:00:00. > :00:00.brightness between the clouds. The outlook is mixed. Thank you.
:00:07. > :00:10.brightness between the clouds. The Guernsey's government is told "needs
:00:11. > :00:22.to get off its backside" and do more to encourage a new university in the
:00:23. > :00:26.island. The States needs to get off its backside and do something. This
:00:27. > :00:29.is far too important a project to just sit back and wait.
:00:30. > :00:32.The new plan for to teach Jersey job`seekers computer coding to get
:00:33. > :00:36.them back into work. Why people who suffer from a serious
:00:37. > :00:42.eye condition will no longer have to travel to Southampton for treatment.
:00:43. > :00:45.And find out why this cinema has been modified to mark World Autism
:00:46. > :00:57.Day. Good evening. Guernsey's government
:00:58. > :01:00."needs to get off its backside" and do more to encourage a new
:01:01. > :01:02.university in the island. That's according to the former Treasury and
:01:03. > :01:05.Resources Minister Charles Parkinson. He's slammed the States
:01:06. > :01:08.for dragging its feet and not doing enough to promote the potential
:01:09. > :01:16.economic benefit of a university in the island. The States say they have
:01:17. > :01:20.been working hard. Will the University of Guernsey ever
:01:21. > :01:23.have its own prospectus? The first postgraduate students were supposed
:01:24. > :01:27.to start in October, but that target looks likely to be missed. And now
:01:28. > :01:30.the island's former Treasury and Resources Minister has slammed the
:01:31. > :01:39.States for not doing enough to promote the potential economic
:01:40. > :01:43.benefits and dragging its feet. I just think this is far too passive.
:01:44. > :01:48.It is all very well having a committee meeting once a month and
:01:49. > :01:53.waiting for Susan Jackson to tell you what will happen next time. The
:01:54. > :01:57.States needs to get off its backside and do something. This is far too
:01:58. > :02:01.important a project to sit back and wait.
:02:02. > :02:04.This is where he thinks the new campus should go ` the Castel
:02:05. > :02:08.Hospital and the King Edward VII Hospital. He thinks the States
:02:09. > :02:09.should be doing more to improve the infrastructure and making the sites
:02:10. > :02:13.available. But today as young people plan their
:02:14. > :02:16.futures at a career show, the Commerce and Employment Minister
:02:17. > :02:22.insists the States is working as hard as it can to encourage a
:02:23. > :02:28.university. You have the Chief Minister, myself, the deputy chief
:02:29. > :02:31.minister and a cheap officers sitting on this group. We could not
:02:32. > :02:41.be doing more. All we are waiting for is for Susan to come up with the
:02:42. > :02:45.funding. `` the chief officers. So, we've heard both sides of the
:02:46. > :02:48.argument. The only one we haven't heard from is the company behind the
:02:49. > :02:51.scheme. Despite repeated attempts by the BBC, no`one from Susan Jackson
:02:52. > :02:55.Associates was available for comment.
:02:56. > :02:59.Lots of thoughts on this one from you on the BBC's social media pages
:03:00. > :03:01.today ` some looking forward to the prospect of a university in the
:03:02. > :03:06.island. Bengt Warleby says, this is great
:03:07. > :03:10.and can be even Greater. It can draw students from all of the EU.
:03:11. > :03:17.Diane Ozanne says, It's a very good idea. It would keep the students on
:03:18. > :03:20.island instead of training off island and not coming back.
:03:21. > :03:24.But Maureen O Halloran posted this one. As I live in a student City `
:03:25. > :03:27.Canterbury ` I fail to see how this will work in Guernsey. Not only
:03:28. > :03:33.accommodation should be thought about, but the medical situation and
:03:34. > :03:37.a host of other things, too. Thank you for those comments. Do keep them
:03:38. > :03:40.coming in. Meanwhile in Jersey, job`seekers are
:03:41. > :03:44.to be taught the basics of computer coding in the first scheme of its
:03:45. > :03:47.kind in a bid to help them into the digital sector. More than 1,800
:03:48. > :03:49.people are currently unemployed, according to latest figures The
:03:50. > :03:53.States hopes the technology industry will flourish in the island. It set
:03:54. > :03:59.up a body, Digital Jersey, with the aim of providing 2,000 extra jobs by
:04:00. > :04:02.2020. The new scheme will run for six weeks, including a substantial
:04:03. > :04:08.amount of hands`on work experience, as Sophie Sulehria reports.
