:00:15. > :00:18.He he good evening. -- good evening. Here are the headlines: Plans to
:00:18. > :00:23.increase benefits for hard-pressed families in Guernsey but it could
:00:23. > :00:29.cost an extra �20 million. Are our schools doing enough to
:00:29. > :00:31.prepare children for a career in the ever-expanding world of IT? And
:00:31. > :00:34.ringing in the greatest sporting event in the world, an Olympic
:00:34. > :00:44.challenge for bell-ringers across the British Isles to start the
:00:44. > :00:47.
:00:47. > :00:52.Games. Guernsey could see its benefits
:00:52. > :00:57.bill go up by between �8,000,000.20000000 pounds a year
:00:57. > :01:01.under proposals unveiled today. There will be more support for low-
:01:01. > :01:05.income families and high income benefit rates. Authorities say it
:01:05. > :01:10.is needed to help people struggling financially.
:01:10. > :01:14.Sorting through bills, as a single mum and qualified accountant, Sarah
:01:14. > :01:17.is well aware of the cost of running a home. But she had to stop
:01:17. > :01:22.work recently because of health issues. If I was not getting
:01:22. > :01:25.benefit, I would be running up credit card debts to the maximum,
:01:25. > :01:30.or trying to take out a loan from the bank which they would not give
:01:30. > :01:36.me, just to survive, because I am not earning. It makes the world of
:01:36. > :01:40.difference. Today, plans were announced to ensure that families
:01:40. > :01:45.like Sarah's get the help they need. Social Security says that at the
:01:45. > :01:48.moment, not everyone is. I expect there will be a considerable number
:01:48. > :01:51.of people out there making difficult decisions between paying
:01:51. > :01:56.the landlord and putting adequate food on the table. It is not just
:01:56. > :02:00.about food and rent, some of those people are falling short of what we
:02:00. > :02:05.would consider the norm. department says that benefit rates
:02:05. > :02:08.need to go up because they're just not high enough at the moment. And
:02:08. > :02:14.it says that when it comes to housing, there needs to be more
:02:14. > :02:19.support available to those renting in the private sector. We have a
:02:19. > :02:22.rebate scheme for social housing tenants. If you have a family and
:02:22. > :02:27.live in the private rental sector, you will be spending large parts of
:02:27. > :02:31.your income on rent, instead of feeding and clothing your children.
:02:32. > :02:35.Getting people into employment would be a key focus, with more
:02:35. > :02:39.back-to-work schemes and one-to-one help. Despite those plans, it is
:02:39. > :02:44.expected that more people will be entitled to benefits, eventually
:02:44. > :02:52.costing between 8 billion -- �8,000,000.20000000 pounds more
:02:52. > :02:56.idea. Some may feel the current system is too generous. -- �8
:02:56. > :03:02.million and �20 million. Some may argue that it is unclear whether
:03:02. > :03:05.money is coming from. One in six of retirement age in
:03:05. > :03:11.Jersey are still working according to the latest census. More details
:03:11. > :03:15.have been released about employment in the island, showing 82% of
:03:15. > :03:18.adults of working age are looking for a job. Of those not working,
:03:18. > :03:21.one third are in full-time education and one-fifth are unable
:03:21. > :03:25.to because of sickness or disability.
:03:25. > :03:29.Work has started in Guernsey to turn Longue Hougue into a temporary
:03:29. > :03:33.dock. Diggers were clearing land today so it can be used to import
:03:33. > :03:37.materials for the airport redevelopment. It is the biggest-
:03:37. > :03:40.ever capital project undertaken by the States of Guernsey -- Jersey.
:03:40. > :03:44.A businessman says that Jersey's schools are not doing enough to
:03:44. > :03:51.prepare pupils for job opportunities in the technology
:03:51. > :03:54.industry. Mark loan at, head of consultancy at C5 says he has
:03:54. > :03:58.struggled to find suitable candidates for jobs that his firm.
