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first look at the papers on the BBC News channel. Now on | :00:00. | :00:13. | |
Good evening. Thank you for joining us. There could soon be CCTV cameras | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
installed at Guernsey's new skate park, after graffiti was daubed all | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
over it at the weekend. The facility in St Peter Port only opened last | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
year, after years of campaigning and fund`raising by young people. The | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
island's Culture and Leisure Minister, who oversaw the project, | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
says he's furious at this attack. And as Mike Wilkins reports, it's | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
not just case of scrubbing it off. Guernsey's new skate park, not even | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
a year old, and already out of action. And this is the cause ` | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
graffiti sprawled all across the polished surface. It could take | :00:44. | :00:54. | |
three days to remove it. And it's going to take a long time to clean | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
it all off. They can't paint over it or use high`pressure water washers | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
because they need to maintain the surface. This has taken council | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
workers four hours and they still haven't managed to shift it. The | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
authorities are being forced to buy a special substance which, it's | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
hoped, will be more successful at removing the paint. And it's not | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
just the skate park that has been targeted. These photos show other | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
areas of St Peter Port that have been attacked. The island's Culture | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
and Leisure Minister says he won't tolerate such behaviour. I believe | :01:21. | :01:27. | |
it's a cry for help in some way. I'm not quite sure but there is | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
absolutely no excuse for this kind of stupidity, and they are, they are | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
just stupid people who do this. I have no time at all for this kind of | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
behaviour, at all, and I think I share that with many people on this | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
island. We don't want this kind of thing to happen. Guernsey Police are | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
analysing CCTV footage images from the nearby Beau Sejour Leisure | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
Centre. And the skate park is now considering getting cameras itself | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
to prevent further attacks. More than 100 employees at the | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
telecoms company Sure are facing major changes to their pension | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
scheme. That's around half the workforce ` those employed when it | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
was still run by the States as Guernsey Telecoms. Sure says the | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
final salary scheme they signed up to is no longer sustainable, and | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
plans to close it. Staff will still get the pension they accrued to | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
date, but will be asked to join a new scheme moving forward. The find | :02:24. | :02:31. | |
benefit scheme, which is a final salary `based scheme when you | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
retire, is clearly not sustainable and we have to find solutions to | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
address that, in a way that the pensioners and members are going to | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
be... The value will reflect what they put in to date. | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
A UK travel company that specialises in bringing holiday`makers to the | :02:48. | :02:49. | |
Channel Islands has bought Preston Travel, which collapsed last month. | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
3X Travel, based in Surrey, has bought the company and plans to | :02:56. | :02:57. | |
re`launch as Preston Holidays. Preston Travel had been bringing | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
around 20,000 visitors a year to Jersey. That's about 8% of the total | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
number. 3X Travel, which specialises in short breaks, family and group | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
holidays to the Channel Islands, has bought its entire assets, as well as | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
its customer base. EasyJet bosses say they haven't | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
ruled out further expansion in the Channel Islands, as the airline | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
launched its Jersey to London Gatwick route this weekend. Here's | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
the first aeroplane touching down to a water cannon welcome on Sunday | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
morning. The low`cost carrier takes over the Gatwick route from Flybe, | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
which stopped flying between Guernsey and Jersey to London due to | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
rising costs. EasyJet says current conditions at Guernsey airport | :03:35. | :03:36. | |
prevent it from taking over the service there. We looked closely at | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
Guernsey and it presented an attractive opportunity to us. Our | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
problem is that the runway length presented some operational | :03:48. | :03:49. | |
restrictions, so for the moment it is not something we are able to | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
consider, sadly, but we will see what happens in the future. | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
Three people have put themselves forward as candidates in an Alderney | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
States by`election. It follows the death of States member Paul Arditti | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
earlier this year. The three facing the public vote are Tony Barnes, Lin | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
