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Good evening. The top stories around our region. Less for your | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
cash if you are in Jersey, as the cost of living rises dramatically. | :00:16. | :00:22. | |
But in Guernsey, prices increase more slowly. Plus, both islands are | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
a step closer to the cricket World Cup, after a successful day at the | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
wicket. Stay tuned to find out why all these people behind me are | :00:32. | :00:42. | |
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training for a whole weekend on the The cost of living in Jersey has | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
risen dramatically according to inflation figures released today. | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
The rise is being blamed on an increase in the rate of GST that | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
came into effect in June. Prices are now increasing at 4.4% - three | :00:55. | :01:01. | |
months ago they were increasing at just 2.9%. Meanwhile, inflation in | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
Guernsey remains lower, rising more slowly in the last three months. | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
Prices increased by 2.6%, that's less than three months ago. Amy | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
Harris has been looking at the figures. Friday lunchtime and the | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
shoppers in Jersey are out in force. But with costs rising, many are | :01:19. | :01:27. | |
feeling the pinch. The live with it but it is a little bit annoying. | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
Considering that the majority of people have frozen wages and | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
everything. Everyone is feeling the pinch. The price of food has shot | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
up. I do my own shopping now rather than my mum doing it, so it does | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
cost more than I thought. figures out today indicate life has | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
got more expensive. Prices in Jersey are now increasing at 4.4% - | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
an increase of 1.5% from three months ago. The increase in GST is | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
the main reason for the rapid rise. More evidence, say critics, that | :01:56. | :02:03. | |
it's hitting islanders hard. affects the basic living costs of | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
many ordinary people. That's what the fight was about. Unfortunately, | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
not enough of my colleagues' support of that, which is sad. | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
Meanwhile inflation in Guernsey is now nearly 2% lower than Jersey and | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
if you take away the effect of GST, underlying inflation is much lower | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
in the Channel Islands than in the UK with Guernsey and Jersey both | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
below the 3.7% rate there. So why? Well, motoring makes up a large | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
proportion of the UK figures and we don't spend as much on motoring | :02:31. | :02:41. | |
here. Clothing and household goods are also rising at a slower rate. | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
Our suppliers at the end of 2010 told us we were likely to expect | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
about a 10 % increase in prices due to roll materials increasing in | :02:51. | :02:58. | |
price. They were going to swallow half of that, so it left us with an | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
increase of four to 5%. The figures coming out don't surprise us really. | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
So a little good news for shoppers, but these figures will make you | :03:06. | :03:12. | |
feel much better if you're spending in Guernsey rather than Jersey. | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
Meanwhile, the price of gas is going up in Guernsey from the | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
beginning of next month. The 7.6% rise follows a similar increase in | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
February, so it means customers will be paying 15% more than at the | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
start of the year. Guernsey Gas says it's necessary because of | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
continued high world energy prices. Work on a new nuclear reactor on | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
the French coast has been delayed by further two years. The plant at | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
Flamanville won't now open until 2016, and it'll cost nearly twice | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
the original estimate. Guernsey and Jersey get nearly all their | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
electricity from France. EDF, who own the plant, say two serious | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
accidents on the construction sites and safety tests carried out after | :03:50. | :03:57. | |
the Fukushima accident are amongst the reasons for the fresh delays. | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
The rate of tax paid by some of the wealthiest people in Jersey will be | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
going down. The States has approved new rules for 11K residents, which | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
will mean they pay 20 % tax on their income up to �625,000 and | :04:08. | :04:15. | |
then 1% on income after that. The government wants to encourage more | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
high-earners to move into the island. People in Guernsey are | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
being warned they need to do their bit to help bring poisonous weeds | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
and plants under control. Noxious weeds like ragwort and spear | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
thistle are in flower and will seed over the next couple of months. If | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
eaten, ragwort can kill humans, horses and livestock. People with | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
land are being asked to stop its spread or States contractors will | :04:40. | :04:48. | |
tackle the problem and send owners the bill. We are really concerned | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
about it appearing in large quantities in fields and on | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
wasteland, because it spreads so much by seed. That's the major | :04:57. | :05:04. | |
problem because it spreads hugely around the island. Guernsey and | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
Jersey cricketers have reached the semi finals of the European | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
Division One Championship that is being played in the islands. It | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
means they are both just one victory away from securing a place | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
at the final qualifying tournament for the cricket Twenty20 World Cup. | :05:16. | :05:22. | |
Ian Kelly has been watching the action. It was a must win game for | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
