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bus bosses slapped a decision... There are a lot of people who have | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
hospital appointments and have to get to work. To hold the island to | :00:25. | :00:32. | |
ransom in this way is not good. Use local or lose it. Islanders are | :00:32. | :00:41. | |
warned they must buy more home-grown produce if they are to protect jobs. | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
From pumpkins to past times, we are at Guernsey's West Show as it | :00:46. | :00:56. | |
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bus drivers will strike for five days this month in a bid to get a | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
sacked colleague reinstated. Workers will walk out for two days from next | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
Thursday and for three days from Tuesday August 27. Tonight, bosses | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
at Liberty Bus have called the move a slap in the face to passengers. | :01:12. | :01:21. | |
Amy Harris reports. It is the busiest time of the year | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
for the bus service, used every day by hundreds of islanders and | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
tourists alike. But come next Thursday, there'll be no departures | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
or arrivals. 71 workers are walking out twice in the next two weeks for | :01:33. | :01:39. | |
a total of five days to get a sacked colleague reinstated. The driver was | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
dismissed and convicted of driving without due care and attention after | :01:42. | :01:51. | |
an accident earlier this year, when a passenger was injured. We feel | :01:51. | :01:57. | |
that the driver was unfairly dismissed, we feel that health and | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
safety processes words put in place by the company which resulted in the | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
accident. They have a duty of care to not only the passenger, but also | :02:05. | :02:12. | |
to the driver and they failed. five-day strike over one worker has | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
the potential to affect hundreds, if not thousands, of other islanders | :02:16. | :02:23. | |
and tourists. Is there any sympathy among passengers? There's always | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
sympathy to be had. They probably have a case, do they have to go this | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
far? I think they must feel very strongly and they must stick | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
together as a union and maybe we ought to respect that. I hope they | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
have a good reason to strike as there are a lot of tourists and they | :02:43. | :02:50. | |
are needed. The operator insists it can keep the island moving. To hold | :02:50. | :02:57. | |
the island to ransom in this way, it is not good. We're trying to put on | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
as many services as we can, obviously there are only one third | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
of the workforce who have voted for the strike, so we are hopeful that a | :03:05. | :03:11. | |
lot of the workforce will still wants to work. And the Government's | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
department has also condemned the move as talks are still ongoing | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
about the driver involved. We think they have overreacted, the driver in | :03:20. | :03:27. | |
question's case is still subject to a tribunal and until it is | :03:27. | :03:33. | |
concluded, there is no action to take as far as we are concerned. Is | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
less than a year since the company took over and this is the second | :03:36. | :03:45. | |
time that strike action has been used. Passengers will be hoping that | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
relations improve by next Thursday. Islanders need to buy more | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
home-grown produce to protect local jobs - that's the warning tonight | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
from some growers and retailers as 80 jobs are axed at two Channel | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
Island bakeries. Yesterday, we broke the news that Warry's in Guernsey | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
and the CI Bakery in Jersey will shut down because they're losing out | :04:02. | :04:12. | |
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to goods imported from the UK. Ripe and ready, within hours of coming | :04:13. | :04:20. | |
out of the soil, these courgettes will be on shop shelves. In this | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
climate, when things are tight, people are looking at price and it | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
is difficult to produce quality products which generally speaking | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
Jersey products are at a price that is the same as commodities coming | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
from all over the world. That means food produced here can come at a | :04:36. | :04:44. | |
premium. There is a cost of living here. The economies of scale don't | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
exist as they would with multiple suppliers in the UK. We believe the | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
quality of the local purchase, there is a price to pay cut that, and | :04:52. | :05:00. | |
consumers should be mindful of that. But we have two offer choice. | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
competition from overseas and the high cost of production that has | :05:03. | :05:09. | |
caused the closure of the Channel Islands Bakery. With more foreign | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
food on our shelves, all we ask shoppers if they care? You have been | :05:14. | :05:24. | |
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dairies have that monopoly is that they are protected by law. It is a | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
rare and endangered breed and we are protecting the biodiversity of the | :05:47. | :05:54. | |
island. That way, we can ban imports and comply with EU law. While dairy | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
farmers can relax, others will remain at the mercy of the market. | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
Well, Senator Alan McLean is Jersey's Economic Development | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
Minister, so his brief includes helping promote local business and | :06:02. | :06:08. | |
local jobs. He joined me earlier and I began by asking him if the States | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
should look to ban the importation of other items, like they do with | :06:11. | :06:21. | |
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milk, to protect more locally made Milk is a different story and I | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
