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Good evening. Welcome to Tuesday's BBC Channel Islands. | :00:07. | :00:13. | |
Condor's woes ` as workers' protests spread to the UK, should politicians | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
step in or bring in other ferry operators? We must not rely, that | :00:18. | :00:28. | |
all our eggs in one basket as we have at the moment. | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
Why golfers could foot the growing bill for the upkeep of Guernsey s | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
L'Ancresse Common. And this is something you wouldn't | :00:34. | :00:41. | |
expect to see. Find out why Jersey's rugby players are swapping the pitch | :00:42. | :00:51. | |
for the pirouette. Very good athletes. It takes a lot to do what | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
they do. `` picketed athletes. After 13 days of strike action in St | :00:54. | :01:04. | |
Malo, the Condor Ferries French pay dispute has spread to the UK. | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
Members of the Rail Maritime and Transport Workers Union protested at | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
Portsmouth Harbour, in solidarity with the French sailors, who are | :01:12. | :01:13. | |
calling for better pay and conditions. It comes as political | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
pressure grows on the Channel Islands governments to resolve the | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
situation, as Louise Walter reports. She's been stuck in St Malo for | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
nearly two weeks now. The crew of the Condor Rapide are determined | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
they will not give up until their conditions are met. The company have | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
already missed out on business from Guernsey's half term, and with no | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
sign of movement as we head to Jersey's school holidays, some here | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
in the States think it's time the service was opened up to | :01:44. | :01:50. | |
competition. How historically we have had two operators on the route. | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
Obviously with the recession over the last several years, only one | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
operator has been on the route, but hopefully we are coming out of the | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
recession and we should consider opening up the route again to | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
another operator alongside. But the island's Economic Development | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
Minister says now is not the time to re`tender the service. We have also | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
carried out a number of economic studies, all of which proved | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
competition doesn't work, certainly on a year`round basis. It is not a | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
route that can sustain it. Tonight, Portsmouth Harbour is the scene of | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
protest by members of the RMT and ITF unions. They have concerns over | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
rates of pay for Ukrainian sailors employed by Condor, and also want to | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
show their support for the strikers in France. Condor say they | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
we have been campaigning against Condor and a substandard conditions | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
on those ships for over a year now. The French seafarers have just | :02:50. | :02:57. | |
escalated it quite rapidly. We wanted to show our support for the | :02:58. | :03:10. | |
French seafarers against Condor Condor say they believe their | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
Ukrainian workers are happy with pay and conditions, and believe that | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
this new protest is not genuinely connected to the situation in | :03:17. | :03:18. | |
France. Let's get more on this with our | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
political editor Chris Rayner. Chris, the workers' protest has | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
moved to the UK, and island businesses are suffering from the | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
lack of the French ferry link. How big a headache is this Condor | :03:28. | :03:29. | |
dispute for Channel Islands governments? It is perhaps more of a | :03:30. | :03:38. | |
headache for the travelling public and businesses affected by this but | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
this is still an industrial dispute so politicians are keen not to wade | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
into other than to offer as much support as they can to Condor | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
Ferries, which is hoping to get this resolved as quickly as possible | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
Time is ticking and half term is approaching at the end of this week, | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
so they hope to get things sorted by then, but today, from what the | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
senator was telling states members, this is affecting not just the | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
public but also businesses such as fishermen who have had a difficult | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
few months with the weather and want to export shellfish to the | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
continent. They are working on an alternative for them to get their | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
shellfish easily to the continent while these negotiations continue. | :04:23. | :04:31. | |
Thank you, Chris Rayner. The private golf clubs using | :04:32. | :04:33. | |
Guernsey's L'Ancresse Common could in future have to pay substantially | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
more rent for the land, and those costs could be passed on to golfers. | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
Rent has been set at just ?100 a year for the last 70 years ` a | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
fraction of the cost of maintaining the area. | :04:46. | :04:47. | |
It's land that has many uses, with golf perhaps one of the most | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
popular. Although not so much today, with the wet weather putting a stop | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
to it. Around 1500 golfers pay the two private clubs here up to ?1 00 | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
each year to play. But only a small fraction, roughly 9p per golfer | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
goes to the council that has to maintain this land. The Vale Commons | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
