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Good evening and welcome to the BBC in the Channel Islands. Our top | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
stories: Another report into Guernsey's education system - this | :00:14. | :00:19. | |
time, primary school results are under fire. Plus, blanketed by fog | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
- air travellers are grounded for another day, and it is not over yet. | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
And, the farmland that is not just for growing potatoes, but will be | :00:27. | :00:37. | |
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Some primary schools in Guernsey are failing to meet key targets. | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
That's according to the education department's first ever annual | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
report. For the first time, parents can see how their child's school is | :00:51. | :00:57. | |
performing, compared to others. Mike Wilkins reports. | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
Children are tested before they leave primary school. And now, for | :01:00. | :01:05. | |
the first time, we can see how each school performed. Overall, a third | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
of primary schools in Guernsey failed to meet the expected grade | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
at English, and a third failed maths last year. Today's figures | :01:12. | :01:21. | |
reveal that some schools are doing better than others. I am not trying | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
to be difficult here, but some parents will be thinking, why is | :01:25. | :01:33. | |
one school so clearly better than others? Any explanation? These are | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
narrow indicators. They are important indicators. It is | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
important that children do well in English and maths and so on, and | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
these are part of the individual indicators for skills. But there | :01:44. | :01:51. | |
are lots of contextual differences between schools. All Skeels a | :01:51. | :01:57. | |
different -- schools. Next year might be quite different. It is | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
clear that everyone in the education service is now under | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
pressure to perform. It is crunch time for all of us. Schools are | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
saying how they are going to improve on their figures. Some not | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
so good and some very good. Then we can compare have that has gone, | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
whether they have improved or not. We are far more aware of statistics | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
that we have been before, and so we have got to get on and improve. | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
That is what has happened with the high schools. An awful lot has gone | :02:22. | :02:29. | |
into the high schools, and we have to expect higher results for later | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
this year. With a third of pupils heading to secondary school without | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
a decent grasp of English or maths, it's hardly surprising that the | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
secondary schools are struggling. This report will highlight the | :02:39. | :02:45. | |
schools that need to improve the most. | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
For the second day running, fog has meant cancelled and delayed flights | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
at airports across the Channel Islands. Some passengers are being | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
told the earliest they will get on a flight will be Sunday because of | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
the backlog. Thousands of airline passengers have been stranded. | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
Condor have been inundated with people wanting to travel by ferry, | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
but there is now no space on any ferry leaving the Channel Islands | :03:05. | :03:11. | |
today. But, why can't aeroplanes take off and land here when it is | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
foggy? Edward Sault has spent the day at Jersey airport to find out. | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
Look very closely because, believe it or not, you should be able to | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
see the Jersey airport arrivals hall here. And, peeking through the | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
fog, you can just catch a glimpse of what looks like the air traffic | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
control tower. Inside, long lines of stranded passengers desperate to | :03:32. | :03:42. | |
rescue their travel plans. We are going on a trip to America, to | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
Arizona to stay with friends. We were supposed to leave yesterday. | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
was supposed to travel to the East Midlands yesterday but the flight | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
was cancelled. I have come back today and the flight has been | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
cancelled again. So, why can't aeroplanes take off and land here | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
when it is foggy? Well, mainly because of Jersey's size and | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
airport location. But also because of the island's instrument landing | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
system, which helps guide an aeroplane in to land. Pilots need | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
to be able to see 200 feet above the runway before they can touch | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
down. Heathrow and Gatwick have a more sophisticated system that | :04:12. | :04:21. | |
allows pilots to make an approach and land in much worse conditions. | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
Jersey and Guernsey have unique characteristics, being an island | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
and there are geographic limitations. The instrument landing | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
system that we have is the one that is best suited for the island. If | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
we were to try and change that, it would cause significant | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
complications for Jersey. But that is little consolation to Channel | :04:38. | :04:46. | |
Islanders stranded at Gatwick today, wanting to travel back. We are put | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
on the 11:25am tomorrow, and if Jersey opens I will stand by for | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
the flight. At 7am they sent me an e-mail saying that they had | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
cancelled this flight. As you can see, passengers are trying to put | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
on too many of the council services today, but the message from airport | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
bosses and whether officials is not great - they are preparing for -- | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
predicting that this fog could last into Sunday or even Monday of next | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
week. Meanwhile, Condor Ferries has | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
