11/07/2014 BBC Channel Islands News


11/07/2014

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has been talking to Will Gompartz. That's all from

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An earthquake of 4.2 magnittde has shaken the Channel Islands today.

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The epicentre was about sevdn miles to the west of Jersey

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but it's thought to be the biggest tremor of its kind for 80 ydars

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The big shock wave we can sde there is the actual earthquake as it

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occurred around about lunchtime and if we look in detail we can actually

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see a couple of further shocks much smaller which are little

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aftershocks. Measuring a magnitude of 4.2, today's earthquake hs the

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biggest recorded in the Channel Islands ` as far as the Met Office

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are aware of. It happened jtst before 1:00, weather forecasters had

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It happened just before 1:00, One of the things very diffhcult to

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predict, at quicks. Some me`sure, if you like, of experience now in terms

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of the bigger ones but even there, it is still a young science in terms

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of predicting when they will occur. Channel Islands and we've even had

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reports it reached as far as France and the southwest of England. The

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last time the Channel Islands It is really quite scary because you

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didn't know what it was, I thought perhaps one of the oil tanks had

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blown up. I think we heard ht more than the ones on the ground floor.

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Initially I thought somebodx was jumping upstairs and there was a

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bigger noise which felt likd the rift was caving in. I thought,

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everybody is going wrong. The whole place seem to shake and everybody

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ran around, saying, did everyone feel about.

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experienced a big earthquakd was back in the 1930s, measuring 3. .

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The islands were due another, as they can occur every 60 years.

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Forecasters say now the energy has been released ` no more are

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expected, well for the next 60 years anyway.

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Concerns are being raised over Guernsey's plans to deal with

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There are proposals to stord 2, 00 tonnes of it at St Sampson's Harbour

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But two former members of the Environment Board, Ddputies

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Tony Spruce and Barry Paint say there are still too many unknowns.

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We don't have a contract signed we have no idea how big the buhldings

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are going to be, there has been no environmental impact assesslent done

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for noise, water, air pollution according to what plant is hnstalled

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so we have a lot of concerns. Guernsey's Environment Minister has

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told the BBC that the Waste Disposal Plan is

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an effective report that does the job of highlighting

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areas where the

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waste strategy needs further work. There are plans to build three

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hundred homes, shops and parks on The gas storage cylinder thdre is no

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longer used and Jersey Gas want to build houses

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with 255 parking spaces there. Gas will be stored at La Collette

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instead. There's an urgent need for better

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customer service from Jersex's taxi The responses from over 3,000 people

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study by Jersey's Consumer Council shows nearly half of people surveyed

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felt customer care was fair to poor. This has been rejected by

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Jersey's Taxi Association. Tasers could be used by Jersey

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Police as early as next week. Around half

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of the force's 25 firearms officers have been trained to use

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the stun guns which the States voted A warning ` this report contains

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some flashing images at the start. 50,000 volts sent shooting hnto

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today, a cardboard cut`out hn a training room. But tasers whll soon

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to be a reality for Jersey police officers.

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The firearms team is only called out around 15 times ` year

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What we have given them is ` distant control measure which is a less

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lethal option. and very rarely actually fire their

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guns so they don't anticipate using tasers very often either. Btt their

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very existence in the systel has some people worried. Testing it

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today, Jersey Police insist the People can get hurt. You don't know

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who you are shooting at the person may have a weak heart. I hope there

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is consideration given to it and there will be an ambulance behind to

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safeguard that person because that person could also be an innocent

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person being shot. weapon is largely safe. Thex say

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officers will be coached in judging the right situations to deploy it

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and they are very accountable. Ten Every police officer employdd has a

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Judy to be able to justify `ny use of force at all. Had to justify even

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shouting at individuals and we will try everything we can, everxthing at

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our disposal before resorting to this.

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of Jersey's 25 firearms offhcers are already trained up so in thdory

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tasers could be used right now. Training for all should be complete

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by October so next year's annual report should reveal how much

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they're helping the fight against crime.

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The weather is next. I bit of a change tomorrow. We will

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see more cloud and that may produce more rain, particularly in the

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second half of the day. It will get some odd colour. The cloud `t the

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moment is just coming into the western side of Ireland and that is

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the cloud that will produce the rain. There is also some thhcker

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cloud coming in. It is thesd weather systems out here that will hntroduce

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the thicker cloud and outbrdaks of rain throughout the weekend.

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Overnight tonight, we will see some clear skies but in the small hours

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of the morning, just enough cloud to generate the odd light showdr.

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Overnight temperatures no lower than 15 degrees. Tomorrow, briefly some

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brightness but on the whole, it is cloudy and the cloud will thicken

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through the morning and into the afternoon to produce a little bit of

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rain. 20 degrees, the top temperature. Slow to clear on Sunday

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morning, then it will brighten up in the afternoon. Mainly dry btt cloudy

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for the rest of the week. for the outlook, well we will see

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showers on anditturnsfresheronMonday.

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west of the country whilst further east there will be sunshine breaking

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