24/02/2014 BBC Channel Islands News

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Good evening. A decision on whether to knock down Jersey airport's

arrivals building has been delayed by the planning minister. Airport

bosses say the 1937 terminal is too close to the runway and poses a

safety risk. But Deputy Robert Duhamel wants the Ports of Jersey to

come up with alternatives including moving the runway instead. Jen Smith

reports. Four years after originally asking

to demolish Jersey Airport Arrivals hall, it's still standing. And looks

like it will be for a while longer yet. At a planning meeting this

morning the Minister Deputy Robert Duhamel delayed his decision. Ask

them to come back with a further schedule... Jersey Airport's

arguments have remained the same throughout this. The building's too

high and as such is a safety risk, and if it remains, the civil

aviation authority will be forced to impose flying restrictions that will

severely impact business. But the Minister, who only listed the

building last month, also has to consider the heritage argument, and

so today delayed his decision to explore an alternative to knocking

down the hall. But some officials believe that alternative isn't

realistic. He has asked for a review of the possibility of what the

impact, the financial impact and environmental impact would be, of

shifting the run way by however many metres required so it will take the

1937 building out of the equation in terms of being an obstacle for that

runway. I think it is gained to be obvious, this will not be a

solution. Airport bosses say while they respect the minister's decision

to delay an outcome, it could take months to get the runway plans

together. And they're worried about the impact of moving the runway

closer to the heart of St Peter We already know that if we will move

the runway towards the north, there will be significant impact on St

Peter, not only on the North, but also out on the approaches, a number

of other buildings would have to be destroyed. That significantly

outweighs the removal of this one building. But the decision to delay

spells good news for heritage campaigners. Everyone acknowledges

it is a building of national export `` importance, and they talk about

British national importance. It is the last remaining, I believe,

building of that vintage existing in the whole of the United Kingdom

Jersey Airport hopes to start work on a new arrivals hall that meets

modern safety standards by 2017 But this latest twist could see those

plans struggle to get off the ground on time.

Meanwhile a decision on whether a five`storey, glass`fronted office

complex should be built on Jersey's seafront has also been deferred

Deputy Duhamel refused the original scheme next to the Grand Hotel last

year, but the developer Dandara has since changed the design.

Guernsey's Chief Minister could be asked to step down, after an article

in this month's Private Eye magazine. It focused Deputy Peter

Harwood's involvement in the Channel Island Stock Exchange, whilst he was

also chairman of the Guernsey Financial Services Commission. It's

led to calls for him to resign, even if it's just temporarily. The issue

was discussed by the policy council this afternoon.

The UK chancellor George Osborne says people in Britain who evade

taxes by putting their money in undeclared offshore bank accounts

will be fined double the amount they owe. A new UK government advertising

campaign says they risk prosecution and jail. The Chancellor, George

Osborne, had this warning. It is going to make it very clear to

people but if they evade their taxes, if they hide money offshore,

then we are coming after them. It is not fair for people to do that. It

means that others have to pay higher taxes and ultimately, as a society,

we've all got to make a contribution.

For the first time, people in Guernsey will be able to buy flats

at the States' new Extra Care housing developments. The old Maison

Maritaine and Longue Rue residential homes are both being replaced. Penny

Elderfield met a future resident taking a look round.

Kathleen will be 101 when she moves in here. A big change from the one

bedroom she lives in had her current residential home. This is the

bedroom. Very nice indeed. It is so different to have so much space

around. After living in one small room, and we've got two or three

rooms to walk into. It's all really be quite different. Very pleasant.

Allowing people to live more independently, with the extra help

they need on site, is really the way States care homes are going. So we

have got wider doorways, we have got lower light switches and higher

sockets as well. It has all been designed for wheelchair turning

circles. One of two new developments, this should be

finished by the summer. And for the first time some of these flats will

also be available to buy. We know there is a lot of demand, we have

got 100 plus people already expressing an interest here. Partial

ownership will enable people who own a property to be able to access

these schemes, just like people who want to rent here. But with just ten

flats available for partial ownership across the two sites and

plans for another seven, demand is likely to outstrip supply. This is

only a small number of flats, but we have got to start somewhere. It is

useful to ascertain what the demand is, and if there is a big demand, we

will look to try and do more in the future. But the reality of living

here is just months away for Kathleen and it's something she s

looking forward to. Finally, a quick reminder that all

this week on the BBC we're remembering 100 years since the

start of the First World War. Tomorrow morning on BBC Radio

Guernsey and Radio Jersey we'll hear more stories of the Channel Islands

connections to the conflict and the islanders who served in it. And

we'll have a special report here on BBC Channel Islands News tomorrow

evening at 6.30pm. But that's it from the team here for

now. I'll leave you with the island's weather forecast with Owain

Wyn Evans, and the national weather follows him. Goodnight.

Things are turning fairly unsettled tonight as a band of rain makes its

way from the West, 20 to 30 millimetres of rain potentially and

gale force winds, especially along the coast. Mastery showers tomorrow

behind that band of rain, but hopefully also some sunny spells and

brightness. The band of rain, part of this weather system across the

UK, clearing to the east overnight tonight. Fairly heavy at times.

Southerly winds, changing to a south`westerly by tomorrow morning

but still very strong, so very unsettled, heavy rain and strong

winds. Overnight lows, seven, nay be 80 Celsius. Temperatures above

average. A dry starts tomorrow, then heavy showers make their way across

from the West, strong winds as well and sunny spells across parts of

Jersey and Guernsey. Temperatures a few degrees above average. Wet and

windy over the next two days but it will not be raining all the time,

some brightness as well, especially on Wednesday, in between two areas

of young `` low`pressure. Unsettled on Thursday and Friday.

those heavy downpours, some sunshine.

will be more rain overnight into Thursday.

Good evening. We have a spell of wet and windy weather working across the

British Isles. Today brought many of us some decent spells of sunshine

and it brought us some decent temperatures. In fact, our warmest

day of the year so far. At the moment, though, things have

changed. This is the gap in the satellite picture. Now, this curl of

cloud looks like a snail's shell, it is an area of low pressure that is

sweeping wind and rain across us. It's pushed into the west already

and is now making rapid progress eastwards, moving into eastern

England through the small hours Strong, gusty winds around the Irish

Sea coasts. The weather front will weaken as it gets into eastern

areas. Behind the weather front things are a good deal clearer and

that is the way we will start tomorrow. Our wet and windy weather,

the worst of it is out of the way as we