28/02/2017 Channel Islands News


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Guernsey greenhouse gas emissions are down BUT it's not all good news.

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Good evening and welcome to the late news from BBC Channel Islands -

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Also tonight... Private nurseries in Jersey say

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they need guaranteed States funding if they're to survive.

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I think it's the lack of communication and what's going on,

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it could impact people severely, taking away that funding is going to

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have a massive impact and I'm not sure they've talked about those

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wider implications. New figures show Guernsey's

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cut its greenhouse gas But despite the report

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showing an encouraging reduction in emission levels,

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there's no time to be complacent, Guernsey will soon be exporting

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its non-recyclable waste to Sweden. But the island's landfill sites

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are still causing problems. The emissions from this rubbish

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contribute to the totals. The three worst emissions offenders

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are waste, accounting for 29%. Transport, contributing

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more than 26%. And energy power generation -

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pumping out 15%. Transport's one area

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the public can help. In the UK, there are financial

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incentives to switch to electric cars, and the British government

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is also considering a scrappage But there are no signs of that

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from Guernsey's government. As you probably know,

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in the UK, a lot of taxes, there are charges relating to higher

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emission vehicles and a big incentive for the manufacturers

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and consumers to go for lower emitting vehicles and we benefit

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from that by virtue of sharing a similar market, even though

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we do not have the incentives they have in the UK,

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there are reasons to own and drive Guernsey agreed to an 80% reduction

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in emissions from 1990 to 2050. It's so far managed just over 29%,

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and unless the island makes significant changes to its energy

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use, then demand will continue Two teachers from Jersey's De La

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Salle College are in a critical condition after being knocked down

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by a car. It happened while they were in

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France on a ski trip last week. They were hit by a speeding

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driver who left the scene De La Salle's assistant headteacher

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says he doesn't expect the pair will be back in Jersey before

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the summer term. An inquest in Jersey has found that

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a teenage motorcyclist from St Helier died from multiple

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injuries after hitting a car. Nineteen-year-old Nathan Vibert

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was riding his motorbike along La Route de la Houge Bie in January

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2016 when he approached a stationary bus and lost control,

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colliding with a car coming Private nurseries in Jersey

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are worried they won't survive without guaranteed

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funding in future. Although money's been secured

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for nurseries until next year, there's been no agreement about how

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they'll be funded after that. Nursery days may be carefree play

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days, but there's confusion over nursery education funding in Jersey

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that's making staff and parents unhappy,

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who want to be able to plan ahead. It could impact people severely

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in getting people back to work and taking away funding

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will have a massive impact and I'm not sure they have thought

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of the wider implications. That the private nurseries had

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funding was really good because all children had

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the opportunity to go A nurseries lobby group says

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the Education Department is making We're extremely frustrated,

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because we've been in contact with them, we've been in meetings

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with them and they gave us assurances that

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they would inform us. They actually cancelled two meetings

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we had arranged with them on the basis they had no

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new information to give us and they would definitely contact us

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as soon as the money had been found. The Education Minister wasn't

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available for interview today but speaking earlier,

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his chief education officer explained that the update

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on finances wasn't passed on because they didn't have time

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to talk before a States There's no decision on how much

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funding private and States-run nurseries will get after next year,

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so talks with the Education Department will have to continue

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until an agreement's reached. Calls for supermarkets to introduce

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specialist trollies will benefit children with autism

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and disabilities in both It follows a successful petition

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in the UK which saw over 600 supermarkets bring

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in these purpose built trollies for bigger children

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with specialist needs. Now the Channel Islands Co-Op has

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listened to a local campaign and ordered eight similar trollies

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for their larger stores We are always keen to look

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at improvements that enhance We want to be inclusive and have

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as many members shopping with us. When we heard about it we did

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research and found the trolleys, they are ordered and we have

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contacted the people concerned to let them know

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they are on the way. Jersey could follow England

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in banning letting agents from charging tenant fees in a bid

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to reduce housing costs. The island's housing

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minister Deputy Anne Pryke, said she's concerned that some fees

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may not be reasonable, such as charging both landlords

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and tenants for the same services. The minister wants people

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to share their views The number of Jersey primary schools

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getting extra literacy support has doubled after the success

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of a community scheme. Every Child Our Future is a charity

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that funds one-to-one help Launched last September,

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it's not only grown in interest from volunteers but has also boosted

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reading levels as Emma They say practice makes perfect,

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and it seems to be proving right For the last six months,

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volunteers have been giving up their time to sit and listen

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to stories read by pupils. It started in four schools but now

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it's been rolled out to four To read with more confidence

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and more fluidity, to talk to them about their books

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and their comprehension of the text, and those things are really,

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really important, and we do it in school, but where we got

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additional resources, complementory resources to do that,

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as well - that is really important, that makes a difference.

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The scheme has been able to expand because of the interest its gained

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from those wanting to help. There are now 270 volunteers

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supporting these children. I never got that opportunity so it's

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nice to see them be able to have that extra chance to be able

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to read and write and interact It's really just giving something

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back to the community and helping They're potentially struggling

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with their reading because English It's hoped all primary schools

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in the island will be able to benefit from this partnership

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with the Every Child Especially as Jersey literacy levels

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for primary-age pupils lags But the chief education officer

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doesn't want to push it too soon. We want to go at the speed

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where we can recruit and train enough volunteers,

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because it's very important when children make a relationship

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with a volunteer that continues So we don't want to spread our

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volunteers too thinly. So it seems the literacy levels

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of Jersey's children will continue to increase as long

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as there are enough reading A survey sent to Jersey homes asking

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for views on the postal service has a bit of an embarrassing mistake

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on it: there isn't enough Jersey Post, who commissioned

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the survey, blames the error They say they're making sure

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it won't happen again and in the meantime ask people

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to just write the last letter of their post code

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next to the fifth box. David Braine has your all

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important weather forecast. thank you. Hello, good evening. It's

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been an eventful. We've had the problems along the coastlines with

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the high tides. Tomorrow we are not out of the woods yet. There was rain

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in the forecast, two summit is welcome rain. Read or later, turning

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increasingly windy later, we may end up with gale force winds again

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tomorrow evening. A lot happening, lots of cloud on the satellite. The

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showers tend to fade away overnight, but we gain another system, an area

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of low pressure that develops and of us on Wednesday. Once the rain goes

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through, we've got these westerly winds that end up being quite

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strong. The good news is, Thursday now looks predominantly dry. We

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should get some sunshine. Overnight tonight, we've got some clear sky

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that was across us from earlier in the afternoon. That will continue

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through the night. It is mainly dry overnight. Quite lustily with

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westerly winds. Just an isolated shower with night-time temperatures

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of 6 degrees. Quite a bit of cloud developing overnight, it will

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produce outbreaks of rain quite quickly in the morning. We end up

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with half the day being rather wet. The rain bank clearing after

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lunchtime. What replaces it is a very westerly westerly wind, briefly

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some sunshine, temperatures at 10 Celsius. Some warmth for southern

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parts of Spain and Portugal, double figures across parts. For us,

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finding on Thursday, not as good on Friday. It night.

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The combination of high winds and tides is expected to bring

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water and debris over sea walls tomorrow morning.

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Listen out for for regular travel news updates on BBC Radio Guernsey

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Good evening. We are about to head into March, the days are getting

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longer, but are they getting any warmer? Not really. We will get

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there in the end, but we will have to be patient, not very springlike

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at the moment. Some showers scattered around across England and

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Wales will tend to diminish in number,

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