02/07/2014 BBC Channel Islands News

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A split in the Church as politicians debate allowhng gay

We very much welcome Same sdts Marriage Bill we have been working

towards it for a very long time We feel it is important to aim for

ideals and don't just water them down to suit our preferences.

The beach trying to cover up its rocky patch.

And, the fabric of history ? a world renowned artwork is finally

complete, thanks to the hard work of Channel Islanders.

Churches in Jersey are divided over whether same`sex marri`ge

The States are due to debatd tomorrow a law to allow lesbian

and gay couples to marry in the island after England, Wales

The issue has concerned somd faith groups, while others are welcoming

One of England?s first same sex marriages.

In March this year, as the clock struck midnight,

couples across England and Wales were able to legally marry.

In Jersey, gay couples can dnter a civil partnership.

But now there are calls to allow them to marry.

One church group, who claim to represent a qu`rter of

They say God made marriage between a man and a woman,

We feel it is very important that we always aim for the ideals

and don't just water them down to suit our preferences.

Otherwise, we are really saxing ?Well, God,

The Quakers faith group, who worship in silence,

have been vocal in their support for same sex marriage for ddcades.

We've always thought that when a couple get together,

they get together and marry before God, and we are mere witnesses.

It's God that does the marrxing and nobody else with the cotple

So it shouldn't matter what kind of relationship the marriagd is

No, so as long as it's a loving committed relationship, no there

But many church goers are concerned about a law that allows gay couples

Faith groups wouldn't be forced to allow same sex marriage

But then not everyone wants to get married in a church anyway.

Christina Ghidoni went to mdet the politician who's pushing

With me is Deputy Sam Mezec, who brought the issue

Why do you think there should be same sex marriage

It is a basic principle of equality. This is the 21st century,

people's attitudes have changed We now know and understand that there

is nothing wrong with gay pdople. They are ordinary human beings, just

like anybody else, and their relationships are as legitilate as

anybody else's. So they shotld have an equal ability to take part in the

same institutions as everybody else. There is no reason why Jersdy should

be lagging behind the rest of the world. This does seem to have

divided the charge and faith groups in the island. Do you think it is an

issue which is giving against some beliefs in Jersey? Inevitably it

will be, but that is why I specifically said in my proposition

that there should be nothing in it to compel judges to have anx

involvement in things they don't want to be involved in. It hs

important that diversity of views are respected. Equally, thex have

got to respect the views of people who want to get married, and it

would be just as wrong for them to impose their views on gay and

lesbian couples as it would be for them to impose their views on

churches. The state has still got a backlog of issues to get through, so

we don't know whether it will be tomorrow they discussed Samd sets

Marriage Bill, or even next week. Jersey's financial companies made

just under ?1.2 billion last year. The figure was

a similar level to 2011 and 201 . The Survey of Financial Institutions

did show that the average bonus was slightly higher last year compared

to the year before. The Survey of Financial Institutions

did show that the average bonus was slightly higher last year compared

to the year before. High`speed broadband and a review of

taxes were discussed at Sark's meeting today.

The progress of Sark's future was discussed at their Midsummer Meeting

The assembly also took an early look at projected revenue

spending for 2015, which is expected to be up around 3% on this xear

There's now another choice of pitches for competitive football

The surface of the KG`Five 3G pitch has been approved by both FHFA

It'll give clubs a viable option over the winter months,

It allows this to be a real option for rugby and football. Last year,

both of them suffered with not being able to play, and we will bd able to

clear backlog if the clubs `re happy to use us.

Rocks that have blighted ond of Jersey's most popular be`ches

Diggers have been shifting tonnes of sand

along St Brelade's Bay to rdstore it to its former sandy glory.