Council says it just isn't bringing in enough money to do its job, with | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
?30,000 coming from the States each year and the two golf clubs paying | :05:14. | :05:23. | |
just ?100 rent. But there is a budget shortfall of around ?130 000, | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
so the council says that situation needs to change. People don't | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
realise at part from the vastness of the common and the pathways that go | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
through it, the council also has 16 car parks to maintain, which with | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
that budget you cannot maintain As well as looking at other income | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
sources like parking charges, the planned rent increase would see the | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
cost per golfer go up by almost ?80 a year. The clubs agree they should | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
pay more, but there's still negotiating to be done on how much. | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
And for the golfers, those I spoke to felt they shouldn't be the only | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
ones picking up the bill. In view of the fact this is a public area and | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
should be enjoyed by everyone, I would have thought recreation | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
committee is or the environment would want to contribute something | :06:18. | :06:19. | |
towards it. The current rent agreement ends in 2016. Those | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
involved in negotiations hope they're on course to make a decision | :06:23. | :06:29. | |
by then. The man who brought the world land | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
speed record back to Britain will be inspiring Jersey's budding inventors | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
at an event in the island this spring. This is Richard Noble's | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
latest project, the Bloodhound ` a 1000mph rocket`powered racing car. | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
Sounds good. He's speaking at Jersey's first TED talk, aimed at | :06:47. | :06:48. | |
sharing ideas across Technology Entertainment and Design. Other | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
speakers include a Swedish woman who composts human bodies. The event | :06:52. | :07:00. | |
takes place in April. What TED allows you to do is because of the | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
strength of the brand, have access to speakers who are superb and these | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
people are really keen to be part of the TED community, so to bring them | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
to Jersey is great. Mothers in Jersey are campaigning | :07:15. | :07:16. | |
for cleaner public toilets with better facilities for toddlers in | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
the town centre. Hundreds of people are following Jessica Wolanski's | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
social media campaign. She's meeting with the St Helier constable to | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
discuss the obstacles she's struggled with, particularly since | :07:26. | :07:27. | |
having a second child, such as access. Most of it is up on the | :07:28. | :07:37. | |
first floor, which when you're in the left and Iraqis, by the time you | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
get up there it is normally too late. `` in the left and there are | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
queues. The toilets need to be looked after better than they are | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
and they need to be more accessible in some areas like car parks, you | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
cannot get a double buggy in a car parked and cannot lead a baby | :07:57. | :08:04. | |
outside value take a toddler in `` while you take a toddler in. | :08:05. | :08:06. | |
Jersey Rugby Club faced an international fixture this afternoon | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
when they hosted a team from Russia. The opposition turned up in tutus | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
and tights. The Moscow City Ballet, in the island for two performances, | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
gave the islanders a run for their money at St Peter. Jen Smith tagged | :08:17. | :08:18. | |
along. They may seem worlds apart, but | :08:19. | :08:30. | |
these two have more in common than at first glance. The Moscow City | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
Ballet showing Jersey Rugby Club that people in skirts are tough | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
Ballerinas and rugby players are squaring off in a training session | :08:40. | :08:46. | |
to see who performs best. So who is fitter? Marking from Moscow Ballet | :08:47. | :08:56. | |
joins me now. I know who I would rather face in a rugby scrum. Who is | :08:57. | :09:10. | |
that? `` who is fitter? I think other readers are not as delicate as | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
you think. Our strength is hidden beneath our beautiful bodies. Sean | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
you are at Jersey Rugby club so what can we learn from ballerinas? Their | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
dedication is unbelievable. They are unbelievable athletes. So have you | :09:27. | :09:34. | |
learned something? Yeah. Well, actions speak louder than words On | :09:35. | :09:42. | |
the count of three. When it comes to brute force, Jersey Rugby Club might | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
have the advantage. But for poise and grace, the JRFC players might | :09:46. | :09:47. | |
have to try a bit harder. If you do see Jen, the centre back | :09:48. | :09:58. | |
to the BBC. Let's get the weather now. It could turn wet and windy | :09:59. | :10:06. | |
tomorrow night into Thursday, with perhaps some gales. I will talk | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
about that any second. Tonight we will see a few showers which fade | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
away, improving through the night, we may see some sea fog in places | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
but this week we expect this area of low pressure to bring wet and windy | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
conditions by Thursday but tomorrow will have a few showers. They will | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
roll in from the south`west. This feature moves in slowly tomorrow | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
afternoon and into the early hours of Thursday. Thursday it will clear | :10:35. | :10:41. | |
swiftly from eastern areas. Showers to follow, perhaps thunderstorms in | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