:04:09. > :04:13.Coding. Computer language that to most seems complex and complicated.
:04:14. > :04:23.Yet it's something we use almost every day. Coding could be the
:04:24. > :04:27.programming of anything. From the skeleton of a website like this, to
:04:28. > :04:30.more complex systems. Now for the first time ever local
:04:31. > :04:36.job seekers will be taught the basics of coding, with the help of
:04:37. > :04:41.website designer Jordan Love. A lot of businesses that I have spoken to,
:04:42. > :04:50.they often require some maintenance of that side of their business. If a
:04:51. > :04:58.candidate has some web skills, they can help to maintain websites. In
:04:59. > :05:05.this day and age you need to be multitalented, so getting into
:05:06. > :05:09.digital is great. The six`week scheme was the idea of
:05:10. > :05:12.former head teacher Richard Rolfe to help some of Jersey unemployed
:05:13. > :05:20.people get into inline work. From his own experience, he thinks it's a
:05:21. > :05:24.realistic prospect. Over Christmas I decided to teach myself how to code
:05:25. > :05:30.because everyone was talking about it. I found it straightforward. I
:05:31. > :05:33.thought, if I can do it, anyone can. Back To Work, the government team
:05:34. > :05:40.helping islanders find employment, support the idea. They see a future
:05:41. > :05:44.for coders. It will give them the confidence to be able to approach
:05:45. > :05:49.employers and give them that foundation. It went teach them
:05:50. > :05:54.everything about coding, but it will kill `` it will give them enough of
:05:55. > :05:57.a background to help them with interviews and to get jobs in
:05:58. > :06:01.different areas that are useful to them.
:06:02. > :06:04.Following the week of training, delegates will have five weeks of
:06:05. > :06:06.work experience. Digital Jersey, who are developing the island's
:06:07. > :06:10.industry, say they welcome the scheme and that learning skills such
:06:11. > :06:17.as coding is essential for growth in the sector.
:06:18. > :06:20.There's been almost a five`fold increase in benefits fraud in
:06:21. > :06:23.Jersey, according to figures revealed by the States. Over the
:06:24. > :06:26.last five years the total amount of money identified as incorrectly or
:06:27. > :06:30.falsely claimed has gone up from just under ?100,000 in 2009 to more
:06:31. > :06:33.than ?450,000 last year. Some claims have been made in genuine error, but
:06:34. > :06:47.there have been 20 successful prosecutions in that time.
:06:48. > :06:51.It'll soon cost you a penny more to buy a stamp in Jersey. It's the
:06:52. > :06:54.first price increase in two years. The price of sending letters to the
:06:55. > :06:57.UK and within the island will increase to 56 and 46p
:06:58. > :07:00.respectively.The cost of posting small parcels will stay the same or
:07:01. > :07:03.reduce to help small businesses. Jersey Post say it's due to rising
:07:04. > :07:07.costs and falling postal volumes. People from Guernsey who suffer from
:07:08. > :07:10.a serious eye condition will no longer have to travel to Southampton
:07:11. > :07:12.for treatment. New equipment and staff have been employed to help
:07:13. > :07:16.patients suffering from Age`related macular degeneration. And as Mike
:07:17. > :07:22.Wilkins reports, despite it being a new service, it'll actually save
:07:23. > :07:25.taxpayers' money. This is what age`related macular
:07:26. > :07:28.degeneration or AMD does to your eyesight. The blurred vision will
:07:29. > :07:32.never go away. In fact the condition is the leading cause of blindness.
