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Islands. Coming up tonight: Smoking laws reviewed - should we ban | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
cigarettes in cars, parks and beaches to protect our children? | :00:17. | :00:24. | |
am a smoker and I am dead against getting told where to smoke and when | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
not to smoke. It is people's personal choices they've smoke in | :00:28. | :00:34. | |
their cars but it would be better if they did not smoke in public places. | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
Plus, the real Jersey Superman - the local athlete taking on the rest of | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
the UK and winning! And it did rain on Alderney's Cavalcade, but a | :00:41. | :00:51. | |
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Should more be done to protect children from second-hand smoke? | :00:55. | :01:05. | |
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That's what Jersey's Health Department wants to know. It's | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
launched a consultation on ideas including banning smoking in areas | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
such as parks, shopping areas, beaches and even private cars. There | :01:12. | :01:20. | |
are some graphic images of smoking in this report. | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
While the number of people smoking in Jersey has fallen since the | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
smoking ban was introduced six years ago, health bosses now want that | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
figure to fall even further. They say those who are passive smoking | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
like children and nonsmokers are at risk and they shouldn't be. We are | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
looking and trying to understand what the public's views would be on | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
smoking in cars, homes so we are not looking at saying legislation should | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
be in place to stop people smoking in their own home but what can we do | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
to support parents to understand the dangers of second-hand smoke? We now | :01:50. | :01:57. | |
people often have role models. you smoke, the chemicals cause | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
mutations in your body and mutations are how cancer starts. | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
Around a fifth of people in Jersey smoke, with the habit blamed for | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
higher-than-average rates of some cancers in Jersey compared to other | :02:07. | :02:14. | |
areas of the UK. We have seen a big reduction in smoking since the 70s | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
when 50% of men smoked and 40% of women, we are down to 20% now but we | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
are still seeing significantly higher rates of illness and we need | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
to go further. But is there enough anti-smoking legislation already in | :02:29. | :02:36. | |
force? I am a smoker and I am dead against being told where to smoke. | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
It is personal choice of people smoke in their cars but it would be | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
nice if they did not smoke in public places. | :02:43. | :02:49. | |
And for this politician, it is a measure too far. My stance is how | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
will you please his? You will have the honorary police stomping around | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
the parks and on the beach is trying to catch people smoking, or going | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
and knocking on doors because you know there is a smoker who lives | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
there? The policing of it, you have to look at the practicalities and I | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
cannot see how you can police it at all. | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
Smoking will always be an issue that will divide public opinion. | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
Islanders now have three months to have their say and the findings will | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
be presented to the States to see whether or not smoking legislation | :03:19. | :03:29. | |
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will be extended or whether the idea will be stubbed out. | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
The cost of gas is rising in Guernsey and Jersey. From next | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
Friday, the prices will rise by 3.5%. The company say the money will | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
ensure supplies are more reliable after recent problems. | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
There are calls for greater protection for a rare bat found in | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
the Channel Islands. The grey long-eared bat is one of Britain's | :03:46. | :03:54. | |
rarest mammals, but there are no laws to protect them in Guernsey. | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
Roof spaces are a favourite home for the grey long-eared bat but they are | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
pretty hard to spot. When they're not flying, they're about the size | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
of your thumb and you can find them across the Channel Islands and here | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
at Val de Mare. Summer is the best time to see the | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
bats as they are out and about finding food, having just had their | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
young. The best time to spot them in just after sunset in places such as | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
here which is covered by trees. But scientists say there are only about | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
1,000 left in Great Britain and they're in danger of disappearing. | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
Their biggest predator is building development. And with no laws in | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
Guernsey to stop people interfering with their roosts, the UK's Bat | :04:32. | :04:40. | |
Conservation Society wants legislation to protect them. Last | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
year I had a mother and a baby who had been found and I was able to | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
rehouse the mother and baby. Had there been legislation, that may not | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
have happened. But without legislation, how can | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
homeowners be persuaded to live with bats which can have a bad reputation | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
as dark, rather sinister animals? don't think there is any need to be | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
scared of bats. There are all these myths about them getting tangled in | :05:07. | :05:17. | |
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your hair and spreading diseases. That is not the case. If you do have | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
a bat roost, love it and cherish it. The grey long-eared bat has a life | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
span of about 30 years, so may already be living in your house when | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
you move in. What scientists and conservationists want are laws to | :05:30. | :05:38. | |
make sure the bats don't then have to move out. | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
Move over, Henry Cavill - there's a new Jersey Superman in town. Well, | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
Daniel Halksworth is actually an Ironman - and he's beaten the best | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
