:00:09. > :00:13.Good evening. 18 jobs among a hundred ways to save �20 million -
:00:13. > :00:16.the detail of Jersey's spending cuts.
:00:16. > :00:25.Why living costs for pensioners in Guernsey are 40 % higher than the
:00:25. > :00:35.And as the first tree takes root, the race is on to complete a
:00:35. > :00:41.
:00:41. > :00:45.What to spend and where to save - that's at the heart of the 2012
:00:45. > :00:48.business plan which started its passage through Jersey States today.
:00:48. > :00:51.It outlines the government's spending intentions for the year
:00:51. > :01:01.ahead. While it includes investing millions, ministers also want to
:01:01. > :01:07.
:01:07. > :01:13.make over �20 million in savings. Heady spend nearly �700 million of
:01:13. > :01:18.public money? That is what the business plan set out to do. It may
:01:18. > :01:24.sound like a huge sum. It is actually �20 million less than last
:01:25. > :01:28.year, part of a long-term plan to balance the books. The aim is to
:01:28. > :01:35.deliver �65 million savings, which it promised to deliver over three
:01:35. > :01:38.years. We are doing it in a way which also improves the delivery of
:01:38. > :01:40.services to the public. But that means cuts, including losing 18
:01:40. > :01:42.full-time States posts, joint health initiatives with Guernsey,
:01:42. > :01:45.reducing sports grants, and the biggest - �10m worth of corporate
:01:45. > :01:55.savings by rethinking pay and allowances and smarter buying to
:01:55. > :01:59.
:01:59. > :02:04.provide services. Any organisation needs to become
:02:04. > :02:08.more efficient. The States is not different. We need to demonstrate
:02:08. > :02:12.we are efficient, that we are providing services for the least
:02:12. > :02:15.cost. Today in the States, members debated amendments to the plan,
:02:15. > :02:18.trying to save some of the cuts. Nearly all of them failed,
:02:18. > :02:23.including one by Senator Ben Shenton to support the drugs and
:02:23. > :02:27.alcohol service. We have a major drug and alcohol problem on the
:02:27. > :02:32.island, which we do not seem to be addressing. The idea is to get
:02:32. > :02:36.extra money for extra counselling, to save some more lives and get
:02:36. > :02:38.people on the straight and narrow. There is, though, some investment
:02:38. > :02:41.planed. Health gets �4.5 million for things like retaining and
:02:41. > :02:45.recruiting doctors and nurses. And social housing will be improved as
:02:45. > :02:50.will St Martin's School. There's a lot to discuss as the States
:02:50. > :02:53.decides how to spend millions of public money. But people will
:02:53. > :03:03.perhaps find it strange that many of those taking part in the money
:03:03. > :03:05.
:03:05. > :03:09.debate, will be up for election in A new report has shown the cost of
:03:09. > :03:12.living in Guernsey is considerably higher than in the UK. Pensioners
:03:12. > :03:22.and young families are among those struggling to meet the basic cost
:03:22. > :03:23.
:03:23. > :03:27.of living. Emma Thomas reports. Pensioners in Guernsey enjoying a
:03:27. > :03:36.game of bingo. It is a rare treat. Many are struggling to meet the
:03:36. > :03:43.basics. Fruit, meat and clothing. Most of the stuff, the groceries,
:03:43. > :03:46.have gone up. It is hard to manage. We do not get a lot of money.
:03:46. > :03:49.report has revealed pensioners need 40% more to live on than their
:03:49. > :03:57.counterparts in the UK, to meet the basic standard of living for things
:03:57. > :04:03.like food and rent. It's come as no surprise to many. They do not get
:04:03. > :04:10.luxuries. They stick to the basics. They do not treat themselves to
:04:10. > :04:18.some fruit. They have not got the money. Basically, their basic
:04:18. > :04:24.everyday food to live. The heating, -- with the heating, they have to
:04:24. > :04:34.cut back on something. The cost of living study looked at what it is
:04:34. > :04:39.
:04:39. > :04:45.needed to live on, on the island. It means budgets needed by working
:04:45. > :04:48.age households are typically between 20 and 30% higher.
:04:48. > :04:51.wouldn't have expected such a big difference. But that's interesting
:04:51. > :05:01.for us, and it helps us to do further work and come up with
:05:01. > :05:03.
:05:03. > :05:06.benefit levels. We have not made any decisions. It may come as no
:05:06. > :05:08.surprise the island can be an expensive place to live, but now
:05:08. > :05:18.it's official groups like pensioners are hoping politicians
:05:18. > :05:21.
:05:21. > :05:27.Polls open at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning for people in Sark to folk
:05:27. > :05:29.macro in the by-election. -- vote. It's the first by-election since
:05:29. > :05:32.the island's new system of government was introduced in 2008.
