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Hello and welcome to the programme. A smart move to make? More drivers | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
caught for using their mobiles at the wheel and this time smartphones | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
are to blame. Also on Wednesday's programme, jobs | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
on the up? Why more people are working but unemployment is still | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
at record levels. And Delancy Development, one of | :00:26. | :00:36. | |
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Guernsey's most well known parks is Islanders are putting lives at risk | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
by using mobile phones at the wheel. And the rise of the smartphone has | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
created an even bigger danger. There's been a sharp increase in | :00:51. | :01:01. | |
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those caught for texting, tweeting Mobile phones have come a long way | :01:06. | :01:14. | |
but our need to be constantly connected is putting lives at risk. | :01:14. | :01:23. | |
Drivers are texting, tweeting and even using Facebook at the wheel. | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
Officers from Guernsey's roads policing unit literally pick up the | :01:26. | :01:34. | |
pieces when there's a crash caused by a phone. We get complaints of | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
people using the phone as they are drive them, not only speaking but | :01:39. | :01:46. | |
also using the applications. Paul Newman's sister was killed by a | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
driver texting at the wheel. He set up a road safety charity in her | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
memory. It is unbelievable that people want to access Facebook and | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
Twitter while they are driving. I don't know why they would want to | :01:58. | :02:04. | |
do that. You can imagine how incredibly dangerous fighters. | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
road safety experts say using one at the wheel is more dangerous and | :02:07. | :02:16. | |
distracting than drink driving, or even smoking Cannabis. Good morning. | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
Police stopped a driver. He is on his mobile. His case will go to | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
court. It might be a smart phone but police say using one at the | :02:26. | :02:33. | |
wheel is a stupid risk. A man from Jersey who was chosen to | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
carry the Olympic flame this summer has been charged with indecently | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
assaulting children. 76 year-old Ralph Mauger has been charged with | :02:39. | :02:40. | |
three counts of indecently assaulting children aged between | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
five and 14. The alleged offences date back to an eight year period | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
from the late 1990s. A court hearing into the ferry | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
crash in which a French fisherman died near Jersey will take place | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
before the summer, according to the French prosecutor. The Condor | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
Vitesse passenger ferry was on its way from St Malo to Jersey, when it | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
collided with a fishing boat in thick fog on this day last year. | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
42-year-old Philippe Lasaulnier died while two others were rescued | :03:07. | :03:15. | |
from the water. Employment in Jersey is at it | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
highest level for 15 years. At the end of last year almost 54,000 | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
people were working. A 1% increase from 2010. But how can employment | :03:23. | :03:33. | |
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be on the rise as well as unemployment? | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
Ngaio Miller is one of over200 people who started their own | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
business last year. She launched her promotions company in September. | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
I found out I was pregnant and knew I wouldn't be able to carry on | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
working. I thought it would be the best of both worlds. I could set up | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
a business from home and still look after my son. And it's because of | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
businesses like hers that employment has increased in Jersey. | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
There were fewer full time positions but like more people are | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
taking on part time work to fit around their lifestyle. Many people | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
have full-time jobs and they are doing it as an extra on the side. | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
Either for fun or they want extra money or something. It also does | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
help out those that maybe have finished school and are not as | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
university yet, or who have finished university and can find a | :04:25. | :04:32. | |
job. It's probably driven by necessity. Households are feeling | :04:32. | :04:39. | |
the challenges of the current climate. Inflation is rising. | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
have thought increasing employment would mean falling unemployment. | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
But that's not the case. Unemployment is also rising, | :04:45. | :04:51. | |
reaching a record high last month. One possible reason is the 12,000 | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
people who have moved to the island in the past five years. They may | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
have maintained the economy but may have also increased unemployment | :04:57. | :05:05. | |
amongst locally qualified residents. So while the battle of the jobs | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
market continues, the States are relying on people like Ngaio to | :05:08. | :05:18. | |
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create jobs to lead us out of the recession. | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
Aurigny says initial investigations have been completed into the engine | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
failure on one of it's aircraft yesterday. The airline's first | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
flight to Southampton had to return to Alderney 15 minutes into its | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
flight, after the pilot saw that the rear engine pressure was | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
falling and part of the cowling, which enshrouds the engine was lose. | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
The airline says the engine will now be given a full strip down for | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
further analysis. A tax amnesty in Guernsey has | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
raised nearly �2.5 million. 150 people took advantage of the scheme | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
but the Director of Income tax says it was a one off deal and from now | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
on anyone avoiding tax will be prosecuted. | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
The future of a planned development at the former Pontin's site at | :05:57. | :06:03. | |
Plemont in Jersey could be decided within three months. The planning | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
minister has called in a UK planning inspector to carry out a | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