:07:33. > :07:37.People from Guernsey have to travel to Southampton for treatment, but
:07:38. > :07:43.not anymore. This machine and two specialists mean that patients can
:07:44. > :07:45.now be treated on island. Nick Le Poidevin has suffered from macular
:07:46. > :07:50.degeneration for just over three years. He told me he's had to fly to
:07:51. > :07:59.Southampton 30 times and won't miss the travelling. I had one occasion
:08:00. > :08:02.when I broke my leg at the end of 2012 and this doctor said I had to
:08:03. > :08:08.continue the course of injections and they have two be done between
:08:09. > :08:15.four and six week intervals. So there I was in January included on
:08:16. > :08:22.to the aeroplane in a cargo lift with my leg in plaster. It was not a
:08:23. > :08:29.pleasant experience, but it shows the inconvenience people have in
:08:30. > :08:32.having to go to Southampton. Now this is great news for the
:08:33. > :08:36.patients and their families, but at a time when the HSSD is trying to
:08:37. > :08:43.trim its spending, how can it introduce a new service? This week
:08:44. > :08:48.we have been paying Southhampton for the treatment and Social Security
:08:49. > :08:53.have been paying people for the travel assistance grant. By doing
:08:54. > :09:04.this on islands, we are saving around 50,000 pounds `` ?50,000.
:09:05. > :09:07.There are about a hundred people who currently stand to benefit from this
:09:08. > :09:11.new arrangement with 30 new cases each year. And as our population
:09:12. > :09:21.continues to age the staff here could become a lot busier.
:09:22. > :09:24.A Jersey hotel's been turned into a special cinema tonight for young
:09:25. > :09:27.islanders with autism. 11 to 25`year`olds will be able to watch
:09:28. > :09:32.the Oscar winning film Frozen in specially adapted surroundings. It's
:09:33. > :09:35.to mark World Autism Day, which hopes to raise awareness of the
:09:36. > :09:38.condition which can cause problems with social interaction and is
:09:39. > :09:40.thought to affect more than a 1,000 islanders. We sent Jen Smith to find
:09:41. > :09:44.out more. Welcome to the Grand Hotel in
:09:45. > :09:52.Jersey, or the Grand Cinema for one night only. This area will later be
:09:53. > :09:55.filled with young islanders who have autism, and the screening's been
:09:56. > :10:01.adapted to make it autism friendly. Joining me are three youngsters to
:10:02. > :10:06.tell me a little bit more about it. Christie, what is it like to
:10:07. > :10:22.normally go to a cinema? I don't normally go. Why is that? Because it
:10:23. > :10:26.is noisy. There will be people we know and the seating is more
:10:27. > :10:35.comfortable. Tell me, what is autism? It's a developmental
:10:36. > :10:43.condition that affects how a person relates to the world. It can cause
:10:44. > :10:49.anxiety and communication issues. Tell us, why is this evening
:10:50. > :10:55.important? We are encouraging everyone to do something for autism.
:10:56. > :11:01.It is a chance to get together, have a good evening and raise awareness
:11:02. > :11:07.of autism. This screening is for one night only, but there are autism
:11:08. > :11:17.friendly screenings in Jersey once a month. Time now for the weather.
:11:18. > :11:22.Now, we have seen a lot of dust coming up from the Sahara. We
:11:23. > :11:28.affected here? There has been a lot of fine dust
:11:29. > :11:33.lifted out of the desert and deposited around the country. The
:11:34. > :11:43.pollution is less of an issue for us. I looked at the two reported
:11:44. > :11:47.sites across Jersey and they are registering quite low. Any rain will
:11:48. > :11:52.wash away the pollution so we don't need to worry. There is rain
:11:53. > :12:04.tomorrow with patchy rain. It will be misty. Becoming brighter at the
:12:05. > :12:06.end of the afternoon. The low pressure will give us a view
:12:07. > :12:13.headaches over the next couple of days. Lower temperatures,
:12:14. > :12:18.increasingly unsettled and the risk of some rain. That is the weather
:12:19. > :12:22.system that will be across us tomorrow. Once that moves away, we
:12:23. > :12:32.will get westerly winds. With it it will bring fresh conditions. To
:12:33. > :12:38.night, some breaks in the clouds, but the rain nor come in later in
:12:39. > :12:44.the night. A wet start to the day tomorrow. Temperatures around 10
:12:45. > :12:51.Celsius. The rain will be around for a good part of the morning before it
:12:52. > :12:54.disappears during the afternoon. Winds will eventually become
:12:55. > :13:05.westerly of the temperatures up to 13 Celsius. Here are the coastal
:13:06. > :13:17.waters. Here are the times of high water. Not much for our servers, but
:13:18. > :13:22.it does pick up over the next few days. It will be up to a couple of
:13:23. > :13:30.feet and quite choppy. Friday should be a fine day with lots of sunshine.
