Channel Islands Live: As it happened

The risk of showers will continue through the evening and overnight, although there will also be some drier and clearer spells.

It will be a warm, muggy and humid night for all. Minimum Temperature: 18C (64F).

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Tomorrow any early showers will soon ease to leave a dry and mostly sunny day.

With light winds, it will continue to feel very warm for the time of year. Maximum Temperature: 21C (70F).

• Plans to build 169 homes in Jersey given green light
• Guernsey residents who fall ill in the UK could have their medical bills covered by the States, under proposals
• Alderney's future is 'at risk without urgent political reform'
• The cost of delivering Guernsey's waste strategy is now estimated to be £33m - up from £29.5m
• Income support scheme 'is failing to achieve its aim of reducing poverty', Jersey politicians told
• Jersey States offices will be built on a former school site

The presidents of the Normandy Region and La Manche will make an official visit to the Channel Islands this week.

After visiting Guernsey on Thursday the delegation will be joined by Guernsey politicians for joint discussions in Jersey on Friday.

It follows a summit last year when the four areas signed a cooperation agreement for projects including higher education, academic exchanges, the environment and tourism.

Alderney's civil service is too small to take on the challenges it faces today, let alone those to come in the future - the author of a report has said.

Andrew McDonald led the research team at UCL that produced and independent report into the way the island is governed.

It recommends radical reform if Alderney is to prosper rather than decline and points out the ratio of civil servants to population is much lower than in the island than in Guernsey or Jersey.

As storms passed the islands this afternoon John Robilliard caught this shot of lightning off Guernsey's east coast.

A proposed new law could allow islanders in a never-ending cycle of debt to have thousands of pounds of debt written off.

Kate Raleigh, manager of Citizens Advice Guernsey, said the proposals offer the right solutions for those who got in this situation through no fault of their own.

"This will affect just the few people who in that really serious situation where there is no hope they are ever going to be able to pay it off," she said

The idea of introducing legislation locally that is equivalent to the UK Low Value Debt Relief Order in respect of personal insolvency is open to consultation until the end of next month.

Two green areas in Jersey will now be formally recognised as parks, to making it easier for police to crack down on dog mess.

The Moignard gardens in St Lawrence and the Elephant Park in St Brelade will now be classed as parks which means police can be more strict about the way people behave there.

The States agreed the change unanimously.

The full extent of the subsidy of the island’s bus services has been revealed in answers to written questions by Vale deputy Laurie Queripel, the Guernsey Press reports.

Jersey’s income support scheme "is failing to achieve its aim of reducing poverty", the States has heard.

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In a statement the panel chairman of the scrutiny panel Deputy Richard Renouf said recent changes to the system, which included cuts of £10m, would increase the pressure on people who rely on it.

"The real value of income support benefits have steadily declined over the years, and now does not reach a significant proportion of people living on low incomes," Deputy Renouf said. He has recommended the chief minister launch a "thorough review" of the scheme.

States offices will be built on a former school site after Jersey States voted to dismiss an old legal agreement.

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La Motte St School was given to the island for educating children - and had an agreement called a covenant placed on it to keep it that way.

But today the States were told there were no living relatives of the benefactors who might be able to object, and members approved the change by a vote of 40 to three. Two members abstained from the vote.

A government incentive which pays businesses to hire unemployed people is due to return to Jersey in October.

As part of JobsFest - an eight-week initiative which has been running for three years in the island - the States rather than the employer pays the wages and social security contributions for anyone who has been registered as unemployed for six months or more.

Last year over 50 new roles were filled and over 65% of those were kept on by their employer after the incentive ended, the States said.

The current Guernsey Dairy site which received a two out of five star hygiene rating must be replaced by the States, a former minister has said.

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The States, which owns the dairy, said the low rating in May came from problems with the dairy building which has inadequate ventilation and is more than 60 years old.

Kevin Stewart, the former minster for Commerce and Employment, said: "They've absolutely got to build a new dairy. And that would be the final piece in making sure that we have a sustainable dairy industry for the future."

Former Jersey fly-half Aaron Penberthy has signed for Championship club Ealing and could face his old rugby club on Saturday.

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Penberthy left the islanders at the end of last season to join Spanish team Silver Storm El Salvado. 

But, after a brief spell there he has now joined Ealing. Jersey will travel to London this weekend looking to make it three wins out of three this season.

A former president of the Friends of Le Foulon is "sick and tired" of what he says is a lack of care with maintenance of the cemetery, the Guernsey Press reports.

Jersey’s chief minister has tried to reassure States members about the island’s future after the UK voted to leave Europe.

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Senator Ian Gorst said ministers are planning meetings with high level government officials as the impacts of Brexit become clearer. 

The UK minister responsible for the Crown Dependencies will visit the island on 10 October and there will be a special briefing for States members later that month.

Deputy Barry Brehaut, Environment and Infrastructure President, says some States members who turned down two incinerators have "simply passed the buck".

Richard Evans, head of Corporate Services at States Trading, confirmed Jersey wasn't successful in bidding to process Guernsey's waste due to price and contract length. The contract - due to start in 2017 - went to Sweden instead.

Airport baggage handlers and ground staff are set to strike later this month over an ongoing pay dispute, the Jersey Evening Post reports.

The chairman of the committee responsible for democracy in Jersey says he does not have a quick fix to make more people vote - unless the island introduced compulsory voting.

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Constable Len Norman was responding to a question from Deputy Montfort Tadier, who was concerned at the low turnout at the recent senatorial by-election.

Last week Sarah Ferguson was elected Senator on a turnout of just over 20%, one of the lowest in the post-war period.