23/12/2011 BBC Channel Islands News


23/12/2011

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Hello, welcome to bbc Channel Islands news. The headlines: It's

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taken decades but finally plans are laid to improve mental health care

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in Guernsey. Also, soldiering on - Jersey's Territorial Army in need

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of new recruits. And forget your sprouts, carrots and coli - meet

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the Channel Islanders dishing up People who suffer from mental

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health problems in Guernsey could soon have much better facilities.

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After decades of trying, the island's Health & Social Services

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Department has submitted plans for a new multi million pound mental

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health facility. Mike Wilkins reports.

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Most people who suffer from acute mental health problems in Guernsey

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tend to end up here, the Castel Hospital. It's been described by

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health bosses as barely human rights compliant. And after almost

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two decades of failed attempts, plans have now been submitted to

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relocate mental health services to another site. Things could change

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hits soon, the buildings behind me could all be demolished to make way

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for a new �26 million a mental health facility. We will be

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providing individual single rooms, on sweet, improved privacy and

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dignity, easier for staff to work and easier for us to keep clean and

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maintain and heat and light. Much of the previous hospital we have

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emptied in the first phase. The facilities were very outdated.

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So if he gets his way it'll mean mental health services will all be

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located here. But the finish line is still someway off. The project

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still needs planning permission before it'll then go out to tender.

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And finally it'll need final approval from the States at the end

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of next year. Unemployment has again risen to

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record levels in Jersey. Last month 1,530 people were registered as

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seeking work. The number of long term unemployed has nearly doubled

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in the last year. Recruitment agencies say jobs are still

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available but employers are being more choosey about who they employ.

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This year there have been vacancies but companies are taking time to

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choose the right candidate. In the heyday of jeers the if someone

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Picts -- ticked 80% of the boxes, they would get the job but now a

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company will wait until they tick every box, they will not rush into

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taking anybody on. The skills that has to be perfect so it is taking

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longer and the company will step back if they cannot find the right

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person because they are confident somebody will appear soon.

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Plans for a new abattoir in Guernsey have been approved. The

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existing slaughterhouse in St Peter Port will close after planning

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permission was granted for a new facility next to the existing

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cattle carcass incinerator at Longue Hougue. If the States agree

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to the proposal, the new building should be in operation by the end

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of next year. Shopkeepers in the Channel Islands

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say spending has been slower this Christmas than in previous years

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They're blaming the bad weather earlier this month and at the end

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of November but they do expect the trend to change today and tomorrow.

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Town centre bosses in Jersey say islanders tend to leave it to the

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last minute to do their Christmas shopping. They're hoping to claw

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back any lost revenue. I have looked at the figures and

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120,000 people have gone through town already. A quarter of a

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million foot fault for the first time in a long time. It will be

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very strong and late. Jersey is always late, we leave it to the

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last moment. We are great people for waiting.

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More part time soldiers are needed for Jersey's Territorial Army unit.

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Nationally the TA are under strength by twenty thousand men and

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women and a new recruitment campaign will begin in the new year.

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It'll highlight that the training and experience volunteers gain can

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help them in their civilian careers. Emma Chambers has been to meet some

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of Jerseys part time soldiers to find out why they have joined up.

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Loyalty, team work, community spirit, giving something back and

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proving to myself I can do things. I will go away from this and when I

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come back I will hopefully learn a new trade and get paid as well.

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Something to do on the weekends. Gets you out and fitter. And the

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friends you make our friends for life. It is brilliant. Just some of

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the reasons these people have joined the Jersey Field Squadron.

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But as the latest recruits learn the skills of a TA soldier - the

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force want more people to follow in their footsteps. It offers so much

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to an individual in terms of personal development, and physical

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development. In this time of economic climate, it is an

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opportunity to enhance the CV and make them more employable. And as a

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volunteer you can do this alongside your job but you can also learn a

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new trade through it. You name it, you can do it in the TA. You can

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get your driving licence and become a pilot operator, crane operator.

