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Good evening and welcome to the BBC in the Channel Islands. Here are | :00:08. | :00:13. | |
tonight's top stories. The half million pound golden handshake to a | :00:13. | :00:19. | |
former civil servant has prompted States guidelines. Plus fear as | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
virus which causes birth defects in sheep could be in the islands. | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
And as diabetes is on the rise, are sufferers losing out from a lack of | :00:29. | :00:38. | |
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Jersey's Chief Minister has revealed the former top civil | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
servant, Bill Ogley, left his job last May with a payment of more | :00:44. | :00:54. | |
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than �500,000. That's around double his annual salary. Bill Ogley | :00:57. | :01:03. | |
speaking to the BBC in 2006. He was a States chief executive and he | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
earned around �250 ,000 a year. But when Mr Ogley stepped down last May | :01:08. | :01:14. | |
he was give an payout of just over 500,000. That was funded by the | :01:14. | :01:21. | |
taxpayer. I wanted the figures to be revealed but equally importantly | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
I wanted it to be brought out how these decisions had been arrived at | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
and who had taken these decisions. I don't mean who had taken the last | :01:29. | :01:35. | |
step. I mean what was the whole process? Why had we reached this | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
point where we were almost compelled to pay very large sums to | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
people? Terry Le Sueur was chief Minister | :01:43. | :01:53. | |
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when Ogley oog received his pay-off. Beckie joins me now. Why has all of | :02:02. | :02:08. | |
this come to light now? This happened under the former chief | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
Minister Terry Le Sueur. When he took over he wrote to the likes of | :02:12. | :02:22. | |
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Bill Ogley and other civil servants to find out out of the golden | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
handshakes were. Today we found out his was �500,000. Is anything being | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
done to stock market this happening again? Yes, the Auditor General | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
will look at how many payouts there've been, how much they are | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
worth and compare it to the UK. The Auditor General is separate to the | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
States. Secondly, the employment board today released these | :02:45. | :02:54. | |
guidelines. So from now on any civil servant earning more than | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
�100,000 will have to have it cleared by the board. I asked Ian | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
Gorst whether we should have a separate body to over see things. | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
I don't think we do. The States Employment Board is the employer of | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
all States employees. We've published the policy that we intend | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
to work to, subject to any changes that the independent review by the | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
Comptroller and Auditor General might suggest, and that's right and | :03:17. | :03:27. | |
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proper. Senator Gorst hopes the guidelines as soon as the Auditor | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
General has completed his review. Beckie, thank you. | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
Jersey's Government is promising no new tax rises for at least three | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
years, more help for the unemployed, improvements to social housing and | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
more cancer screening. The announcements come as the | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
Government revealed it underspent by �40 million last year. One group | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
to benefit will be residents at Le Marais housing estate in St Clement. | :03:48. | :03:55. | |
Rachel Royce went to see what they think. It's been ten years since | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
the four high-rise blocks at Le Marais last underwent refurbishment, | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
and it is beginning to show. Nick Morris and his family have been | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
here for 20 years, living on the tenth floor. The extear yo of the | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
building is beginning to look at that timey. There's moss growing on | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
it and it gives the wrong impression of the place, that the | :04:17. | :04:24. | |
inside and the flats will be as unpleasant looking, when a lot of | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
them are really nice. Housing isn't the only area the Government's | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
identified as in need of new funding. Parents to get �1.4 | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
million but the unemployed are to get �7.5 million. Some of that | :04:39. | :04:46. | |
money will go to new back to work schemes. There's �100,000 put aside | :04:46. | :04:56. | |
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for more screening of bowel cancer. Tourism, a cold weather bonus and | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
other legislation will get more funding. I'm pleased to report that | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
States departments have risen to the challenge of saving money and | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
becoming more efficient. To a large extent the underspent budgets | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
throughout the States. That's encouraging, because it gives me | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
confidence that we are going be able to reach the �65 million | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
commitment of savings that we promised to do by 2013. | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
understands that when money is tight the Government has to make | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
choices. The lifts at Le Marais will now be refurbished. When you | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
are living ten storeys up, that's important. | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
A man in Newcastle has been charged with the murder of a woman reported | :05:40. | :05:46. | |
to be from againsy. Police found 41-year-old Sarah Gosling. She was | :05:46. | :05:55. | |
taken to hospital, where she died. Ian Hope has been charged with her | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
murder. A 38-year-old man has appeared in | :05:57. | :05:58. | |
Guernsey's Magistrates' Court charged with indecently assaulting | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
a girl under the age of 16. Gerrard Beswick Addison of Trafalgar Road | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
