Ian Barclay, a project manager on the silt scheme, said it would be good to add the extra barrier to stop the silt building up again so quickly.

BBC: St Aubin

The idea is that just a tiny little slice will be taken from each financial transaction and this will add up to tens, hundreds, of billions that can be used to do such good things.

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