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We do combat engineering and you can get civilian qualifications.

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The drills are not the only skill you'll learn, been part of a team

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is just as valuable. There are plans for an international beach

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polo event in Jersey next year Organisers want to run the event on

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St Brelade's Bay in September. It'll require special permission as

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horse-riding on Jersey's beaches is banned in the day during the summer

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months. Prisoners in Guernsey have been

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getting into the festive spirit. Inmates at Les Nicolles Prison

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attended a Christmas carol service this week. The Salvation Army Band

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performed in the Sports Hall alongside the Choir "Festeva".

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You're watching the BBC in the Channel Islands. Later in Spotlight

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with Natalie and Simon We've got a treat for you - the Military Wives

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join us with another festive offering at the end of the

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Stayed tuned for that and we have the forecasters well. Brussels

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sprouts, roasted parsnips, perhaps a few carrots. The standard

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vegetables you can expect to accompany your Christmas dinner.

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But how about something a little more unusual? Well one family in

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Guernsey have been growing something that meets that

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description as Penny Elderfield found out.

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This may look like a fairly average greenhouse but there is something

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very ought lurking in between the vines. A horticultural experiment

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that happened to work out. Producing this very unusual and

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long vegetable. They are from Sri Lanka and I bought some seeds in

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April and planted them. I did not know if the we grow or not because

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Sri Lanka is a lot hotter than us but they like it here. No one I

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know has ever seen them before. They are very curious. When they

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are tiny like this one, you put it in curry or beef casserole. When

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they get bigger like this one, you can treat them like a marriage,

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dice them and stuff them. It is not the sort of thing you stumble

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across on a store but looking at the size of it, it is easy to see

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why. Looks fab, doesn't it? The local panto season is getting into

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full swing. Hello, chuckles. I am the Lord Chamberlain. It is my job

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to welcome everybody to the kingdom. We are having a party. To celebrate

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the christening of the Princess. Everybody is invited. Fantastic.

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Boxing Day sees the opening of Sleeping Beauty at Jersey's opera

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house, it stars amongst others are BBC radio Jersey presenters Matthew

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Price, Roger Bara and Sarah Palmer. King Arthur has already opened at

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Beau Sejour in Guernsey and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland starts at

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Jersey's art centre in January. But all will have plenty of family fun.

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It is very traditional but we have everything, the fairy-tale

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Christmas -- Princess for the girls and the fighting in Dragon for the

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boys. The jokes for the grown-ups as well. There's a lot of audience

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participation. If they want to sit back and enjoy it they can but

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joined in, there will be suites for everybody and there's always a good

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opportunity for a good his at the party.

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All the fun of Christmas. I will not start my thighs. What is the

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Christmas would be going to be like?

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Hello, the only white thing is the cloud. It is looking relatively

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The weather front is clearing away, there are showers and wind. Still

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relatively cool. By tomorrow, high pressure building in so it settles

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a little bit. A weather front in the North bringing more cloud and

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rain by the end of the day it might. On Christmas Day, generally dry,

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settled with high pressure in charge. Tonight, clear skies around,

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one or two showers, a brisk north- westerly. Temperatures overnight

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down to around six Celsius. First thing some right, some sunshine

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around at first, brighter than the first half of the day, cloud moving

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in tomorrow afternoon. A few showery outbreaks of rain but

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mainly dry. Temperatures up to 10 or 11 Celsius. The wind becomes

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more south-westerly. The wind will become from the south or south-west.

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A few isolated showers but mainly good visibility. The times of high

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Not many clean weeks. For Christmas, some sunshine first thing tomorrow,

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it will cloud over. Christmas Day looks generally cloudy but quite

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mild with the south-westerly. Highs of 11. Boxing Day, still wind but

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the cloud will break up for some sunshine. Have a nice Christmas.

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