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Hello and good evening. Ashes run down under. | :00:12. | :00:12. | |
Hello and good evening. Jersey's government has revealed a | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
new population policy, to limit immigration to 325 people a year. | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
The temporary law would give the States more control over the number | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
of migrants coming to the island. But there's concern that could have | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
an impact on the economy. Louise Walter reports. | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
Jersey's population has doubled since the '50s. But this isn't just | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
about numbers. Keeping the right ratio of people in the island | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
requires a delicate balance. Over the next 20 years, the number | :00:38. | :00:44. | |
of people in Jersey over the age of 65 will nearly double. And those | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
over 85 will nearly triple. With no migration, that would mean an 1 % | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
decline in the island's working population. So, more people retiring | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
and living longer with fewer people working to support them. In fact, | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
the island would need to have 3 000 migrants a year to support its | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
retired population. But that's a figure unacceptable to the States. | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
They want to limit the figure to 325 a year. And on the streets of St | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
Helier, there was some support for that view. | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
I am old enough to remember Jersey when we had 40,000 people here. And | :01:21. | :01:28. | |
it was much calmer, more pleasant. In the short`term, yes, it could | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
open up for more people to come over. Yes, I think we need to limit | :01:35. | :01:42. | |
it to. The policy also suggests ways to make businesses recruit fewer | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
migrant workers in favour of local or entitled workers. But there's | :01:46. | :01:55. | |
concern that could restrict growth. I fully understand it is an | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
intractable problem. However, given the state of the economy, when we | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
are trying to recover and trying to do better to pay the bills, | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
suggesting we will halve net to migration is going to be a difficult | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
challenge for businesses to deliver. These are interim measures, and | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
islanders have been asked for their input before a 20`year plan is | :02:15. | :02:16. | |
proposed. Meanwhile, Senator Paul Routier the | :02:17. | :02:24. | |
chair of Jersey's Housing and Work Advisory Group, doesn't believe | :02:25. | :02:32. | |
local businesses will suffer. He says the island has to let some | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
migrants in every year to keep the economy and government services | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
going. I think what we need to reassure businesses is that if they | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
have some skills which they need to have within their business and they | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
cannot find it in the island, we will look at that carefully to see | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
if that it is right for them to bring people onto the island, but it | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
has to be of high five years, to contribute to the economy. So I want | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
to give assurances to businesses that we will look at that | :03:01. | :03:02. | |
sympathetically. Lloyds Bank is cutting 30 jobs in | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
Jersey as part of a company`wide reorganisation. They're office jobs | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
in the bank's risk, retail and commercial divisions. Guernsey isn't | :03:09. | :03:10. | |
affected. Meanwhile, up to 18 staff at Menzies | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
Aviation at Guernsey Airport are set to lose their jobs. The handling | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
agent operates baggage and check`in services for both Blue Islands and | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
Aurigny. And the politicians that make up | :03:21. | :03:22. | |
Guernsey's Health Department will find out if they keep their jobs | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
tomorrow. There's been pressure on the minister, Mark Dorey, and his | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
board to quit after he gave misleading information about the | :03:31. | :03:32. | |
island's bowel cancer screening programme. A vote of no`confidence | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
will take place at tomorrow's States sitting. | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
Guernsey's government will investigate upgrading Alderney's | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
airport runway. The proposal was the brainchild of Alderney politician | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
Paul Arditti, who died last week. It's claimed the island will suffer | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
economically if improvements aren't made. Mike Wilkins reports. | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
Touching down on Guernsey's runway with a message about their own. | :03:56. | :04:03. | |
These Alderney residents are unhappy with their airport's facilities and | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
fear it could be driving tourists and business away from the island. | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
They were on the steps of the Royal Court today to lobby deputies to | :04:14. | :04:21. | |
spend ?8 million on the airport Alderney's public are aware of the | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
problems there, both with business and the hotel sector. Customers | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
can't get Alderney and the point is this work was started by me and | :04:32. | :04:38. | |
Paul, my former colleague, with the intention of bringing this to the | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
States. Among those listening to the debate was Phillipa Arditti, the | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
wife of the late Paul Arditti who was in the middle of a campaign to | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
get the airport upgraded when he died. My husband loved Alderney as | :04:49. | :04:58. | |
do I. And he always said to me, the airport is the enabler. This is what | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
is going to help us get back on our feet. Guernsey has just spent ? 0 | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
million on its airport and many government departments are battling | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
to cut costs. But today the Public Services Minister told me he's | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
determined to find a solution for Alderney. We recognise there are | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
some real problems that and we want to try to see if we can play our | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
part in that process of trying to see the right way forward. Guernsey | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
has been responsible for the upkeep of Alderney's airport for almost 70 | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
years and now campaigners want Guernsey to look after its | :05:30. | :05:30. | |
investment. 90 students from China joined pupils | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
at Jersey's Hautlieu School today. This was the scene earlier. The | :05:38. | :05:48. | |
teenagers have come from a secondary school in Beijing which is twinned | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
with the Jersey school. It's after successful visits to China by | :05:53. | :05:59. | |
Hautlieu students. 99 students from China coming to our tiny little | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
island, I think it's the most important thing that's ever happened | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
to it, to be honest. The students have travelled all around England, | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
they've gone to Paris, and they ve chosen to come here. This will be | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
the beginning of a very long lasting friendship. Minus four in Beijing | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
tonight, what will it be like for us? | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
A quiet day in store across the islands tomorrow, light winds, some | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
missed in the morning, but it is dry. We do keep quite a lot of cloud | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
around. The showers for the start of the night will gradually peter out. | :06:37. | :06:44. | |
The temperatures are well down to what we have seen recently. That is | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
cold enough, briefly, for some frost early in the day tomorrow. It will | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
soon warm up. We are between the showers four shot the day, with | :06:55. | :07:04. | |
seven the top temperature. `` we are in between the showers for much of | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
the day. We have a strong southerly wind on Friday, lifting the | :07:11. | :07:18. | |
temperatures but it will be a wet Day. The winds easing just a little | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
bit on Sunday. Goodbye from all Hello. The next dose of wet and | :07:22. | :07:41. | |
windy weather is due to arrive on Friday from the Atlantic. Today we | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
have had an easterly wind bringing the chill as the threat of icy | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
patches comes to the north where the cloud breaks. More cloud further | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
south. Maybe some sleet and snow in parts of East Wales as we engage the | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
cold air. Temperatures in the south-east are not changing much | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
because the rain keeps going. It will be colder further north, | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
though. Icy patches are possible. More wintry showers in the | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
north-east. Quite a few flood warnings in Tayside. Write to the | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
west of the Pennines. -- brighter. Figure clad -- thicker cloud further | :08:17. | :08:26. | |
south. We see some dampness in parts of the West Country, possibly into | :08:27. | :08:34. | |
East Wales. In the north-west | :08:35. | :08:35. |