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Good evening and welcome to the BBC in the Channel Islands. Here are | :00:09. | :00:14. | |
today's top stories: Failing our children - that is the damning | :00:14. | :00:19. | |
conclusion of an independent report into Guernsey's education system. | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
Plus, a true friend and always there to help others - tributes to | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
a 20-year-old man killed in a motorbike crash. | :00:27. | :00:33. | |
And shipping waste to Jersey and kerbside recycling, Guernsey's new | :00:33. | :00:43. | |
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plans could double the bills for Guernsey's education system has | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
failed. But as the stinging conclusion of an independent review | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
released today. The report was compiled by Denis Mulkerrin, a | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
Guernsey man and former head teacher who was an adviser to the | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
Secretary of State. It followed disappointing GCSE results at the | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
island's states run high schools. Pupils in England are now | :01:08. | :01:14. | |
outperforming Guernsey's students at GCSE level. Earlier, I asked our | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
reporter, Michael Caines, what were the main findings of the report. -- | :01:19. | :01:25. | |
Mike Wilkins. This report is damning of Guernsey's state run | :01:25. | :01:32. | |
education system. Wet cost �70 million a year to educate the -- | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
when it cost �70 million a year to educate the children, the author | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
says it is unacceptable. A lot of this has happened under your watch. | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
Are you taking accountability for what has happened below? We should | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
all take responsibility for the situation, the States as a whole, | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
not just the policy council or education or indeed housing if | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
there are housing issues pertaining to the retention of teachers. We | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
have to look at this Corporal Lee. We have to give all the assistance | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
to education. The report says Guernsey is insufficiently rigorous | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
at inspecting schools and there is a policy of tell people nothing | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
when it comes to sharing school reports with parents. It is being | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
recommended that Guernsey follows England in the way it has a schools | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
and gives more power to teachers to recruit and spend money. There is | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
also a proposal to scrap the island's selective schools system | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
and replace it with a comprehensive style system. | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
Does the report say who is to blame? | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
The report has found a culture of blame where the education | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
department blame the teachers who in turn, blamed the department. The | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
department is described as a major weakness with the director, Derek | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
Neale, rarely visiting schools. He has been moved to another | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
department which has led to many questioning the timing of that a | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
poor month. The political members of the education board are also | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
criticised. They have not had a meeting with the island's head | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
teachers for four years until October. All this put more pressure | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
on the education minister who has already offered her resignation | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
once and she is facing re-election along with other members in a few | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
weeks' time. What happens next? | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
Time is not really a luxury in this case. For example, there are | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
children failing now and not just at secondary school. I have | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
calculated that a third of all 11 year-olds at high schools have a | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
reading age of between 6 and 10 so that suggests the entire system is | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
failing the great. The education department has until June to | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
consider the recommendations and report back. There are some who | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
feel that it could be a lot sooner than expected. | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
Next tonight, and a 20-year-old man has been killed in a motorbike | :03:57. | :04:04. | |
crash in Jersey. Chris four died after motorbike he was travelling | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
on crashed -- Christopher Le Rossignol died. A woman passenger | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
was also injured and remains in hospital this evening. | :04:12. | :04:18. | |
A genuine, happy man, who was always there to help others. A true | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
friend who will be sorely missed. The words of Christopher Le | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
Rossignol's friends and family today as they try to come to terms | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
with the death of a man who was just 20 years old. This morning, | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
flowers at the spot where Chris died. All around it, signs of a | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
police investigation. Today, his friends paid tribute to a young man | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
who was much loved. When you heard of the accident and his death, what | :04:46. | :04:56. | |
went through your mind? That it has got to the rumours. He is too young. | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
That it cannot be true. This is where the accident happened last | :05:01. | :05:07. | |
night on Jersey's north-east coast at St Katharine's breakwater. All | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
round his police chalk which marks where the accident happened. Police | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
and other emergency services were called last night but at this stage | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
they do not believe any other vehicle was involved but they are | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
appealing for witnesses. There will be a thorough examination of the | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
