Islands. The headlines: | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
Farmed out - The grower who's had to cut his staff by 40% and says | :00:11. | :00:16. | |
the states are to blame. Unless things turn round dramatically, I | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
cannot see us doing what we do in the future. | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
Also, all change? Is the law set to change on who can run for Chief | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
Minister in Guernsey. And, educating our children - As | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
part of our series looking at Jersey's schools, should the way we | :00:33. | :00:43. | |
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A group of French politicians and agriculture experts has been | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
visiting Jersey today to learn how the government supports its rural | :00:52. | :01:02. | |
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industries. It comes as one local farmer says he might have to give | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
up because of a lack of support from politicians. So what is the | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
States doing to help farmers in the island? Not enough, says a local | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
grower, as Nafisa Sayani reports. It's all hands on deck at this | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
organic farm in St Lawrence. The workforce here has had to be cut by | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
nearly half because the recession's put pressure on the price of | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
produce they ship to the UK. It's argued the States needs to offer | :01:24. | :01:30. | |
more support if the business is to survive. We will continue to | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
struggle. We have been treading water for the last two years. | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
Unless things turned round dramatically, I cannot see us | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
carrying on doing what we do in the future. And doing it in a market | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
where it's claimed European farmers are getting higher subsidies, makes | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
it all the more difficult for small scale Jersey farms to compete. But | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
the Environment Minister says giving them more cash to level the | :01:52. | :02:00. | |
playing field isn't the answer. you have some inspiration and good | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
ideas and a good business brain, you will succeed in business. But | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
is the way we should be promoting helping farms, not just allowing | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
them to take taxpayers' money in order to operate businesses that | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
are not cost-effective. But with rising land rent adding to the | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
concerns for Steve, his worry is he may have to say au revoir to his | :02:20. | :02:28. | |
business. Major concern within Guernsey | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
States prompted a report to change the rules on who can be the | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
Island's next Chief Minister. That's according to one of the | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
politicians behind plans to remove the restriction on how long | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
candidates have to have been in the States. It would mean new-comers | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
could stand. An emergency report was drawn up yesterday and a short | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
time ago I asked one of the deputies involved how it all came | :02:47. | :02:55. | |
about. The committee took it to the States | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
last year because we felt it was unjustified. Pitch should be the | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
best person for the job. But the States last year decided to reject | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
the report and keep it in situ. We were accused after that debate by | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
the public or we were keeping jobs for the boys. That was unfortunate, | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
but that is how the public saw it because of this restriction. Making | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
sure newcomers could not have the job. Since last Friday, there were | :03:24. | :03:31. | |
numerous e-mails saying is there any way we can get rid of this rule | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
to make sure the best person can be elected for the job of chief | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
minister. Will there be the support from States members to change it? | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
That is why we have gone for an emergency billeted with the bailiff. | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
So many have said to us they want to have a debate or rescind the law | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
that is in place. How many potentially new candidates could be | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
see as a result of this? Now the goal posts it will be moved, if it | :03:59. | :04:05. | |
is approved, who knows? I suspect it will be three or four macro. I | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
don't see a flurry of candidates coming forward. It may even just be | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
the same three, but at least it will have gone away forever, the | :04:14. | :04:20. | |
ridiculous rule where you have to have this discriminatory four years | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
out of five years restrictions. Thanks very much indeed for joining | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
Jersey's Population control mechanism isn't working and isn't | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
being enforced, that's the view of a group of politicians. The | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
Corporate Services Scrutiny panel has been reviewing population and | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
migration in the island in answer to public concern following the | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
results of the census. It says population levels are crucial for | :04:41. | :04:51. | |
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the island's way of life. We have serious concerns as we move forward | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
and discuss population levels and provision for health and housing. | :04:57. | :05:03. | |
We need to rely and be able to rely on appropriate and proper | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
information. We are looking out to the chief minister to address the | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
matters that have been raised with in our report and the census | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
figures. 16 jobs are to go at the aircraft | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
maintenance company Anglo Normandy. It'll continue to maintain | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
Aurigny's Trislander fleet and its ATR aircraft, but the comprehensive | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
annual checks on the ATRs will be carried out by an as yet unnamed | :05:22. | :05:29. | |
company. Anglo Normandy is part of the States-owned airline Aurigny. | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
The company blames competition from Eastern Europe and says without | :05:32. | :05:42. | |
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shedding jobs it'll make a �500,000 loss this year. Are charge out | :05:43. | :05:51. | |
rates for third-party customers in Europe are of the Order of �32. The | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
national airline of Rumania bomb- making a similar offer at 26 euros | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
an hour. It is difficult for us to compete with that. The cost base | :06:02. | :06:10. | |
and liberates the we have got, we can no longer compete. It has come | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
into our life in the last 18 months, two years. It's | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
You're watching the BBC in the Channel Islands. Later in Spotlight | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
with Justin and Victoria: Totally devoted - we meet the man who's | :06:23. | :06:33. | |
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dedicated almost 50 years to his All this week we're looking at | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
secondary education in Jersey, and today we're asking if the way a | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
school's success is measured should change. Schools have traditionally | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
been judged on their GCSE results - but the highly selective nature of | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
our system makes it difficult to compare them on that basis alone. | :06:51. | :06:58. | |
Clare Burton reports. Does this look like one of the | :06:58. | :07:08. | |
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worst schools in Britain? Does it sound like a failing school? It is | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
about determination, it is about to effort and perseverance. That's how | :07:14. | :07:20. | |
Grainville was described last year when its GCSE results came out. | :07:21. | :07:30. | |
Good evening. Coming up: Failing parents and children call for a | :07:30. | :07:37. | |
radical shake-up of the way schools' performance are measured. | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
Pass rates have dropped to 13%, placing them in the bottom five | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
schools in England and Wales. reaction, across all island media, | :07:45. | :07:52. | |
headteacher, John McGuinness says was damaging. For a large | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
percentage of students, they felt they were not worthy of recognition | :07:56. | :08:03. | |
and it does not reflect the students who do the vocational | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
courses and work-related learning. And they were demoralised by that | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
of one benchmark and headlines. forget that one benchmark - let's | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
look at some other numbers. Last year over 98% of students passed at | :08:14. | :08:22. | |
least five GCSEs. And 92% of them moved into further education - A- | :08:22. | :08:32. | |
levels at Hautlieu or vocation training at Highlands. However, 25% | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
of students have special educational needs like autism. And | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
for 10%, English isn't even their first language - like year 11 | :08:40. | :08:50. | |
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prefect Juliana. I did not speak any English, it was very hard. My | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
teacher helped me a lot and I had good support. But the statistic | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
John McGuinness wants you to focus on is this. 67% of his students met | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
or surpassed their target grades last year. So he says the school | :09:03. | :09:13. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 288 seconds | :09:13. | :14:02. | |
Out at sea, some strong winds. The showers moderate visibility with | :14:02. | :14:12. | |
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showers. Times of high water for The the surface, a big swell with | :14:15. | :14:21. | |
low pressure. For the rest of the week, after wetter weather tomorrow, | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
it is still looking breezy and unsettled on Thursday. Showers to | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
come with sunny spells. The risk of a shower on Friday, but it looks | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
dry now. Uncertainty over the dry now. Uncertainty over the | :14:34. | :14:42. | |
weekend that it looks like we could see more rain. | :14:42. | :14:48. |