:13:31. > :13:34.Showers possible on Saturday and more persistent rain returns on
:13:35. > :13:43.Sunday. Notice the change in the temperatures. It is much cooler and
:13:44. > :13:49.it continues in the same vein as we move through the next few days. For
:13:50. > :13:53.us though, no problems with Saharan dust pollution. That is it from us
:13:54. > :14:03.for now. Still to come on Spotlight: The
:14:04. > :14:06.labour of love which has taken three years. We'll meet the artist who
:14:07. > :14:09.created this spectacular mural at Buckfast Abbey.
:14:10. > :14:19.And say the dogs who've taken up the social media craze of selfies.
:14:20. > :14:23.A number of businesses in the South West have agreed to pay their staff
:14:24. > :14:27.the so`called living wage. Latest figures from the TUC suggest around
:14:28. > :14:30.one in four people in Dorset is paid below the living wage which which
:14:31. > :14:34.tries to go beyond the nationally set minimum wage. Simon Clemison
:14:35. > :14:39.reports. Government advertisements from 15 years ago may not seem
:14:40. > :14:45.dated, but look closely at the rate the minimum wage was set at when it
:14:46. > :14:53.was first introduced, and 1999 can appear a long time ago. The wages
:14:54. > :14:58.now getting on for double that and it was. It is currently more than ?6
:14:59. > :15:02.for people over 21. In October, it will rise by another 19p, and
:15:03. > :15:07.increase ministers are proud of, but even those who created the original
:15:08. > :15:11.benchmark think it is a blunt instrument and some employers could
:15:12. > :15:17.afford more. There are now calls for ?7 and 65p to reflect the cost of
:15:18. > :15:24.living. I think the minimum wage is not enough. The cost of living wage
:15:25. > :15:29.would be more appropriate. I am on the minimum wage for an 18`year`old.
:15:30. > :15:34.It is OK. It is survivable but it could be better. And some businesses
:15:35. > :15:39.are now choosing to give all staff at least the higher amount, although
:15:40. > :15:43.many earn more. This property maintenance Company based in Dorset
:15:44. > :15:50.says it wanted to treat its workers well and not drive up prices ``
:15:51. > :15:54.prices as a result and has found a way to do both. We do maintenance
:15:55. > :15:58.and repairs so we need to compete, but we are confident that we can do
:15:59. > :16:07.it and paid a living wage. Our nurse working in this counsel get the
:16:08. > :16:13.same... An argument campaigners say is familiar. A lot of people say
:16:14. > :16:17.that if the national wage comes and there will be job losses and that is
:16:18. > :16:21.not true and it is not true for the living wage. Some businesses are
:16:22. > :16:26.really struggling in terms of cash flow, but the situation is
:16:27. > :16:31.definitely improving, so the ability of firms to embrace the living wage
:16:32. > :16:41.has got to increase. There is a will if they can find a way. Where does
:16:42. > :16:44.that leave the minimum wage? There's growing concern over the
:16:45. > :16:47.future of a number of shelters for desperate and vulnerable women. It's
:16:48. > :16:50.been confirmed that Devon County Council has withdrawn funding from
:16:51. > :16:57.three key centres in Exeter. It's all part of a rethink on the way
:16:58. > :17:01.services are provided. This 27`year`old woman is one of 18
:17:02. > :17:08.residence at eight homeless hostel that has lost funding. She is losing
:17:09. > :17:13.what she has come to call home. I've got no other options. I've got
:17:14. > :17:17.nowhere else to go. It all depends on what happens, but I'd don't have
:17:18. > :17:22.anywhere that ICANN go and stay, so at the moment `` that ICANN go and
:17:23. > :17:27.stay, so at the moment but do not know what to do. We have been
:17:28. > :17:32.thinking of anything we can do, like fundraising, anything we can do to
:17:33. > :17:37.raise money to try and get the funding. What ever we could have
:17:38. > :17:41.done we would have never have raised enough money to have been able to
:17:42. > :17:48.get the funding also we would do anything to save this place. For 15
:17:49. > :17:52.years, a safe place has been provided for women between 16 and
:17:53. > :17:55.59, often with social issues alongside their homeless
:17:56. > :18:01.predicament. Another casualty is this centre, a
:18:02. > :18:02.supportive housing project for women and their babies. In a statement,
:18:03. > :18:15.the group said... It is all down to a culture change
:18:16. > :18:21.in the way services are provided, with much more emphasis on outreach
:18:22. > :18:27.and community. After 37 years, this week saw the end of the road for
:18:28. > :18:32.this refuge for women must with its funding having been withdrawn. There
:18:33. > :18:37.are serious concerns. Jeanette is a survivor of abuse and now a
:18:38. > :18:43.volunteer. I really hope that this is not the case. This is not the
:18:44. > :18:51.reason why people sit up and take note. Let's try and prevent that.
