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On Paid parking a step closdr in Guernsey as the government throws

out an official strategy designed to cut the number of cars on the

islands roads. Putting a halt on population `

Jersey's states debate capphng immigration.

The move that could see milk from Jersey cattle in the UK givdn

protected status. Something that's divided opinion at home.

And move over Baywatch ` we're with the lifeguards getting readx to save

lives. Tonight paid parking is a step

closer in Guernsey. Guernsex States rejected the official transport

strategy, during a long day of debate, instead favouring a minority

report aimed at reducing car usage. It means Deputies have supported the

idea of paid parking in St. Peter Port. The idea was that would help

pay for free buses, but now members have also supported moves to charge

people for that service. Thd debate will continue tomorrow, as Penny

Elderfield reports. Free parking ` a little perk of

living in Guernsey. But one you may have to say goodbye to.

At least in long term spaces in Town, because the States today

supported introducing paid parking. The debate will continue tolorrow,

but as it stands it'll cost 60p an hour for long term spaces in St

Peter Port's main car parks. And to park in the short stay areas you'll

have to purchase a parking clock for ?16 each year.

A new CO2 and width tax when a car's first registered is also behng

introduced. All aimed at getting people out

their cars, and on to these... Because that will be one of the new

perks. A free bus service, `nd new initiatives to get people w`lking

and cycling. Deputies agreed that the fear should be fixed at 60p per

journey. If we go back several years, bus ridership was th`t

several million. Now we're looking at ?2 and ?1 bus fares. Any increase

or imposition of the fare on a new strategy is something that does make

any potential new strategy hs very vulnerable. The debate will continue

tomorrow, but with the idea of busters back on the table, whether

the States will agree to thd new strategy now is uncertain.

Jersey politicians have been debating on whether to cap the

amount of people moving to the island for work to curb the growing

population of the island. A policy to limit migration to 325 pdople

this year and next has been put forward whilst a longer plan is

made, but not all States melbers think it's achievable. Emma Chambers

reports. It's no secret we're living longer.

But with an ageing population comes complications. There has to be

enough people working to financially support them.

Over the next 20 years the number of people in Jersey over the age of 65

will nearly double, and those over 85 will nearly triple. In f`ct, the

island would need to have 3000 migrants a year to support ht's

retired population. The long term strategy for immigration is still in

progress, so the Council of Ministers has come up with `

temporary policy to cap immhgration to 325 people for this year and

again in 2015. This policy backs up the new Control

of Housing and Work Law passed last year, which tried to improvd the

immigration system. We have brought through 325. It keeps the working

population at the level which copes with the ageing population. It keeps

the working population at a constant level, so that is why we have

focused on that number. But some States members say they need more

time to see if the law is working before they agree on a policy. We

haven't got the evidence. Wd don't know how the law is working. To

actually come up with a so`called policy on the basis of frankly

nothing, is quite ridiculous. It was a" with only five in it.

Today States members agreed to cap the number of workers coming to

Jersey to give the island cdrtainty for the next two years. Certainty

they believe will help locals gain skills and jobs without stunting the

growth of the islands econoly. An EU scheme designed to protect

food names could see special protected status for Jersey milk,

but not necessarily from cows in the island. At the moment products for

sale labelled as Jersey can be made only partly from the breed's milk.

Now a UK Jersey cattle socidty has applied for Traditional Speciality

Guaranteed status. This would apply to milk from pedigree Jersex cows

even if it does not come from Jersey. Our reporter Sophie Sulehria

has the details. The Jersey Cow ` known for hts

creamy, delicious milk. Its taste is as distinctive as the animal itself.

