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