14/10/2013 BBC Channel Islands News

Good evening. Welcome to BBC Channel Islands. Vening. Welcome to BBC

Channel Islands. Six million for the elite and the every day athletes, a

funding boost for Jersey Sport. We have more people, young people

particularly, taking part in sport, we also have more people performing

at a higher level, so it is looking at the whole spectrum. Dangers of

the deep. An unexploded device found in St Peter Port harbour. Plus

running out of honey, fears of a shortage of the sweet stuff by

Christmas. And this week it warms up again, we

will have milder air, it stays unsettled. There will be rain or

shower, I will have a full forecast later in the problem.

`` programme. An extra ?6 million could be spent

over the next two years on creating a sporting legacy in Jersey. The

States has published its new sports strategy called Fit For the Future.

The idea is to improve sports venues in preparation for the hosting of

the island game in the 2015. But money will be spent at grass`roots

level. After winning 80 General Medical

Councille, more than 20 gold Team Jersey returned with bags of pride

and precious metal. But in two years time the Island Games will be coming

home, to Jersey. In the run up the states has published a strategy to

create a sporting legacy. I hope there is going to be a strong voice

for sport in Jersey. It will be better co`ordinated. I hope we have

more people, young people particularly taking part in sport,

more physically literate and that we also have more people performing at

a higher level so it is looking at the whole spectrum. I think it is an

opportunity for us to have a real pride in our sport.

As parliament of those plan, an extra ?6 million will be spent on

fort in the next two two years. 4.5 million will beout used to upgrade

facilities, and the rest will be spent on encouraging more people to

take up different sports. The plans include new pitches,

improving the athletics track at the FB fields and up #2k3wr5iding school

facilities. If they go ahead a new organising body will be set up to

oversee sport in Jersey. Some question how the money is being

spent. It seems to be labour intensified in the sense there will

be people employed. Again, if you look at the document, where does

this salary come from? What I don't want to see is bureaucracy taking

over another bureaucracy, and therefore, money being spent on

salaries when it should be going into sport. After the success of

Bermuda, Jersey has a lot to live up to in hosting the 2015 Island Games,

but this Fife year sports strategy extends beyond that, and perhaps the

biggest challenge will be keeping that sporting legacy alive.

An ex cloo collusion zone is in place round St Peter Port harbour.

There is believed to be a depth charge and the Royal Navy are on the

way to help deal with it. Even who sailed in or out has

probably travelled over it. Almost 70 years on and there appears

to be another reminder of the legacy o Occupation, this suspicious

looking object is believed to be a depth charge. They were used

throughout the war to target shipping and U`boats. The suspected

explosive device is in a zone that centres over a site known as the

ammunition wreck. The device is just a few hundred yards in that

direction by that boat in the distance. It is quite understandably

a no`go zone but it has caused a few headaches for some of the bigger

ships. For the harbour master this discovery is causing a few issue, as

it lies on the main route into the harbour but he says its impact will

be limited. Pretty much all vessels can get in

without difficulty, it does restrict the options for the biggest ships

for getting in and out, but we don't expect it to unduly affect things.

This is my last week at work, and it is a different way of finishing off

a career. It is just two month since another

wartime device was detonated off Guernsey's coast. Experts from the

Royal Navy were on hand then and are expected toer a rive in the island

once again in the next few hour, to decide what to do next.

3,000 people in Jersey were affected by a power cut last night. A cable

fault at Grand Vaux caused annoutage, it had an minor knock on

effect on Guernsey's electricity grid. Engineers worked through the

night. Millions of euros are being spent on

a new marine energy facility in Cherbourg. The naval defence company

DCNS will manufacture the turbines and a scheme set to seat them

installed by 2016. Last week the French President was in Cherbourg to

an nous the creation of 1,000 new jobs. The plan is to leverage the

naval shipbuilding expertise of DCNS into the manufacture and deployment

of tidal turbines. The first is to install a pilot scheme by 2016. The

project is not only the farms, we want to built an industry round

tidal energy. We think we can achieve a turn over of 1 billion by

2025. Earlier this year, DCNS bought a

controlling interest in open hydroand plans to set sup a

production facility for turbines in Cherbourg. We talk about tidal but

there is not only tidal, we have also wave energy, which is a

promising thing, we have atomic energy conversion which is a great

solution, and also floating wind turbine, that is the future of wind

industry. So with all those solution, we know

that there is a great future for the industry related to marine energy,

and we want to be part of that, and not only part of it, but want to be

one of the leaders of this industry in France.

Just where this leaves Alderney and the other Channel Islands in terms

of marine renewable energy is uncertain. DCNS plans to be a big

player in a global market but is no ruling out deploying turbines on the

other side of the Alderney race. You are watching the BBC in the

Channel Islands. Latest on in Spotlight. The only way is

up`and`up, we join steeple jacks restoring a mill chimney to its

former glory. In sport Guernsey's Heather Watson

has dropped out scr side of the top 100 players in the world. She is now

133. Her poor run of form continued with a first round exit in the

Luxembourg Open at the hands of Yanina Wickmayer. Jersey's Daniel

Hawksworth came 24th in the Ironman World Championships in Hawaii. Dan

was competing on the island of Kona in Hawaii. The event come prices a

2.4 mile swim; 112 mile cycle and a 122.2 mile run. Jersey could run out

of locally made honey by Christmas, the bee keepers association says

disease, pests and poor weather led to unproductive hies. The price of

island made honey could go up as a result.

It has been a very good year for fruit farmers, sunbathers and

gardener, but it seems these little fellows are having rather a hard

time of it. This is a lovely big hive. Lots of

bees. But across the island dozens of hives have been lost, production

of honey is well done and before too long, these are likely to be missing

from the shop shelves. There is going to be no honey left.