think we can keep that separate. Generally, Government and | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
protectionism is not a good mood. Consumers need choice and they need | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
to have cost effective pricing. We need to get that balance and the | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
bounce is obviously difficult to achieve. How do you strike that | :06:40. | :06:50. | |
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balance? I think the result of the bakery failing suggest that | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
consumers won't supporting the business, they found the product too | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
expensive and they were buying cheap imports. The market will determine | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
which is right and which is wrong and I think Government | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
intervention, generally speaking, is something we should avoid. What is | :07:06. | :07:12. | |
your message to islanders who are employed in this sector? I think | :07:12. | :07:20. | |
there is a strong future. There are new brands and new... Unfortunately, | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
that company couldn't make this brand work. But otherwise I think | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
there is a strong future in retail. The Guernsey branch of the | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
Co-operative Bank is to close by the end of this year. 11 people work | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
there. Almost 40 Co-op Bank branches in the UK have been closed already. | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
A spokesman says customers shouldn't be concerned and mortgages will be | :07:41. | :07:51. | |
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honoured. It is one of the main fixtures in Guernsey's calendar and | :07:51. | :07:59. | |
it is 100 years old this year. Here's what the West Show was like. | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
Around 10,000 visitors are expected over the next few days. Mike Wilkins | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
has been to find out what they can expect. When we think of the summer | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
shows, we think of the pageants and the funfairs and the entertainment. | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
But the serious business of judging the produce is what it is about and | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
it started here 100 years ago. Inside, we have the organisers of | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
this, the hundredth anniversary of West Show. | :08:25. | :08:33. | |
How does it feel to be organising such an event? We are so lucky that | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
the event has gone on for so long. To think, in 1913, if they were | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
alive now and knew that we were still doing the same traditions, I | :08:41. | :08:50. | |
think it would be thrilled. What about you? My earliest memories are | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
putting the daughter in and now I am the Treasurer. John, what would you | :08:56. | :09:02. | |
say is the magic of this event? magic is that it carries on year by | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
year, showing that the old Guernsey traditions are still going. You just | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
have to look around at all of this produce, the hours of work, it is | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
all here. This is the 100th anniversary, how I you marking it? | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
We are marking it by putting on massive amounts of entertainment. | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
have beer tents, we have fantastic entertainment on, we have made a | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
special centenary programme that is on sale that details the history of | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
the show and tells you what is going on. It is all going to happen. It is | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
going to be amazing. It is going to be a big party for the whole | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
island, please come and support us. Thousands of people are expected to | :09:46. | :09:56. | |
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attend over the next day or so and well today and I think tomorrow | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
promises even higher temperatures and still relatively dry, too. There | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
is a bit of a change coming as we move through into Friday, but the | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
moment, after a cloudy start it is a humid feel and there are some warm | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
sunshine, especially from late morning. We still have this finger | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
of high-pressure covering us, it is a bit weaker by the time they get to | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
the middle of the day tomorrow, but not until we get into the small | :10:25. | :10:35. | |
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hours of Friday before we see that cold front comes in. It looks at | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
could be around for a good part of the day, generating brain and | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
keeping us cloudy. Overnight, the cloud will break at times, but I | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
think it'll fill in by the morning and even a spit of drizzle may be in | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
the wind. Temperatures shouldn't be any lower than 15 or 16 Celsius. | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
After a grey start, it will brighten up and as they go into the | :10:51. | :10:57. | |
afternoon, they'll be some lengthy spells of sunshine, possibly 25 | :10:57. | :11:04. | |
Celsius. The winds are south-westerly, mainly fair with | :11:04. | :11:10. | |
good visibility. Times of high water at Saint Helena is at midnight 09 | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
and 1244 and around 30 024 Saint Peter Port. Not much for the | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
surface, there is a bit of a swell, up to three feet is the best we can | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
expect. As for the outlook, on Friday, we will have thicker cloud | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
and potentially some outbreaks of light rain ordure is not. We won't | :11:28. | :11:36. | |
be improving into much later into the day. After a bright start on | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
Saturday, it clouds over and we will see some more persistent rain | :11:41. | :11:48. | |
arriving and it could be quite a wet afternoon. But all of that will blow | :11:48. | :11:53. |