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Tonight the strike is off. Condor Ferries crew will sail the Condor | :00:13. | :01:14. | |
Rapide from St Malo tomorrow morning ` two weeks after workers walked | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
out. The strike's cost the company at least half a million pounds, and | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
caused disruption to passengers and businesses across the islands. We'll | :01:23. | :01:29. | |
hear from the head of Condor James Fulford shortly but before that Jen | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
Smith reports on a fortnight of industrial action. | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
13 days, more than half a million pounds, and scores of cancelled | :01:37. | :01:44. | |
services later. The strike is over. Condor's French sailors first walked | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
out on February the 6th in a row over workers rights. They wanted to | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
be on French contracts with the benefits those entail. That's not | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
happened, but Condor says they've made compromises. Condor won't | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
reveal specific information about individual contracts. But the Chief | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
Executive has revealed the company has agreed to many of the worker's | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
demands for better benefits` including improved medical | :02:12. | :02:13. | |
insurance, accidental insurance and improved training programmes. Condor | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
also remains open to discussions about re`registering the vessel | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
under a French flag. It's not just condor that's been left out of | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
pocket. The strike has cost some businesses thousands of pounds, and | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
left others stranded in France. Geoff Spencer Tucker told the BBC | :02:30. | :02:37. | |
his ski business has lost out. We had 26 people that were due to go to | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
the Pyrenees for a weekend trip Obviously we could not go. Lots of | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
people were disappointed, myself included. Some were able to read | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
book. Some, unfortunately could not, because of family or work | :02:57. | :03:03. | |
commitments. `` re`book. The Channel Island governments | :03:04. | :03:05. | |
recently renewed Condor's contract to provide ferry services to the | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
islands. There's five years left to run on the existing agreement, and | :03:09. | :03:10. | |
Jersey's Economic Development Minister Senator Alan Maclean admits | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
he can't guarantee such strike action won't happen again. We have | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
to make sure that we are not held hostage the way we have been over | :03:20. | :03:26. | |
this particular situation. Any areas which take that risk away, we need | :03:27. | :03:35. | |
to consider. We will make strong demands of Condor to deliver. | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
Condor hopes the Rapide will sail from St Malo tomorrow morning. But | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
two weeks of disruption won't be easily forgotten. | :03:45. | :03:53. | |
James Fulford is the CEO of Condor Ferries, I spoke to him from our | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
Southampton newsroom a short while ago and asked him for more | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
information on the contracts agreed with the French and what concessions | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
had been made. All of our crews get the same contracts. They are with a | :04:05. | :04:13. | |
Guernsey `based employer and get Guernsey contract. But in the UK you | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
expect certain benefits from the government, like, for example, the | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
National Health Service. In France that does not happen, so we put | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
together and a la carte sort of health benefits to match what our UK | :04:30. | :04:36. | |
crews expect to get. So all contracts are the same? In terms of | :04:37. | :04:44. | |
pay, yes, but we have spotted a gap for our French employees. We have | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
enabled them to have some private medical insurance that British crews | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
would not need, because of the NHS. They are proud guys and would not | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
have done this lightly. And I don't think they will do it again now that | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
we are working much better with them. Did the company get it wrong | :05:03. | :05:10. | |
with the French workers? To some extent we could have done better. | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
Nobody has won the of this. It has been really difficult for the crew, | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
the company, and the Islanders. I would not describe it as you did, | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
but like anything, there are ways of working better, more effect of the. | :05:26. | :05:33. | |
`` effectively. Businesses have lost out as a result. Will your company | :05:34. | :05:41. | |
offer them compensation? I would not go that far. Looking at most | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
insurance policies this is an action which was, if you like, we were | :05:46. | :05:54. | |
notified. `` not notified. It was unforeseen. Looking backwards, there | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
may have been things we could have done better, but that is very | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
different to sing we should be held up for that. That would be an | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
opportunistic approach. Well, the end of one strike there in | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
France, but in Jersey there's been a 70% increase in workplace disputes | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
involving groups of employees according to the island's mediation | :06:15. | :06:16. | |
service. Jersey Advisory and Conciliation Service, known as JACS, | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
saw 250 cases of collective disputes last year. It's putting that down to | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
