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moment. They'll be live in Kiev assessing what chance today's deal | :00:00. | 3:59:59 | |
Hello, good evening. Is Jersey's has | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
Hello, good evening. Is Jersey's government doing enough to help | :00:13. | :00:14. | |
retailers? That's what politicians and businesses have spent the day | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
talking about. The big issues seem to be parking in town and increasing | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
competition from internet shopping. Recent figures show that retail | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
accounts for less than ten percent of Jersey's overall economic output, | :00:25. | :00:26. | |
compared to around forty percent from the Finance industry. Jen Smith | :00:27. | :00:37. | |
reports. Last man standing. Barry Jenkins... | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
Last man standing. Barry Jenkins' shop is the last of its kind on King | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
Street. The independent retailer's been selling electrical equipment | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
here since the '70s. But the challenges he's facing now are the | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
biggest he's seen. The big issue is parking, make it more attractive | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
people coming to town, it will cost less money. GST, I do not think | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
there is much you can do about it, but that has had a big effect on | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
retailers and the government and the Treasury know the amount of money | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
that they are losing from goods coming into this island. Barry's | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
worries are echoed by many of Jersey's retailers, and today a | :01:14. | :01:15. | |
panel of politicians has been hearing about their challenges, such | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
as the growth of internet shopping, the shift of office workers to the | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
Esplanade, and a reduction in parking spaces. But are politicians | :01:23. | :01:24. | |
listening? And will it translate into action? | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
I would like to think that politicians are listening to | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
retailers. In the past, things have been OK and we have not needed to do | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
too much to be successful, but we really need to start working | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
together now to create or to maintain our retail centre in St | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
Helier, and that means that politicians will have to work | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
together and listen to what they are being told and we need to make some | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
movement on this. Scrutiny is also looking at how to make the most of | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
the Central Market. One trader here thinks retailers bear some of the | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
responsibility. We need to build the shared vision and the business plan | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
which will deliver a prosperous bold, confident future for St | :02:04. | :02:13. | |
Helier. We need to understand how it works and we need a shared vision | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
and I think that will happen, because there are some very | :02:17. | :02:18. | |
encouraging signs from the various departments. Over the next couple of | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
weeks, the panel will get more of an insight into retailers worries | :02:23. | :02:24. | |
before putting a review together. It hopes that review will keep people | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
shopping in St Helier. Well, Gerald Voisin is from Jersey's | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
Chamber of Commerce. He'd like to see the states do more for smaller | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
businesses and says it's important the government does act. I think | :02:34. | :02:41. | |
talk is quite easy. Actually doing something and taking some difficult | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
decisions, I think I have yet to deceive that there is that | :02:47. | :02:48. | |
determination or adequate termination there, especially when | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
there is an election coming up the end of the year. | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
A 19`year`old Jerseyman had a lucky escape from a fierce house fire this | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
morning. He was woken by the smoke alarm at the property in Rozel, but | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
couldn't leave his first floor bedroom because of the heat and | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
smoke. Nearby workmen raised the alarm and eight firefighters were | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
sent to put out the blaze. There will be another round of | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
courtroom battles to decide if homes can be built on the former holiday | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
camp at Plemont in Jersey. Today the Royal Court ruled that the parish of | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
St Ouen was entitled to appeal against the planning minister's | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
decision to allow the development to go ahead. It's understood there will | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
be an appeal against today's ruling. Jersey's government could take over | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
the running of the annual Air Display. The Economic Development | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
Minister says the current organisers failed to keep their accounts in | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
order, and therefore haven't been given their full grant for the 013 | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
show. Organiser Mike Higgins though, says the department imposed new | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
conditions for the grant AFTER the event. | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
The Alderney Wildlife Trust is pressuring the states in Alderney, | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
Guernsey and Jersey to tackle what's been described as the biggest sea | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
bird disaster of recent years. They want the islands to jointly monitor | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
the losses after hundreds of sea birds were washed up during the | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
recent storms. Concerns about Potholes on | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
Guernsey's roads have led to calls for new laws to allow motorists | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
whose cars are damaged, or cyclists who are injured, to take legal | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
action. Potholes are formed when water works its way into the tarmac, | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
cold weather causes it to freeze and expand, before crumbling as cars | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
drive over it. Now a local lawyer says he's been approached by dozens | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
of road users who'd like to make a claim against the government but | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
can't. We all know the feeling when you're | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
driving along, and suddenly get a bit of a bump. Potholes. A pain for | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
those maintaining the roads. And for anyone using them. And there's | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
growing concern, about the growing number of them. Certainly since | :04:39. | :04:47. | |
Christmas, some of the roads that I cycled down, they have got several | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
deep, three or four inch deep potholes. I have never seen that | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
before. If you're in a car, the wheels ride over them. If you are a | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
cyclist, you can disappear into the more damage your bike or fall off. | :05:01. | :05:07. | |
As I drove around the Island today, I came across quite a few potholes | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
like this one. And you'd know it if you drove through it. But what you | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
may not know is if you damage your car doing that, or say come off your | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
bike, legally there's nothing you can do. It's something this lawyer | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
has had to tell dozens of people who've approached him wanting to | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
make claims against the States. The advice is pretty standard. There is | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
absolutely no way in Guernsey that you can bring a claim because the | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
law is different to the UK. All it takes is a short piece of | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
legislation to impose an obligation on the state is enabling people to | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
see where the injured themselves, but there would be a defence in that | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
law for the States. Could be an increased cost with the state, but | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
equally people injured through no fault of their own could claim | :05:48. | :05:55. | |
compensation that they can't at the moment. Of course if the roads were | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
in a better condition, then legal claims wouldn't even be an issue. | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
And already spending ?3 million a year on them, Public Services says a | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
survey it's just carried out should help identify what investment's | :06:07. | :06:07. | |
needed and where. That is the news from us for | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
tonight, the national weather is coming after the regional forecast. | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
We are back with you at 6:30pm Monday evening. | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
Good evening, one or two sharp showers tonight, but the weekend, | :06:23. | :06:30. | |
not doing too badly. A bright start for Saturday with the wind picking | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
up and into Sunday, some rain arriving. Through tonight, we had | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
one or two showers already. Water, did looks like we will see one or | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
two bits of hail, maybe some thunder. The showers were either way | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
and into the early hours, things becoming drier with temperatures at | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
around six or seven degrees. A bright, fine start to the day the | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
Saturday with some good spells of sunshine on offer. It looks like it | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
would be bright through the lunchtime period and into the | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
afternoon, the cloud increasing the wind picking up as well and | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
temperatures peaking at ten, 12 degrees. Sunday, a cloudy day | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
Generali and looks like we will see the rain arriving late in the day | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
afternoon, evening time. The wind picking up. One or two scattered | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
showers in store as we head into the new working week. | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
Outlook. Tom Shuffle knacker has the National forecast in a few seconds. | :07:32. | :07:33. | |
Some rain around on Monday. If you remember, this time last | :07:34. | :07:42. | |
week, we had some very vicious weather costing the country, the | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
storm on Friday night. Much quieter this Friday night and a much quieter | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
week. Come the | :07:53. | :07:53. |