24/12/2013 BBC Channel Islands News


24/12/2013

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the middle, England's batsmen have struggled with an Australian barrage

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Hello, good evening. Passengers are lot

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Hello, good evening. Passengers are struggling to get to and from the

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islands tonight as flights are being disrupted after problems at Gatwick

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Airport. This was the scene at there a short time ago. All flights into

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Guernsey are expect to arrive but the airport will stay open late to

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cope with delays. British Airways flights to Jersey are badly

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disrupted. Three flights are still trying to leave the island and four

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flights have yet to arrive. The airport says they will stay open as

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long as they can to get people home for Christmas.

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It's claimed a new ship being built for Condor won't be able to fit into

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Weymouth Harbour. The company, which serves Guernsey and Jersey with the

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UK and France, aren't commenting but business leaders in the Dorset town

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say it would have a severe impact on businesses there and on passengers

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wanting to travel to and from the Channel Islands.

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The Condor Vitesse moored up in Weymouth. This ship was built in

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1998 but this is the one it's thought Condor want to buy. However

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according to the local paper in Weymouth the ship, being built in

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Australia, won't fit into the harbour there, which would have a

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knock on effect on Guernsey and Jersey. A lot of holiday`makers from

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the UK do filter through here on the way to the Channel Islands on

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holiday. A lot of the locals here take regular holidays on the Channel

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Islands so it is important for them to have it. It is important for the

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town and it shows confidence that Condor want to stay there and it

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allows them to bring a lot more people across at a time.

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Business leaders say in Dorset say the town is still recovering from

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the forced closure of Weymouth port last year. Problems with the harbour

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wall led to Condor being forced to move some of its services to Poole

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further up the coast. Condor aren't commenting but say

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they're still in talks with shipbuilders. The company are also

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still in negotiations with the States in Guernsey and Jersey about

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future services between the Channel Islands and the UK.

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Guernsey's incumbent bus operator has had its contract extended with

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the States until March 2015. The Environment Department says changing

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bus operators for just a year, starting from April 2014, wouldn't

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be a good use of taxpayers money. However the department says the

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formal tendering process for a bus service beyond March 2015 is now

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underway. A listed Church has been given

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permission to be converted into homes and offices. The Methodist

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Zion Chapel was used in a teenage `` built in 1881 and last used in 010.

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Proceeds from the development will be kept in the island.

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Work to make St Aubin safer for cyclists and walkers has begun.

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Roads will be made smaller and the speed limit lowered to make it

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easier for people to pass through the Jersey village safely. The

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constable says the work is about striking a balance for drivers and

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people on bike or foot. There have been complaints over a

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long period of time about traffic that drives too fast, conflict

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between cyclists, pedestrians and cars and really we just wanted to

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have a scheme that was going to try and solve some of those issues and I

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think this does in many ways. Let us get that all`important

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Christmas weather forecast. Christmas

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Good evening, it is a season for brollies. Shower was to come over

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Christmas but the wind will be lighter. The low pressure system

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that we saw in the last couple of days bringing strong wind and rain

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will gradually clear but there are still strong winds in Northern

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Ireland and Scotland. For as the wind will be lighted tomorrow. There

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are still some friends around that bring showers through the day. It

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will generally be dry on the Thursday until the next weather

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system arrives on Thursday night and through Friday bringing strong wind

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and rain. We still have showers around and some of the will be heavy

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but between the showers we will see clearer spots. It will be very clear

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overnight tonight with temperatures falling to four or five degrees

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Temperatures tomorrow will generally be a dry start. It will be bright in

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the morning before showers coming in the afternoon with temperatures

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about eight or nine degrees. The breeze will be a bit lower than the

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last couple of days. On Boxing Day we will see a brighter day. Here are

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the tide times for tomorrow. The Boxing Day forecast, if you are off

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to do some shopping it will generally be dry for much of the

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day. Some brightness around. In the evening we will see a low pressure

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system bringing us rain. It will become quite wet and very windy on

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Friday. That's it from us for tonight. On

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behalf of the entire BBC News team here in the Channel Islands, I'd

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like to thank you for watching and wish you all a happy, safe and

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peaceful Christmas. it from us - we are back on Boxing

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Day at One o'clock. Merry Christmas. Hello. The weather has been a little

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kinder today to travellers and last-minute Christmas shoppers

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across England and Wales. Not as bad as we feared across Northern

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