Jersey and right from the off they never looked in trouble. They | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
limited France to just 98 in their 20 overs and cruised past them with | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
wickets and overs in hand. An unbeaten half century from Ed | :05:35. | :05:43. | |
Farley lead the way. The team has played well all week. We've been | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
playing pretty well over the last two years. It's a lot of hard work | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
and it's nice to see it paying off. We just got to keep working now and | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
keep winning. It's an amazing feeling, the boys have done very | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
well this week. A glitch in the system yesterday but four super | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
games of cricket. We can't wait for tomorrow. Guernsey also had an easy | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
victory over Gibraltar. Chasing a target of 117, Jeremy Frith and | :06:07. | :06:14. | |
Ross Kneller steered Guernsey home with 15 balls to spare. It's great, | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
that was what we set out to do. We take every game as it comes but | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
ultimately we wanted to win this stage, get through to the semis and | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
take it from there. So Guernsey will take on Denmark and Jersey | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
Italy in tomorrow's semi final. Victory will not only earn a place | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
in Sunday's final but also an invite to the final round of | :06:33. | :06:43. | |
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qualifiers for the Twenty20 World A year on from the introduction of | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
a kerbside recycling scheme in St Helier, the first load of material | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
is ready to be shipped off to France. Cardboard, paper, plastic | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
bottles, aluminium and steel cans are being sorted, crushed and | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
bundled onto trailers. They'll be sent to France to be sold as | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
commodities. The success of a pilot area in town means recycling pick- | :07:03. | :07:12. | |
ups will be rolled out. We are rolling out cardboard collection | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
across town. Some more businesses will be invited to separate their | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
recycling, so that we can collect the cardboard so we can send more | :07:21. | :07:31. | |
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for recycling. Beach volleyball is coming this weekend. We see a | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
massive tournament on Jersey's guns side. Those in charge want your | :07:35. | :07:45. | |
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help. Edward has been to find out The sun is out finally, it's got to | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
be, I'm in my shorts. I'm right here at the Gunsite in Jersey, | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
where loads of people are getting ready for this weekend's volleyball | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
tournament. There's a chance that you can get involved, too. Alex, | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
what's going on this weekend? is the first of the three | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
tournaments we hold every summer. It's the heritage oil mixed fours | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
tournament, which means he will have teams of four or more players | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
on court. They will be all abilities. We will have some people | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
who play for the island or regularly, and you will have some | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
people who've never played before. They will be having a great time. | :08:32. | :08:42. | |
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This lot are begging to start, Don't worry if you can't make the | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
tournament this weekend, there was here say you'd be more than welcome | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
to join them on Thursday night at 6pm for training. Just keep fingers | :09:18. | :09:25. | |
64,000 girls, 12,000 volunteers and 16 counties and islands - and this | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
Jersey woman has taken on the task of looking after them all. Solange | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
Rebours is the first woman from Jersey to become the head of Girl- | :09:32. | :09:40. | |
guiding for the whole of the South West. A very proud to be from | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
Jersey and being in this role and from the islands. Some of the | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
things I'll be doing is visiting girls in various units throughout | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
the south-west, listening to what they've got to say and meeting | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
their leaders and finding out what they are enjoying about guiding, | :09:53. | :10:03. | |
The weekend promises some sunshine for the Channel Islands. We may see | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
a few early showers tomorrow morning, most of which will | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
disappear into the afternoon on both Saturday and Sunday afternoon | :10:10. | :10:17. | |
it is dry with sunny spells. It's a bit warmer, too. There's this | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
weather front here which will continue to generate showers | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
through the English Channel coming into the Channel Islands overnight | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
tonight. The remnants of that will be around first thing tomorrow | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
morning but into the afternoon it will clear. Even though there are | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
weather fronts trying to get in from the West on Sunday, they | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
mainly affect the Bay of Biscay and the western side of France. We may | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
see an increase in the cloud amounts but it remains dry and a | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
bit warmer. Tonight, temperatures similar to what we've seen for the | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
past couple of nights. The risk of showers right through until dawn | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
tomorrow morning, as that line of cloud comes in. It will be around | :10:54. | :11:02. | |
tomorrow morning, too, but it will gradually move its way away from us. | :11:02. | :11:12. | |
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Winds from the north-west and It may be that on Sunday we have | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
some morning sunshine. Then into the afternoon it is generally | :11:41. | :11:47. | |
clouded over but remaining dry. Monday, the weather front close by | :11:47. | :11:51. |