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holiday-maker is named as the cyclist killed on Jersey's roads

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yesterday. And why are some cancers more common in the Channel Islands

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than the UK. We haven't got a cancer rates for an unexplained reason. We

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know exactly why we have got them and people can do something about

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it. And find out why these grooves hold key to Jersey's Bronze age

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farming history. They have turned up on one or two of the other Channel

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Islands from the Bronze Age, but this is the first time they have

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turned up in Jersey stop we are rather excited. A cyclist killed in

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a crash in Jersey has been named. Neil Blood had been holidaying in

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the island from Stoke-on-Trent. The 42-year-old died after his bike

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collided with a van yesterday afternoon. This case and other

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recent crashes have led to calls for more research into accidents on the

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island. Pam Caulfield reports. Messages for a much loved father,

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brother and husband. Neil Blood was from Stoke-on-Trent and had been

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holidaying in the island. The 42-year-old had been cycling around

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the harbour in St Helier at lunchtime yesterday when he collided

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with a van. He died at the scene. Officers from our investigation unit

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and forensics officers, scenes of crime department attended with the

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assistance of our colleagues from the honorary police. The road was

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closed to allow a full, forensics investigation. They say the driver

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of the van is being treated as a significant witness. And their

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specially trained officers have been speaking to relatives who gathered

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at the scene earlier today. Family and friends have travelled here to

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leave flowers and cards for Neill at the place of this tragic accident,

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the marks of which can still be seen. And with two fatal and one

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serious accident involving cyclists in recent months, politicians are

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calling for more action. Our cities go to the victim 's family. We want

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understand more about the statistics about these two -- these sorts of

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incidents rush-hour sympathies will stop there has been unacceptable

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amount of accidents. Do something the police say they are taking

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seriously. The force plans to identify the most dangerous places

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where accidents have taken place stop indeed ourselves. -- it is

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evident, we need to do something quickly to try and reduce that

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number. And while more research could save lives in the future, it

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can't help this family trying to come to terms with the loss of a

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loved one. Concerns over the spiralling costs

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of Guernsey's finance industry regular to have prompted a full

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review of how it is funded. The GFSC came under fire in the States today,

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after news it spent around twenty percent more last year than 2011.

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The cost of offices, and an �800,000 increase in salaries, were two areas

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of concern. The industry is contracting but the GSE's cost are

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growing. Every other industry is looking at it its budget and trying

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to address the issues of much harder business environment. It doesn't

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seem to apply to the GFS E. Cancer rates in Jersey are higher

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than expected. A new report shows some forms of the disease are 6%

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higher than the South West of England. It also reveals there are

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28 more cases annually based on the size of the islands population. When

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compared with south west rates, cases of head, neck, skin and lung

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cancers are higher in Jersey. The figures are in a report commissioned

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for the island's Chief Medical Officer, Dr Susan Turnbull. She

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joined me earlier to explain what these figures can tell us. Tells us

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more about why we have such high cancer rates. We have known for a

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number of years that we have sudden -- significantly higher rates of

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lung cancer, head and neck cancers, knitted to smokers. What we have

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looked at is, are they reasonably explained by the risk factors we

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know about or is there something else going on? The resounding

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conclusion of the report is that with the risk factors we have got on

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the island, the extent of smoking and excessive drinking and extent of

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sunshine hours, we have got exactly the cancer rates we would expect.

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But the good news is that the ones we have got higher rates of are the

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printable ones. What kind of messages can health department be

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putting out about the thing? It is about reminding people that they can

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make personal decisions that stack their odds to freely in terms of

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developing cancer in the future. Some people listening to this and

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seeing the concrete evidence that smoking is behind it, 50 people

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every year on the island are being diagnosed with lung cancer. If there

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wasn't that level of smoking we had, that could be decimated. Somebody

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listening to this might think, actually it is time to get help.

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Looking at the skin cancer factor, today people might have spent all

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day on the beach, there is another problem. What is the message that?

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The big city behind skin cancer is avoid sunburn. Excessive sun

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exposure can cause sunburn and that is the thing to avoid.