announced today that sailings to and from the Channel Islands will | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
operate from Poole rather than Weymouth until the end of next | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
month. It follows the closure of the ferry port at Weymouth whilst | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
repairs are carried out to cracks found in the harbour wall. The work | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
is expected to take around four weeks. | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
Guernsey States has voted to adopt all of the recommendations of a | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
committee charged with investigating the future of church | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
funding. It means the ownership of the parish churches, rectories and | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
associated land will in future lie with the island's parishes, and | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
management boards will be set up to oversee their use. | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
Jersey Telecom will publish a Channel Island wide phone book for | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
the first time. JT says its next phone book would feature Jersey | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
numbers on one side and Guernsey on the other. Cable and Wireless | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
continued to publish a separate directory for Guernsey. | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
More people are getting further education qualifications in Jersey. | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
The latest results from the sensors showed 34% of the population have a | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
degree or other higher education qualification. That compares to 13% | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
10 years ago. The most highly qualified are people coming to | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
Jersey from the British Isles, Ireland, and those returning home | :06:24. | :06:34. | |
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having left Jersey to study. You are watching the BBC in the | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
Channel Islands. Later: the multi- million pound cycle path that | :06:41. | :06:51. | |
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requires cyclist to dismount to avoid hitting their heads. | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
Guernsey's cricketers have won their final game in the World | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
Cricket League Division Five tournament taking place in Malaysia. | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
Set a target of 165 runs by the Cayman Islands, the Sarnians won | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
easily by six wickets with forty balls to spare. The win secures | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
their place in Division Five. Now, thanks to a generous donation | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
left by an islander, the National Trust for Jersey has bought 50 | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
vergees of farmland in St John. The land will be used to grow Jersey | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
Royals, but will also protect our local wildlife. Emma Chambers | :07:19. | :07:27. | |
reports. It's all quiet now, but in two | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
weeks' time, these fields will be the home to Jersey Royals. The | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
National Trust has bought the land, but are leasing it out to farmers | :07:34. | :07:43. | |
under the condition they help look after farmland birds. The problem | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
with the Jersey's and wild coastal habitat is that there is a lack of | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
winter feed for birds, and so the bird populations are not as high as | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
they can be. Farmland birds have declined rapidly over the last two | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
decades. We hope to put in crops after potatoes that will benefit | :07:59. | :08:08. | |
the bird life like barley, oats, mustard, sunflowers. Some farmers | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
are already doing this, so we will see a burst of colour like this but | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
on a much larger scale. Sadly, because of the thick fog today, you | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
can't see how fast this area is. The National Trust for Jersey has | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
bought 50 vergees of land here, the size of 10 football pitches. So, | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
plenty of room for the 10,000 trees that will grow here. The first will | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
be planted tomorrow. It improves our hold on the area because we | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
have got the land next door as well. It is a fantastic acquisition | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
because it allows us to embark on a project which is very exciting. | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
Public access will remain open, so not only will farmers and wildlife | :08:47. | :08:56. | |
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be able to enjoy this lasting gift The question is, will the fog | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
remain? Good evening. It is a bit like | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
Groundhog Day at the moment across the Channel Islands. The mist and | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
fog is reluctant to move out of the way and as a result we will still | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
have some travel disruption. The mist and fog may just lift a little | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
bit more quickly tomorrow, and less of a visibility problem as we move | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
into the afternoon. The main clearers is this weather front here, | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
and it does not get to us. It lies to the north. By lunchtime tomorrow, | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
it pivots around the area of high pressure. With this area of high | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
pressure so reluctant to move, we will get little change and hardly a | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
breath of wind over the next few days means that any low cloud and | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
fog is difficult to shift. This evening and tonight, the cloud is | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
that enough to give some drizzle in the wind now and then. More | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
importantly, the fog is still around and will be quite thick by | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
the morning. Light winds, nine degrees the minimum temperature. | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
Tomorrow, a misty and murky start. Gradually we may get a bit of a | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
clearance from the fog, although the low cloud will still be around. | :10:04. | :10:14. | |
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The winds again from the north-west, As for the outlook into the weekend, | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
never too far away from us will be a fair amount of low cloud and | :10:40. | :10:46. | |
occasionally some mist and fog. Sunday, we can expect there -- | :10:46. | :10:51. |