:18:52. > :18:53.Accommodating displaced residents has meant more pressure on an
:18:54. > :18:59.already overstretched housing authority. I am not saying this is
:19:00. > :19:02.comfortable. We are as cut and is devastated by government funds as
:19:03. > :19:07.anybody. But we will do our best to cope with it. No`one from Devon
:19:08. > :19:11.County Council was available for interview, but a statement said that
:19:12. > :19:15.the new providers would continue to support those who needed it him and
:19:16. > :19:18.expected to help more people than the previous providers were able to
:19:19. > :19:32.because of the change. The Council also stressed that funding has been
:19:33. > :19:36.cut, merely transferred. A mural the size of a small house
:19:37. > :19:39.has been unveiled at Buckfast Abbey in South Devon today. It's the
:19:40. > :19:43.creation of Mother Joanna Jamieson, a former abbess and it tells the
:19:44. > :19:47.story of how monks rebuilt the abbey a century ago. It is the culmination
:19:48. > :19:50.of three years of work, one leading art critic has described it as
:19:51. > :20:03.stupendous. Our reporter Anna Varle has been to take a look.
:20:04. > :20:09.An abbey which has stood the test of time and was built by the hands of
:20:10. > :20:15.the monks who lived here three centuries old stop today, their
:20:16. > :20:26.craftsmanship is commemorated in a mural stretching many feet. There is
:20:27. > :20:34.a saying that... In other words, every small thing makes a large
:20:35. > :20:39.thing. And a large painting it certainly is. It has taken the
:20:40. > :20:44.artist years to complete, and this is the first time she had seen all
:20:45. > :20:48.panels come together on one board. It is an extraordinary experience.
:20:49. > :20:53.It has it's own life. It is going to speak to people in its own language.
:20:54. > :20:58.The mural tells the story of how it took a team of monks 32 years to
:20:59. > :21:04.rebuild the Abbey a century ago. Picking this has been hugely
:21:05. > :21:09.significant `` I think this is usually significant, and it is
:21:10. > :21:14.in this type of environment. It is in this type of environment. It is
:21:15. > :21:20.all part and parcel of our family. Today, many came to see it unveiled,
:21:21. > :21:26.including a television star. I have seen work in progress on these
:21:27. > :21:33.panels. It is an extraordinary achievement. I'd just think it is
:21:34. > :21:41.absolutely wonderful. The mural were `` the mural will celebrates the
:21:42. > :21:48.upcoming millennium year. Some fantastic work there, isn't the
:21:49. > :21:58.question at `` isn't it? You can see all of the detail. Lots more
:21:59. > :22:01.pictures on our Facebook page. Now, the rise of the so`called
:22:02. > :22:05.'selfie' has been evident all over social media. You may have seen the
:22:06. > :22:09.recent no make`up selfies to raise money for a breast cancer charity.
:22:10. > :22:12.To give you a bit more of an idea, here are some we prepared earlier
:22:13. > :22:16.for you at Spotlight. These are members of the team who work behind
:22:17. > :22:20.the scenes and took these pictures on their mobile phones. Well, the
:22:21. > :22:23.selfie concept has been taken to a whole new level as our North Devon
:22:24. > :22:31.reporter, Andrea Ormsby's been discovering.
