:00:11. > :00:12.Serious road accidents double in a decade could penalty
:00:13. > :00:14.points and the threat of losing your license
:00:15. > :00:28.There is still rules about what they shouldn't do on the road, whether is
:00:29. > :00:29.pedestrians, cyclists, people driving a car. They continue to
:00:30. > :00:31.break the rules. Good evening and welcome
:00:32. > :00:34.to the late news from BBC Five weeks of roadworks for one
:00:35. > :00:44.of Guernsey's main commuter routes. Drivers in Jersey caught breaking
:00:45. > :00:47.the law could face penalty points on their licence to tackle
:00:48. > :00:49.the rising number of The department that oversees
:00:50. > :00:53.roads says they're safer than they were 20 years ago,
:00:54. > :00:57.but bringing down the number of Penalty points on your driving
:00:58. > :01:06.licence are something drivers in the UK and Europe have been
:01:07. > :01:09.familiar with for many years, but that's not been the case
:01:10. > :01:12.in Jersey, where you are less likely to lose your licence because of bad
:01:13. > :01:14.driving and bad behaviour. Jersey's Government wants to bring
:01:15. > :01:18.in a penalty points system by 2019, The evidence shows that we are still
:01:19. > :01:30.getting as many serious injuries yet on year as we have
:01:31. > :01:33.done for 20 odd years. That would suggest that we do
:01:34. > :01:36.need to do a bit more. You can get fined, disqualified,
:01:37. > :01:39.but the logic of the penalty points system is that it will add more
:01:40. > :01:41.to the process. In the past decade, accidents
:01:42. > :01:43.have more than doubled, going from fewer than 30 in 2005
:01:44. > :01:46.to 68 in 2015. But with measures already in place,
:01:47. > :01:48.such as Parish Hall Enquiries and fines, will penalty points
:01:49. > :01:54.make a difference? Basically, when you are
:01:55. > :01:56.driving a car, you need Looking ahead and being aware
:01:57. > :02:00.of what's around you. A piece of documentation
:02:01. > :02:03.won't make any difference. There are rules, whether it is
:02:04. > :02:06.a pedestrian or cyclist, people still regularly
:02:07. > :02:10.break the rules. When there are penalties
:02:11. > :02:14.already in place. It should make a difference,
:02:15. > :02:22.but it remains to be seen. The authorities also want to cut
:02:23. > :02:24.the legal blood alcohol limit, bringing it into line with Scotland
:02:25. > :02:27.and France by 2018. The latest police campaign over
:02:28. > :02:30.Christmas showed a consdierable reduction in the number
:02:31. > :02:33.of people caught. The police asked the public to help
:02:34. > :02:36.by reporting people getting behind The public trust us, I feel,
:02:37. > :02:42.and they feel that they can vote. We need their help, their support,
:02:43. > :02:56.and we need them to contact us. While more work is done on the law
:02:57. > :02:59.changes, the police say they'll be continuing their campaign
:03:00. > :03:01.to make our roads safer. Chris Rayner, BBC Channel
:03:02. > :03:03.Islands News, Jersey. The parents of a murdered Guernsey
:03:04. > :03:05.woman have reached out to the national media in the hope
:03:06. > :03:08.to see justice. Vic and Kate Groves spoke
:03:09. > :03:11.to a number of national BBC radio and television news outlets
:03:12. > :03:14.including the Victoria Derbyshire Show today on the poor handling
:03:15. > :03:17.of their daughters case. Sarah was killed on a houseboat
:03:18. > :03:21.in Kasmir in 2013. in the trial of Richard de
:03:22. > :03:26.Wit, a Dutch national Her parents hope today's broadcasts
:03:27. > :03:43.will help highlight the case. We have had a bigger audience. We
:03:44. > :03:47.have global -- gone global today. We were grateful to go national. The
:03:48. > :03:55.aim is to elevate the awareness of what is not going on in the hope
:03:56. > :03:59.that somebody somewhere will pick it up and put it onto the platform it
:04:00. > :04:04.should be on and treated with the seriousness it should be treated
:04:05. > :04:10.with. The trial is an absolute farce and it is going nowhere with no
:04:11. > :04:16.progress for 15 and a bit months. You could go back to June 2015
:04:17. > :04:21.Webber has only been one witness processed and there is 46 witnesses
:04:22. > :04:23.in the mix. It will be well past its sell by if it goes on at this rate
:04:24. > :04:26.because there was nothing happening. The Jersey civil servant
:04:27. > :04:28.at the centre of a flight Mike King, the Chief Officer
:04:29. > :04:31.for Economic Development, Tourism, Sport and Culture has resigned
:04:32. > :04:33.with immediate effect. A statement from the Chief Ministers
:04:34. > :04:36.department says he is leaving by mutual agreement but doesn't
:04:37. > :04:37.specify the reason. Mr King came under criticism
:04:38. > :04:40.in the States last year when he and Wayne Gallichan
:04:41. > :04:42.from Locate Jersey spent ?13,000 on flights for a business
:04:43. > :04:52.trip to South Africa. A jury has heard how a Jersey taxman
:04:53. > :04:56.accused of stealing tax payers money It's alleged 40-year-old
:04:57. > :04:59.Carl Robert Frankum stole more than ?800 after people
:05:00. > :05:05.gave it to him Frankum, who worked
:05:06. > :05:09.at Cyril Le Marquand House, has been charged with two counts
:05:10. > :05:11.of stealing from the States of Jersey between June
:05:12. > :05:13.2012 and August 2014. Schools, businesses
:05:14. > :05:21.and the Guernsey Ambulance Service all have contingency plans in place,
:05:22. > :05:24.as five weeks of roadworks gets underway on one of the island's
:05:25. > :05:28.main arterial routes. The Rohais is set to
:05:29. > :05:31.close in stages whilst This morning marked the start
