16/07/2014 BBC Channel Islands News


16/07/2014

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Good evening. Channel, but now on BBC

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Protected areas of Jersey's countryside could be turned

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into housing estates as the demand for affordable housing incrdases.

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States members today debated whether to building

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There are also plans to build on sites in St Helier.

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BBC Jersey's politics reporter Chris Rayner joined me

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Well, the Housing Minister has said over 800 families are

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in urgent need of a home and the States has to build more.

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Over 3,000 homes will be nedded before the end of 2020,

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and most will be provided on States`owned land, like here

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at the former Jersey Collegd for Girls? site, the ambulance station

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But those sites wouldn't provide enough space though, will they?

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No, and much of the debate centred on four privately owned are`s in St

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They are former greenhouse sites and,

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although they look very derdlict, they can't be built on as they are

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Two of the sites are in the parish of St Clement and the const`ble was

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passionate in urging politicians not to support plans to turn thd two

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former glass house sites in the countryside into hundreds of homes.

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I hope members can be in no doubt that many residents are becoming

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more and more distressed about development that is occurring, and

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has occurred in the parish, and even more by some of the totally

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inappropriate styles of devdlopment that has been permitted in some

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cases. Well, they did decide to buhld

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on the larger site in That could provide up to 200 homes

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and was described by planning inspectors as the best site

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for new houses being put forward. But, the other site, Le Quesne's

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Nurseries, won't be built on. They'll continue to debate

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the other two sites tomorrow and then on whether to approve

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the Island Plan as a whole. Just a day

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after Jersey voted to ban sloking in cars carrying children, Guernsey and

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Alderney could be following suit. The ban is just one idea behng

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considered in an attempt to halve the number of smokers in thd island,

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as Mike Wilkins reports. Is it fair to smoke

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in a car carrying children? Well, the States of Guernsex thinks

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it's not and is proposing to ban it, along with a number

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of other measures to discourage smoking such as preventing smoking

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in outside eating areas. More than 10% of people in Guernsey

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and Alderney smoke, causing around The government wants to mord than

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halve the number of smokers There are proposals to incrdase the

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duty year on year on these products. There are also suggestions

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to make it mandatory to What do people

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on the street think should be done I definitely think you should ban

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smoking in cars with childrdn It is difficult to

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say how to stop it. I think these new fake

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cigarettes seem a good idea. When you have got little onds in the

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car, I am definitely against that. But is this an attack

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on smokers? freedom of choice? The woman leading

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the project makes no apologhes. Smoking is still pretty much

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the main cause of premature death I make no apologies for foctsing

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on tobacco control. Duty`free discounts can makd

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tobacco even more affordabld. Yesterday, Jersey politicians voted

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42`4 in favour of banning sloking If that's reflected

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in public opinion in Guernsdy, then this consultation is likely to lead

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to more restrictions on smokers Army officers are

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in Jersey this week upgrading It's hoped a new training cdntre

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will boost local medal chances The British Army digging trdnches

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in Jersey. No, it's not a war,

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but an installation of electricity at Crabbe,

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the island's shooting ranges. When

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the island Games visit next year, We need to engage and work

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alongside civilian counterp`rts This task is working alongshde

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Jersey's electrical cable and boxes, so ideally it has met all

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our requirements. It's good for the community, it

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supports local clubs, good training for the soldiers, excellent PR, and

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will help us with our recruhtment. This is welcome news to loc`l

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marksmen and Commonwealth g`mes He says it is a move that m`ny

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have been waiting a long tile for. We have had an injection

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of cash into this area. We can't train here and we have

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to go to England all the tile. But if we have it here, it will cut

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down the cost of going to England all the time and we will have good

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training facilities in the hsland. The last gold medal Jersey won was

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in shooting It is a sport that

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the island does do well in, and now with an improved training cdntre,

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it is hoped that it?s a golden That is it from me for now. Join us

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again from 6am. Hello, good evening. We havd got

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temperatures on the rise ovdr the next two days. Certainly a hot day

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tomorrow with temperatures tp to 27 degrees, but at the same tile the

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risk of some thunderstorms `re developing. Tonight it is mhsty and

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the low cloud will be around first thing tomorrow morning. Hot and

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sunny into the early evening. If you shop showers developing and the risk

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of thunder and lightning. The mist and fog becoming widespread tonight,

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so a murky start to the day tomorrow, and temperatures starting

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at around 15 degrees. That low cloud will move out of the way, ldaving

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strong sunshine and an eastdrly breeze. Foundry showers devdloping

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to the south`west into the dvening. The showers continue into the

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weekend. Friday will be mainly dry with the small chance of a feud

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showers. Slightly cooler into the weekend, but equally the risk of

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some sharp downpours. Good night. towards Saturday morning. ime to

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hand you over for the national forecast now.

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The heat is set to build and the humidity will be rising, and for the

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reason we need to look

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