changes in worker's pay and conditions. Earlier David | :06:24. | :06:25. | |
Witherington from Jacs explained what those changes are. | :06:26. | :06:35. | |
During the worst of the economic Times lots of restructuring for | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
businesses, but London says, different working hours, times, | :06:40. | :06:56. | |
patterns six , et. `` redundancies. It is mostly unions. There are some | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
staff associations, but mostly unions. How do we compare with the | :07:00. | :07:08. | |
UK? It is not dissimilar. Guernsey appears to have a different view. | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
They do not have the major issues we have had. What are the other | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
workplace issues people come to you with? Performance and management. | :07:21. | :07:27. | |
Because people employ less staff they expect more from the staff they | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
have and manage them more closely. That kind of firm management can | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
create problems, people feel it upon and bullied. What does the landscape | :07:36. | :07:43. | |
look like to you for the year ahead? Easier than in the last two years. | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
More people are employing staff we are seeing less redundancies. There | :07:50. | :08:00. | |
are still some reorganisation to go. Introduction of things like | :08:01. | :08:02. | |
discrimination law, paternity benefits, etc, that will be largely | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
different for Jersey. Staying with employment issues, and | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
Army reservists will have to wait until 2015 to get job protection, | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
according to Jersey's social security minister. The island's 70 | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
reservists currently rely on the goodwill of employers to keep them | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
in their jobs while they are serving with the British Army. The unit has | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
previously warned that the lack of protection was undermining | :08:26. | :08:33. | |
recruitment efforts. Guernsey police have this evening | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
released the name of the man whose body was found on Monday lunchtime, | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
75`year`old, Brian Kendrick, identified today. The case is being | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
treated as suspicious and enquiries are ongoing. Because of death is | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
unknown at this stage. # the cause of death. | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
Upsetting pictures now. Hundreds of dead sea birds have been found on | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
Jerseys beaches because of the recent storms. Over 450 have been | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
found in the last two to three weeks. The birds are of various | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
species including Puffins, razorbills, guillemots and local | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
european shacks ` which are already in decline. A survey is being | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
carried out across the Channel Islands to document how many birds | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
have been affected by the severe weather. If any member of the public | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
wants to help, we ask, take a picture so that we get help identify | :09:28. | :09:35. | |
the species. Then dispose of it You can report it, we collect all the | :09:36. | :09:43. | |
records. If you find the bird alive, called the shelter, they will pick | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
it up and look after it. Next, solar panels could be the | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
answer to saving Guernsey thousands of pounds each year. The States are | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
investigating how beneficial they would be and say ` with them | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
becoming more affordable ` they could be installed on to the roofs | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
of States buildings across the island. Penny Elderfield reports. | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
Although it doesn't feel like we've seen much of this recently. Should | :10:07. | :10:14. | |
we be making more of what we get? As technology advances generating power | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
with solar panels is becoming more affordable. So move over seagulls ` | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
the States want to put some on here` in fact enough enough solar panels | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
to provide this building with hot water. We hope it could provide 60% | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
of hot water use in the building throughout the year. We would still | :10:29. | :10:35. | |
need to supply the other 40% through other means. We are looking at that. | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
It is still an expensive technology and must be evaluated carefully | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
It would save around ?1,500 a year on bills here ` paying for itself in | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
less than a decade. Not a huge amount ` but it all adds up. The | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
States are really using Frossard House as a bit of a test, and if the | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
technology works here it could be rolled out at other States | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
properties. But at the same time they're looking at other larger | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
sites to see what scope there is to generate energy there. We are going | :11:04. | :11:10. | |
to look at everything. Not just Holdings, land that we own. We are | :11:11. | :11:21. | |
looking at other quarry sites. There are some in our ownership, we would | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
have to work with the States, but we are actively looking and pulling | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
together business cases. Guernsey may not have the space for | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
a solar farm like this. But if we have enough sun, and enough money to | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
invest initially. This could be an idea that saves money in the long | :11:39. | :11:46. | |