But there's concern that sole dairy products labelled as "Jersex" may

only contain a fraction of lilk from the breed. Which is why the The UK

Jersey Dairy Association wants the name to be protected. It will mean

that we're ever of the prodtcts come from, they will be identifi`ble as

from Pedigree Jersey cows, `nd so consumers, when they come on

holiday, is very clear evidence from various

projects that have been dond in the UK in the last ten years. The vast

majority of the consumers in the UK, when they read a product as

Channel Islands cream or Jersey butter or Jersey yoghurt or

something like Jersey a scrdam, they genuinely think that product comes

from Jersey, when it doesn't. That is

geographical element involvdd. And you can hear more on thhs,

including an interview with the UK's Food Minister, on BBC Radio Jersey

with Matthew Price tomorrow morning from six.

For the first time, a wreath will be laid on Liberation Day to

commemorate all islanders who assisted slave workers during the

second world war. The tribute will be paid at the

Slave Workers' Memorial in Jersey. The man laying the wreath w`s

himself involved in aiding workers. After weeks of training Jersey's

lifeguards start their patrols at St Ouen's beach on Saturday as the

summer season gets underway. By the end of May the RNLI service will

also include Greve D'Lecq, Plemont and St Brelade's beaches. Jdrsey's

lifeguards, of which 90 per cent are now local, have been put through

their paces to get ready for it Jen Smith went along to find out more.

A classroom in an office block. Not where you'd usually expect to find

lifeguards. This is no Bayw`tch image but the reality of tr`ining a

modern day service. We are `ware of any possibility of a bolt shtuation

or somebody who has been surfing and hit their heads, all possible things

that can happen. What the course does is that it allows the guys to

be ready for any of these eventualities.

These lifeguards are training to deal with a spinal injury, something

they see on the beaches. We are practising the spinal now. Last year

we had a couple of spinal is. It is not as quite a high standard as we

have in Australia, but it is pretty high.

Jersey's qualified lifeguards go through two weeks of training after

they've passed initial fitndss and competency tests. The coursd

includes casualty care training like this, as well as beach scen`rios,

vehicle and equipment drills. Lifeguards cost Jersey and the UK ``

across Jersey and the UK ard very highly skilled. The incidents that

happen each year are fed back into training. All incidents are

evaluated. With more than 350 incidents last

year, 2013 was the busiest for the RNLI since it took over Jersey's

lifeguard service. So even lore reason to be ready for anything

Do you know what a pharologhst is? It's a lighthouse enthusiast ` and

dozens of them paid a visit to Jersey's Corbiere lighthousd today

as part of its 140th anniversary celebrations.

They took the opportunity to have a look around the iconic building

which was decked out for thd occasion with flags. I went last

year, it was absolutely stunning. Sadly the island couldn't l`y on

sunshine for the occasion. Bottleneck Trinity house has its

500th anniversary coming up on the 20th of this month. That has been

going for a it does to. Overnight tonight, the cloud will be stubborn.

, we may see some bricks `` breaks. I think we're on the up in terms of

the forecast. Is a lot more in high`pressure coming up in the next

few days. This weather systdm will throw quite a lot of cloud to

workers. First thing on Sattrday morning. It is a weather system that

drifts of the left side of the country, and by the time we get to

the weekend, high pressure begins to dominate. It will last until bank or

day Monday. The cloud structure that we have at the moment has allowed

plenty of breaks to develop. One to showers left at the moment. For some

of us, just briefly a glimpse at the stars. The cloud will gradu`lly fill

in. There will be low cloud and mist tomorrow morning. Also each of the

northerly wind. Through the afternoon tomorrow, the chance of

the few passing showers. Sole bricks developing in that band of cloud and

temperatures getting up to 03 or 14 Celsius. Onto the forecast for the

coastal waters, the winds are from the North or Northeast. Force to do

three. Mr `` Missy, but are generally good this ability. For our

servers, up to about two or three feet. Slightly choppy with `n

onshore breeze. That is the forecast as we move into the weekend. Look at

the temperatures. Back up to 17 Celsius by Monday. Thank yot very

much. Defined by Cody weekend ahead. That's all for now.