:03:58. > :04:04.He is calling for an industry forum to look at the way that IT is being
:04:04. > :04:08.taught in schools. The way information technology is
:04:08. > :04:12.taught in Jersey's schools is at the centre of a big debate. The
:04:12. > :04:17.boss of one of the island's biggest IT firms is part of that
:04:17. > :04:21.conversation. Basically, we do not have the skills that are needed for
:04:21. > :04:27.the industry, coming out of our schools today. One of the problems
:04:27. > :04:31.with that is the fact that courses in schools are focused on how to
:04:31. > :04:39.use information technology, PowerPoint, Word, that sort of
:04:39. > :04:44.thing, and not about how to create. Here, you nine are having their
:04:44. > :04:48.weekly IT lesson. The topic today, global communication. They are not
:04:48. > :04:53.learning to create I t, but they are learning to use it creatively.
:04:53. > :04:58.-- great IT. In a couple of weeks, we are doing a presentation and our
:04:58. > :05:01.category is smartphones. We're going to cut the leaflet out in the
:05:01. > :05:04.shape of a smartphone. The children are happy enough with what they are
:05:04. > :05:10.learning that the school's Head Teachers says they could be doing
:05:10. > :05:16.more. There is a need for some students to know the intricacies of
:05:16. > :05:23.computer coding and gaming, in order to develop some of their
:05:23. > :05:31.potential for the future. I have put in a Countdown, which is pretty
:05:31. > :05:35.basic. The game is pretty simple. You win if you get to the star.
:05:35. > :05:39.has been identified as a key industry for the island's future
:05:39. > :05:44.but the question is, how far should schools got to train children to
:05:44. > :05:50.fit those job opportunities? Guernsey's deputies will be getting
:05:50. > :05:53.paid more in future, all with the final salary pension scheme have
:05:53. > :05:56.been scrapped. The States have voted to increase basic pay with
:05:56. > :06:02.ministers getting an extra allowance. Deputy Matthews wanted
:06:02. > :06:06.members to get more are thought everyone should be paid the same.
:06:06. > :06:09.think it is more important that we have a headline rate that is
:06:09. > :06:14.attractive to potential new candidates, and I think we need
:06:14. > :06:17.them, particularly younger people. Hundreds of islanders paused this
:06:17. > :06:22.afternoon to remember the millions of people who died in prisons and
:06:22. > :06:25.camps during the Holocaust. The annual Holocaust Memorial Day marks
:06:25. > :06:31.the day, 67 years ago, when the camps at Auschwitz were finally
:06:31. > :06:36.liberated. A ceremony today was led by the former UK cabinet minister
:06:36. > :06:40.Michael Portillo. We must remember all those who were
:06:40. > :06:43.the victims of a Holocaust. Lots of people were killed simply because
:06:43. > :06:49.of their ethnicity or because they were in the wrong place at the
:06:49. > :06:58.wrong time. Leaders of today listen to stories of persecution almost 70
:06:58. > :07:02.years old. This was a ceremony to remember the 22 islanders from
:07:02. > :07:06.Jersey and three from Guernsey who were sent to their deaths in the
:07:06. > :07:10.camps. Michael Portillo, the guest speaker, paid special tribute to
:07:10. > :07:20.Alderney, where thousands of foreign slave workers were forced
:07:20. > :07:22.
:07:22. > :07:25.to build four concentration camps, and hundreds of them perished there.
:07:25. > :07:30.Outside the museum, politicians, dignitaries and community leaders
:07:30. > :07:36.laid wreaths at the lighthouse memorial. Mr Portillo late his own
:07:36. > :07:40.behalf of the families of Spanish Republicans who lived in Jersey
:07:40. > :07:44.after World War II. -- on behalf. Some of the forced labourers were
:07:44. > :07:48.Spanish Republicans, on the losing side of the Spanish Civil War. My
:07:48. > :07:54.father was on the losing side. And so I have a particular empathy with
:07:54. > :08:00.those people. We are making an emphasis today, in commemorating
:08:00. > :08:05.some of the workers. As the event ended, school children laid single
:08:05. > :08:09.white roses for each of the 22 people from Jersey who died. The
:08:09. > :08:19.Act was simple. The message was clear. The Channel Islands will
:08:19. > :08:21.
