31/03/2014 BBC Channel Islands News


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first look at the papers on the BBC News channel. Now on

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Good evening. Thank you for joining us. There could soon be CCTV cameras

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installed at Guernsey's new skate park, after graffiti was daubed all

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over it at the weekend. The facility in St Peter Port only opened last

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year, after years of campaigning and fund`raising by young people. The

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island's Culture and Leisure Minister, who oversaw the project,

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says he's furious at this attack. And as Mike Wilkins reports, it's

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not just case of scrubbing it off. Guernsey's new skate park, not even

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a year old, and already out of action. And this is the cause `

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graffiti sprawled all across the polished surface. It could take

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three days to remove it. And it's going to take a long time to clean

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it all off. They can't paint over it or use high`pressure water washers

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because they need to maintain the surface. This has taken council

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workers four hours and they still haven't managed to shift it. The

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authorities are being forced to buy a special substance which, it's

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hoped, will be more successful at removing the paint. And it's not

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just the skate park that has been targeted. These photos show other

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areas of St Peter Port that have been attacked. The island's Culture

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and Leisure Minister says he won't tolerate such behaviour. I believe

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it's a cry for help in some way. I'm not quite sure but there is

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absolutely no excuse for this kind of stupidity, and they are, they are

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just stupid people who do this. I have no time at all for this kind of

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behaviour, at all, and I think I share that with many people on this

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island. We don't want this kind of thing to happen. Guernsey Police are

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analysing CCTV footage images from the nearby Beau Sejour Leisure

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Centre. And the skate park is now considering getting cameras itself

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to prevent further attacks. More than 100 employees at the

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telecoms company Sure are facing major changes to their pension

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scheme. That's around half the workforce ` those employed when it

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was still run by the States as Guernsey Telecoms. Sure says the

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final salary scheme they signed up to is no longer sustainable, and

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plans to close it. Staff will still get the pension they accrued to

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date, but will be asked to join a new scheme moving forward. The find

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benefit scheme, which is a final salary `based scheme when you

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retire, is clearly not sustainable and we have to find solutions to

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address that, in a way that the pensioners and members are going to

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be... The value will reflect what they put in to date.

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A UK travel company that specialises in bringing holiday`makers to the

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Channel Islands has bought Preston Travel, which collapsed last month.

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3X Travel, based in Surrey, has bought the company and plans to

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re`launch as Preston Holidays. Preston Travel had been bringing

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around 20,000 visitors a year to Jersey. That's about 8% of the total

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number. 3X Travel, which specialises in short breaks, family and group

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holidays to the Channel Islands, has bought its entire assets, as well as

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its customer base. EasyJet bosses say they haven't

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ruled out further expansion in the Channel Islands, as the airline

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launched its Jersey to London Gatwick route this weekend. Here's

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the first aeroplane touching down to a water cannon welcome on Sunday

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morning. The low`cost carrier takes over the Gatwick route from Flybe,

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which stopped flying between Guernsey and Jersey to London due to

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rising costs. EasyJet says current conditions at Guernsey airport

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prevent it from taking over the service there. We looked closely at

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Guernsey and it presented an attractive opportunity to us. Our

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problem is that the runway length presented some operational

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restrictions, so for the moment it is not something we are able to

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consider, sadly, but we will see what happens in the future.

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Three people have put themselves forward as candidates in an Alderney

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States by`election. It follows the death of States member Paul Arditti

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earlier this year. The three facing the public vote are Tony Barnes, Lin

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Maurice and Norma Paris. Voting takes place on Saturday the 12th of

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April. Financial support from islanders has

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secured the future of Jersey Heritage, which looks after sites

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including Elizabeth Castle, La Hougue Bie and the Maritime Museum.

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The organisation faced a funding crisis a few years ago, and was

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forced to cut jobs and reduce opening times. Since then it's

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completed a three`year deal with the States, where both parties match

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funding 50/50. Emma Chambers has been speaking to Heritage bosses

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about the future, ahead of the start of this year's summer season. The

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future looked bleak for Jersey's biggest tourist attractions when the

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group in charge of them suffered a severe funding crisis, which left it

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?1 million a year short. Fast`forward four years, and now the

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future is looking a lot brighter. Even though the castles and museums

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still have reduced opening hours, the number of people visiting them

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has increased by 13%. That's because the three`year agreement Jersey

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Heritage made with the Government to match public funding with

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self`generated income is providing stability. There has been some

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reduction in the level of service we are providing, which in the future

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we will look to address back up, but that change has produced a great

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deal of money and investment from the States which has allowed us to

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deliver more change on the sites, which was a long time coming. That

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in turn has stimulated more use from tourists and locals. Over the last

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five years, the membership scheme has had the biggest boost, from 2000

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to 9000. It's this support from locals that's enabled a number of

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investments in the service for this year, including a move into digital

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technology. We have created what's known as a virtual pocket museum and

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it is a 3D app, actually an augmented reality app, which means

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we can upload parts of the collection in 3D files. From Celtic

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coins to an ongoing ice age project, Jersey's sites already span vast

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swathes of history. But the organisation is looking to the

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future, and a funding model based on much firmer ground.

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And that's the news from the Channel Islands tonight. Newsnight is

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starting on BBC Two. That will bring you to midnight. I will leave you

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with the weather. you to midnight. I will leave you

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with After the warmth of the weekend it hasn't been too bad today apart

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from thundery showers. Those will die away away and we will have

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thousand patches. Most of those showers have moved out of the way

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with just a small chance one to let behind for a large part of the night

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it is dry, then misty with some fog especially around Jersey first thing

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tomorrow morning. That will move out of the way readily through the

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morning and into the afternoon and then we will have spells of sunshine

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a 14 to 16 degrees the top temperature. Perhaps the best more

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cloud, but it will still be warm, temperatures up to 18 degrees on

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Wednesday, cooler on Thursday and Friday with a small chance of

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showers but otherwise mainly dry. In a second we will have the full UK

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forecast from us, good night. Some rain will clear the atmosphere

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on Thursday. More information on all of that. Hello, talk of the

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day-to-day has been the Saharan dust. If you have no idea what I'm

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talking about, here is an explanation for you. Essentially, in

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the last 24-hour is, there has been wind from the Saharan desert, you

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can get an idea of where it has been coming from, by the motion of the

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cloud on a satellite picture. Low pressure. The wind in the atmosphere

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picking up some of the dust from the Sahara desert, shunted across

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western parts of Europe, and all of it on Sunday night into Monday felt

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the ground for the some us were waiting to find some grubby cars,

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but that's the closest to desert whether we're going to get, apart

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from the dust. We've also had other pollutants in the atmosphere. In

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London and Manchester, pollution is high. You can get our environmental

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summary online. The skies have been washed out by the rain across

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western parts of the UK this evening. Heavy rain across parts of

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Wales, thunderstorms, and by the

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