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information is power? There absolutely. Macro will this help in

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terms of prevention? It hasn't -- we haven't got high cancer rates for

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some unexplained reason. We know exactly where we have got them.

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People can do something about it they want altered their odds and we

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can continue to do all sorts of different things at government level

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to get a workplace smoking ban, smoke-free hospitals and other ways

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of pushing the boundaries further on smoke-free places.

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The woman at the centre of abuse allegations against a Jersey church

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warden says she's homeless in the UK, and sometimes has to scavenge in

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bins to find food. In an exclusive interview with the BBC, The woman,

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known as HG, claimed the Dean - the Very Reverend Bob Key - didn't act

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quickly enough after she claimed a church warden had abused her. The

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Dean had his commission withdrawn earlier this year, but was

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reinstated afterwards. HG says she doesn't want one of two

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investigations into what happened to go ahead. The diocese of Winchester

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says that investigation will go ahead. The family of Guernsey woman

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Gillian Sarahs, who was reported missing six months ago, say they

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haven't given up searching for her .The 54-year-old hasn't been seen

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since the beginning of February. Guernsey Police are continuing to

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investigate, but say no clues have been found to explain what happened

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to Gillian. The company in charge of Jesse's bus service says talks today

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having positive. Many bus workers said they would go on strike in

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protest against shift patterns. The BBC understands that Tuesday the

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20th of August has been set for a strike date.

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You're watching the BBC in the Channel Islands. Later in Spotlight

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with Justin and Natalie: Soaring over the urban jungle - the unusual

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species living right under our noses.

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Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of farming dating back

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thousands of years in a Jersey graveyard. Plough marks and

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decorated bits of pottery have been discovered in a dig in St Clement,

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which date back to the bronze age. And as Emma Chambers now reports it

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was a discovery they weren't expecting to make. They may not look

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much but these markings have got archeologists excited in Jersey.

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They are plough marks uncovered in a dig next to St Clements cemetery

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dating back to the bronze age. It probably is something relatively

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common and in certain areas where you've got a build up of soil later

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on which has preserved them - um, one might expect quite a lot of

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evidence of that sort of thing, but the thing is that in Jersey they

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have not previously been found. They've turned up on one or two of

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the Channel Islands from the neolithic and the bronze age, but

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this is the first time they've turned up in Jersey and we're really

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excited. Robert and his team had expected to

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find remains from the Roman Period at the start of this dig so this

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discovery as come as a surprise. Along with the plough marks they've

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uncovered some detailed pottery too. We have got a piece of Bronze Age

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pottery here. It was decorated by applying a blob of clay squashed in

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with the fingers like so. There was a little pit in the middle which

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display in St Clements church alongside the remains found from

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last year. The site is also open to the public on Saturday 10th August.

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It's official - today was the hottest day of the year so far in

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Jersey. Jersey Met say the mercury hit 30.6 degrees Celsius at

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lunchtime, and it was still rising. As you can see people on the beach

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today were certainly making the most of it. But is it set to last? Here's

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today across the Channel Islands stopped Jersey, the hottest day of

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the year so far with temperatures just over 30 degrees. Just for one

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day only because there is quite a big change tomorrow. A lot more

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cloud coming our way overnight and a fresher feel to the air I tomorrow

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afternoon. The good the misty as well. Later we will see some mist

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and low cloud appearing. Tomorrow, it becomes writer but certainly a

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lot cooler as we move into the afternoon. That it becomes cooler.

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Fresher air coming in and quite a nice start to the weekend, apart

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from a few showers dotted around. For all of us, it was feel cooler. A

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bit misty overnight tonight. Some human itty remaining high until that

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front comes in. Overnight temperatures no lower than 16

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degrees. The rain patchy in nature and gradually petering out by early

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afternoon. As the front clears out of the way, lower humidity air. 19

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to 22 degrees will be the maximum temperature. The winds will be

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feet and mostly clean for our beaches. The outlook is staying

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fresh air into the weekend. A bright, fine day on Saturday. Sunday

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is a bit warmer. Late Sunday, the possibility of some overnight rain

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