:08:21. > :08:25.never forget. Later in Spotlight, the RNLI issues
:08:26. > :08:33.its own SOS to help those -- raise funds for South West boats and
:08:33. > :08:38.crews. By now, it is just six months until the start of the
:08:38. > :08:41.London Olympics, and the opening and the gains on 27th July will be
:08:41. > :08:43.a chance for everyone to take part in the communal act to celebrate
:08:43. > :08:51.the gains. Martin Creed wants as many people
:08:51. > :08:54.as possible to ring a bell for three minutes at 8pm.
:08:54. > :08:58.Bell-ringing rarely finds itself embroiled in any kind of
:08:58. > :09:01.controversy. But to call for everyone in Britain to ring a bell
:09:01. > :09:08.to mark the start of the Olympics has got bell ringers wondering
:09:08. > :09:16.quite how they will pull that off. Each tower has its own speed. You
:09:16. > :09:24.cannot ring bells well at the same speed on all churches. You can ring
:09:24. > :09:32.them fast, but to the uninitiated, it will just sound like noise.
:09:32. > :09:38.idea comes from Artis Martin Creed. In order to work, it needs a lot of
:09:38. > :09:42.people to do it. It is just one work of art plans to make this a
:09:42. > :09:46.cultural as well as sporting Olympics. There are rumblings of a
:09:46. > :09:54.revolt among some bell-ringers but here in Jersey, ringer us feel like
:09:54. > :09:59.they can and will join in. -- Rayner's. Bells should be run
:09:59. > :10:09.properly. -- Rohreggers. It should be run at 8:00am, not 5:00am. Who
:10:09. > :10:11.
:10:11. > :10:14.is going to stop them doing that? Some Church Bell ringers say that
:10:15. > :10:21.Martin Creed's IDA is like trying to get the Philharmonic Orchestra
:10:21. > :10:28.to whistle in the streets. -- Martin Creed's idea. Others are
:10:28. > :10:33.embracing the exercise. Sunshine until Stone's today. Let
:10:33. > :10:36.us find out what is going to happen tomorrow. -- sunshine and
:10:36. > :10:40.hailstones. Colder weather in the Channel
:10:40. > :10:46.Islands over the next four or five Islands over the next four or five
:10:47. > :10:50.days. Temperatures well down by Monday and Tuesday. Some showers
:10:50. > :10:54.tonight, coming and going through the evening but eventually fading
:10:54. > :11:03.away. Getting quite chilly towards dawn with the risk of frost for
:11:03. > :11:10.larger islands. High pressure moving in for much of the day.
:11:10. > :11:18.Sunday will be clouding over, and generally quite cold. The wind will
:11:18. > :11:21.be relatively light. More cloud means that it will cloud over. The
:11:21. > :11:28.showers will be with us for the first part of tomorrow evening,
:11:28. > :11:34.fading away. Wind from the north- west, northerly later. Tomorrow,
:11:34. > :11:43.fine weather for much of the day. It may be that it will cloud over
:11:43. > :11:53.with me gin and high-level cloud to end the afternoon. -- the gym. --
:11:53. > :12:14.
:12:14. > :12:18.The forecast for Sunday, generally cloudy and cold. Monday, the front
:12:18. > :12:24.will rise, and we will have patchy, light rain or drizzle through the
:12:24. > :12:34.day, and it will be damned with a south-easterly breeze. Tuesday will
:12:34. > :12:37.be bright and cold. -- it will be Finally, don't forget to watch BBC
:12:37. > :12:41.One on Sunday evening when Guernsey will be appearing on Countryfile.