a few places, so tonight we will see a few showers dotted about but drier | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
conditions will develop and temperatures will fall to around | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
four ` eight Celsius, so a dry start for most tomorrow. Sunny spells for | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
a time but also showers will start rolling in from the North West. They | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
could be heavy and stunned the rate that will ease through the afternoon | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
and we will start to see some sunshine. This showers or rain will | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
develop tomorrow night and the rain band will move across us, so | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
tomorrow we will have isolated showers initially, rain later in the | :11:18. | :11:24. | |
day. This see state is mainly good, winds decreasing to two or three and | :11:25. | :11:31. | |
we expect that rain tomorrow evening which may turn very wet and windy. | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
Here are your high tides. The next full moon is on Sunday the 16th of | :11:36. | :11:42. | |
March so the high water times annual outlook for the rest of the week, we | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
expect a few showers tomorrow, sunny spells in the afternoon that rain | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
will follow and will be with us first thing on Thursday. Quite | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
heavy, perhaps gusts up to 50 mph through the Channel and on Friday | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
lost three showers to follow. That is it for now. | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
naughty. Let's find out what's in store for us now. Alexis Greene has | :12:06. | :23:33. | |
the details. store for us now. Alexis | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
Hello, it will turn wet and windy in the middle of this week with gales | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
making a return. Now to look at the week in general. We will have rain | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
or showers at times and they could be heavy with hail and thunder. We | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
will see some sunshine as well very like we saw this afternoon and it | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
will generally be frost free. This is the satellite picture from | :24:00. | :24:02. | |
earlier. Clumps of cloud over the region spreading to the region | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
spreading to these and they brought as heavy and thundery showers but it | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
was an improving picture. Sunny spells by the end of the day and you | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
can see it on the radar clearing to the east and sunny spells making an | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
appearance. Temperatures did quite well today. Tonight the showers will | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
gradually is. You are looking at a dry night with clear spells | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
initially but the mist and fog may make a return like last night and it | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
could be dense across Dartmoor and Exmoor with temperatures falling to | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
around nine degrees. A dry start to the day tomorrow and the cloud will | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
increase very quickly and showers rolling across the region. The | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
showers could be heavy with hail and thunder and there will be dry | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
periods as well before the rain arrives by the afternoon and | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
evening. Temperatures will reach 11 or 12 degrees and the wind comes in | :25:02. | :25:09. | |
from the south. This is the forecast for the Isles of Scilly. Showers in | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
the morning and then rain arrives by the evening. The wind is | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
south`westerly and the high water time is 7:03am. The next full moon | :25:20. | :25:27. | |
is on the 16th of March and that is a Sunday. | :25:28. | :25:44. | |
We are expecting a fairly wet day all in all tomorrow night and the | :25:45. | :25:54. | |
wind will veer to the south`west and showers are expected. The sea state | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
is a moderate or good. The outlook for the rest of the week sees heavy | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
rain moving in on Thursday and it will arrive on Wednesday afternoon. | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
We will see the rain piling from the West and the gales will develop | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
along the south coast. Maybe gusts of 40 mph. The rain will move | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
through quite swiftly on a Thursday morning and we are expecting around | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
half an inch of rainfall which will not help the flooding situation. The | :26:25. | :26:27. | |
rain will rattle through on Thursday and there will be scattered showers | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
perhaps with hail and thunder for the south. And I'm settled period on | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
Wednesday night into Thursday and generally unsettled. We are | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
expecting showers tomorrow and following that drier periods with | :26:42. | :26:44. | |
sunny spells through the afternoon before a band of rain arrives in the | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
evening. On Thursday and Friday wet on Thursday with shower was to | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
follow and fairly unsettled for the rest of the week. | :26:55. | :26:57. | |
It was nice to see the sun briefly today! That is all from us. We will | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
be back at 6:30pm tomorrow. Good night. | :27:03. | :27:16. | |
Next week we will explore stories of bravery and sacrifice. The nurse | :27:17. | :27:26. | |
that came to Belgium to save councillors lives. The lace making | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
factory transformed by war. The prisoner of war camp holding | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
thousands in Dorchester. The air Station in Cornwall protecting our | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
coastline and the Devonport man whose horrific injuries led to | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
pioneering plastic surgery. The other stories on Spotlight next | :27:44. | :27:44. | |
week. | :27:45. | :27:47. |