30/09/2013 BBC Channel Islands News

Hello, good evening. Good to have The top stories: 40% of patients are

waiting too long for knee, hip and joint operations in jersey. It is

disappointing because it has been highlighted before. We would hope to

see action taken. The FA Cup dreams are over after Guernsey lose to

And the French festival calling are over after Guernsey lose to

Some patients in Jersey are facing painful waits for orthopaedic care.

It's emerged today that forty per cent of patients are waiting longer

than three months for knee, hip cent of patients are waiting longer

funding next year to help address scrutinising the running of the

department say it's "disappointing" the cash injection isn't coming

A knee replacement changed Michael Cullinane's life. It gave him back

mobility and freedom after years of chronic pain due to arthritis. It

draws you, it makes you physically and mentally exhausted, it's with

you all the time, just walking a few steps it kicks in, it wakes you

The hospital aims to operate on patients like Michael within three

months of them seeing a consultant. orthopaedic patients weren't seen

within the target window. One issue is the island's ageing population,

another is resources. We have been working on waiting list initiatives,

covering doctors, putting extra initiatives, a new nurse who will be

able to back the doctors giving initiatives, a new nurse who will be

more time to do clinics and theatre two. The health department has also

pledged extra funding next year two. The health department has also

politicians scrutinising the running of the department said the cash

injection should have come sooner. We were a little surprised and

changes won't come into effect until next year, we would hope to see

action taken a little quicker. The government insists action is being

taken — overall 84% of patients government insists action is being

seen within three months and in government insists action is being

areas like urology and dermatology, significantly. The pressure is now

on the orthopaedic department to do Easyjet has applied for a licence to

says it has no plans at this stage to announce a service from Guernsey

applying for a licence so it can look at all the options, if the

route proved commercially viable. A man has been charged with Grave

stabbing in Jersey on Saturday night. The alleged victim has been

taken for treatment at Southampton General Hospital. Neil William

Bennet was due to appear at the islands Magistrates Court this

Guernsey FC are out of the FA Cup. They lost 3—2 to Dover Athletic

Guernsey FC are out of the FA Cup. the second qualifying round at the

looking forward to playing at Footes lane but had to travel to Sussex

after a clash with a Guernsey rugby club game as Chris Harrison reports.

These fans were doing their best to it was Dover — a side that plays in

two leagues above Guernsey — who started the game better and took the

Then followed another goal. Half time and the fans looked concerned.

