21/12/2011 BBC Channel Islands News

Good evening and welcome to the programme.

A call for Guernsey's private sector to do more to help the long

term unemployed. Plus a little less festive spirit

than usual - hospitality feels the economic pressure.

Beautiful views and hidden secrets - the walk that takes you around 12

Guernsey's private sector needs to do more to help the island's long-

term end employed according to the charity, Action for children.

Figures out today show 15-19 year olds at make up 16% of the total of

people out of work. Brushing up their CVs, job-hunting

and keen to make a fresh start. Some of these young people have

been unemployed for a years, living in sheltered accommodation. These

three have completed a course to alarm them with the skills to get a

job. Guernsey may be a small place but it is quite hard to find a job

here. The Caribbean helps you to get on that road of thinking, I

will search for a job. I find it hard for me in my condition because

I had a liver transplant when I was seven years old. I find it hard to

get a job. I have done lots of work experiences. A it is not that good

on benefits because you don't get as much as when you are earning.

Trying to find a job is hard. have completed a course where they

have obtained qualifications in food hygiene, fire safety and first

aid. The man who runs the scheme would like to see more jobs offer

from the private sector and not just manual work. We have people

who could be successful in lots of different lines of work. They just

need to be given the opportunity and the support and to understand

that they may not fly into it and be brilliant immediately. With the

support of ourselves, we can move them on so they can be an asset.

At 2011 comes to a close come here are three young people determined

to have a prosperous new year. Police investigating the sexual

assault on a young woman in Jersey have released CCTV images of

witnesses they would like to talk to. They want to speak to the man

on screen now he was seen talking to the victim in the -- in La Motte

Street. They would also like to talk to these potential witnesses

who were in the area at the same time. Be assault happened in the

early hours of Sunday morning. Jersey police are looking for

witnesses to a number of fights in a St Helier bar. Several rows broke

out at around 10 o'clock on Friday night. Several people were arrested.

Officers want to hear from anyone involved or who saw what happened.

It should be the busiest time of year for Channel Island restaurants

and bars. Many rely on piggy -- bigger takings in December to see

them through the quieter periods. As the recession bites, fewer

customers are willing to splash their cash on Christmas parties.

Should our politicians be doing more to safeguard the hospitality

industry? Clare Burton has been to see businesses booming and

struggling. Lunchtime in the Quayside Bar and

there is Christmas parties for office workers, groups of friends

and families. Getting in the festive spirit and treating

themselves. Christmas is something that we try and hang on to as much

as we can. That is the attitude places like this rely on to keep

the tills ringing. There are times when people are feeling low and

want to celebrate and forget the doom and gloom that is being

reported. We have seen here that there are a lot of office parties

and they have enjoyed themselves and haven't held back on the wind.

Quayside is a new venue but a few hundred yards away, it is a

different story as one of the island's old establishment. The

Pier used to be a specially busy with Christmas parties but not any

more. Looking back at my record 10 years ago, we were fought from

November right up to Christmas Eve. We have to diversify. Hospitality

is a big employer in Jersey and it has been mentioned that there is an

alternative for those in online shopping businesses facing

redundancy when the VAT change comes in. If many businesses are

struggling, those jobs won't be there and that is something that

worries one of our newest states members. Every pound given to the

tourist economy by the taxpayer is not a pound spent, it is a pound

invested. Those that can afford it, they enjoy a festive splurge and

politicians have a tricky recipe to mull over as they tuck into their

Christmas dinners. You one thing Jersey's Government

is spending money on is television advertising.

This is the new advert promoting Jersey and it is paying an extra

�70,000 for a campaign on UK television between Christmas and

New Year. They see the adverts will highlight the island when people

are starting to think about their holidays. Television is working. We

are building on the success of last year's television campaign. The

extra money we are investing will bring the campaign forward so we

can get the advantage of the post- Christmas period. We get better

coverage and value-added is when people are considering next

summer's booking. Meanwhile Visit Guernsey sent out

the pressures in November. It says it is the earliest destination to

do this and will encourage bookings. It is planning articles in the

trade press in January. Whilst a trip to the North Pole may

be more in keeping with the season, a Guernsey man has made it to the

South Pole, breaking a world record in the process. Jason toccata

smashed the record for the fastest over lined -- overland journey to

the landmark. He beat the current record by night -- 29 hours.

Back home and how much do you know about Jersey's chases. Robin

Pittman has written a new Paul Gadd getting you working -- walking from

one church to another. Robyn took Edward Sault on a tour of two of

Walking into the grounds of St Ouen churches. It is one of Robin's

cherishes. It is his favourite. What I like about St Ouen is the

fact that you can hear the surf breaking and you have wonderful

views over St one -- St macro's Bay. This church forms part of the 4th

church that Robin has written about. I have interviewed all 12 rectors.

They talk about their beliefs, what their definition of God is, how

they pray and their approach to some of the problems that the

Church of England faces each day. It probably will be my last in this

series. I can't think of any more journeys in Jersey that I could do.

If our journey continued on to his next favourite church. This really

is my favourite. It is the earliest medieval architecture in Jersey and

it has lots of delight for things in it. This font is worth

mentioning. It is made of two pieces of Jersey granite and it was

chucked out at the time of the Reformation. In 1845, some

picnickers on the slopes nearby a found it. Here it is in the church

again. In retirement it has been enormous fun. I don't make a huge

amount of money out of its. That is not the object. I enjoy doing it.

It may be the last blocking the series but for Robin, it is the

journey that has been so rewarding. Is it going to be walking weather?

Good evening. As we move towards the festive season, there is not

much changed. We have slightly colder air on Friday. Birthdays

look reasonably present with temperatures in double figures. --

both days. There is a lot of cloud cover and we remain mild. By

lunchtime tomorrow, hardly any change. This line of cloud and rain

will come in on Friday and it will introduce wet weather. That will

move through late in the day and behind it, some cold air. Some

possibilities of some single figures on Friday night into

Saturday morning. We have some light rain and drizzle here and

there. Westerly winds and ten Celsius is the temperature.

Tomorrow morning, we have a dull start. 13 Celsius is the highest

temperature. It for our coastal Let us have a look at the outlook.

Friday is the day when we will see some more persistent rain. A little

bit cold on Friday night. Saturday and Sunday, quiet, perhaps some