run. The Fire and rescue service will | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
become the first organisation in the island to use a twitter alert system | :11:51. | :12:02. | |
to keep the public updated. It will only be for safety critical | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
information, in addition to conventional ways of alerting the | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
public. This is all about safety critical messages. We will only use | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
it for safety critical messages such as severe flooding warnings, | :12:19. | :12:25. | |
evacuation notices, information that there is a major incident going on | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
and we need to get you specific information. | :12:29. | :12:35. | |
Jersey physio Paul Frankham has been in Sochi working with the USA men's | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
ski team Who took silver and bronze in the men's in the Super Giant | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
Slalom, which Paul says has created a great buzz in the team. We caught | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
up with Paul and asked him what his typical day as the team's physio was | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
like. My working day? It starts very early. Up and at it before the sun | :12:52. | :13:00. | |
comes up. We drive up to the mountains. We get into our training | :13:01. | :13:08. | |
until about 12pm. Come down, that is when I get into my work as a | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
physiotherapist. Management of injuries. Then I usually carry that | :13:13. | :13:19. | |
right the way through, some sport in the middle with the guys, helping | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
out with the conditioning staff then I get into bed and start all | :13:24. | :13:31. | |
over again! Race day will be soon, a slightly different schedule, but | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
looking forward to it. And now the weather. | :13:38. | :13:46. | |
We are at about eight degrees overnight. Not that one. | :13:47. | :13:54. | |
Temperatures not that good form the snowy slopes, we could do with | :13:55. | :14:07. | |
lower. At the moment, it will be breezy. Early rain will clear and be | :14:08. | :14:14. | |
followed by showers. Still unsettled. A slightly different | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
strength of wind compared with last week. This front will move across | :14:20. | :14:26. | |
bringing outbreaks of rain earlier in the day. On Friday, a mixture of | :14:27. | :14:38. | |
sunshine and showers. The rain overnight, bringing low cloud and | :14:39. | :14:57. | |
mist. By mid`morning it is clearing. One or two of the showers could be | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
quite lively. Temperatures possibly reaching 11 Celsius. Brisk wind will | :15:03. | :15:09. | |
mean it feels colder than temperatures suggest. Rain followed | :15:10. | :15:20. | |
by showers, good visibility. The high water times: | :15:21. | :15:31. | |
and for our surface, rather choppy. `` surfers. Friday, slightly colder. | :15:32. | :15:44. | |
Sunshine and showers just about covers it. Before it gets light we | :15:45. | :15:53. | |
could have more persistent rain But gone by the time most of us get up, | :15:54. | :15:55. | |
and a fine day. Thank you very much. That is all for | :15:56. | :16:03. | |
now. Goodbye. early on for City, but the | :16:04. | :16:13. | |
Lancashire side wiped that out. In added time, referee Andy D'Urso | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
awarded Exeter a penalty, but Morecambe protested that David | :16:17. | :16:18. | |
Wheeler dived when he was challenged. After the intervention | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
of the linesman, D'Urso reversed his decision. | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
Now all this week we're finding out about the work of the North Devon | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
Hospice, as it celebrates its 30th anniversary. We've already seen how | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
people are cared for at the hospice itself, but much of its work is | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
carried out in the community. A new "Hospice to Home" service means the | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
care's available 24 hours a day and a team of nurses from the hospice | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
make around 5,000 visits to patients at home each year. Spotlight's North | :16:49. | :16:51. | |
Devon reporter Andrea Ormsby spent the day with one nurse on her | :16:52. | :17:03. | |
travels. The maths is simple, over 800 square | :17:04. | :17:14. | |
miles of North Devon. A lot of time in the car. Between them, the driver | :17:15. | :17:21. | |
and 55,000 miles every year. I am going this morning to see a family | :17:22. | :17:30. | |
whose situation is quite complex. Although they have support it as an | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
opportunity in the alone home to talk about how things are for them. | :17:34. | :17:42. | |
On an average day, she will do around four or five home visits. | :17:43. | :17:49. | |
Each community nurse looks after between 25 and 30 patients and their | :17:50. | :17:59. | |
families. First visit of the day is Martin and his wife and carer Ann.. | :18:00. | :18:12. | |
She will write it down and fight our corner. She is brilliant and I can | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
say that about the hospice in general. They are absolutely | :18:18. | :18:26. | |
brilliant. Although you speak very openly with me I am conscious that | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
is always in front of Ann and you worry about that impact so I think | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
you need the one to one to talk about how you are feeling. Martin | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
has a brain tumour and he found out three years ago it is malignant. As | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
well as home visits he goes to the hospice once a week. How much harder | :18:45. | :18:52. | |
would life be at the moment of the hospice did not exist? It would be | :18:53. | :19:02. | |
difficult. They are the lifeblood. For Ann, the hospice provides a | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
holistic approach, the spiritual and emotional as well. Without it we | :19:08. | :19:14. | |
would be addressed. My husband has very low times and they are always | :19:15. | :19:22. | |
there. I think we are very lucky in North Devon. The visits here are as | :19:23. | :19:30. | |
much for Ann as Martin. If the carer is not OK the patient will not be | :19:31. | :19:37. | |