The green lions began to roar in the slamming in the islanders first

Shortly, the players in pink looked mortified at a penalty given against

them, which Allen then put away quickly took the lead again. A

desperate final quarter saw both teams press forward but Guernsey

This was supposed to be a home game but it turned out to be an away

game. The FA Cup is exciting, we came across a team as strong as

ourselves. We have confidence going forward. It shows that character of

Guernsey. They did not come out forward. It shows that character of

the second half and lie down. A great spirit, we deserved to win but

Guernsey's FA cup dream maybe over, but as the first island team to

Guernsey's FA cup dream maybe over, journey will have given them an

experience that will only make them stronger. Rugby and Jersey conceded

three tries in the first 16 minutes in their match against Bristol on

Saturday. Despite scoring two tries later in the game Jersey lost to

Bristol 26—17 and missed out on later in the game Jersey lost to

International Surfing Association's world longboard championships in

privileged to have made the final and promised "to take no prisoners

next year." Last week he retained Now aviators from around the world

were in Alderney this weekend for the Annual Air Races. This year

were in Alderney this weekend for particularly poignant as it was

meant to mark the one hundredth anniversary of the first Schneider

prestigious in Aviation. But as David Earl reports, the skies above

the island were kept rather quiet. anniversary of the Schneider Trophy,

the spirit of which is kept alive by a small group of pilots. The race

engineers and my factories to make aircraft go faster, that was the

objective. The racing was just part of that. That materialised into

objective. The racing was just part competitive sport. This was true in

the early days when national pride was at stake. The trophy has become

different way. The aircraft today are nothing like those 100 years

ago. In the end, the weather won the race after officials were forced to

cancel it due to poor visibility. However there was some racing and

the winner of Saturday's Aurigny Trophy Race summed up the feelings

is the big 100, a good number of races so it is a lovely circuit

is the big 100, a good number of calendar. A big shame because it is

a lot of fun and missing out on calendar. A big shame because it is

really. Oh well, there's always calendar. A big shame because it is

year! You are watching BBC Channel Islands. Still to come: Half a

century in the Spotlight; a trip celebrates 50 years on air. Stage

shoot for that and the weather This weekend saw the first ever

festival of Normandy across the water in France. Organisers are

hoping that it will help re—kindle the Channel Islands Norman Heritage

as Simon Coss reports from Carentan The Vikings were in town in Carantan

this weekend. This reconstruction of a Norse longboat a reminder of the

northern invaders who gave Normandy its name. The boat was in town for

the first ever Festival of Normandy, a region—wide celebration of Norman

culture, food and music. The whole thing was the idea of a couple of

young French historians, Chloe Herzhaft and Florian Hurard. We

young French historians, Chloe teachers and from there we used

young French historians, Chloe come back to Normandy to visit

family and friends and then we discovered again, with a new eye,

The two organisers also invited discovered again, with a new eye,

Channel Islands to take part in discovered again, with a new eye,

festival saying they were keen for islanders and Normans on the French

mainland to celebrate their shared historically logical to include

mainland to celebrate their shared in this festivity and we thought it

challenge thrown down from the organisers of a newly created league

of the traditional Norman game got seven teams for the whole of

Normandy, so it would be great to have a team from Jersey and a team

from Guernesey to come and play have a team from Jersey and a team

us." Channel Islanders were thin on the ground in Carentan this year.

underway their Norman cousins from across the water are hoping that

TRANSLATION: They are Anglo Normand and that means they're Norman.

They're welcome to take part in and that means they're Norman.

festival and we invite them to play a bigger role next year. As the

revellers headed home determined to keep flame of Norman friendship

burning until this time next year. That looks good. And if you want to

find out more about getting involved in next year's event you can find

the details on our Facebook page. Let's turn to the weather forecast

Hello, rather like last week, we hold on to the warmth over the next

four or days but equally we hold onto the moisture, it is misty,

four or days but equally we hold threat of showers come at some heavy

and tomorrow is a good example, misty and cloudy with the risk of

showers in the evening with some thunder. We have a weather system

close by this evening and overnight, a few spits was of rain associated

tomorrow, this is more angry, it will have heavy downpours, that

moves out of the way and briefly on Wednesday some respite from the

moves out of the way and briefly on but showers brewing in the West

moves out of the way and briefly on circulation around low—pressure

brings southerly wind drawing in temperatures, daytime temperatures,

18 or 19 with the possibility of mist. Spots of light rain possible

degrees is the minimum. Tomorrow, showers get going, not many in the

morning but they become widespread in the afternoon and into the early

evening with persistent rain turning coastal waters forecast: Showers

with moderate his ability. The times of high water: —— visibility. The

waves not very big but they are clean up one or feet. The outlook,

some respite on Wednesday, briefly a few light showers, more wet weather

on Thursday, some becoming heavy, even with the risk of thunder. Dry

and misty moving into Friday. We remain relatively mild at 19 or

and misty moving into Friday. We A mild start to October. David,

thank you. I am back late in the evening. Time to join Justin and

somewhere else after nearly 90 years here.

—— expensive. On to sport and Dave has news of a

largely dispointing weekend for south—west teams.

It was indeed. Yeovil Town can count themselves unlucky not to have won

at Bolton wanderer, there was a little generosity for patrol on

the's keeper to give the glovers the lead. Yeovil's players thought the

ball had gone out of play before the goal was scored.

In League Two Exeter City are striding away from their Devon

rival, a 2—1 for them at Fleetwood town has lifted them to sixth.

Former professional footballer Chris Hargreaves is we me to discuss the

results. Ter, city, losing at home last week, they know how to bounce

back I will use Alan handsel's phrase of bounce backability. You

know it is going to be a day when you put your centre half up front

and he produces a finish like that. Scott Bennett, an excel lent finish.

