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Hello, Good evening. Welcome to bbc Channel Islands. Overcrowded and | :00:11. | :00:16. | |
cramped, I Jersey's housing rules forcing people into dangerous | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
living conditions? His red tape stifling small business as Sunday | :00:21. | :00:28. | |
trading is not taking off. And Hollywood is coming to Guernsey. A | :00:28. | :00:38. | |
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major film showcasing the island, 4,000 people are living in homes | :00:41. | :00:49. | |
classed as overcrowded. Most of them in non-qualified accommodation. | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
That's the finding of the 2011 census. It's surprised the islands | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
housing minister but he says there won't be a quick fix. Edward Sault | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
reports. Cramped, over-crowded and a danger to health, One in six | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
unqualified households are classified as overcrowded according | :01:01. | :01:11. | |
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to the Census figures. That's shocked the housing minister. | :01:13. | :01:20. | |
something I think will help pass to look at issues. We promised to look | :01:20. | :01:26. | |
at population. And housing and the community so this is really useful | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
information but it is not a quick fix. I do not want people to think | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
I'll fix it Maurer. I cannot. Antonio Collina works with | :01:35. | :01:44. | |
Portuguese immigrants in the island. She says this is nothing new. | :01:44. | :01:50. | |
government tried not very hard but they should have a better look how | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
is, how people live. We wanted to talk to people who live in | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
overcrowded accommodation but she says islanders are too scared to | :01:57. | :02:07. | |
speak out. About two or three years ago was the same sort of interview. | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
They went to people's houses, they asked permission and there was a | :02:11. | :02:18. | |
photograph in the paper, the paper was out at 3 o'clock and by 5 | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
o'clock the owner of the flat was told to leave the following day. | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
The figures reveal a quarter of all homes have at least two bedrooms | :02:27. | :02:37. | |
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more than needed and 7% of homes were unoccupied. Housing say they | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
will look at the situation but this census brings in sharp focus the | :02:41. | :02:48. | |
gap between Jersey's haves and the A 24-year-old woman has been | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
sentenced to five and a half years in prison for trying to bring | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
heroin into Guernsey. Carianne McHale was caught smuggling 28 | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
grams of heroin with a value of around sixteen thousand pounds. The | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
judge commented that under current guidelines she could have been | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
sentenced for up to ten years, and that the island is not a soft touch. | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
A 20-year-old man who was killed in a motorbike crash in Jersey died | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
from chest and abdomen injuries an inquest has heard. Christopher | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
James Le Rossignol's motorcycle crashed near St Catherine's | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
breakwater in the early hours of last Friday. His body was released | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
for cremation. The campaign group 'Surfers Against | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
Sewage' says it won't give up fighting for full sewage treatment | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
in Guernsey. Campaigners were on the beach at Pembroke this | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
afternoon. And this is how they tried to grab people's attention - | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
a nine foot high "sewer surfer". It follows the release of a States | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
report saying a full treatment plant isn't necessary. And the | :03:44. | :03:52. | |
campaign doesn't end here. Next week, before the debate whether to | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
have sewage treatment we will be at the ports in the UK challenging | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
visitors to Guernsey asking if they are aware 16,000 tonnes of raw | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
sewage will be discharged today, tomorrow and the next day and every | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
day in the future. Given their information, or would they be happy | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
to use the beaches, to go into the sea. It is common in these issues | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
when the government puts out something on factual evidence that | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
people come forward and say it is different. I think they are wrong | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
in the way they're approaching this and a good PR is I'll walk it -- of | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
bathing waters are extremely good. There still aren't many more shops | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
opening on a Sunday in Jersey - six months after new laws were passed | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
to supposedly make it easier. Shopkeepers say they want to take | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
advantage of the extra trade - but the licensing process is putting | :04:42. | :04:50. | |
some them off. Beckie Williams reports. What else do we need? | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
Rayson's owned this off license for the last seven years. On special | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
occasions he likes to open on a Sunday to make some extra money. | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
But he now says the cost and time of applying for a permit means it's | :05:00. | :05:10. | |
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not worth the hassle. The licence has gone up, from �15 to �50 and we | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
have to get somebody in it to get the shop measured and have plans | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
drawn, that will cost a lot of money. For us, it is not worth it. | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
Shops must be under 700 square metres to open on a Sunday - so no | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
bigger than a football pitch. It means stores like these have to | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
stay shut allowing smaller ones to corner the market. But few have | :05:29. | :05:38. | |
taken advantage. It seems tough that those businesses who have | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