either so it is a recognition. I am not saying GPs do not but it is much | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
more intangible than that. It is like being enveloped in a big hug. | :19:44. | :19:53. | |
You just feel safe. And while Mary is still inside the hospice in yet | :19:54. | :20:02. | |
another form comes knocking. It is time for Martin's day trip to the | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
hospice building. A volunteer driver will take him and bring him home. | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
North Devon hospice started by caring for people at home in 30 | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
years later it is still where the majority of care takes place with | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
the emphasis for the future of even more careless way. `` clear this | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
way. And tomorrow we'll be finding out | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
more about those volunteer drivers and the support they provide for | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
those who use the hospice. Our reporters are spending this week | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
travelling the Legion from West to East to see the impact of recent | :20:40. | :20:46. | |
storms. Nowhere has escaped the effects of the weather. | :20:47. | :20:53. | |
He is today in south Devon. They three of my journey around the storm | :20:54. | :21:03. | |
hit south`west. It starts with a walk on the sea wall. Father Ron | :21:04. | :21:12. | |
becomes a walk the wild side, a huge crater the length of a football | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
pitch has been gouged out of the village green. Last Friday's mega | :21:16. | :21:33. | |
storm. We are in the spear because no one knows what has happened or | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
what is to be done about it. We need the people in charge to come and | :21:40. | :21:42. | |
have a discussion with the people in the village who have often been here | :21:43. | :21:50. | |
for a upon generation. More evidence here of the power of the sea. You | :21:51. | :21:57. | |
can see the sand and shingle just blown onto the road on both sides. | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
It does not seem much but it gives you an indication of the power of | :22:04. | :22:10. | |
the waves. A holiday resort smack bang on the coast is my next stop. | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
This is nothing funny about what has happened to the amusements. I find | :22:17. | :22:27. | |
this. It is soul destroying. Relentless waves bouncing off the | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
sea wall punched holes in the PR's floor. Rio Grande unusual machines | :22:32. | :22:40. | |
lie ruined. The owner assured us the destruction. They were original and | :22:41. | :22:54. | |
people came here year after year. It doesn't go with the water. We have | :22:55. | :23:01. | |
lost the whole lot. They have seen their fair share of winners and | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
losers over the years but the owner is determined the storms will not | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
defeat it. The scale of the damage is | :23:11. | :23:12. | |
unbelievable. Thank you for all your suggestions for places for John to | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
visit. Please keep them coming in, we can't promise we'll get to all of | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
them but we'll visit as many as we can. John will be on BBC Radio | :23:21. | :23:23. | |
Devon's breakfast programme with Matt Woodley tomorrow morning to | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
reveal where he's going next. The after`effects of the weather are | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
still making headlines but things have calmed down? | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
Sunshine over the weekend and the early part of this week but there's | :23:38. | :23:50. | |
an unsettled beam. `` theme. This with some showers and a bit of | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
sunshine in between. It is very grey and misty and marquee with this line | :23:56. | :24:03. | |
of clouds here across us. It is fairly active sort will bring us | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
more persistent rain for a time but by the middle of the day, showers | :24:09. | :24:17. | |
continuing into Friday. The isobars squeeze a bet is by Friday we see | :24:18. | :24:25. | |
the winds increase. Generally below gale force for all of us. A lot of | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
clouds now and it will be quite a mild night. The low cloud and hill | :24:31. | :24:39. | |
fog and temperatures will not fall too much. Quite wet with outbreaks | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
of light and patchy rain but more persistent rain will move on. We | :24:46. | :24:52. | |
wake up to a wet start with the winds in the South revealing | :24:53. | :25:00. | |
south`westerly. Tomorrow is a mild start but damp and the sunshine will | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
be back out with a scattering of showers. Lengthy spells of sunshine | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
in between the showers and a blustery south`west wind. Top | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
temperature of around about 10 Celsius. Later in the day | :25:18. | :25:26. | |
temperatures will begin to lower. That is the forecast. Times of high | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
water. The waves are no where near as big | :25:32. | :25:48. | |
as they were last week but still on the job they said. `` choppy side. I | :25:49. | :26:00. | |
have to say they are no where near as strong as they were last week. | :26:01. | :26:09. | |
The winds are from the South West. Slowly dropping to a force for | :26:10. | :26:17. | |
later. `` force four. The outlook is still unsettled. We may see some | :26:18. | :26:27. | |
persistent rain moving through the English Channel clearing by the time | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
most of us are up. Generally light winds and on Friday plenty of | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
showers around. Some of them could turn out to be quite heavy. On | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
Sunday the rain returns, how quickly that sets in on Sunday is a little | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
uncertain but probably the afternoon will turn out quite wet for all of | :26:48. | :26:49. | |
us. That's all for tonight. Tomorrow we | :26:50. | :27:00. | |
will see where John Henderson ends up in his two of the Legion. Good | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
night. `` region. | :27:06. | :27:08. |