27/01/2012 BBC Channel Islands News


27/01/2012

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He he good evening. -- good evening. Here are the headlines: Plans to

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increase benefits for hard-pressed families in Guernsey but it could

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cost an extra �20 million. Are our schools doing enough to

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prepare children for a career in the ever-expanding world of IT? And

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ringing in the greatest sporting event in the world, an Olympic

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challenge for bell-ringers across the British Isles to start the

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Games. Guernsey could see its benefits

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bill go up by between �8,000,000.20000000 pounds a year

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under proposals unveiled today. There will be more support for low-

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income families and high income benefit rates. Authorities say it

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is needed to help people struggling financially.

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Sorting through bills, as a single mum and qualified accountant, Sarah

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is well aware of the cost of running a home. But she had to stop

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work recently because of health issues. If I was not getting

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benefit, I would be running up credit card debts to the maximum,

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or trying to take out a loan from the bank which they would not give

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me, just to survive, because I am not earning. It makes the world of

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difference. Today, plans were announced to ensure that families

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like Sarah's get the help they need. Social Security says that at the

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moment, not everyone is. I expect there will be a considerable number

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of people out there making difficult decisions between paying

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the landlord and putting adequate food on the table. It is not just

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about food and rent, some of those people are falling short of what we

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would consider the norm. department says that benefit rates

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need to go up because they're just not high enough at the moment. And

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it says that when it comes to housing, there needs to be more

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support available to those renting in the private sector. We have a

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rebate scheme for social housing tenants. If you have a family and

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live in the private rental sector, you will be spending large parts of

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your income on rent, instead of feeding and clothing your children.

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Getting people into employment would be a key focus, with more

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back-to-work schemes and one-to-one help. Despite those plans, it is

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expected that more people will be entitled to benefits, eventually

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costing between 8 billion -- �8,000,000.20000000 pounds more

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idea. Some may feel the current system is too generous. -- �8

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million and �20 million. Some may argue that it is unclear whether

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money is coming from. One in six of retirement age in

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Jersey are still working according to the latest census. More details

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have been released about employment in the island, showing 82% of

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adults of working age are looking for a job. Of those not working,

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one third are in full-time education and one-fifth are unable

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to because of sickness or disability.

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Work has started in Guernsey to turn Longue Hougue into a temporary

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dock. Diggers were clearing land today so it can be used to import

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materials for the airport redevelopment. It is the biggest-

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ever capital project undertaken by the States of Guernsey -- Jersey.

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A businessman says that Jersey's schools are not doing enough to

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prepare pupils for job opportunities in the technology

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industry. Mark loan at, head of consultancy at C5 says he has

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struggled to find suitable candidates for jobs that his firm.

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He is calling for an industry forum to look at the way that IT is being

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taught in schools. The way information technology is

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taught in Jersey's schools is at the centre of a big debate. The

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boss of one of the island's biggest IT firms is part of that

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conversation. Basically, we do not have the skills that are needed for

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the industry, coming out of our schools today. One of the problems

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with that is the fact that courses in schools are focused on how to

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use information technology, PowerPoint, Word, that sort of

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thing, and not about how to create. Here, you nine are having their

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weekly IT lesson. The topic today, global communication. They are not

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learning to create I t, but they are learning to use it creatively.

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-- great IT. In a couple of weeks, we are doing a presentation and our

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category is smartphones. We're going to cut the leaflet out in the

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shape of a smartphone. The children are happy enough with what they are

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learning that the school's Head Teachers says they could be doing

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more. There is a need for some students to know the intricacies of

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computer coding and gaming, in order to develop some of their

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potential for the future. I have put in a Countdown, which is pretty

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basic. The game is pretty simple. You win if you get to the star.

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has been identified as a key industry for the island's future

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but the question is, how far should schools got to train children to

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fit those job opportunities? Guernsey's deputies will be getting

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paid more in future, all with the final salary pension scheme have

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been scrapped. The States have voted to increase basic pay with

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ministers getting an extra allowance. Deputy Matthews wanted

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members to get more are thought everyone should be paid the same.

