11/09/2014 BBC Channel Islands News

Thank you very much. That is all from Edinbqrgh. There

The difference in price for goods and services in the Channel Islands

compared to the UK is growing, according to a new report.

While petrol and diesel rem`in cheaper at 7p and 12p per lhtre

alcohol is more expensive bx around 50p per pint of beer

Meat is 16% more expensive `nd milk costs around 18p more for a pint.

But the biggest difference hs in the cost of fruit and vegetables

We are advised to eat five ` day for a healthy lifestyle.

But can we afford to, as eating fresh fruit

and veg is more expensive in the Channel Islands than the UK?

To be healthy you have to e`t a lot of food but then on a pension,

Every week I going it seems to go up all the time

Things are more expensive so you have just got to accept it, really.

A price comparison survey rdvealed fruit costs 35 percent more

in Jersey than the UK and vegetables are 44 percent more.

Guernsey prices were slightly cheaper than Jersey

Pauline bought this market stall a couple of weeks ago.

She says Jersey is more expensive because of the extra

In the UK they have got challenges but

In the UK they have got charges but

maybe not as much because the buying power is more so they have got more

accessibility to produce whdre as we have got to get it shipped here

They will put the freight charge on, they will put the oil chargd on

there are a lot of things that we have to consider.

But even locally grown fruit and veg come at a cost.

This farm shop has been in Catherine's family

They sell local produce as luch as they can, but say they c`n buy

We could buy cheaper from away.

There are a lot of large colpanies growing in the island now who will

be exporting at a low cost to give the UK a cheaper cost.

Of course we're also paying an additional five per cent

on all our fresh produce in Jersey ` thanks to GST.

In the survey every fruit and vegetable was cheaper in the UK

` food for thought if you're trying to eat healthy

Jersey's Independent Care Inquiry has heard from a women who says

Social Services didn't do enough to protect her from her abusivd mother.

Miss C, who has asked to remain anonymous,

described how on one occasion she was put on a rack by her mother who

then took a scouring brush to her leg and scrubbed until it bled.

She said social workers would visit her flat, after reports of screaming

and crying from neighbours, but were only interested in her mothdr.

Unemployment in Jersey remahns at a two`year low.

1,510 people were registered as actively looking for work in August.

That's 310 fewer than at this time last year.

Experts looking at where to position Guernsdy's new

sewage outfall pipe have pinpointed a potential location.

It follows an extensive survey of the seabed off the East coast,

Today it was all about what was going on above Belle Greve Bay.

But for the last few months it's been about what's happening below.

With divers surveying the sdabed as part of work to look at where a

We are looking for an optim`l route which makes it easy to lay the pipe

and cover it once we've finhshed. Avoid taking out rock which is very

difficult. We have able to generate 3`D pictures of the sea bed to try

to help us identify routes `nd the deeper we go the better and more

effective the outfall will perform once we get it in place.

Costing around ?19 million the new outfall

But the states decided it is a better one than

And with the survey now complete the work can push ahead.

This is one of the proposed routes that the outfall may be laid along.

It is up to the back contract is to come up with a final decision. We

did not find anything that hs particularly own as far as our

did not find anything that hs particularly onerous as far as our

project is concerned so that is good news.

Guernsey Water's on track for the new pipe to go in next summer.

That is unless something unexpected pops up.

The RAF Red Arrows thrilled the crowds around the

Channel Islands today when they performed in both Guernsey

The aerobatic team is celebrating its fiftieth

And according to organisers, the Channel Islands have a special

In terms of the displays, they have displayed more times in jersey and

the Channel Islands than anx other place in the world. We have a close

relationship and they enjoy coming to the island and when defence cuts

are mentioned and cuts to the red arrows and they have reduced the

displays but they decide whdre to go. Were either number were `` we

are either number one or nulber two. They had decent flying condhtions

today. Can we expect some r`in? The latest forecast. Good evening again.

Thank you for your e`mails, a couple have been asking about when it will

rain. We have had a long drx spell, rain is in short supply and I cannot

see any wet weather through the weekend, possibly a shower likely

next week. Tomorrow it is p`tchy cloud and sunny spells, the best of

the sunshine in the afternoon with temperatures responding up to 1 or

20. Clear skies for the start of the night, a good view of the stars but

towards dawn some cloud credping in from the east and night`timd

temperatures starting at around 14 or 15. Tomorrow, there will be a

band of cloud covering us for the early part of the day moving out and

buy the afternoon the sunshhne is out and feeling pleasant and warm

with temperatures of 18 or 09. A bit cooler on the coast. The forecast

for the weekend is fine and dry Saturday the better of the days come

more cloud on Sunday, and a slight chance of a shower developing on

Monday. At the moment, it is a small risk. From us, good night. @ full

freshening breeze and fine and dry. The national picture is with John

Hammond. This was the scene in south Dakota

earlier, the earliest snow for well over 100 years.

We have had a plunge of cold weather from the Arctic, coming down to the

plains of the US. Brought about about I a kink diving to the south.

Let's follow the jetstream across the Atlantic. It takes on another

kink. It is splitting into two. Stranded between is the island in

the stream here, a