:00:00. > :00:10.Good evening. all from us. A
:00:11. > :00:13.Fewer people are coming to Jersey on holiday despite recent multh`million
:00:14. > :00:18.pound advertising campaigns. 6, 00 fewer tourists visited the Hsland
:00:19. > :00:22.last year than in 2012. It's the second year in a row that Jdrsey has
:00:23. > :00:26.seen a drop in visitors frol the UK ` their main market. Now totrism
:00:27. > :00:29.bosses are setting their sights further afield.
:00:30. > :00:37.When the sea is glistening and the sun is shining in Jdrsey,
:00:38. > :00:43.you may ask, why would you holiday anywhere else?
:00:44. > :00:51.Too much expense. Perhaps lower the flights of price. Elsewhere in
:00:52. > :00:53.Europe is so cheap. Although these loyal tourists choose
:00:54. > :00:56.Jersey year after year ` Last year there were just
:00:57. > :00:58.over 680,000 visitors. That's 6,500 fewer than
:00:59. > :01:01.the year before. The lowest number recorded
:01:02. > :01:07.since 2010. The decline in visitors to Jersey
:01:08. > :01:10.has been noticed by Paolo Crolla. He?s worked in the restaurant
:01:11. > :01:12.of this hotel for the last three years after he
:01:13. > :01:27.had to close his own restaurant due I think they could step up ` little
:01:28. > :01:34.more. Something has been discussed for a long time. It is a sh`me to
:01:35. > :01:36.say, but they are trying to do something about it now.
:01:37. > :01:39.Only half of the beds on the island were filled last year.
:01:40. > :01:42.And with a dip in UK visitors ` Jersey's biggest market ` for the
:01:43. > :01:45.second year in a row, tourism bosses are looking at investing more and
:01:46. > :02:02.The main tour operator who brings our Danish business in is planning
:02:03. > :02:07.to words cruise operation bx which they bring people in by air and then
:02:08. > :02:11.return on a cruise. With moves to new potential markets and e`rly
:02:12. > :02:12.signs of a better season thhs year, the tourism industry is feeling
:02:13. > :02:16.optimistic. A Jersey bank has hired expdrts to
:02:17. > :02:19.find out how details from 20,000 customers were leaked
:02:20. > :02:21.to journalists. Kleinwort Benson is investigating
:02:22. > :02:24.after the Guardian newspaper said it has information on many celdbrities
:02:25. > :02:28.and a UK government minister linked The information was provided to
:02:29. > :02:32.the Guardian by the US`based International Consortium
:02:33. > :02:36.of Investigative Journalists, Beachgoers
:02:37. > :02:41.in Guernsey are being warned There's an official warning about
:02:42. > :02:47.blue jellyfish after some w`shed up at Portelet with other sightings
:02:48. > :02:51.at Perelle, Cobo and in Alddrney. The blue jellyfish has tendrils that
:02:52. > :02:54.are about a metre long Guernsey's Treasury Minister has
:02:55. > :03:01.given his strongest hint yet that a Goods and Services tax cotld be
:03:02. > :03:03.introduced. Gavin St Pier revealed last week
:03:04. > :03:07.the States went ?25 million over budget last year and said GST may
:03:08. > :03:11.be a way to pay for it. It was back in 2008 that Jersey
:03:12. > :03:14.brought in GST on almost all items and services
:03:15. > :03:19.that were bought and sold. Since then it's raised around ? 47
:03:20. > :03:25.million for the States' coffers So the benefit to
:03:26. > :03:27.the government is obvious. But what about everyone elsd?
:03:28. > :03:45.Clare Burton reports. Jose Co`op on a summer's morning.