A good cos from Alan Gou. On the balance of the play, they did

deserve it, and he is going for a starting spot up front. Plymouth

Argyle, everybody expected them to beat Accrington Stanley but they

didn't. Very disappointing result. It would have been different had one

of the chances gone in the first ten minutes. That goes across the

keeper, hit the post. And we have another chance here, he was brave

but really had to score. He slid through well, got to score, changes

it the complexity of the game and five losses this season. Not good

enough. Torquay yachted —— United won at play moor but lose at Newport

County. Newport are not doing too badly. I expected Torquay to do

better and losing goals won't help from set pieces. Yakubu got the

first one. They wish it was Leeds Yakubu, his brother. Danny Crow

scores in what is disappointing because no—one has tracked the

runner. Didn't do credit to that goal.

Thank you for joining us. The big rugby match this weekend saw

reigning champions Leicester Tigers get the better of the Chiefs.

Leicester built up a 15—0 lead by the interval.

Gareth Steenson reduced the margin to six points talent restart but

they failed to score a try, despite some sustained pressure.

Plymouth Raiders went down in their opening basketball game of the

league season. They suffered a 79—70 lost to London Lions. The closest

Raiders came was when they were eight points adrift later on.

Finally, Somerset have received a blow attend of the cricket season,

their England one day wicket keeper Joss Buttler has left the ground to

join Lancashire. Butler is renowned for his batting style and will be

sorely missed. That is it from me on this Monday evening.

Now, St Bernards are well—known for being Mountain Rescue dogs but their

sea—based equivalents have been in Plymouth hoping to raise money for

charity. Launching from boats the team of Newfoundlands showed off

their skills pulling swimmers to safety.

Ozzy is six. He has all the credentials of a top lifeguard.

Double fit coat for natural buoyancy, a rudder like tail and

flaps of skip between his paws which act as paddles. The Newfoundland is

the UK's swimming canine champion, the most important thing with the

dogs is they are very strong, to pull people through the water, they

can pull at least ten, 11 people at a a time. One dog, which is amazing.

Dozens of people squeezed on to the pontoon at Queen Anne's battery to

watch them in action. It has been brilliant. We have come

down and see a lot turn out with the Newfoundlands ed and come up to see

them obviously do their stuff in the water. Only seen it before on TV,

seeing it in real life is amazing. They are wonderful. Most humans who

took the plunge were raising money for Parkinson's UK. What is it like

to be rescued by a gentle giant? Awesome. So cool. What happened?

Just jumped off, Darcy swam, I held on and she pulled me into the boat.

Could you feel how slong she is Really strong, a good swimmer.

And when it is all over, time for a nap.

—— how strong she is. Aren't they lovely. Clever as well.

Now, 1963 was a momentous year, The Beatles were top of the charts.

Doctor Who appeared for the first time and the Great Train Robbery

took place, it was 50 years ago that the very first Spotlight news

programme took place. All threejal television started in 1961 it wasn't

until 1963 that Spotlight as we know it started. Carol has been taking a

look back at some of the famous faces and biggest storeys.

For 50 years Spotlight has been beamed into our homes from the

studios in Plymouth. Remember this? Over the years

Spotlight has had many fanfares. And of course, there were the

stories Spotlight has brought to our screens. Storms in the sea have had

a significant role in our region, from the floods in 1979, to the

Fastnet Race that same year. In is Channel Islands story, take

two. And the presenters bringing us the new, many of whom went on the

national fame. This book is set in Germany during the... Ah! Sorry

sorry. I knew I would get that wrong.

We are low on film. Don't blink or you might miss your

favourite. Behind the scene, the daily

Spotlight planning meetings, and the eager hunt for stories remains as

important as ever. That sounds fine, just what we need.

Programme. Let us hope that something turns up during the day,

it usually does. You don't see this any more, but perhaps by popular

demand the presenter's Christmas carol performance could be

reinstated! Happy memory, I don't think we will

bring back Chris mall Carol singing. As we saw in that report the weather

plays a big part in the programme. David is with us but we are joined

tonight by a very special guest. Mr Craig Rich. Welcome back. Thank you.

Lovely to see you all. It is gorgeous to see you, do you miss

this broadcasting lark? Yes and no. Really? Other things to do, you see

s busy old life. It is the best career I have had, being retired.