An investigation's underway into a fire at a car showroom in Exeter. 40

firefighters had to deal with the outbreak in the offices at Hendy's

Car Supermarket at Marsh Barton Some roads around the site had to be

closed, disrupting the mornhng rush hour. We're off to Dorset in a

moment to take a look at a rubbish collection. This unique exhhbition,

dating back to the 1920's, was unearthed by badgers! The hdavy

showers will cause problems for many of us today, but it will get better

as we head into the Bank Holiday weekend with the promise of some

sunshine. I will have all the details later in the progralme.

Identical twins Ross and Hugo Turner from Christow in Devon are two

extraordinary young men with an extraordinary ambition ` to conquer

the extremes of the Arctic for charity. The duo are trekking 3 0

miles across the wild and ddsolate wastes of the polar ice cap in

Greenland and have now taken their first steps on the glacier.

Spotlight's John Ayres has the latest. We have all moaned `bout the

weather, but how about this? Hugo and Ross Turner have started their

track in the Arctic. There hs some wind chill. They are doing this

because seven years ago, Hugo fractured his neck in an accident,

he was close to becoming paralysed. He had six months of surgerx and

wants to something back. For the 50,000 people in the UK who are

affected by paralysis, the fact that I broke my neck and was one

millimetre from being paralxsed the fact that I have not had thd best

couple of days, my back has been in pain, I am here, and so manx people

in the UK cannot be up here. They are checking 340 miles in

Greenland. Ross is wearing gear worn by polar explorers 100 years ago.

Research is monitoring the differences this makes betwden their

bodies. When I stopped, I c`n feel the wind, but all I have is a thin

jumper. My shoes, I have got three socks, I need to know how they

perform in this environment. I have tripled up to make sure I do not get

frostbite. A pair of trousers, gloves and a hat and a balaclava. I

am very comfortable. They are the year in guided by a world

record`holder in Greenland. `` they are being guided. The weathdr is not

great. We are warm, we are fed and watered, we are happy team. We will

try and get a couple more hours done. Come on, boys! All gohng well,

walk should take 22 days. It does not look at that Warner! Thdy were

being brave! An exhibition of rubbish has opened in Dorset. But it

isn't any old rubbish, the collection of bottles and j`rs at

Beaminster Museum date back to the 1920s and 30s. They reveal that

even in a small rural town `lmost one hundred years ago, people were

shopping for big international labels. As Simon reports, the

discovery was unearthed, quhte literally, by badgers. Long before

binmen, waste was something you dealt with at home, leftovers were

fed to animals and everything else was mended and used again. Then

times changed. When people started buying stuff from further afield and

bottles were not being recycled the rubbish started accumulating. You

needed somewhere to put it `nd you put it here? They put it here. What

they found was something like an old fold rubbish, isn't it? Look closely

and you find brand upon brand here. The outline of Heinz is

unmistakable. We are used to places being self`sufficient, making their

own staff and suddenly, what we see from the beginning of the 20th

century, the appearance of puite a lot of well`known national brands ``

stuff. We have cold drinks, hot drinks. But the continuing dxpansion

of brands, it is tempting to think that they are modern creation, born

out of our desire for washing machine and in the 1950s and package

holidays in this 1970s, but consumer society goes back further than that.

All of the big global brand started as local brands, people use them

every day, they could shop on their doorstep and then transport networks

got better, brands became more accessible. Now we have global

brands. You're still finding bits of debris. The badgers are growing in

number, they are making new entrances and they are alwaxs

expanding their living spacd and producing new stuff. If you spot a

man collecting broken glass, he may be engaged in important historical

research. Celebrations have been taking place across the South West

today to mark the coming of summer. One of the region's best known

events, Obby Oss, has been taking place in Padstow, we'll havd plenty

pictures from there later in programme. But first, at Motnt

Edgcumbe in Cornwall they'vd been building a four metre high 'Green

Man'. Spotlight's Alison Johns has been to find out more about it all.