:05:32. > :05:38.of five weeks of work on one of the island's
:05:39. > :05:41.main commuter routes. Phase one will see the bottom
:05:42. > :05:43.of the Rohais go down to single lane traffic,
:05:44. > :05:45.controlled by temporary lights, and the work will continue in stages
:05:46. > :05:51.up the hill towards St Peter Port. This is one of our biggest projects
:05:52. > :05:54.we've done in recent years. At 900 metres, we're resurfacing
:05:55. > :05:57.over 200 metres a week. That's a significant amount of work,
:05:58. > :06:03.so what we have to do is break it into phases to try and keep
:06:04. > :06:05.the traffic moving to keep access to businesses and hopefully that
:06:06. > :06:10.will lead to a successful project. The island's ambulance
:06:11. > :06:13.service is at the centre of the affected area,
:06:14. > :06:15.but plans are in place to ensure that emergency call-outs are dealt
:06:16. > :06:23.with as quickly as possible. Hopefully, our response times
:06:24. > :06:27.are not going to be affected. What we plan to do is place
:06:28. > :06:30.ambulances and crews at various points of the island
:06:31. > :06:32.during the roadworks so our response times will hopefully
:06:33. > :06:35.not be delayed at all. Businesses are keen to stress that
:06:36. > :06:38.they will remain open throughout, with the Rohais Motor Centre quick
:06:39. > :06:40.to praise the levels It's enabled them to keep
:06:41. > :06:47.customers fully informed. Before Christmas, the engineer came
:06:48. > :06:50.round and spoke to us in a lot of detail about how
:06:51. > :06:54.it was going to go and how the phases would work,
:06:55. > :06:56.and we've been emailed copies Yeah, I think it's been
:06:57. > :07:06.really, really good. While things have been moving
:07:07. > :07:07.fairly smoothly today, the real test may well come
:07:08. > :07:10.when the schools go Online shopping is having a big
:07:11. > :07:20.impact on the amount of waste As the festive season nears its end,
:07:21. > :07:24.waste centres are seeing much more And as Mike Wilkins reports,
:07:25. > :07:29.it's not just cardboard, christmas cards and wrapping paper
:07:30. > :07:34.being recycled. It's beginning to look
:07:35. > :07:36.like the end of Christmas. Although there's still a few days
:07:37. > :07:40.till the end of the festive season, hundreds of trees have already been
:07:41. > :07:44.dumped at this recycling point. The island's waste officer says
:07:45. > :07:47.they're put to good use. We collect around about
:07:48. > :07:51.6,500 trees per year. That matches the amount of trees
:07:52. > :07:53.coming into the island. What we will do with those trees
:07:54. > :07:57.is chipping them onside, and taking the chips down and mix
:07:58. > :08:00.them with the material And it's not just
:08:01. > :08:09.trees being dumped. This recycling centre is dealing
:08:10. > :08:14.with all the Christmas cards, Behind me, there are towers
:08:15. > :08:22.of cardboard stacked high. The people who run this place
:08:23. > :08:25.tell me that one in three of the cardboard they recycle comes
:08:26. > :08:30.from one online retailer. We are seeing an increase
:08:31. > :08:33.in online shopping. That increases in the cadboard
:08:34. > :08:35.coming into the island, A third of all cardboard boxes
:08:36. > :08:45.recycled here are from just We don't have the overall recycling
:08:46. > :08:48.figures yet for this Christmas, but with a few days left
:08:49. > :08:51.of the festive season, there's Let's take a look at tomorrow's
:08:52. > :09:07.weather with David Braine. Good evening. It is a cloudy picture
:09:08. > :09:12.for the next couple of days. Cloud arriving late at night and a breeze
:09:13. > :09:22.picking up. The cloud is capable of producing drizzle. The wind is
:09:23. > :09:27.easing. Things start to improve. The layer of cloud is way up here to the
:09:28. > :09:34.north of Britain and will sink his way southwards. It will be draped
:09:35. > :09:39.close to us during the course of tomorrow morning. There is a lot
:09:40. > :09:45.more cloud and less frost than we have seen recently. It will produce
:09:46. > :09:49.spots of rain. Most of which will disappear as we get to Thursday.
:09:50. > :09:56.Bright and dry weather and some more winter sunshine to enjoy. All change
:09:57. > :10:01.again as we move into Friday. Some of that cloud is beginning to cross
:10:02. > :10:06.the Channel. For the first half of the night, it will turn cold and we
:10:07. > :10:10.could see temperatures dipping down to four Celsius. Then the breeze
:10:11. > :10:16.picks up the cloud rolls in. Temperatures by the morning coming
:10:17. > :10:21.back up to five Celsius. The wind is from the north-west and it will ease
:10:22. > :10:27.during the second half of the day. After quite a lot of cloud to start
:10:28. > :10:32.the day, it is drier and brighter as we move through into the evening. It
:10:33. > :10:37.will take all day before we get to that weather front. If you are
:10:38. > :10:42.heading to Europe, it is quite warm in southern parts of Spain and
:10:43. > :10:48.Portugal. Central and northern Europe, some low temperatures. For
:10:49. > :10:56.us, it is more cloudy on Friday and mild at the weekend. I am back
:10:57. > :11:00.tomorrow night at 6:30pm. Good evening.
:11:01. > :11:10.milder later in the week. That is it from me but coming up next is the
:11:11. > :11:14.national picture. Good evening. But frost or not of frost, that is the
:11:15. > :11:18.weather question for tomorrow and the answer is no, probably not
:11:19. > :11:22.because of this weather front that is slipping south from Scotland,
:11:23. > :11:24.maybe towards the south-west where we might have one or