12/08/2013 BBC Channel Islands News


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state-owned airline is investing millions to protect a lifeline link.

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We are confident that virtually all of the time we will have a full load

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of passengers. Could Churches in the Channel

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Islands break away from the Diocese of Winchester after secret talks?

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And find out what this woman has been up to in a bear enclosure, a

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tattoo parlour, a fire engine and even in this studio.

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It might spark people 's imagination to see, she's being very daft. Let's

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give her a pound! Is this the future of air travel in

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Guernsey? It's the new Embraer 195 jet that Aurigny has ordered for its

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Guernsey to London Gatwick service. The state-owned airline is investing

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millions to protect what it calls a lifeline route. Flybe is due to stop

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its five flights a day to London in March. Mike Wilkins reports.

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Aurigny's largest aircraft, the ATR, will soon lose its star status as

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the airline embraces the jet age. This is the Embraer 195 that Aurigny

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has bought. They won't tell us the price they paid except that it was

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under �25 million. It'll carry 122 passengers primarily on the Gatwick

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route. Other carriers such as Flybe and British Airways already use the

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aircraft for Jersey. It's claimed this jet is more reliable and is

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better at landing in poor weather conditions.

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It comes with specialist equipment which is quite an attractive bit of

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technology and gives pilots better visibility. They can see the runway

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more clearly and it is presenting information to them on the screen

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which could help them get in in lower visibility conditions.

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I've spoken to some commercial airline pilots who tell me they have

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concerns as to whether Embraer 195 can really take off and land fully

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loaded. We have a wide variety of weather conditions on Guernsey. We

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have applied all of that to this specific aircraft and are confident

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that virtually all of the time we are going to be able to take off and

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land with a full load of passengers. As Aurigny expands its fleet, this

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is a great opportunity for the airline. They insist that the cost

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of a ticket should remain at 2012 prices and they forecast that they

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should be turning a modest profit within two years.

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Anglican Church members in the Channel Islands have met secretly to

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raise concerns about their relationship with the Church of

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England. The meeting was never meant to be in the public domain but the

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BBC has obtained details about what was discussed. Our reporter Amy

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Harris has been following this one and joins me now. What was the

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meeting about? Well, this meeting follows

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investigations by the Winchester diocese into Jersey's Dean after he

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allegedly mishandled an abuse complaint. It was a private meeting,

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which wasn't supposed to reach the ears of the public. But the BBC has

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learnt that representatives from the Anglican Church in Jersey and

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Guernsey met here last Friday. Senator Sir Philip Bailhache

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organised it and says those attending discussed fears about

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their relationship with the Diocese of Winchester and whether it should

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continue. Is there any serious chance of

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Jersey and Guernsey breaking away from the English system?

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That as yet is unclear. What is clear is emotions have been running

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high. Saturday's Jersey Evening Post included this full page advert from

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a group of Church members worried about the reputation of the Anglican

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Church. The advert says the Bishop of Winchester's reaction has been

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over the top, costing a lot and undermining confidence in the Jersey

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Church. But Senator Bailhache told the BBC the meeting was just an

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informal exchanging of views and no decisions were made there.

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Two people have been arrested in connection with the removal of

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Guernsey's Holocaust memorial plaque last week. The brass plaque

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commemorates three Jewish women who were deported from Guernsey during

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the Second World War and who later died at Auschwitz. The suspects have

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been interviewed and released on police bail pending further

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enquiries. Guernsey Police are still appealing for any witnesses to the

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incident to come forward. A Guernsey surgical ward that's been closed for

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more than eight months because of budget and staffing concerns will

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open again in October. The De Saumarez ward at the Princess

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Elizabeth Hospital was shut in December as the Health and Social

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Services Department tried to control spending. HSSD Minister Mark Dorey

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says plans are being made to change ward services at the PEH to make

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better use of resources. A lot has been written over the

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years about the Channel Island's occupation during the Second World

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War but now a team of leading academics is promising to shed a

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whole new light on it. They claim there was in fact Nazi resistance in

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the Islands and their book Protest, Defiance and Resistance explores the

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complex relationship between the Nazis and the Islanders. It's due

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for publication next year but I spoke to one of the authors, Dr

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Gilly Carr of Cambridge University, earlier about why she felt there was

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a new story to tell and about her own interest in the Channel Islands.

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My family is from Guernsey. My mum's family moved in the 16 80s and

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my dad's family moved just before the First World War. Many books have

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been published on this subject, what is different about your one?

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I think many books don't do justice to the amount of resistance. The

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underplay it. No proper research has ever really been done which focuses

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on this subject. It is extraordinary that it has never been done. Were

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you surprised what you found from your re-search? We were really

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pleasantly surprised. Many people would say it is time to put that

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part of history behind us but why would say it is important to

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remember? I don't think you can put something behind you and tell you

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have dealt with it properly. Nobody has ever done the studies and

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produced the figures so it is impossible to move on until this

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subject is discussed properly. will be be able to read it? It is

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coming out in hardback in March 20 14th and we have negotiated a

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special edition for the Channel Islands to follow a few months

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later. Keep an eye out for that book next

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year. You're watching the BBC in the

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Channel Islands. Later in Spotlight with Justin and Natalie, the man who

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first located the Mary Rose finally comes face to face with Henry VIII's

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famous warship. In a fire engine, in the bear

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enclosure at Durrell and while getting a tattoo done. These are

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just some of the weird and wonderful places charity fundraiser Sue De La

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Cour has been reading her Kindle, which is like an electronic book.

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It's part of her summer challenge to raise money for Jersey Hospice Care

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and she's open to more location suggestions. Let's take a look at

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what she's done so far and hear why. This came from me sitting in my

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chair a few weeks ago and wanting to do something for the hospice and

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thinking that sponsored walks had been done. I like reading. Reading

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instrument places, that could be good. That is where it grew from. --

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reading in strange places. I've been in the chapel at the General

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Hospital, I've been to the fire station and police Station, I've had

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a tattooed on, I've been to the war after three of my friends and I just

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wanted to do something to say thank you and which might spark people 's

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imagination to see, she's very daft, let's give her a pound. I thought

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that studio looked familiar! Not such a bad day weather-wise today

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but things might be able to heat up tonight. Tomorrow we should have a

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fine and dry day with sunny spells. It will feel a little bit warmer.

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There is a weak area of high pressure which will move across as

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tonight and be with us for much of the day tomorrow. But it is being

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squashed down to the South by several weather systems. They are

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fairly weak affairs where we are but they do introduce more closed. --

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more closed. We have some patchy cloud tomorrow. There is our coastal

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surfers but at least they will be clean. Looking further ahead, on

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