The rocks emerged after the winter storms and,

fearing they'd put tourists off local businesses demanded action,

It will take more than buckdts and spades to cover these rocks, exposed

by the winter storms. It is an industrial scale solution to return

the beach to its best. It h`s that Magee slowed the business down. We

are delighted to see the lorries at long last doing something about it

in time for the school holidays Hopefully now we will recoup the

lost business and look forw`rd to a nice summer with a nice beach once

again. It has been disappointing for us because it has been diffhcult to

work, and terrorists have looked at brochures and expected something

different. We have had quitd a look of comments from visitors who have

been disappointed. We have had concerns and complaints along the

way, but we have been trying to hold firm and say that generally the

beaches will recover. Sound levels on all beaches have dropped as a

result of the storms. This beach is taking longer to recover. The rocks

have spread along more than two thirds of the beach. It will take

six days of moving sand at low tide to see it recover, making this trip

a little easier. You're watching the BBC

in the Channel Islands. Later in Spotlight with Justin

and Rebecca: Stiff competition ` the company

investing millions in cardboard Almost 1,000 years on

from the Battle of Hastings and the crowning of a Frenchman

as the king of England, the tapestry which tells th`t

famous story is finally complete. The final part of the

Bayeux Tapestry has been produced And last night it was unveiled

for the people of Bayeux. From France,

David Earl sent this report. While the magnificent Cathedral

attracts more visitors, Baydux is Almost 70 meters long,

its 58 scenes depict the struggle between Harold and

William for the Crown of England. The only problem is,

the final panel, believed to depict the Coronation

of William I, has never been found. Unveiled by the Mayor of Baxeux

Patrick Gomont, the Alderney Bayeux Tapestrx Finale

is a community project created Its four scenes follow on

from the final panel of the Bayeux Tapestry, up until

William?s Coronation in Westminster Having the Alderney Bayeux Tapestry

Finale exhibited in the Musde de la Tapisserie is a great honour

for the people of Alderney. We share this heritage with the

Channel Islands. It is very amazing, and I am used that we have the final

story for the tapestry. However, for the creator,

Kate Russell and her team, The tapestry itself would h`ve been

done by many hands, we will never know how many. Because therd were

many different people and styles, our embroidery looks like theirs.

That makes it special. But ht is the immunity spirit it represents that

they love, and we know about that in Alderney.

The Alderney Bayeux Tapestrx Finale is on loan to the Musee de la

but it will feel pretty warl with higher humidity. A top tempdrature

of 24 degrees. Plenty of hazy sunshine, but a bit of mist later in

the day, which may turn to fog in the evening. We are finally

approaching the area of high pressure, and this line of cloud is

a weather system that produces more humidity as it briefly brushes past

asked during the course of tomorrow and into the early hours of Friday

morning. These weather systdms will produce some rain later in the day

for us, and becoming quite windy. Overnight the night, a light breeze

and clear skies. And maybe some low cloud appearing later in thd night,

but not too much of that, and overnight temperatures no lower than

14 degrees. Plenty of sunshhne tomorrow, albeit rather hazx, until

the afternoon when increasing amount of cloud will appear. It dods

introduce a fair amount of low cloud, and it will eventually turn

misty as we see low clouds become more extensive into the evening A

top temperature of 24 Celsits. So, much more unsettled into the

weekend. Saturday could be puite wet at first, telling more showdry as we

move into Sunday. Looking ahead to Friday on BBC radio

Jersey, the Chief Minister will take your questions. You can e`m`il us

with your questions. David Cameron says the "shocking and

saddening" failures by NHS services which led to the death of a boy from

Newton Abbot must never be repeated. Three`year`old Sam Morrish died

from severe sepsis The family's MP, Anne Marie Morris,

raised the case in the Commons Will the Prime Minister in sure that

the system of review in the NHS is radically overhauled to delhver

proper transparency and accountability in a timely way? This

family waited two years for justice! The honourable Ladx is

absolutely right to raise this tragic case, and our thoughts should

be with the parents of this boy It is absolutely shocking to sde a

whole succession of health services fail this family, and anyond who has

lost a child that young nosd how harrowing and dreadful this

experience is. She is absolttely right, we must learn from this case.

We must make sure this never happens again. Last week we launched a major

safety campaign to prevent these sorts of avoidable deaths.

There's a race against time in South Devon, to try and prevent

an historic woodland being destroyed by a deadly tree disease.

Around 100 acres will have to be felled in Churston, near Brhxham.

Johnny Rutherford met up with Chris Ligard from Torbay Co`st

and Countryside Trust, who lanage a large swathe of the affected area.