Maurice and Norma Paris. Voting takes place on Saturday the 12th of | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
April. Financial support from islanders has | :04:12. | :04:13. | |
secured the future of Jersey Heritage, which looks after sites | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
including Elizabeth Castle, La Hougue Bie and the Maritime Museum. | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
The organisation faced a funding crisis a few years ago, and was | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
forced to cut jobs and reduce opening times. Since then it's | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
completed a three`year deal with the States, where both parties match | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
funding 50/50. Emma Chambers has been speaking to Heritage bosses | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
about the future, ahead of the start of this year's summer season. The | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
future looked bleak for Jersey's biggest tourist attractions when the | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
group in charge of them suffered a severe funding crisis, which left it | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
?1 million a year short. Fast`forward four years, and now the | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
future is looking a lot brighter. Even though the castles and museums | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
still have reduced opening hours, the number of people visiting them | :04:57. | :05:03. | |
has increased by 13%. That's because the three`year agreement Jersey | :05:04. | :05:05. | |
Heritage made with the Government to match public funding with | :05:06. | :05:07. | |
self`generated income is providing stability. There has been some | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
reduction in the level of service we are providing, which in the future | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
we will look to address back up, but that change has produced a great | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
deal of money and investment from the States which has allowed us to | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
deliver more change on the sites, which was a long time coming. That | :05:26. | :05:32. | |
in turn has stimulated more use from tourists and locals. Over the last | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
five years, the membership scheme has had the biggest boost, from 2000 | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
to 9000. It's this support from locals that's enabled a number of | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
investments in the service for this year, including a move into digital | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
technology. We have created what's known as a virtual pocket museum and | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
it is a 3D app, actually an augmented reality app, which means | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
we can upload parts of the collection in 3D files. From Celtic | :05:57. | :06:04. | |
coins to an ongoing ice age project, Jersey's sites already span vast | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
swathes of history. But the organisation is looking to the | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
future, and a funding model based on much firmer ground. | :06:12. | :06:21. | |
And that's the news from the Channel Islands tonight. Newsnight is | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
starting on BBC Two. That will bring you to midnight. I will leave you | :06:28. | :06:29. | |
with the weather. you to midnight. I will leave you | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
with After the warmth of the weekend it hasn't been too bad today apart | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
from thundery showers. Those will die away away and we will have | :06:39. | :06:49. | |
thousand patches. Most of those showers have moved out of the way | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
with just a small chance one to let behind for a large part of the night | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
it is dry, then misty with some fog especially around Jersey first thing | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
tomorrow morning. That will move out of the way readily through the | :07:05. | :07:06. | |
morning and into the afternoon and then we will have spells of sunshine | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
a 14 to 16 degrees the top temperature. Perhaps the best more | :07:11. | :07:17. | |
cloud, but it will still be warm, temperatures up to 18 degrees on | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
Wednesday, cooler on Thursday and Friday with a small chance of | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
showers but otherwise mainly dry. In a second we will have the full UK | :07:27. | :07:28. | |
forecast from us, good night. Some rain will clear the atmosphere | :07:29. | :07:35. | |
on Thursday. More information on all of that. Hello, talk of the | :07:36. | :07:43. | |
day-to-day has been the Saharan dust. If you have no idea what I'm | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
talking about, here is an explanation for you. Essentially, in | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
the last 24-hour is, there has been wind from the Saharan desert, you | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
can get an idea of where it has been coming from, by the motion of the | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
cloud on a satellite picture. Low pressure. The wind in the atmosphere | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
picking up some of the dust from the Sahara desert, shunted across | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
western parts of Europe, and all of it on Sunday night into Monday felt | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
the ground for the some us were waiting to find some grubby cars, | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
but that's the closest to desert whether we're going to get, apart | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
from the dust. We've also had other pollutants in the atmosphere. In | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
London and Manchester, pollution is high. You can get our environmental | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
summary online. The skies have been washed out by the rain across | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
western parts of the UK this evening. Heavy rain across parts of | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
Wales, thunderstorms, and by the | :08:39. | :08:39. |