More than 150 trees were brought down by the devastating winter

storms on this estate in sotth`east Cornwall. They decided to cdlebrate

the birth of spring by recycling some of that storm damaged wood to

create the Green man. We lost quite a few trees and this was thd fell

from last year. We are using Spruce, laurel, Scotch pine and somd

beautiful landscape trees. Gardeners have been joined by voluntedrs and

local artists on the project. He has done amazing things with slhghtly

Elizabethan `based things. He is wild as well. We have tried to make

him pretty wild looking, because that is what he is. A wild force of

nature. The giant figure is already attracting attention and will be the

centrepiece of a May fair ndxt week with Falk and re`, food and music.

The staff and volunteers hope that this ancient symbol of spring will

prove popular and the Green Man celebration will become an `nnual

event `` falconery. Thanks for all your comments on our main story

today, that's the under reporting of crime in Devon and Cornwall, by as

much as twenty percent. The policing regulator claims the under`reporting

was sometimes in an attempt to meet performance targets. Among those of

you who have been in touch hs Yvonne. She says it's no

surprise... All to make the Police and Crime Commissioner look as

though he's doing his job! : E`mailed to say that crime figures

were reported as falling, now we know why. On Facebook, Dobr`,

though, says everybody makes mistakes, plus the reduced police

funding does put a pressure on performance. Thanks for your

comments, do keep them coming. The weather to come and as promhsed

pictures of Obby Oss in Padstow but first of all, we will take xou back

to Monday's programme. "In Londay's programme we described an

interviewee as the last survivor of the Exercise Tiger tragedy off South

Devon. In fact, the gentlem`n concerned is the last surviving

member of his unit." We want to make that clear. Sorry about that. It is

time for the weather. It has not been very like stmmer.

There is some good news. It has been very wet today, but most of the

showers have gone. The storx is one of dry weather as we head into the

Bank Holiday weekend. Yesterday has been miserable, but there is some

good news. It is misty to start but there will be showers, most likely

in parts of Cornwall and it will be brighter for a time. A lot of cloud

around tomorrow. We have high pressure coming our way, it is

taking its time to get to us, but it is established as its stealth from

late Saturday onwards, therd are weather systems, they will bring

more cloud over the next 24 hours, this is the culprit. That is moving

away towards the continent. We have a couple of weather systems, hence

the risk of showers, but after that, the high pressure starts to

settle in, this system may bring some drizzle across us on S`turday,

but it disappears through the morning and into the afternoon. That

high pressure settled in for the rest of the weekend, Sunday as well

as Bank Holiday Monday. Look at the satellite picture, that shows where

the showers have been through the day`to`day, we are moving into a

spell of dry weather, more showers leaving Ireland which will love

across us later in the night. This was earlier, we had dry weather

here. We managed to avoid the rain. A little bit damp underfoot and the

rain has been affecting not just this part of Devon, but also down

into Cornwall. This is near Truro. Here, people are getting about and

enjoying views of the ducks and the animals, but it has been prdtty

miserable, the rain has been intense. Not just here in Cornwall,

but right across the South West of England. It is dry now, and will be

dry across other parts of the country. It will be misty bx morning

and overnight temperatures will get down to as low as nine degrdes.

Upgrades start tomorrow, not much chance of brightness, but stnny

spells will develop `` a grdat start. `` a grey start. 14 or 1

degrees if the sunshine comds out. For the Isles of Scilly, brhght but

a little bit cloudy and somd drizzle in the afternoon. Light winds

tomorrow. Times of high watdr.. The coastal waters forecast is not very

strong, the winds. The outlook, is for some sunshine, eventually. Have

a good evening. That is it from us. Thank you for joining us. As

promised, we will leave you with some of the celebrations in Padstow

today for Obby Oss. From all of us here, good night.

'The last two generations have been robbed of an opportunity

'And yet it has greater impact on our everyday lives than anything

'We need to put this issue to bed now,

'and not leave it for another generation.'

I want a Britain that is free to control its own destiny.

'another three million people in Britain by 2020.

'Our public services are already stretched.

'The pressure on schools, housing, hospitals in huge.'

While we stay in the EU, we cannot control who comes into our county.