traditionally opened on a Sunday anyway are being asked to employ | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
the services of a so there to provide plans to prove they are | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
within 700 square metres. In actual fact it is quite easy to see that. | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
And those concerns are felt by shopkeepers like Ian. He thinks the | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
new rules need to be simplified to encourage more small businesses to | :05:56. | :06:06. | |
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make the most of an extra day's trading. It is working. It is an | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
improvement, we will not see a great increase in a Sunday trading | :06:11. | :06:18. | |
but there are improvements around red tape. With retail sales down 5% | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
last year, traders can't afford to lose out on potential weekend | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
customers. But six months after a new law was supposed to help them | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
do so, many say it's harder than ever. | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
A major study into levels of radon throughout the Channel islands has | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
begun. Home-testing kits have been issued to a random sample of | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
households. The naturally emitted radioactive gas is usually found in | :06:39. | :06:48. | |
areas that contain granite and can be harmful. Radon is implicated in | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
cancer but we have to remember it's been with us than millions of years | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
and accumulates in some houses, every house is different. What we | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
want is the evidence to tell businesses and households whether | :07:02. | :07:10. | |
they need to do tests will not. major movie that'd put Guernsey | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
firmly on the Hollywood map starts filming in the island this April. | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
The producers of the big screen version of the hit novel "The | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" have confirmed they | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
plan to shoot some of it in Guernsey. Although how long they | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
spend there depends on how much financial help the States is | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
willing to offer. Penny Elderfield has this report. | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
It may be set in Guernsey, but this book has caught the attention of | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
the world. And a book that could soon be turned into a Hollywood | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
blockbuster. And having visited Guernsey to see what it offers - | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
the producers are determined to shoot some of it here. We will do | :07:44. | :07:50. | |
the majority of the picture in London but we wanted to do ideally | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
five weeks on Guernsey which would be three weeks and then back to | :07:53. | :08:01. | |
London. We want the beautiful flowers and the need may look. | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
before the film crews can set up on location the finances need to be | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
sorted out. Including what Guernsey States can offer. We have committed | :08:09. | :08:17. | |
to shooting on Guernsey. We will be there. How long depends upon how | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
much help we can get from Guernsey. But there's a limit to what the | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
States can give. And Commerce and Employment says it won't be | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
offering direct funding. But it will negotiate to try and bring | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
down the costs of things like transport and hotels. Ultimately | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
though if it's the scenery of the Island the producers love it'll | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
come down to how much they want and need Guernsey. Weighed up against | :08:36. | :08:45. | |
how much Guernsey needs the film. And staying with film - you don't | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
normally see adverts on the BBC, but in this case, we'll make an | :08:48. | :08:58. | |
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exception. We would have to find the money from somewhere else or | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
cut public services more. In a sense, it is more independent than | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
we are. This is a cinema ad, from 1950, promoting Jersey as a holiday | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
destination. The 18-minute film called "Jersey - Island of | :09:10. | :09:20. | |
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Surprise" has only just been made It shows how life beginning to get | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
back to normal after the Occupation. From beach games at St Brelade, | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
shoppers on King Street to the fabulous views of Gorey. You can | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
see more of your favourite places and maybe see if you spot anyone | :09:34. | :09:40. | |
you know who was round then as the whole thing is on the BBC Jersey | :09:40. | :09:50. | |
We have quite a breezy weekend for the Channel Islands. The wind from | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
the West or north-west and some respite as we move into Monday. | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
Saturday and Sunday remains quite unsettled. We have a weather front | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
passing to the east at the moment. But has introduced low cloud with | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
drizzle in the night. Tomorrow, the cold front lies to the north and | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
whilst it is there we stay cloudy and the risk of some light rain or | :10:13. | :10:20. | |
drizzle. Quite breezy, plenty of isobars. By Sunday, the cold front | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
moved into northern France which means we get a clearer day, some | :10:24. | :10:33. | |
sunny spells on Sunday afternoon. Tonight, Mystique, grey and in | :10:33. | :10:41. | |
places we will seek spots of drizzle. The breeze remains strong. | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
Temperatures about eight degrees is a minimum. Tomorrow, a lot of cloud | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
for much of the day. Light showers of drizzle into the afternoon. | :10:51. | :10:57. | |
Temperatures up to 12 degrees. A noticeable wind, north or north- | :10:57. | :11:07. | |
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westerly which will be strong. The For the surfing, very messy. Quite | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
big waves but because of the breeze most of the beaches will be five or | :11:25. | :11:32. | |
six feet. The forecast: Sunday, damp with outbreaks of rain, still | :11:32. | :11:37. |