21/02/2014 BBC Channel Islands News


21/02/2014

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moment. They'll be live in Kiev assessing what chance today's deal

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Hello, good evening. Is Jersey's has

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Hello, good evening. Is Jersey's government doing enough to help

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retailers? That's what politicians and businesses have spent the day

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talking about. The big issues seem to be parking in town and increasing

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competition from internet shopping. Recent figures show that retail

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accounts for less than ten percent of Jersey's overall economic output,

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compared to around forty percent from the Finance industry. Jen Smith

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reports. Last man standing. Barry Jenkins...

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Last man standing. Barry Jenkins' shop is the last of its kind on King

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Street. The independent retailer's been selling electrical equipment

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here since the '70s. But the challenges he's facing now are the

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biggest he's seen. The big issue is parking, make it more attractive

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people coming to town, it will cost less money. GST, I do not think

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there is much you can do about it, but that has had a big effect on

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retailers and the government and the Treasury know the amount of money

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that they are losing from goods coming into this island. Barry's

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worries are echoed by many of Jersey's retailers, and today a

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panel of politicians has been hearing about their challenges, such

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as the growth of internet shopping, the shift of office workers to the

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Esplanade, and a reduction in parking spaces. But are politicians

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listening? And will it translate into action?

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I would like to think that politicians are listening to

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retailers. In the past, things have been OK and we have not needed to do

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too much to be successful, but we really need to start working

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together now to create or to maintain our retail centre in St

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Helier, and that means that politicians will have to work

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together and listen to what they are being told and we need to make some

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movement on this. Scrutiny is also looking at how to make the most of

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the Central Market. One trader here thinks retailers bear some of the

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responsibility. We need to build the shared vision and the business plan

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which will deliver a prosperous bold, confident future for St

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Helier. We need to understand how it works and we need a shared vision

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and I think that will happen, because there are some very

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encouraging signs from the various departments. Over the next couple of

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weeks, the panel will get more of an insight into retailers worries

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before putting a review together. It hopes that review will keep people

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shopping in St Helier. Well, Gerald Voisin is from Jersey's

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Chamber of Commerce. He'd like to see the states do more for smaller

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businesses and says it's important the government does act. I think

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talk is quite easy. Actually doing something and taking some difficult

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decisions, I think I have yet to deceive that there is that

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determination or adequate termination there, especially when

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there is an election coming up the end of the year.

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A 19`year`old Jerseyman had a lucky escape from a fierce house fire this

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morning. He was woken by the smoke alarm at the property in Rozel, but

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couldn't leave his first floor bedroom because of the heat and

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smoke. Nearby workmen raised the alarm and eight firefighters were

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sent to put out the blaze. There will be another round of

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courtroom battles to decide if homes can be built on the former holiday

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camp at Plemont in Jersey. Today the Royal Court ruled that the parish of

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St Ouen was entitled to appeal against the planning minister's

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decision to allow the development to go ahead. It's understood there will

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be an appeal against today's ruling. Jersey's government could take over

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the running of the annual Air Display. The Economic Development

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Minister says the current organisers failed to keep their accounts in

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order, and therefore haven't been given their full grant for the 013

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show. Organiser Mike Higgins though, says the department imposed new

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conditions for the grant AFTER the event.

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The Alderney Wildlife Trust is pressuring the states in Alderney,

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Guernsey and Jersey to tackle what's been described as the biggest sea

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bird disaster of recent years. They want the islands to jointly monitor

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the losses after hundreds of sea birds were washed up during the

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recent storms. Concerns about Potholes on

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Guernsey's roads have led to calls for new laws to allow motorists

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whose cars are damaged, or cyclists who are injured, to take legal

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action. Potholes are formed when water works its way into the tarmac,

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cold weather causes it to freeze and expand, before crumbling as cars

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drive over it. Now a local lawyer says he's been approached by dozens

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of road users who'd like to make a claim against the government but

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can't. We all know the feeling when you're

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driving along, and suddenly get a bit of a bump. Potholes. A pain for

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those maintaining the roads. And for anyone using them. And there's

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growing concern, about the growing number of them. Certainly since

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Christmas, some of the roads that I cycled down, they have got several

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deep, three or four inch deep potholes. I have never seen that

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before. If you're in a car, the wheels ride over them. If you are a

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cyclist, you can disappear into the more damage your bike or fall off.

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As I drove around the Island today, I came across quite a few potholes

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like this one. And you'd know it if you drove through it. But what you

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may not know is if you damage your car doing that, or say come off your

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bike, legally there's nothing you can do. It's something this lawyer

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has had to tell dozens of people who've approached him wanting to

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make claims against the States. The advice is pretty standard. There is

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absolutely no way in Guernsey that you can bring a claim because the

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law is different to the UK. All it takes is a short piece of

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legislation to impose an obligation on the state is enabling people to

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see where the injured themselves, but there would be a defence in that

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law for the States. Could be an increased cost with the state, but

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equally people injured through no fault of their own could claim

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compensation that they can't at the moment. Of course if the roads were

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in a better condition, then legal claims wouldn't even be an issue.

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And already spending ?3 million a year on them, Public Services says a

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survey it's just carried out should help identify what investment's

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needed and where. That is the news from us for

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tonight, the national weather is coming after the regional forecast.

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We are back with you at 6:30pm Monday evening.

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Good evening, one or two sharp showers tonight, but the weekend,

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not doing too badly. A bright start for Saturday with the wind picking

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up and into Sunday, some rain arriving. Through tonight, we had

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one or two showers already. Water, did looks like we will see one or

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two bits of hail, maybe some thunder. The showers were either way

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and into the early hours, things becoming drier with temperatures at

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around six or seven degrees. A bright, fine start to the day the

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Saturday with some good spells of sunshine on offer. It looks like it

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would be bright through the lunchtime period and into the

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afternoon, the cloud increasing the wind picking up as well and

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temperatures peaking at ten, 12 degrees. Sunday, a cloudy day

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Generali and looks like we will see the rain arriving late in the day

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afternoon, evening time. The wind picking up. One or two scattered

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showers in store as we head into the new working week.

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Outlook. Tom Shuffle knacker has the National forecast in a few seconds.

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Some rain around on Monday. If you remember, this time last

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week, we had some very vicious weather costing the country, the

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storm on Friday night. Much quieter this Friday night and a much quieter

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week. Come the

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