:22:32. > :22:36.This woman is on her way back from work. As well as being a
:22:37. > :22:40.physiotherapist, she is a keen volunteer for a local charity. I'm
:22:41. > :22:48.sitting at home on a Sunday evening and we were winding down and my
:22:49. > :22:55.phone was plaguing me about alerts from friends about their no makeup
:22:56. > :23:03.selfies. It gave her an idea. Good boy! Selfies of Charlie and paper
:23:04. > :23:15.were soon online. Come in for a close`up. The boy! We thought, why
:23:16. > :23:22.should humans have all the five `` all the fun? We took the photographs
:23:23. > :23:25.and posted our selfie and renominated our family and friends
:23:26. > :23:33.who were dog lovers as well to post their pictures on Facebook and on
:23:34. > :23:36.the website and to donate ?3 to our charity and we were staggered by the
:23:37. > :23:54.response that we got. Within an hour, there were nearly 50
:23:55. > :23:59.dog selfies, all raising crucial funding. We have raised just over
:24:00. > :24:04.?400, which saves a dog for a month. It puts a dog safe for a month. That
:24:05. > :24:09.is absolutely fabulous. Even more so, it gets people hitting the
:24:10. > :24:13.website, hitting Facebook, so they see all of our dogs that need homes
:24:14. > :24:19.as well, which is just brilliant. And they have a bit of fun at the
:24:20. > :24:24.same time. There may be a few of you who say this cannot really be called
:24:25. > :24:32.eight selfie. But who is Paul's really are that nimble?
:24:33. > :24:38.Very cute. They had a bit of help there. They loved it, didn't they?
:24:39. > :24:40.Time for a look at the weather with David.
:24:41. > :24:44.there. They loved it, didn't they? Time for a You take a quick selfie
:24:45. > :24:54.well of `` what I'd get Around. That is the setup really for
:24:55. > :24:59.the next couple of days. Cloudy conditions and rain at times. It is
:25:00. > :25:06.somewhat cooler as well. A bit of a change. We are getting Atlantic air
:25:07. > :25:11.from the east or South East, and now the area of low pressure is going to
:25:12. > :25:18.take charge. That stripe of clouds covering most of Britain, giving us
:25:19. > :25:21.a few showers. A weather system is just rippling across the South West
:25:22. > :25:26.of England. This is lunch time tomorrow. Think by Friday that will
:25:27. > :25:32.be be best date before we see outbreaks of rain settling in.
:25:33. > :25:36.Incidentally for us, there has been no air pollution problems today.
:25:37. > :25:41.There might have been a bit of dust on the cars I'm move right across
:25:42. > :25:47.the South West, lots of reports of it being low. The rain has now
:25:48. > :25:51.petered out but there is more to come later on this evening. This was
:25:52. > :25:56.earlier on this evening. Clouds in the sky, a bit blue here and there,
:25:57. > :26:00.but actually, quite nice along the north coast of Devon. The north
:26:01. > :26:05.coast of Somerset has had some good weather as well, with the highest
:26:06. > :26:13.temperatures being 17 or 18 degrees. It still looks quite pleasant there.
:26:14. > :26:17.Change is afoot. The surf has been a bit disappointing over the last two
:26:18. > :26:20.days. It will pick up as we head into the weekend. Some bright
:26:21. > :26:24.weather around tomorrow morning, but for most of us, it will be a wet
:26:25. > :26:28.start to the day tomorrow morning. The rain peters out for a wild, but
:26:29. > :26:37.returned towards dawn tomorrow morning. Overnight temperatures come
:26:38. > :26:42.up quite mild, really. Tomorrow, a wall of blue. It is wet for much of
:26:43. > :26:45.the day for most of us. The rain band will begin to peter out
:26:46. > :26:53.eventually for parts of Devon and Cornwall. Temperatures will probably
:26:54. > :26:58.get up to 12 or 13 degrees here. Further east, 13 or 14 will be the
:26:59. > :27:01.top temperature we can expect tomorrow. After some patchy rain in
:27:02. > :27:02.the morning for the Isles of Scilly, it will be bright and dry in the
:27:03. > :27:14.afternoon. Times of high water. The surf will pick up. Two feet
:27:15. > :27:19.clean on the north coast morrow afternoon. The coastal waters
:27:20. > :27:27.forecast. Patchy rain with moderate visibility. More clouds and drizzle
:27:28. > :27:34.on Saturday. Persistent rain on Sunday. Have a good evening. Back to
:27:35. > :27:38.you. Some rain in the forecast, but there is some very cheerful spring
:27:39. > :27:43.photographs from you and the spotlight Facebook page at the
:27:44. > :27:47.moment. Have a look at those. They will cheer you up. Tonight.