:00:00. > :00:11.Thank you very much. That is all from Edinbqrgh. There
:00:12. > :00:15.The difference in price for goods and services in the Channel Islands
:00:16. > :00:19.compared to the UK is growing, according to a new report.
:00:20. > :00:23.While petrol and diesel rem`in cheaper at 7p and 12p per lhtre
:00:24. > :00:28.alcohol is more expensive bx around 50p per pint of beer
:00:29. > :00:39.Meat is 16% more expensive `nd milk costs around 18p more for a pint.
:00:40. > :00:42.But the biggest difference hs in the cost of fruit and vegetables
:00:43. > :00:49.We are advised to eat five ` day for a healthy lifestyle.
:00:50. > :00:52.But can we afford to, as eating fresh fruit
:00:53. > :01:03.and veg is more expensive in the Channel Islands than the UK?
:01:04. > :01:07.To be healthy you have to e`t a lot of food but then on a pension,
:01:08. > :01:16.Every week I going it seems to go up all the time
:01:17. > :01:21.Things are more expensive so you have just got to accept it, really.
:01:22. > :01:24.A price comparison survey rdvealed fruit costs 35 percent more
:01:25. > :01:30.in Jersey than the UK and vegetables are 44 percent more.
:01:31. > :01:31.Guernsey prices were slightly cheaper than Jersey
:01:32. > :01:38.Pauline bought this market stall a couple of weeks ago.
:01:39. > :01:40.She says Jersey is more expensive because of the extra
:01:41. > :01:51.In the UK they have got challenges but
:01:52. > :01:53.In the UK they have got charges but
:01:54. > :01:56.maybe not as much because the buying power is more so they have got more
:01:57. > :01:59.accessibility to produce whdre as we have got to get it shipped here
:02:00. > :02:06.They will put the freight charge on, they will put the oil chargd on
:02:07. > :02:09.there are a lot of things that we have to consider.
:02:10. > :02:11.But even locally grown fruit and veg come at a cost.
:02:12. > :02:13.This farm shop has been in Catherine's family
:02:14. > :02:17.They sell local produce as luch as they can, but say they c`n buy
:02:18. > :02:26.We could buy cheaper from away.
:02:27. > :02:30.There are a lot of large colpanies growing in the island now who will
:02:31. > :02:35.be exporting at a low cost to give the UK a cheaper cost.
:02:36. > :02:38.Of course we're also paying an additional five per cent
:02:39. > :02:41.on all our fresh produce in Jersey ` thanks to GST.
:02:42. > :02:45.In the survey every fruit and vegetable was cheaper in the UK
:02:46. > :02:52.` food for thought if you're trying to eat healthy
:02:53. > :02:55.Jersey's Independent Care Inquiry has heard from a women who says
:02:56. > :02:58.Social Services didn't do enough to protect her from her abusivd mother.
:02:59. > :03:01.Miss C, who has asked to remain anonymous,
:03:02. > :03:05.described how on one occasion she was put on a rack by her mother who
:03:06. > :03:08.then took a scouring brush to her leg and scrubbed until it bled.
:03:09. > :03:12.She said social workers would visit her flat, after reports of screaming
:03:13. > :03:19.and crying from neighbours, but were only interested in her mothdr.
:03:20. > :03:22.Unemployment in Jersey remahns at a two`year low.
:03:23. > :03:27.1,510 people were registered as actively looking for work in August.
:03:28. > :03:33.That's 310 fewer than at this time last year.
:03:34. > :03:34.Experts looking at where to position Guernsdy's new
:03:35. > :03:39.sewage outfall pipe have pinpointed a potential location.
:03:40. > :03:42.It follows an extensive survey of the seabed off the East coast,
:03:43. > :03:56.Today it was all about what was going on above Belle Greve Bay.
:03:57. > :03:58.But for the last few months it's been about what's happening below.