I bet you are busier than ever. I am. Lots to do and got the boat, and

we are off south of the equator in about four weeks time. We saw some

memories from the last 50 year, what are the outstanding memories from

you? The sad ones that we saw, fast net and the Penlee lifeboat disaster

in 81. The poignant one was going to Ypres for temperature 80th

anniversary of the Armistice, and doing the programmes Spotlight from

the Menin Gate. Commentating on the start of the it

will ships race. Interview Tall Ships Race. Interviewing the

Princess Royal. And yes, and going to Dunkirk for the 60th anniversary

of the happenings there in 1940. You saw some change, we use mostly

computers now, but in the early days of presenting the weather it was a

bit #2ki6 rent. Yes, it was magnetic symbol, the first night I did it the

paint was still wet on the board, and then you had this handful of

magnetic symbols, it had a minute to do tonight and tomorrow and changed

all the symbols round, some would drop off. It was a stressful start

because I was the figs regional BBC weatherman and they had never done

it before, in the sense we had to rig up the board and everything,

but. You became more than the weatherman you got involved in all

sorts of thing, you had a chat show and all sorts of thing. With the

maritime background, when anything came up to do with boats and the sea

I got involved. And the same thing with David. It is so important. It

is time for the weather. Which of you is going to do it tonight? You

won't get me to do it. Waiting for the, you know, the in

and what Russell or Natalie or Teresa was going to say, you have to

be able to respond to it. We have had a five second wind up. We better

stop and find out what the weather is going to be like.

Thank you. Good evening. It is great to see Craig back in the studio

again. It is misty, mild, there isn't a great deal of change over

the next few day, we have a lot of cloud, and also showers at time,

some of those shower s as we saw through the weekend, a risk of

giving us some thunder and hefty downpour, we have warm up from the

south. There is is a big area of low pressure. In fact it is the same

area of low pressure we had last week. It is acting an an engine. It

is sending the warm air our way, it in southern parts of Scandinavia

there is an area of high pressure. For us we stick with the mild and

misty and wet too. This is the picture by midday. The second system

coming in is likely to produce a fair amount of wet weather into the

evening and overnight. Between again systems of lines of showers on

Wednesday. Still, the risk of hefty downpour, there is the picture from

earlier today, there have been a few breaks in the cloud but where the

clearer skies have been they filled in with low cloud. A few showers

coming into west Cornwall across the Isles of Scilly. Some will move in

across the rest of Cornwall, into Devon. For all of us unusually

mielt, breezy, the breeze picks up a bit through the night, particularly

for Cornwall and misty, with low cloud, hill fog and some coastal fog

along the south coast. That is unusual as we move into the end of

the night. Temperatures of 14 to 16 degree, and unusually mild night to

come. All the greyness and mistiness is likely to be back across us, the

different is there is more rain round tomorrow, some turning out to

be heavy in places and an unusually mild day. Temperatures up between 17

and 19. Similar to what we have seen today.

Let us look at earlier today. If my forecast hasn't depressed you, that

will. What a miserable scene at this airport. The low cloud, the drizzle,

the wind, mist and fog, for most of us that is going to be the case

tomorrow. Some brightness possible in the north of Devon. Briefly some

sunny spells, for the Isles of Scilly expect to see cloud, misty,

further showers is likely —— likely. Times of high water:

if you are heading for the beach, the south coast will have a slight

chop to it with the south—east wizards, here up to three feet,

possibly four feet but on the north coast of Cornwall some lovely surf.

Three, maybe four feet. Some decent waves to enjoy for much of the day.

There is the coastal waters forecast. The winds are

south—easterly. Showers and mist patches and generally moderate or

poor visibility out at sea, so poor visibility not just for tomorrow but

for the rest of the week. On Wednesday, we get a bit of

brighter wet earthquake not a great deal. —— wetter. We are concerned is

about some of the rain on Thursday, particularly for Dorset, it could

turn out to be heavy and brighter, and becoming mainly dry. Have a good

evening. Thank you. He is getting the hang of it, isn't he Craig. He

is coming on nicely. Yes. That is it from us for this 50th anniversary of

Spotlight. Thank you for joining u have a very good evening. Take care.

Goodbye.