This is the growth, and abott 2 `30 acres of this woodland will have to

be failed. The portrait comlission has identified a deadly disdase in

this historic wood, and so `ll sweet chestnut trees have to be chopped

down to prevent any further spread. If we look up through these two

trees here, we can see what the disease looks like. It affects all

the needles, and the crown has died. That is what the fore Street

commission picked up when they were doing their aerial survey. The race

is now on to stop these per `` disease from spreading. The work

should be completed by the dnd of September. Many of the trees behind

me will have to be failed, so the area will be totally differdnt. What

will happen to the wildlife that live in the area? Part of the

ecological surveys we will be carrying out, we will be iddntifying

what wildlife we have and how best to manage it, and ultimatelx, if

there is nesting birds onto those trees will have to be left tntil

such time we can continue. @nd it is not just the 60 acres of growth

woodland that is affected. 40 acres of this estate in nearby farmland

will also need trees felling. A local farmer says it is a m`ssive

job. I do not think people understand how much effect ht will

have. It has taken nearly 100 years just for the broadleaf to grow

behind us, and over 20 years before the large. Felling the trees of the

easy part, it is growing thd new ones and all of the mainten`nce on

that side. New trees will bd planted in place, and it is hoped that sweet

chestnut that will regrow. @ccess to the woodland will be restricted

during the work, which starts within a month.

Now, the South West has an `bundance of market towns, but many are seeing

shops close down at an alarling rate, and are fighting for survival.

In fact a recent government review said they were at crisis pohnt.

But things aren't so bleak everywhere in the region, whth some

Sherborne in Dorset, for ex`mple, is bucking the trend, and boasts

Simon Clemison has been looking at how the high street therd is

Unlike when it was first buhlt centuries ago, you can now push your

child around the abbey and four wheels. Also, four wheels could take

you out of town and help yot up and down the aisles with your shopping.

But this area doesn't have ` big supermarket a few miles drive away,

and many believed that has helped keep the street alive. Together with

competition coming from onlhne traders, experts say the cake is

being divided into smaller pieces for traditional retailers. But there

are just a handful of empty shops here. Most tells are ringing. For

the owner of this coffee shop, that is because businesses are still in

one place. Once they come in town to go to the wine shop or the shoe

shop, they will go for a coffee or meet some friends, and that they

went to a superstar, they would do everything in one place and would

have not come into the town. There are chain stores and superm`rkets

here, but in the centre of town not on the outskirts, and plannhng

guidelines try to protect the town centre and stop anything th`t might

have an negative impact on ht, but in this case, they have man`ged to

stop a major supermarket before it has even put in an applicathon. In

short, it does not just that this area does not have a big store on a

ring road somewhere, it is that big stores and ring road don't get off

the drawing board, and that might be because of the strength of the

locals. Not everyone you medt thinks it is a bad idea. There would be

more variety. You can't get half as much as you can in these

supermarkets, whereas you c`n in bigger ones, so it is easier. IMI

parents and it is very cheap for kids and food. Have you missed out?

Yes. Many local politicians, though, are clear about what they w`nt to

see in their town. My understanding is, and the principle on whhch we

all work is, we utterly discourage edge of town and out of town retail.

We have a thriving high strdet. It is full of wonderful shops `nd we

want to see them continue. Whether this area of the will be thd same

tomorrow, no`one knows, but the area of yesterday is being preserved

There's concern that some schools in the South West won't be ready

in time to provide free meals for all four to seven`year`olds

government has given councils millions of pounds to help schools

But head teachers are warning that it's not enough.

Spotlight's Clinton Rogers has been to a school in Somerset to

This headteacher will have serious problems implementing the ndw school

meals policy. The old kitchdn at the ship Henderson primary school is now

a classroom. A growing school with 420 people needed all the tdaching

space it could get. Even if this school buys meals from an ottside

supplier, it will need to convert part of this haul to a servdr he,

and that will cost ?16,000, money the school does not have. The only

way we could do that, if we were to do that, would be to take it from

education staffing on the losing support staff, teaching staff, in

order to provide these meals. It is by no means the only school

struggling with this new idda. They reckon only about one third of

primary schools in Somerset still have their own kitchens, and the

County Council is planning to build one big central kitchen. Thd

question is, will it be ready in time? From September, all schools

will have to provide free school meals for infants. Schools like this

one, which have their own khtchens, are better placed to deliver that.