scene, the circumstances leading up to the tragic event and the motor | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
cycle itself. What will your everlasting memory of him be? | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
had something about him which a lot of people do not. Four this is | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
normally a quiet, pretty part of Jersey's East Coast. But Serenity | :05:42. | :05:48. | |
has been shattered and for one family, this beauty spot has turned | :05:48. | :05:56. | |
into a site of grief and heartbreak. -- that Serenity has been shattered. | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
Jersey's new Chief Minister has attended his first major | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
international summit. Senator Ian Gorst and his assistant minister, | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
Philip Bailhache, are in Dublin for a meeting of the British and Irish | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
Council. They joined other leaders including British Deputy Prime | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
Minister Nick Clegg, to discuss ways of tackling youth unemployment | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
and drug issues. The then managing director of | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
Guernsey gas is calling for pipeline to the island. Guernsey | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
currently imports liquid petroleum gas. Paul Garlick says it would | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
help cut gas tariffs and energy costs. It is due to be debated at | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
the end of the month. Shipping waste to Jersey is back on | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
the agenda in Guernsey, following the release of a long awaited plan | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
for dealing with the island's rubbish. The proposals could see | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
extensive kerbside recycling across the island. It would mean the | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
average household paint double what they pay now for waste disposal. -- | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
paying double. It is a tip that is filling up fast. | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
With more rubbish coming here every day, it cannot go on for ever. Now | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
the latest plans are out for the future. A key part of the strategy | :07:12. | :07:18. | |
is to reduce the amount of waste ending up here at Mont Cuet. The | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
aim is for Guernsey to be recycling 70 % of its waste eventually. There | :07:22. | :07:29. | |
are quite a few ideas of how to get there. Kerbside recycling would be | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
introduced including for food waste. But that would mean fewer of these | :07:33. | :07:39. | |
bring banks. The left over rubbish would be shipped over to Jersey or | :07:39. | :07:46. | |
they would purchase a share of the island's incinerator. The there are | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
cost implications. Jersey have indicated they make take our waste | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
so there is a deal to be done and negotiations to be made. But moving | :07:56. | :08:03. | |
away from land fill his at a cost. It was the cheapest option | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
considered. It does mean islanders will have to foot the bill. | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
figures show the average household would be paying an average of �180 | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
a year. It is currently �100 but it is compared against low costs for | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
landfill. We all know that landfill as the most dreadful thing and to | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
move away from that there will be a cost increase. There may be | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
ambitious targets and it could take several years to introduce but | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
ultimately, it will come down to whether the stakes have the bottle | :08:33. | :08:40. | |
to go for a plan which relies so much on the public doing their bit. | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
There is a big weekend of sport ahead with crucial matches for our | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
footballers and rugby players which could dictate the rest of the | :08:48. | :08:56. | |
season. Guernsey FC are away. The Green Lions are at the top of the | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
table and are determined to stay there. Guernsey rugby team are at | :09:00. | :09:06. | |
home to Sidcup tomorrow afternoon. They are looking to close a six- | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
point gap on first placed judges to. And Jersey rugby club could go top | :09:10. | :09:16. | |
of League One if they beat Rosslyn Park at home. Coach Ben Harvey says | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
it will be a close-run match. Rosslyn Park are strong side. They | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
have a dozen players with Premiership experience behind them, | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
having started in the Premiership so they will be a good individual | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
side. They have got better and better as the season has gone on. | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
It will be a titanic battle, I'm sure. I know a lot of players and | :09:38. | :09:44. | |
coaching staff. I'm sure it will be a humdinger of a game. So you can | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
listen to highlight this on BBC Radio Jersey from 2pm tomorrow. | :09:49. | :09:59. | |
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Hello. We have a cold weekend across the Channel Islands. More of | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
a breeze developing means a high wind chill. Having said that, there | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
should be a lot of sunshine to enjoy as well. There is an area of | :10:07. | :10:15. | |
high pressure subtly moving away from us overnight and into tomorrow. | :10:15. | :10:21. | |
A weather front from the West tries to come into the far west of France. | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
It will throw ahead of them some cloud which will make the sunshine | :10:25. | :10:32. | |
hazy on Sunday. We stayed dry. Overnight tonight we will find the | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
temperatures down to three or four degrees. That is a cold night for | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
the Channel Islands so a risk of frost. Tomorrow morning a fine | :10:41. | :10:47. | |
start to the day. Some high-level cloud now and then spoiling the | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
sunshine. A dry day and a fine and cold one. The breeze will be | :10:52. | :11:02. | |
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There will be just enough for a surf. Tomorrow night and into | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
Sunday morning, another cold one. On Sunday, more cloud coming our | :11:31. | :11:39. |