Summary

  • Commodore Clipper cancelled after WW2 bomb found in Portsmouth Harbour

  • Future Guernsey plan is approved

  • States agree to end exclusivity clauses in Jersey zero-hours contracts

  • Roads closing in preparation for high tides in Guernsey

  • An attempt to introduce an elected speaker in just over a year has been rejected by the States of Jersey

  • Plans for a States funded retail bank in Guernsey will not go ahead

  • Alderney's voters will get the chance to quiz election candidates in a hustings this evening

  • Updates on Wednesday 16 November 2016

Live Reporting

  1. Weather in the Channel Islands

    BBC Weather

    Let's take a look at the weather this morning.

    Here's the outlook for Guernsey...

    Weather chart

    And this is Jersey's forecast...

    Weather chart

  2. Victorian pipe causes road closure

    BBC Radio Guernsey

    Significant maintenance work begins today on a sewage outfall pipe at St George's Esplanade for the first time since the Victorian age. 

    The work will include cleaning and surveying the 350m pipe that's believed to have something restricting its flow. 

    It means temporary traffic lights will be in place for one week from today on the southbound carriageway of St George's Esplanade.

  3. ‘Womenpreneurs are an emerging force’

    Guernsey Press

    Sasha Kazantseva-Miller, chief officer of Islandmums.com, NED and angel investor, says that womenpreneurs are an emerging force in business, locally, nationally and globally

  4. Championship 'not funded sufficiently'

    BBC Radio Jersey

    A former member of the Jersey Reds committee says the Rugby Football Union should be doing more to help support clubs in the Championship.

    Jersey Reds has sold off its clubhouse, stands, main pitches and a car park to raise £1.5 which it needs to keep playing rugby in the Championship.

    It's a very expensive league to be in. The RFU just don't fund it sufficiently whatsoever. The Championship is as far as we can go, and we may have to cut our cloth accordingly by reducing our squad, having some semi-professional players, and work on another way around it. There'll be a sub-committee formed shortly."

    Dai Burton

    Jersey RedsJonathan Huelin

  5. Social housing tenants 'have to move out for up to two months'

    Chris Quevatre
    BBC News Online

    Residents of flats owned by social housing provider Andium Homes have been told they may need to move out for up to two months while they're refurbished.

    The company has written to people living in Le Marais in St Clement informing them they can move in with friends, to an empty flat or into a newly refurbished property.

    Concerns have been raised by St Helier Deputy Geoff Southern who wants to know when tenants were informed about the plans which could take up to three years to complete.

  6. Travel in the Channel Islands

    BBC Travel

    Guernsey

    • Les Hurettes Lane has been closed due to a burst water main - the lane is expected to be closed until Saturday
    • In the Castel, Rue De La Land and Rue du Torval are both closed until Friday
    • There's been an emergency closure at Rue de la Vielle Mare in Castel due to a burst water main
    • In St Andrews, Bailiffs Cross Road closed for emergency repairs
    • In St Peter Port, Monument Road is closed between Arsenal Road and Candie Road for just under three weeks

    Jersey

    • Jersey Electricity has closed the lane coming into town on St Aubin's Road next to People's Park
    • In St Helier, Tunnell Street is closed to through traffic
    • In Grouville, La Rue Soulas is closed to through traffic for excavation works
    • In Trinity, a section of La Rue du Hurel, just off the main road is closed to through traffic

  7. Health minister faces scrutiny on hospital site

    Chris Quevatre
    BBC News Online

    A scrutiny panel will question Jersey's Health Minister Andrew Green this evening on plans for the new hospital site.

    Members of the public can't put their own questions forward, however, you can see the plans, and speak to officers. 

    The public hearing is this evening at 19:00 at the St Paul's Centre.

    Hospital siteStates of Jersey

  8. Proposals to turn chapel into workshop approved

    Jersey Evening Post

    Plans to convert a disused chapel in Grouville into a bespoke joinery workshop have been approved.

  9. Civil service on States agenda

    Chris Quevatre
    BBC News Online

    Guernsey's States members will continue putting the bones on their "Future Guernsey" plan today.

    This morning they're due to debate a motion from Deputy Andrea Dudley-Owen on reforming career management in the civil service, and another by Deputy Emilie Yerby on promoting science and technology.

    States chamber

    Yesterday members voted through a series of amendments which increased the prominence of protecting the environment, and promoting more responsibility for personal healthcare and disease prevention.  

  10. Travel update: Fog still causing delays at Guernsey Airport

    BBC Travel

    The mail and papers got into Guernsey this morning, but there's still a few delays at the airport:

    • The 07:45 arrival from Southampton is delayed until 08:45
    • The 08:00 arrival from Alderney is delayed until 09:15
    • The 09:15 arrival from Southampton is delayed until 11:15
    • The 07:15 departure to Southampton is delayed until 09:15
    • The 07:30 departure to Alderney is delayed

    Everything at Jersey Airport seems to be running on time at the moment.

  11. Change of Bailiff role rejected

    Chris Quevatre
    BBC News Online

    An attempt to introduce an elected speaker in just over a year was rejected by the States of Jersey yesterday evening.

    The role is currently carried out by the island's Bailiff.

    Although there is support for ending the Bailiff's role in presiding over States meetings, many said not enough work has been done to prepare for the change.

    William Bailhache

  12. Local Live in the Channel Islands

    Chris Quevatre
    BBC News Online

    Good morning and welcome to Local Live on this Wednesday morning.

    We'll have all the latest news, sport, travel and weather in the Channel Islands.

    Don't forget, if you've got anything to tell us today, you can always send us an email.