03/01/2017 Channel Islands News

Serious road accidents double in a decade could penalty

points and the threat of losing your license

There is still rules about what they shouldn't do on the road, whether is

pedestrians, cyclists, people driving a car. They continue to

break the rules. Good evening and welcome

to the late news from BBC Five weeks of roadworks for one

of Guernsey's main commuter routes. Drivers in Jersey caught breaking

the law could face penalty points on their licence to tackle

the rising number of The department that oversees

roads says they're safer than they were 20 years ago,

but bringing down the number of Penalty points on your driving

licence are something drivers in the UK and Europe have been

familiar with for many years, but that's not been the case

in Jersey, where you are less likely to lose your licence because of bad

driving and bad behaviour. Jersey's Government wants to bring

in a penalty points system by 2019, The evidence shows that we are still

getting as many serious injuries yet on year as we have

done for 20 odd years. That would suggest that we do

need to do a bit more. You can get fined, disqualified,

but the logic of the penalty points system is that it will add more

to the process. In the past decade, accidents

have more than doubled, going from fewer than 30 in 2005

to 68 in 2015. But with measures already in place,

such as Parish Hall Enquiries and fines, will penalty points

make a difference? Basically, when you are

driving a car, you need Looking ahead and being aware

of what's around you. A piece of documentation

won't make any difference. There are rules, whether it is

a pedestrian or cyclist, people still regularly

break the rules. When there are penalties

already in place. It should make a difference,

but it remains to be seen. The authorities also want to cut

the legal blood alcohol limit, bringing it into line with Scotland

and France by 2018. The latest police campaign over

Christmas showed a consdierable reduction in the number

of people caught. The police asked the public to help

by reporting people getting behind The public trust us, I feel,

and they feel that they can vote. We need their help, their support,

and we need them to contact us. While more work is done on the law

changes, the police say they'll be continuing their campaign

to make our roads safer. Chris Rayner, BBC Channel

Islands News, Jersey. The parents of a murdered Guernsey

woman have reached out to the national media in the hope

to see justice. Vic and Kate Groves spoke

to a number of national BBC radio and television news outlets

including the Victoria Derbyshire Show today on the poor handling

of their daughters case. Sarah was killed on a houseboat

in Kasmir in 2013. in the trial of Richard de

Wit, a Dutch national Her parents hope today's broadcasts

will help highlight the case. We have had a bigger audience. We

have global -- gone global today. We were grateful to go national. The

aim is to elevate the awareness of what is not going on in the hope

that somebody somewhere will pick it up and put it onto the platform it

should be on and treated with the seriousness it should be treated

with. The trial is an absolute farce and it is going nowhere with no

progress for 15 and a bit months. You could go back to June 2015

Webber has only been one witness processed and there is 46 witnesses

in the mix. It will be well past its sell by if it goes on at this rate

because there was nothing happening. The Jersey civil servant

at the centre of a flight Mike King, the Chief Officer

for Economic Development, Tourism, Sport and Culture has resigned

with immediate effect. A statement from the Chief Ministers

department says he is leaving by mutual agreement but doesn't

specify the reason. Mr King came under criticism

in the States last year when he and Wayne Gallichan

from Locate Jersey spent ?13,000 on flights for a business

trip to South Africa. A jury has heard how a Jersey taxman

accused of stealing tax payers money It's alleged 40-year-old

Carl Robert Frankum stole more than ?800 after people

gave it to him Frankum, who worked

at Cyril Le Marquand House, has been charged with two counts

of stealing from the States of Jersey between June

2012 and August 2014. Schools, businesses

and the Guernsey Ambulance Service all have contingency plans in place,

as five weeks of roadworks gets underway on one of the island's

main arterial routes. The Rohais is set to

close in stages whilst This morning marked the start

of five weeks of work on one of the island's

main commuter routes. Phase one will see the bottom

of the Rohais go down to single lane traffic,

controlled by temporary lights, and the work will continue in stages

up the hill towards St Peter Port. This is one of our biggest projects

we've done in recent years. At 900 metres, we're resurfacing

over 200 metres a week. That's a significant amount of work,

so what we have to do is break it into phases to try and keep

the traffic moving to keep access to businesses and hopefully that

will lead to a successful project. The island's ambulance

service is at the centre of the affected area,

but plans are in place to ensure that emergency call-outs are dealt

with as quickly as possible. Hopefully, our response times

are not going to be affected. What we plan to do is place

ambulances and crews at various points of the island

during the roadworks so our response times will hopefully

not be delayed at all. Businesses are keen to stress that

they will remain open throughout, with the Rohais Motor Centre quick

to praise the levels It's enabled them to keep

customers fully informed. Before Christmas, the engineer came

round and spoke to us in a lot of detail about how

it was going to go and how the phases would work,

and we've been emailed copies Yeah, I think it's been

really, really good. While things have been moving

fairly smoothly today, the real test may well come

when the schools go Online shopping is having a big

impact on the amount of waste As the festive season nears its end,

waste centres are seeing much more And as Mike Wilkins reports,

it's not just cardboard, christmas cards and wrapping paper

being recycled. It's beginning to look

like the end of Christmas. Although there's still a few days

till the end of the festive season, hundreds of trees have already been

dumped at this recycling point. The island's waste officer says

they're put to good use. We collect around about

6,500 trees per year. That matches the amount of trees

coming into the island. What we will do with those trees

is chipping them onside, and taking the chips down and mix

them with the material And it's not just

trees being dumped. This recycling centre is dealing

with all the Christmas cards, Behind me, there are towers

of cardboard stacked high. The people who run this place

tell me that one in three of the cardboard they recycle comes

from one online retailer. We are seeing an increase

in online shopping. That increases in the cadboard

coming into the island, A third of all cardboard boxes

recycled here are from just We don't have the overall recycling

figures yet for this Christmas, but with a few days left

of the festive season, there's Let's take a look at tomorrow's

weather with David Braine. Good evening. It is a cloudy picture

for the next couple of days. Cloud arriving late at night and a breeze

picking up. The cloud is capable of producing drizzle. The wind is

easing. Things start to improve. The layer of cloud is way up here to the

north of Britain and will sink his way southwards. It will be draped

close to us during the course of tomorrow morning. There is a lot

more cloud and less frost than we have seen recently. It will produce

spots of rain. Most of which will disappear as we get to Thursday.

Bright and dry weather and some more winter sunshine to enjoy. All change

again as we move into Friday. Some of that cloud is beginning to cross

the Channel. For the first half of the night, it will turn cold and we

could see temperatures dipping down to four Celsius. Then the breeze

picks up the cloud rolls in. Temperatures by the morning coming

back up to five Celsius. The wind is from the north-west and it will ease

during the second half of the day. After quite a lot of cloud to start

the day, it is drier and brighter as we move through into the evening. It

will take all day before we get to that weather front. If you are

heading to Europe, it is quite warm in southern parts of Spain and

Portugal. Central and northern Europe, some low temperatures. For

us, it is more cloudy on Friday and mild at the weekend. I am back

tomorrow night at 6:30pm. Good evening.

milder later in the week. That is it from me but coming up next is the

national picture. Good evening. But frost or not of frost, that is the

weather question for tomorrow and the answer is no, probably not

because of this weather front that is slipping south from Scotland,

maybe towards the south-west where we might have one or