in Britain to take the Ironman UK crown. An amazing accomplishment for | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
any triathlete, but Dan was just using yesterday's race to qualify | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
for an even bigger challenge. An ultimate test in fitness. Over | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
1,600 athletes from around the world battled it out in Bolton yesterday | :05:59. | :06:05. | |
for the UK Ironman title. It's a gruelling race combining a 2.4-mile | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
swim, followed by a 112-mile bike race, then a 26.2-mile run - without | :06:08. | :06:18. | |
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a break. But it was last year's winner, Jersey man Daniel | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
Halksworth, who crossed the finish line first. Defending his title and | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
beating his time by nearly ten minutes. | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
Yeah, really, really good, very pleased just to come away and defend | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
my title. It's just a special feeling. I wasn't really expecting | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
to do it. I knew there was a couple of really good athletes there. | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
only does Dan keep his UK Ironman title by beating team-mate Stephen | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
Bayliss, but he hopes the winning points will help him qualify for the | :06:44. | :06:50. | |
Ironman World Championship in Kona, Hawaii. I've been training really | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
hard and financially, it's been tough this year and I've had to make | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
some sacrifices because I want to get to Kona and the aim is to try | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
and race again in two weeks to get points there and spend some time in | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
mexico before Kona. So there's no rest for Dan as he competes for a | :07:06. | :07:16. | |
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place in the biggest Ironman test in the world on 12th October. | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
You're watching the BBC in the Channel Islands. Later in Spotlight | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
with Justin and Natalie, celebrities join the fun at the international | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
scouting jamboree. Alderney Week has kicked off the | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
Channel Islands summer festival season in fine - albeit damp - style | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
today. The Cavalcade battled on through the rain as did the crowds | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
of determined islanders. And this year, Miss Alderney had a very | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
special guest accompanying her - a familiar face, but one usually | :07:41. | :07:50. | |
associated with a different island. Alderney Week attracts visitors from | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
all over the world. Keen to experience this unique event at | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
first hand, over 100 visitors came over from Jersey specially for | :07:56. | :08:02. | |
Cavalcade Day. A shower at the start of the Carnival Parade put a bit of | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
a dampener on things, but the rain soon cleared up leaving people to | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
enjoy a pleasant but blustery afternoon. It's the 65th anniversary | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
of Alderney Week and this year's theme is "two of a kind". The rest | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
is left to the imagination of those who entered this year's Cavalcade | :08:19. | :08:29. | |
Parade. Escorting Miss Jersey Battle of Flowers, Taye Le Monnier, in this | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
year's Cavalcade Parade was Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac of | :08:31. | :08:40. | |
the Bureau Des Etrangers - otherwise known as John Nettles. She is | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
beautiful but also very, very clever, much cleverer than I am. You | :08:45. | :08:52. | |
are going to the... To study law? But in the meantime, you are a | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
spectacular pageant lady. Cavalcade Day is also a big day for | :08:57. | :09:03. | |
Miss Alderney. I love the idea of being an ambassador for Alderney and | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
it is great all the support I get, it is wonderful. To find out what is | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
in store for visitors for the rest of the week, I spoke to one of the | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
driving forces behind Alderney Week. The rest of the week is full of the | :09:16. | :09:23. | |
favourites, the daft raft race and the gala night, spectacular on | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
Wednesday, that will be something. And because it is the 65th | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
anniversary, Saturday night, our final night with the torches and a | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
rather spectacular firework display. With the weather set to improve, it | :09:36. | :09:46. | |
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looks as if it will be another Week as the week goes on but let's | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
see if the weather will improve. He is our other David with the | :09:52. | :10:02. | |
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it gets better this week over the Channel Islands and we may have some | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
showers but it will be mainly dry and we will see some sunshine | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
although generally it feels just that little bit fresher. This week | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
is also Alderney Week and the weather looks pretty kind across | :10:14. | :10:22. | |
Alderney. Largely dry around 18 or 19 Celsius and the winds mainly from | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
the North or Northwest. They will be generally liked. As we move through | :10:25. | :10:34. | |
this week, we will see an area of low pressure moving in, although it | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
is fairly weak. By Wednesday, there is a bit more activity as an area of | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
low pressure developed across the Bay of Biscay but nothing that will | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
trouble us too much, you will see some medium or high level cloud but | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
then towards the end of the week we may see some more persistent rain | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
returned. Patchy cloud overnight tonight but overall, drive. Winds | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
from the Northwest and they will drop with quite a breezy start to | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
the night but they will drop overnight temperatures starting the | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
day at around 15 Celsius. Patchy cloud and sunny spells sums up | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
tomorrow, a threat of showers across the East but for most of us, it'll | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
be a fine and dry day with winds becoming northerly and we will see | :11:16. | :11:23. | |
temperatures anywhere from 18-20dC. The coastal waters forecast. There | :11:23. | :11:33. | |
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you go. At times of high water as not much for our service, up to | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
around two feet, slightly choppy with the onshore breeze. Changes | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
towards the end of the week, quite a lot of cloud around on Wednesday, | :11:48. | :11:52. |