:00:00. > :00:12.Good evening. it's time for the news where you
:00:13. > :00:15.Good evening. Baggage handlers who work for Blue
:00:16. > :00:19.Islands at Jersey Airport could strike after facing a cut in hours
:00:20. > :00:22.and pay. The union Unite says its members are absolutely livid that
:00:23. > :00:25.their employer Servisair, who operates the service for the
:00:26. > :00:31.airline, is threatening to reduce their working week. Jen Smith
:00:32. > :00:35.reports. Servisair workers last threatened
:00:36. > :00:38.strike action in 2009. The company employs baggage handlers at airports
:00:39. > :00:47.around the world and for different airlines. Some of the work it does
:00:48. > :00:50.at Jersey Airport is with the airline Blue Islands. But as Blue
:00:51. > :00:54.Islands' ground handling work is going to be taken over by Aurigny,
:00:55. > :00:59.up to 30 Servisair staff are worried about keeping their same working
:01:00. > :01:03.conditions. The Unite union claims workers hours
:01:04. > :01:05.couldn't be cut like this in the UK because employment legislation
:01:06. > :01:08.wouldn't allow it. Deputy Geoff Southern says this latest dispute
:01:09. > :01:17.shows Jersey's workers have little protection. Our employment laws
:01:18. > :01:19.really are quite weak. What we need is legislation to protect workers
:01:20. > :01:21.from changes to terms and conditions.
:01:22. > :01:23.Jersey's Social Security Minister, who has responsibility for the
:01:24. > :01:26.island's employment laws, says employers and employees have the
:01:27. > :01:30.right to change their working terms and conditions through negotiation.
:01:31. > :01:34.Well tonight Aurigny Air Services say the company is looking to fill
:01:35. > :01:36.the ground handling positions from a number of different sources,
:01:37. > :01:48.including former staff members at Servisair. Earlier, Jen Smith spoke
:01:49. > :01:52.to Nick Corbel from the Unite union. I'm at the office of the union
:01:53. > :01:55.Unite, which represents some of the baggage handlers at Jersey Airport.
:01:56. > :01:59.The union claims up to 30 baggage handlers could be at risk of having
:02:00. > :02:01.their hours cut. It's after Blue Islands stopped using the baggage
:02:02. > :02:04.handling services of Servisair and switched to using Aurigny's staff.
:02:05. > :02:06.The dispute has come about because blue Islands has decided to ask the
:02:07. > :02:09.operator to cover the ground handling operation. That is
:02:10. > :02:16.currently undertaken by service air. It means that there are number of
:02:17. > :02:21.our colleagues whose jobs are at risk. The terms and conditions are
:02:22. > :02:26.at risk. We are asking them to reap `` they having asked to reduce their
:02:27. > :02:31.working hours to 37.5 hours per week. Our members are saying this is
:02:32. > :02:37.an acceptable. They cannot afford to take a pay cut. Are we talking about
:02:38. > :02:42.the lot of hours or redundancies? Potentially redundancies as well.
:02:43. > :02:48.The number of workers needed at service air is going to drop because
:02:49. > :02:54.they are going to move over. That is a concern for us as well because
:02:55. > :03:02.those workers could be protected in the UK. They would move over to the
:03:03. > :03:09.new operator. But that legislation is not applicable in the island It
:03:10. > :03:13.ought to be. Who do you hold responsible? I hold the Jersey
:03:14. > :03:17.government responsible. We have been banging on about this for years now.
:03:18. > :03:28.I hope the Minister for social security responsible, as well as the
:03:29. > :03:36.achievement stuff. `` as well as the government responsible.
:03:37. > :03:38.A ward at Guernsey's Princess Elizabeth Hospital has reopened
:03:39. > :03:41.after an outbreak of vomiting and diarrhoea. The Victoria Wing was
:03:42. > :03:44.closed to new patients earlier this week. It was initially thought it
:03:45. > :03:47.could be the norovirus, although initial tests haven't come back
:03:48. > :03:53.positive for that. 15 non`emergency operations had to be postponed
:03:54. > :03:56.because of the closure. Our main concern was to make sure the
:03:57. > :03:59.infection did not spread to the medical wards, where the patients
:04:00. > :04:04.tend to be older and slightly more vulnerable. I am pleased to say
:04:05. > :04:11.there's no indication of any spread. We do have to postpone 15
:04:12. > :04:15.operations. We have spoken to all those patients, apologised and said
:04:16. > :04:17.we will try to book them as soon as possible.