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think it is more important that we have a headline rate that is

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attractive to potential new candidates, and I think we need

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them, particularly younger people. Hundreds of islanders paused this

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afternoon to remember the millions of people who died in prisons and

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camps during the Holocaust. The annual Holocaust Memorial Day marks

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the day, 67 years ago, when the camps at Auschwitz were finally

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liberated. A ceremony today was led by the former UK cabinet minister

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Michael Portillo. We must remember all those who were

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the victims of a Holocaust. Lots of people were killed simply because

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of their ethnicity or because they were in the wrong place at the

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wrong time. Leaders of today listen to stories of persecution almost 70

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years old. This was a ceremony to remember the 22 islanders from

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Jersey and three from Guernsey who were sent to their deaths in the

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camps. Michael Portillo, the guest speaker, paid special tribute to

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Alderney, where thousands of foreign slave workers were forced

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to build four concentration camps, and hundreds of them perished there.

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Outside the museum, politicians, dignitaries and community leaders

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laid wreaths at the lighthouse memorial. Mr Portillo late his own

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behalf of the families of Spanish Republicans who lived in Jersey

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after World War II. -- on behalf. Some of the forced labourers were

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Spanish Republicans, on the losing side of the Spanish Civil War. My

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father was on the losing side. And so I have a particular empathy with

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those people. We are making an emphasis today, in commemorating

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some of the workers. As the event ended, school children laid single

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white roses for each of the 22 people from Jersey who died. The

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Act was simple. The message was clear. The Channel Islands will

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never forget. Later in Spotlight, the RNLI issues

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its own SOS to help those -- raise funds for South West boats and

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crews. By now, it is just six months until the start of the

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London Olympics, and the opening and the gains on 27th July will be

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a chance for everyone to take part in the communal act to celebrate

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the gains. Martin Creed wants as many people

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as possible to ring a bell for three minutes at 8pm.

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Bell-ringing rarely finds itself embroiled in any kind of

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controversy. But to call for everyone in Britain to ring a bell

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to mark the start of the Olympics has got bell ringers wondering

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quite how they will pull that off. Each tower has its own speed. You

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cannot ring bells well at the same speed on all churches. You can ring

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them fast, but to the uninitiated, it will just sound like noise.

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idea comes from Artis Martin Creed. In order to work, it needs a lot of

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people to do it. It is just one work of art plans to make this a

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cultural as well as sporting Olympics. There are rumblings of a

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revolt among some bell-ringers but here in Jersey, ringer us feel like

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they can and will join in. -- Rayner's. Bells should be run

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properly. -- Rohreggers. It should be run at 8:00am, not 5:00am. Who

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is going to stop them doing that? Some Church Bell ringers say that

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Martin Creed's IDA is like trying to get the Philharmonic Orchestra

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to whistle in the streets. -- Martin Creed's idea. Others are

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embracing the exercise. Sunshine until Stone's today. Let

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us find out what is going to happen tomorrow. -- sunshine and

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hailstones. Colder weather in the Channel

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Islands over the next four or five Islands over the next four or five

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days. Temperatures well down by Monday and Tuesday. Some showers

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tonight, coming and going through the evening but eventually fading

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away. Getting quite chilly towards dawn with the risk of frost for

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larger islands. High pressure moving in for much of the day.

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Sunday will be clouding over, and generally quite cold. The wind will

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be relatively light. More cloud means that it will cloud over. The

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showers will be with us for the first part of tomorrow evening,

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fading away. Wind from the north- west, northerly later. Tomorrow,

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fine weather for much of the day. It may be that it will cloud over

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with me gin and high-level cloud to end the afternoon. -- the gym. --

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The forecast for Sunday, generally cloudy and cold. Monday, the front

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will rise, and we will have patchy, light rain or drizzle through the

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day, and it will be damned with a south-easterly breeze. Tuesday will

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be bright and cold. -- it will be Finally, don't forget to watch BBC

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One on Sunday evening when Guernsey will be appearing on Countryfile.

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