:03:46. > :03:49.Customers are used to paying 5% more for their groceries. The colpany is
:03:50. > :03:55.used to topping up their bills. But at first, it had a big impact. It
:03:56. > :04:00.was a process, really. It took six months' worth planning to gdt the IT
:04:01. > :04:08.system straight and organisd changing shells labels. It cost is
:04:09. > :04:14.between 50000 and 100,000 to introduce it. Many customers who
:04:15. > :04:27.shop online have to pay GST when their parcels arrive, too. Jersey
:04:28. > :04:31.Post has had to process thel all. It requires additional processors. Will
:04:32. > :04:36.probably employ two more people to process the packages. When customers
:04:37. > :04:40.get used to the GST, they c`n pre`clear their packages. Often we
:04:41. > :04:45.have to send them a note to say the package has arrived. What Jdrsey
:04:46. > :04:49.Post and the Co`op have in common is that they are big businesses with
:04:50. > :04:53.resources to deal with a big change. For smaller businesses, tax
:04:54. > :04:59.changes can be complicated `nd costly. This tax expert says that
:05:00. > :05:05.Guernsey businesses, big and small, should get ready for a whold lot of
:05:06. > :05:07.admin. They need to look at it from a pricing side and also the
:05:08. > :05:13.administration side because they will have to complete quartdrly GST
:05:14. > :05:19.returns to pay over the net balance of the government. There is a burden
:05:20. > :05:26.pricing and on administration. And busy, this take them away from doing
:05:27. > :05:31.what they do best, running their business. `` and obviously this
:05:32. > :05:38.takes them away. And it can affect the bottom line. People spend less.
:05:39. > :05:43.If you give them less to spdnd, they will spend less. There are lots of
:05:44. > :05:49.families on stretched budgets and GST will eat into disposabld income
:05:50. > :05:52.and people will have to budget. Balancing the state' budget is at
:05:53. > :06:03.the forefront of the Treasury's mind. A `` announcement on the
:06:04. > :06:09.budget is near at hand. We were suddenly being keephng an
:06:10. > :06:18.eye on that. That's the news. Here is the weather.
:06:19. > :06:24.Good evening. I have a couple of questions about when it is going to
:06:25. > :06:29.rain. I can't see a lot of wet weather. There may be a few showers
:06:30. > :06:35.on Saturday night it is Sunday. And not of cloud tomorrow, no r`in but
:06:36. > :06:39.it is dry. This loss of clotd out here might produce a few showers. It
:06:40. > :06:45.is a long way away and it is a weak feature. Maybe just a coupld of
:06:46. > :06:50.overnight showers on Saturd`y and Sunday. For tonight, the cloud will
:06:51. > :06:58.come and go. Thickening clotd arriving towards dawn. Quitd a warm
:06:59. > :07:03.start to the day tomorrow. Puite quickly, those temperatures will get
:07:04. > :07:12.back up to 19 or 20 degrees. Quite a lot of cloud, breaking nicely in the
:07:13. > :07:19.afternoon. More cloud overnhght and into Saturday. Saturday will see
:07:20. > :07:26.quite a bit of cloud around. That cloud sick enough to see a few spots
:07:27. > :07:36.of rain. `` that cloud sick enough. This is the UK forecast.
:07:37. > :07:47.Good evening. We had stark contrasts in our weather today for most of us
:07:48. > :07:54.we had sunshine and it was warm 25 in Glasgow, 27 Attlee on Solent
:07:55. > :08:00.Just 14 under this cloud back. We've had quite a brisk breeze and
:08:01. > :08:04.torrential rain at times. Thunderstorms across East Anglia,
:08:05. > :08:09.Essex and Kent. Parts of London That's meandering at the moment It
:08:10. > :08:14.is edging into Lincolnshire, parts of Yorkshire. It is going to bring
:08:15. > :08:18.further downpours throughout the evening. Nasty conditions on the
:08:19. > :08:24.roads with spray and warm. Elsewhere bar the odd shower, a drier, clearer
:08:25. > :08:31.night. Mist and fog around. A chilly in the Scottish glens. Fog for the
:08:32. > :08:37.East Coast. Sea fog could plague eastern areas tomorrow. More cloud
:08:38. > :08:42.as the rain slowly eases away. It is quite dry, but by the end of
:08:43. > :08:43.tomorrow, the rain for the weekend is knocking on the