:05:32. > :05:35.Four seats are being contested by six candidates - Paul Burgess,
:05:35. > :05:38.Rosanne Byrne, John Donnelly, Hazel Fry, Simon Higgins and Stephen
:05:38. > :05:41.Taylor. Voting takes place at the Island Hall and polls close at six.
:05:41. > :05:44.Tourism bosses in Guernsey say the island experienced a boom in
:05:44. > :05:47.visitors this spring. They say 20,000 more people visited the
:05:47. > :05:52.Baliwick between this January and June, compared with the same period
:05:52. > :05:54.in 2010. The majority came from the United Kingdom.
:05:54. > :05:59.Blue Islands is re-instating its Channel Islands to Bournemouth air
:05:59. > :06:02.link The airline pulled out of the route several years ago. But from
:06:02. > :06:05.the beginning of November, it will start flying from Guernsey and
:06:05. > :06:07.Jersey to the south coast airport once again. Flights will run on
:06:07. > :06:13.Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, after another aircraft was bought
:06:13. > :06:15.by the parent company. A new campaign is being launched
:06:15. > :06:19.over fears that thousands of women in Jersey aren't getting screened
:06:19. > :06:22.for cervical cancer. You might soon see this poster all over the island.
:06:22. > :06:24.The Health Department is worried that 7,000 women aren't having a
:06:24. > :06:34.smear test every three years. They're particularly appealing to
:06:34. > :06:35.
:06:35. > :06:42.those who've never been screened. Cervical screening tests, which
:06:42. > :06:47.most women know as a smear test, detect abnormal changes in the
:06:47. > :06:53.cervix. If they go undetected and untreated, they can become
:06:53. > :06:58.cancerous. We want to encourage women to have this test because if
:06:58. > :07:03.those changes are detected early and treated early, that can prevent
:07:03. > :07:06.cervical cancer. You're watching the BBC in the Channel Islands.
:07:06. > :07:08.Later in Spotlight with Simon and Victoria, meet Ferdinand the
:07:08. > :07:13.footballing robot, recently crowned world champion at the Robo World
:07:13. > :07:17.After a decade of hitches, the Millennium Town Park in Jersey
:07:17. > :07:21.seems to finally be coming to life. The first mature tree was planted
:07:21. > :07:24.at the site in St Helier today, and the whole project is due to be
:07:24. > :07:33.completed next month. Will it make its deadline? Anisha Shah has been
:07:33. > :07:41.finding out. Amongst the rubble, the first sign
:07:41. > :07:45.of life has been injected TV for a car packed side, in a decade. The
:07:45. > :07:48.Millennium Town Park was supposed to celebrate the millennium. Now,
:07:48. > :07:51.more than a decade behind schedule, this Acer Rubrum tree is the first
:07:51. > :07:55.of many to be planted over the coming weeks. It's hoped this will
:07:55. > :07:57.be the root to new foundations at this site as greenery towers above
:07:57. > :08:00.St Helier. The Transport and Technical Services Minister,
:08:00. > :08:04.Constable Mike Jackson, spade in hand, was relieved to see the site
:08:05. > :08:07.finally taking shape. It's been tarred with concerns about budget,
:08:07. > :08:17.planning and parking, but work on the building site began earlier
:08:17. > :08:19.
:08:19. > :08:24.this year. We have developed the park and I am very pleased it is
:08:24. > :08:28.coming on line. There is furious activity. In the next few weeks it
:08:28. > :08:38.will become green. We look forward to seeing that. The Minister hopes
:08:38. > :08:41.
:08:41. > :08:46.the park will be finished by the Now the weather. Good evening. It
:08:46. > :08:53.looks like we have some reasonable weather and the next few days. We
:08:53. > :08:59.may see some showers tonight. Some isolated showers tomorrow. On the
:08:59. > :09:05.whole, a fine day. The reason for the change is the area of low
:09:05. > :09:09.pressure has moved away. This area of high pressure of the north-west
:09:09. > :09:16.coast of Portugal and Spain is moving closer. By lunchtime on
:09:16. > :09:20.Thursday, it is over southern Britain. A week whether from has
:09:20. > :09:28.moved into northern France overnight. It should be clear on
:09:28. > :09:33.Thursday. Overnight tonight, some clear skies. Later, the risk of
:09:33. > :09:39.some showers. They will be widespread by the morning.
:09:39. > :09:45.Temperatures no lower than 12-13. Tomorrow morning, showers in the
:09:45. > :09:55.first half of the day. Most of those will disappear. Some sunshine.
:09:55. > :10:14.
:10:14. > :10:19.Temperatures getting to 17 degrees. Still quite choppy for surface. --
:10:19. > :10:25.surfers. The forecast for Thursday and Friday and into the weekend is