:03:59. > :04:02.With divers surveying the sdabed as part of work to look at where a
:04:03. > :04:11.We are looking for an optim`l route which makes it easy to lay the pipe
:04:12. > :04:17.and cover it once we've finhshed. Avoid taking out rock which is very
:04:18. > :04:20.difficult. We have able to generate 3`D pictures of the sea bed to try
:04:21. > :04:25.to help us identify routes `nd the deeper we go the better and more
:04:26. > :04:33.effective the outfall will perform once we get it in place.
:04:34. > :04:36.Costing around ?19 million the new outfall
:04:37. > :04:40.But the states decided it is a better one than
:04:41. > :04:46.And with the survey now complete the work can push ahead.
:04:47. > :04:51.This is one of the proposed routes that the outfall may be laid along.
:04:52. > :04:56.It is up to the back contract is to come up with a final decision. We
:04:57. > :05:01.did not find anything that hs particularly own as far as our
:05:02. > :05:04.did not find anything that hs particularly onerous as far as our
:05:05. > :05:06.project is concerned so that is good news.
:05:07. > :05:09.Guernsey Water's on track for the new pipe to go in next summer.
:05:10. > :05:13.That is unless something unexpected pops up.
:05:14. > :05:16.The RAF Red Arrows thrilled the crowds around the
:05:17. > :05:18.Channel Islands today when they performed in both Guernsey
:05:19. > :05:28.The aerobatic team is celebrating its fiftieth
:05:29. > :05:31.And according to organisers, the Channel Islands have a special
:05:32. > :05:44.In terms of the displays, they have displayed more times in jersey and
:05:45. > :05:52.the Channel Islands than anx other place in the world. We have a close
:05:53. > :05:57.relationship and they enjoy coming to the island and when defence cuts
:05:58. > :06:00.are mentioned and cuts to the red arrows and they have reduced the
:06:01. > :06:09.displays but they decide whdre to go. Were either number were `` we
:06:10. > :06:13.are either number one or nulber two. They had decent flying condhtions
:06:14. > :06:20.today. Can we expect some r`in? The latest forecast. Good evening again.
:06:21. > :06:25.Thank you for your e`mails, a couple have been asking about when it will
:06:26. > :06:29.rain. We have had a long drx spell, rain is in short supply and I cannot
:06:30. > :06:36.see any wet weather through the weekend, possibly a shower likely
:06:37. > :06:40.next week. Tomorrow it is p`tchy cloud and sunny spells, the best of
:06:41. > :06:46.the sunshine in the afternoon with temperatures responding up to 1 or
:06:47. > :06:51.20. Clear skies for the start of the night, a good view of the stars but
:06:52. > :06:55.towards dawn some cloud credping in from the east and night`timd
:06:56. > :07:02.temperatures starting at around 14 or 15. Tomorrow, there will be a
:07:03. > :07:06.band of cloud covering us for the early part of the day moving out and
:07:07. > :07:11.buy the afternoon the sunshhne is out and feeling pleasant and warm
:07:12. > :07:18.with temperatures of 18 or 09. A bit cooler on the coast. The forecast
:07:19. > :07:23.for the weekend is fine and dry Saturday the better of the days come
:07:24. > :07:28.more cloud on Sunday, and a slight chance of a shower developing on
:07:29. > :07:33.Monday. At the moment, it is a small risk. From us, good night. @ full
:07:34. > :07:53.freshening breeze and fine and dry. The national picture is with John
:07:54. > :07:59.Hammond. This was the scene in south Dakota
:08:00. > :08:04.earlier, the earliest snow for well over 100 years.
:08:05. > :08:09.We have had a plunge of cold weather from the Arctic, coming down to the
:08:10. > :08:13.plains of the US. Brought about about I a kink diving to the south.
:08:14. > :08:18.Let's follow the jetstream across the Atlantic. It takes on another
:08:19. > :08:24.kink. It is splitting into two. Stranded between is the island in
:08:25. > :08:25.the stream here, a