in the Vale pleaded guilty to the charge, which relates to an | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
incident on 26th February this year. He will appear before magistrates | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
again on 15th March. There's concern a virus which | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
causes birth defects in livestock could make its way to the Channel | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
Islands. There have been dozens of reports of the Schmallenberg virus | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
across England. And if it has spread this far, it's likely to | :06:20. | :06:29. | |
affect local sheep farmers first. Penny Elderfield reports. They may | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
have a healthy appetite, but for this farmer the health of his sheep | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
is a worry, after news a new virus which affect sheep, cows and goats | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
has spread to more farms in the UK. Passed on by midges more than 70 | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
farms have reported cases. As of yet there've been none in the | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
Channel Islands. Lambing season due to start in the next few weeks it | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
should be clear whether this virus has made it to Guernsey. The | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
biggest impact won't be on the sheep you see today but on the | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
unborn lambs. In sheep and goats it causes deformities of the foetal | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
lamb as it is growing, particularly if the mother is affected in the | :07:10. | :07:16. | |
first tryst moster of pregsy. Farmers should be vigilant. The | :07:17. | :07:26. | |
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first clue is foetal deformities. There seem to be more reports that | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
at first there were only a few cases but now I hear there are 74. | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
I'm fairly optimistic that we will avoid it but you never can tell. | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
There's more than 100 lambs expected here this spring and this | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
farm won't be the only busy one in the Channel Islands or the only one | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
hoping for the best. Not enough people with diabetes are | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
having their regular checks, according to a diabetes consultant | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
in Jersey. It comes as recent figures show over 1 million people | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
in the UK aren't having the check- ups to prevent other problems that | :08:02. | :08:11. | |
can come with the disease. Emma Chambers reports. | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
Geraldine was diagnosed with diabetes 30 years ago during her | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
second pregnancy. She has learnt to live with it and keeps on top of | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
her checks, but she says having the disease is expensive. I have to go | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
for additional hygiene checks at the dent is because I'm prone to | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
problems with my gums. Care op di is important, probably three times | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
a year for preventive treatment. I worked it out that possibly its | :08:38. | :08:47. | |
costing me � 00 a year for treatment and equipment. And that's | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
having some things subsidised. in the UK care for diabetic | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
patients is free. Recent figures show 1.3 million people aren't up | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
to date with annual health checks. Patients need these to diagnose | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
kidney failure, heart problems and blindness. It is worth in Jersey. | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
The hospital provides the eye checks but the rest is down to the | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
patients. Over the last ten years that I've been in the island we've | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
seen the number rise from less than 1,500 to now getting on to 4,000 | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
people with difpblts during that time there hasn't been a lot of -- | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
with diabetes. During that time there hasn't been a lot of money | :09:25. | :09:31. | |
for health services, so an increasing amount of the burden in | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
looking after these people has gone to general practitioners and | :09:36. | :09:43. | |
practice nurses. Geraldine says she is fortunate to be able to keep on | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
top of her checks, but others aren't. | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
Jersey patients will have to keep on top of their health checks and | :09:51. | :09:59. | |
lead a health yeah lifestyle as Good evening. The mist and fog is | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
going to clear. It will clear overnight tonight and once that | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
happens tomorrow promises much more in the way of sunshine. We should | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
have a fine day tomorrow. And feel warmer because of it too. | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
It is due to a change in the wind direction. At the moment we have | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
winds from the south. Still giving us moisture to create low cloud and | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
mist, but that will improve this evening. As the high pressure moves | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
away from us we see southeasterly winds. Drier air is coming from | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
France. Better visibility and more sunshine. Even though we move to | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
the end of the week with that high pressure across us there's a good | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
deal of fine weather. The cloud may come back as the winds change | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
direction, especially by Friday. Tonight the mistiness is around for | :10:45. | :10:51. | |
the first half and then the low cloud will stick with us. Between | :10:51. | :10:59. | |
3-5 in the morning the cloud clears. 7 degrees the starting temperature | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
tomorrow. Tomorrow should be a fine day. A few shallow mist patches | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
first thing but once they go there should be decent sunshine. 11-12 | :11:07. | :11:15. | |
degrees, 5 4 Fahrenheit. A gentle south or southeasterly winds. The | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
coastal waters forecast has winds south or southeasterly, 2-3, mist | :11:20. | :11:30. | |
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and then fair and visibility For the rest of this week - on | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
Thursday, a similar day. Perhaps more cloud in the second half of | :11:40. | :11:43. |