:00:11. > :00:13.Armed officers are currently dealing with a situation
:00:14. > :00:17.Police were called to Le Marais in St Clement after reports of a man
:00:18. > :00:22.Negotiators are at the scene and police say the man involved is
:00:23. > :00:28.Gavin Tate lives at Les Marais and gave us this update.
:00:29. > :00:35.I just went out into the stair well and the police told me to get back
:00:36. > :00:40.into my flat. When I look out the window, there is lots of people and
:00:41. > :00:45.police down the bottom. There is police cars and people looking out
:00:46. > :00:50.wondering what is going on. We will bring you more on that as we get it.
:00:51. > :00:52.Jersey's Treasury Minister's defended budget plans for next year
:00:53. > :00:55.` despite claims there could be a shortfall of over ?90 million.
:00:56. > :00:58.Senator Philip Ozouf was accused today of being too optimistic with
:00:59. > :01:00.forecasts of how much money the States makes.
:01:01. > :01:03.Balancing the books ` that's the job of this man, the Treasury
:01:04. > :01:07.But the books aren't looking that balanced with a multi`million pound
:01:08. > :01:10.Today he faced questions in the States today over
:01:11. > :01:13.when he became aware that there'd be a shortfall between money coming
:01:14. > :01:18.Deputy Le Fondre says politicians should have been told
:01:19. > :01:30.We have had a significant down turn in the income forecast, particularly
:01:31. > :01:36.for 14 and 15 and I think for 13, 14 and 15 it is something like ?95
:01:37. > :01:40.million. The cop certains are if we had followed the prudent approach,
:01:41. > :01:45.the view is that we probably wouldn't be facing the level of
:01:46. > :01:49.difficulty that we are either about to face or are presently facing.
:01:50. > :01:51.Senator Ozouf's likened sorting Jersey's budget to predicting the
:01:52. > :01:55.weather ` the further ahead you try to forecast what will happen, the
:01:56. > :01:59.The first financial forecasts for the Budget 2015 were made
:02:00. > :02:02.around three years ago, but it was only in June this year that the
:02:03. > :02:12.Forecasts when you come to the actual will be different and we have
:02:13. > :02:18.known there has been huge turmoil in the international markets, which has
:02:19. > :02:28.The budget debate income is reduced. e is
:02:29. > :02:33.Despite the shortfall between money coming in and
:02:34. > :02:35.politicians spending, the Treasury Minister remains optimistic,
:02:36. > :02:39.For the first time, Jersey's Care Inquiry into historic abuse has
:02:40. > :02:41.heard anonymous testimony from a woman who was in residential care.
:02:42. > :02:44.She told the panel, girls as young as six were made to
:02:45. > :02:47.work in a knitwear factory next to the Sacre Coeur children's home
:02:48. > :02:50.and she explained how they were punished if they made noise.
:02:51. > :02:54.Mrs A spoke to the panel from behind a screen which shielded her identity
:02:55. > :02:59.She described how she was sent to Sacre Coeur orphanage on two
:03:00. > :03:03.The worst punishment she'd experienced was having her bed sheet
:03:04. > :03:06.pulled tightly over her head and tucked under the mattress
:03:07. > :03:14.She said that was done if, for instance, you made
:03:15. > :03:17.She said children were expected to stay silent `
:03:18. > :03:22.She told the panel that even now she can't
:03:23. > :03:27.Although it never happened to her, she says while she was in
:03:28. > :03:29.Sacre Coeur another girl told her she was locked in
:03:30. > :03:37.The girl told her she was on her own and it was a form of punishment.
:03:38. > :03:40.She says she came to terms with her experiences through counselling,
:03:41. > :03:43.which she thinks can help stop victims turning to alcohol and drugs
:03:44. > :04:00.14 hour shifts with no breaks is a danger to the public.
:04:01. > :04:03.That's the claim of Guernsey bus drivers who are threatening
:04:04. > :04:05.industrial action if their working conditions aren't improved.
:04:06. > :04:07.The news comes as the bus operator CT Plus says
:04:08. > :04:10.for the first time the majority of its drivers in Guernsey are local.
:04:11. > :05:14.One told me he recently worked from 5.30
:05:15. > :06:07.It's just for the company, it's been a bumpy ride.
:06:08. > :06:15.That is the news tonight. Here is David with the weather. More fine
:06:16. > :06:20.weather to enjoy across the Channel Islands and at the moment I can't
:06:21. > :06:24.see any rain falling at all as we head into the weekend. Fine and dry
:06:25. > :06:32.with warm sunshine tomorrow. Quite thick haze and slightly more of an
:06:33. > :06:38.easterly breeze developing. That will be noticeable inned ary and
:06:39. > :06:44.Guernsey. Temperatures down to 14 degrees tonight. Tomorrow after some
:06:45. > :06:50.patchy cloud it will brighten up. Maybe we will see a fresher easterly
:06:51. > :06:57.breeze and temperatures on the coast 18 and inland up to 21 degrees. That
:06:58. > :07:01.is 70 Fahrenheit. The easterly wind continues towards the weekend and it
:07:02. > :07:05.will bring more cloud and it may not be immediate, on the start of the
:07:06. > :07:10.day on Thursday, but there is more cloud developing in the afternoon.
:07:11. > :07:17.It is coming through channel and quite a fresh breeze as well. Friday
:07:18. > :07:21.and into the weekend similar temperatures, but more cloud coming
:07:22. > :07:26.our way. And that cloud thickens as we start the weekend. But still some
:07:27. > :07:28.sunshine at times. In a second, a full forecast for the UK, from the
:07:29. > :08:11.team hear, good night and I It was a lovely day across the
:08:12. > :08:16.country. There was hazy sunshine and notice the cloud was that bit
:08:17. > :08:19.thicker up to the