:04:18. > :04:20.A meeting about the future funding of Guernsey's L'Ancresse common
:04:21. > :04:23.attracted a crowd of around 200 people. The Vale Commons council,
:04:24. > :04:26.which maintains it, needs to find an additional ?130,000 each year. It's
:04:27. > :04:30.been suggested the private golf clubs that use the area should pay a
:04:31. > :04:35.lot more than the ?100 they currently contribute.
:04:36. > :04:44.A man from Jersey is starring in a new Hollywood film that launched in
:04:45. > :04:47.cinemas tonight. Cameron Perkins, or Cameron Moir as he's known on
:04:48. > :04:52.screen, appears in the blockbuster Non Stop. The film tells the story
:04:53. > :04:56.of a New York to London flight that's hijacked. It's up to air
:04:57. > :04:59.marshal Bill Marks, played by Liam Neeson, to save the day. The young
:05:00. > :05:06.actor from Jersey stars as an air steward in the film. I got the role
:05:07. > :05:11.in the film. I was sent it by my agent while I was living in New
:05:12. > :05:15.York. I got a call back. Basically I was filming a short film in New
:05:16. > :05:19.York. I couldn't make the call back, but they pushed it back, which they
:05:20. > :05:22.don't normally do and I met the producers on the `` any director,
:05:23. > :05:25.and I was cast. The Aurora Borealis, known as the
:05:26. > :05:28.Northern Lights, has made a rare appearance over the Channel Islands.
:05:29. > :05:32.Jersey photographer Marc Whitehead was at Gronez in the North West of
:05:33. > :05:35.the island last night when he captured it on camera. It was his
:05:36. > :05:42.first attempt at night photography when he spotted the red glow.
:05:43. > :05:47.Initially I came up to try and get the Milky Way. While capturing
:05:48. > :05:54.that, I noticed a small glow in the distance. Every shot I took, it was
:05:55. > :05:58.getting brighter, to the point where I could take my eyes from the camera
:05:59. > :06:04.and see it with the naked eye. My been to realise I had caught it A
:06:05. > :06:07.friend told me. It was overwhelming. Amazing pictures.
:06:08. > :06:11.Newsnight is starting now on BBC Two with more on the crisis in Ukraine.
:06:12. > :06:14.The national weather follows here on BBC One next after the forecast for
:06:15. > :06:16.our part of the world with David Braine. From me, goodnight and have
:06:17. > :06:23.a good weekend. Braine. From me,
:06:24. > :06:29.Good evening. It is official, certainly for Guernsey ` the wettest
:06:30. > :06:32.winter for well over 100 years. Into the weekend, there is some dry
:06:33. > :06:37.weather to be had, although there is more rain heading our way on Sunday.
:06:38. > :06:43.Tomorrow is rather cloudy. There might be a few showers around. We
:06:44. > :06:47.could have some brightness. Any shells and `` any shells this
:06:48. > :06:54.evening will fade away, leaving lengthy spells. It is going to turn
:06:55. > :06:58.quite cold. Those winds continue to drop. It has been a blustery day
:06:59. > :07:02.today across the islands. Tomorrow we will have some showers, some
:07:03. > :07:10.sunshine. In between, some bright weather. Not very warm, seven
:07:11. > :07:14.degrees the top temperature. On Sunday we have increasing amounts of
:07:15. > :07:18.cloud and the breeze starts to get going again. After a fine start on
:07:19. > :07:27.Sunday, we find the cloud increasing. Monday and Tuesday both
:07:28. > :07:30.look similar. Expect showers on Monday, blustery south`west winds
:07:31. > :07:35.and some of the showers quite heavy. Nine degrees is the top temperature.
:07:36. > :07:40.weekend summary for London. Now time for the National forecast.
:07:41. > :07:48.Good evening, if you are a meteorologist, tomorrow is the first
:07:49. > :07:52.day of spring. But mother nature has little regard for such labels. That
:07:53. > :07:57.is one explanation for why spring starts with a touch of frost and
:07:58. > :08:04.fog. Sunny spells on Saturday before outbreaks of rain from the West on
:08:05. > :08:07.Sunday. Already a lot of cloud out West but before that, we have to get
:08:08. > :08:12.rid of this cloud across the East which is rather stubborn and brings
:08:13. > :08:14.outbreaks of rain across parts of East Anglia and the far South East.
:08:15. > :08:15.Scattered