10/07/2014 BBC Channel Islands News


10/07/2014

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Good evening. all from us. A

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Fewer people are coming to Jersey on holiday despite recent multh`million

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pound advertising campaigns. 6, 00 fewer tourists visited the Hsland

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last year than in 2012. It's the second year in a row that Jdrsey has

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seen a drop in visitors frol the UK ` their main market. Now totrism

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bosses are setting their sights further afield.

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When the sea is glistening and the sun is shining in Jdrsey,

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you may ask, why would you holiday anywhere else?

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Too much expense. Perhaps lower the flights of price. Elsewhere in

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Europe is so cheap. Although these loyal tourists choose

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Jersey year after year ` Last year there were just

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over 680,000 visitors. That's 6,500 fewer than

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the year before. The lowest number recorded

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since 2010. The decline in visitors to Jersey

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has been noticed by Paolo Crolla. He?s worked in the restaurant

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of this hotel for the last three years after he

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had to close his own restaurant due I think they could step up ` little

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more. Something has been discussed for a long time. It is a sh`me to

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say, but they are trying to do something about it now.

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Only half of the beds on the island were filled last year.

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And with a dip in UK visitors ` Jersey's biggest market ` for the

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second year in a row, tourism bosses are looking at investing more and

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The main tour operator who brings our Danish business in is planning

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to words cruise operation bx which they bring people in by air and then

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return on a cruise. With moves to new potential markets and e`rly

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signs of a better season thhs year, the tourism industry is feeling

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optimistic. A Jersey bank has hired expdrts to

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find out how details from 20,000 customers were leaked

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to journalists. Kleinwort Benson is investigating

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after the Guardian newspaper said it has information on many celdbrities

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and a UK government minister linked The information was provided to

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the Guardian by the US`based International Consortium

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of Investigative Journalists, Beachgoers

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in Guernsey are being warned There's an official warning about

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blue jellyfish after some w`shed up at Portelet with other sightings

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at Perelle, Cobo and in Alddrney. The blue jellyfish has tendrils that

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are about a metre long Guernsey's Treasury Minister has

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given his strongest hint yet that a Goods and Services tax cotld be

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introduced. Gavin St Pier revealed last week

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the States went ?25 million over budget last year and said GST may

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be a way to pay for it. It was back in 2008 that Jersey

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brought in GST on almost all items and services

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that were bought and sold. Since then it's raised around ? 47

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million for the States' coffers So the benefit to

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the government is obvious. But what about everyone elsd?

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Clare Burton reports. Jose Co`op on a summer's morning.

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Customers are used to paying 5% more for their groceries. The colpany is

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used to topping up their bills. But at first, it had a big impact. It

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was a process, really. It took six months' worth planning to gdt the IT

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system straight and organisd changing shells labels. It cost is

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between 50000 and 100,000 to introduce it. Many customers who

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shop online have to pay GST when their parcels arrive, too. Jersey

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Post has had to process thel all. It requires additional processors. Will

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probably employ two more people to process the packages. When customers

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get used to the GST, they c`n pre`clear their packages. Often we

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have to send them a note to say the package has arrived. What Jdrsey

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Post and the Co`op have in common is that they are big businesses with

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resources to deal with a big change. For smaller businesses, tax

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changes can be complicated `nd costly. This tax expert says that

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Guernsey businesses, big and small, should get ready for a whold lot of

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admin. They need to look at it from a pricing side and also the

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administration side because they will have to complete quartdrly GST

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returns to pay over the net balance of the government. There is a burden

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pricing and on administration. And busy, this take them away from doing

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what they do best, running their business. `` and obviously this

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takes them away. And it can affect the bottom line. People spend less.

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If you give them less to spdnd, they will spend less. There are lots of

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families on stretched budgets and GST will eat into disposabld income

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and people will have to budget. Balancing the state' budget is at

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the forefront of the Treasury's mind. A `` announcement on the

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budget is near at hand. We were suddenly being keephng an

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eye on that. That's the news. Here is the weather.

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Good evening. I have a couple of questions about when it is going to

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rain. I can't see a lot of wet weather. There may be a few showers

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on Saturday night it is Sunday. And not of cloud tomorrow, no r`in but

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it is dry. This loss of clotd out here might produce a few showers. It

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is a long way away and it is a weak feature. Maybe just a coupld of

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overnight showers on Saturd`y and Sunday. For tonight, the cloud will

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come and go. Thickening clotd arriving towards dawn. Quitd a warm

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start to the day tomorrow. Puite quickly, those temperatures will get

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back up to 19 or 20 degrees. Quite a lot of cloud, breaking nicely in the

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afternoon. More cloud overnhght and into Saturday. Saturday will see

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quite a bit of cloud around. That cloud sick enough to see a few spots

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of rain. `` that cloud sick enough. This is the UK forecast.

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Good evening. We had stark contrasts in our weather today for most of us

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we had sunshine and it was warm 25 in Glasgow, 27 Attlee on Solent

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Just 14 under this cloud back. We've had quite a brisk breeze and

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torrential rain at times. Thunderstorms across East Anglia,

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Essex and Kent. Parts of London That's meandering at the moment It

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is edging into Lincolnshire, parts of Yorkshire. It is going to bring

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further downpours throughout the evening. Nasty conditions on the

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roads with spray and warm. Elsewhere bar the odd shower, a drier, clearer

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night. Mist and fog around. A chilly in the Scottish glens. Fog for the

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East Coast. Sea fog could plague eastern areas tomorrow. More cloud

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as the rain slowly eases away. It is quite dry, but by the end of

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tomorrow, the rain for the weekend is knocking on the

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