public inquiry into the development, which could see the old holiday | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
camp demolished and homes built there instead. | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
The way taxis in Jersey operate could change. Proposals include | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
ending the two tier system of rank taxis and pre-booked cabs and | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
introducing a maximum price for all taxi fares. Other possible changes | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
include modernising cabs to include chip and pin machines, more access | :06:24. | :06:32. | |
for the disabled and introducing taxi sharing. | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
Yellow signed taxis sit at the rank in St Helier, a prime spot in town | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
where customers needing a ride can easily find a taxi, at least at | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
this time of day. At the harbour, white signed cabs wait for a | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
message telling them where to pick up there next customer. For the | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
last decade Jersey has operated a two tier taxi system yellow and | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
white cabs -booked. But research shows that many customers don't | :06:54. | :07:00. | |
know the difference between the two types of cab. We cannot pick up if | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
their ranks here. If there's a queue of people and it is raining, | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
that has got to be wrong. Transport and technical services is | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
conducting a review of the taxi system. A it is to make the | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
industry more efficient. Hopefully they will come down. The drivers | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
will make a better living because the service will be used more | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
efficiently. This is the pamphlet and questionnaire being handed out | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
to members of the public. There are over a dozen questions asking | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
things like, do people think there should be a maximum fare? Do people | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
want any taxi to be able to pick up from all ranks and promises? What | :07:36. | :07:46. | |
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do people think about sharing taxes? They've had to wait for ten | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
years for the privilege of being a rank driver, longer than it takes | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
to train to be a brain surgeon. We've received no subsidies and it | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
is a good system. Let it be. suggestion is that customers who | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
may have had too much to drink on a Saturday night should clear up | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
their own mess, should they make one. | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
You're watching the BBC in the Channel Islands. Later in Spotlight | :08:14. | :08:20. | |
with Sam and Victoria: find out why this Egyptian mummy was taken to | :08:20. | :08:28. | |
One of Guernsey's largest parks could soon be getting a makeover. | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
Plans for Delancey Park have now been approved. | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
It is a gorgeous day to be Inver Park and this is a park with an | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
exciting future. Big plans, including using display equipment | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
have just been approved. With me to tell me more is Alex Rogers, who is | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
involved. What is going to be happening? We have had approval for | :08:53. | :08:59. | |
the play areas which has taken time arriving but we will now get the | :08:59. | :09:07. | |
go-ahead for the playground areas. Also, a kitchen garden. We are | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
delighted. These things take time and obviously, from our point of | :09:10. | :09:17. | |
view, we have to be patient in getting the appropriate approvals. | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
We have to look at the final details. A lot of the approaches | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
we've had from the community have been crying out for facilities to | :09:25. | :09:31. | |
bring their kids to and grandchildren to etc. I think it is | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
overdue. If the money is raised and the work is done, what happens next | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
to ensure it is maintained? Currently, there is a lease between | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
the parish and the states through culture and leisure. But needs to | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
be either extended, renewed or clarity given in terms of ownership | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
for the future. For my trusty point of view, it wouldn't be appropriate | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
for us to spend money we've raised and equipment and not have | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
assurances as to how it would be maintained. -- for a trusty point | :10:02. | :10:09. | |
of view. It may be flat at the play equipment is in need of TLC but | :10:09. | :10:19. | |
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there is one thing that is already Hello, good evening. Rather than | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
talk about more of the same, I ought to mention the chance for | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
rain is very limited across the islands. I know many are talking | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
about the possibility of some real problems due to lack of rain. There | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
might be a light shower on Saturday. Apart from that, with high pressure, | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
it is a dry story and for the next couple of days, a sunny one as well. | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
The high pressure moves out into the Atlantic. That process has been | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
happening through the last 24 hours. Was that moves away, it draws in a | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
northerly winds so perhaps not quite the high temperatures into | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
the weekend. There will be more pad. Not tonight, clear skies with | :11:00. | :11:06. | |
temperatures down to seven or eight degrees. Fairly light winds. If you | :11:06. | :11:14. | |
missed patch Foreman -- a few patches of mist forming. By the | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
afternoon, back up to 16 or 17 degrees. For the coastal waters, | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
the winds are much lighter now. Mainly from the north or north-east. | :11:23. | :11:33. | |
Forced to all three, occasionally Four macro a long the coast. Times | :11:33. | :11:43. | |
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As for the outlook, it does change as we move into the weekend. There | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
will be more cloud and it will be colder. Each day, a drop in the | :11:58. | :12:05. | |
temperatures and by Friday, 15 degrees. By Sunday, 12 degrees with | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
winds from the north or north-east. More of a breeze and slightly | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
cooler air coming in. If there is any chance of rain, they might be a | :12:12. | :12:22. | |
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