The government has given cotncils money to help implement the plan, ?1

million in the case of Somerset but that is about ?600,000 short of is

needed. Nutritionists say that from a health point of view, the idea is

a good one, but... Not everx school will have the facilities to provide

hot meals, and in those sittations, they will be providing things like

sandwiches, which just aren't high up enough on the nutritional value

list for a growing child for a lunch. Many schools are cle`rly

worried that what was promised free by the government will end tp

costing them money they don't have. The future of the economy

in one part of the region could be Millions of pounds are being

invested in the industry Atlas Packaging makes everything out

of cardboard, from tables and chairs Spotlight's North Devon reporter

Andrea Ormsby has been to h`ve The furniture is made of cardboard

here, and there is nothing cardboard can't make. This is where the ideas

happen. You would not normally expect us to get such excithng

things other cardboard. We started with this design, which is very

simple, but actually, it becomes a really comparable chair.

Surprisingly, just from one piece of cardboard. You can sit and relax all

day long. Does it feel solid? Rock solid. I am leaning back as far as I

can't. You can have it printed in any clues that you like. `` any

colours that you like. It is big business. Atlas Packaging is about

one of 450 cardboard packaghng plants in the UK, and one of the

biggest privately owned in the South West. Now in its 31st year, it

employs more than 125 peopld, and turnover is around ?70 millhon a

year. It is constantly investing its latest by is the only one in the

whole country. 18,000 boxes are produced in an hour in one process

and it is a fantastic piece of kit. We are really pleased with ht. Atlas

Packaging has big plans for the future. It is just bash road grade

has just one a new contract `` it has just won a new contract. I was

in college and die just finhshed at I did not know what I was doing an

eye just saw in `` and I'd just finished and I'd not know what I was

getting an assault in advertisement. It is an intdrest ``

what I was doing and isolatd in an advertisement. There are pl`ns to

push the turnover to ?25 million a year.

Lots of reaction about the rail lines being to costly.

Unbelievable, expect to be cut off next year then.

Of course they weren't going to build a new line.

Because it would cost stupid money and

the sea wall defences would still have to be maintained or yot run the

Thank you very much for all of your comments, and D please keep getting

in touch with us. Time for the weather. A beautiful day today. We

have had a lovely day and some good temperatures as well. Tomorrow, more

cloud around. I think it will be equally as warm. It is a very humid

day, much more humidity in the air, so it will feel comfortably warm. We

may get to 24 or even 25 degrees during the course of the dax

tomorrow. It does cloud over, and that is perhaps the saving grace for

high temperatures across thd South West. The cloud than we the moment

is high`level cloud. Pretty hazy today. A little light rain `cross

the west of Ireland. It will creep towards us very solely as a weak

feature overnight and through the day tomorrow. Increasingly cloudy

for most of us and increasingly humid. The big change comes on

Friday. A new area of low pressure and notice plenty of isobars on the

chart. We are back to some puite unsettled weather on Friday. Windy

conditions without breaks of rain, some places seeing outbreaks... We

have nothing much in the wax of all today. High class has made the

sunshine pretty hazy, but this was earlier today, it was beauthful

today. This is winter barlex, which is not far off from being rdady for

harvesting. It has been a lovely day also some great shots filmed by our

hammer man. `` cameraman. Please guys replaced by more in thd way of

cloud coming in during the course of the day tomorrow. There will be some

low clouds tomorrow around the Isles of Scilly. Some look`up comhng in

around Cornwall. Temperaturds could possibly get down into single

figures, but I do not think that is likely. A warm night, anywhdre from

10`13, the ever night temperatures. Let my cloud around.

22, 23, possibly even 24 degrees the top figure. A lot of cloud `round

for the Isles of Scilly. Not much coming out of the cloud, maxbe a few

showers. Some mist around. Times of high water, pendants, 901, Plymouth,

the 108, and a bit more surf, still not huge, but it is picking up and

becomes quite large while wd get to the end of the week. Rather choppy.

Here is because the warders `` here is the coastal waters forec`st.

Friday as a wet day. Might start dry but rather cloudy. Cooler and

showery on Saturday. A drop in the temperatures. Thank you. Don't

forget the policing debate hs getting underway shortly on BBC

radio Devon. That is it frol us We will