The major suppliers are saying they will probably run out round

Christmas time if not before. That limited supply is being blamed on a

plethora of problems for the little pollinators. The cold spring weather

coincided with the peak of the pollen and nectar flow so the bees

missed out. The American foul breed outbreak is causing problems too.

Bernie has felt that like many others. He has kept bees for more

than 40 year, my part has been reasonably productive. This year for

some reason or other, it has been completely at sea, you know, we are

looking at 50% yield down. The swarms keepers use to replenish

hives have been in decline but Bob is looking on the bright side.

Beekeepers are optimists. So next years it is going to be a bumper

year. Mind you, this year was going to be a bumper year I think! And

last year, too. But next year is going to be one definitely. Bob's

yar of honey is definitely half full but if yours is nearly empty you

better get to the shops before local suppliers run out.

Let us see if we are going to get bee friendly weather. It is milder

this week, but also unsettled. We will see rain or showers at times,

also breezy but the temperatures are on the rise. We will get back up

into quite high teens. At the moment though, we have an area of low

pressure swirling round central Britain has thrown the line of

cloud, still producing outbreaks of rain. That will fer out. Another one

will bump along the north coast of France 6789 so tomorrow morning we

could again be wet before it improves, and a large area of low

pressure across the Atlantic now, so we will have another line of rain

coming through, I think during the course of the early hours of

Wednesday morning but moving fast, so improving in the afternoon by the

middle of the week. So, overnight tonight, a bit of patchy rain

possible, westerly winds and night`time temperatures probably no

lower than 11 or 12. That is 52 or 54. As for tomorrow, well, there

will be rain in the morning I think. It will be patchy but fer out by the

afternoon and by the time we get to the end of the afternoon we might

get late sunshine, 14 degrees the top temperature, much lighter winds,

and mainly coming in from the east. So there is our coastal waters

forecast. The winds easterly force three or four. Rain becoming mainly

fair. Times of high water: for our surfers, the waves aren't

big but it is clean. Let us look further ahead to the

outlook, because we are expecting to see heavy rain, early on Wednesday

morning but it is moving fast, quite a windy day on Wednesday,

temperatures up tow 17 degree, Thursday bright and dry but breezy,

with further rain early on Friday. But much higher temperatures. That

is what we call autumn. one vast factory but one vast

market. Coming up: why high`fives landed a

lollipop mild in trouble. A setback for Olympic legacy at the Weymouth

and Portland National Sailing Academy. Coming up, stay with us to

see what the view is like from the top of this chimney stack.

A lollipop mild in Plymouth has left his job after being threatened with

suspension for high`fiving children as they crossed the road. Pensioner

Bob Slade had carried out the role for four years. The City Council

says patrols can be friendly but their full attention must be on the

road. This is the route near the primary

school where lollipop mild Bob Slade would high`5 some pupils as they

crossed the road. But a caution from the council saw him walk away from

the job last month. You would imagine high`5 being some person

putting up their hand and the other person hitting it. In this case, it

was God he was holding up his lollipop stick, his other hand would

be out and the children would hit his hand. I think it is just madness

that we now have a safety issue because somebody was being friendly

as part of their job. It is a very sad state that we have two appeal

for a mild who we definitely need back. Nobody from the school wanted

to comment but the council released a statement.

The lollipop mild did not want to be interviewed. Parents and pupils are

making their own way across this road without the help of a lollipop

mild. The council says they are recruiting for somebody to replace

him. We would like to hear what you think

about that. We already have comments coming in through our this page. ``

our Facebook page. More motorists aged over 50 are

drink`driving in Devon and Cornwall than most other parts of the

country. A Freedom of information request to all police forces shows

Devon and Cornwall in the top worst five. The south`west is also a

hotspot for over 75's drink driving. The figures are for 2010 to 2012.

The Energy Minister Ed Davey has told the BBC that a deal to build

new nuclear power station in Somerset is extremely close.

Ministers have been negotiating with EDF, the firm wanting to build

Hinkley C, over the price it will receive for the electricity it

generates. Managers at Launceston hospital are

to reopen ten beds at the unit. The beds had been closed because of

staff shortages. New staff are being taken on and all 20 beds should be

back in use by November. The Olympic sailing legacy left by

the 2012 games at Weymouth and Portland has suffered a setback. The

Sale Laser Centre on Portland at the South of the Olympic venue will

close from the start of December. It is hoped another company can be

found to take its place. The Olympics will be remembered as

one of the greatest events ever to happen in Dorset. There was great

celebration as it was selected as the sailing venue and then when

London was selected itself. One Word that kept occurring was legacy. The

legacy the Olympics will lead is really phenomenal. It is absolutely

amazing, fantastic news. We are still excited and we cannot contain

ourselves. Part of that legacy has been the laser sailing centre here

at the National sailing Academy. It has been providing easy access for

the sport, encouraging people to try it. But the company is restructuring

its business to provide franchises and will leave here in December.

They say they will honour all of its commitments and obligations until

it's closing date in December. It says it is working closely with the

Academy to ensure the trip transition runs smoothly. 5,000

sailors have been through here this year alone. Work is underway to dry

and fine a new operator to take it over.

The High Court has decided not to look into plans for 1,500 homes on

the edge of Truro. The council had wanted judges to examine Cornwall

Council was my decision to approve the homes and school and hotel. The

project will link to a new stadium for Cornwall. The Exeter Chiefs made

light of the big names that came there this weekend. Not such good

news in football though. If we can start with the rugby. The result of

the weekend? A fantastic result. This Cardiff Blues had lots of great

players but the chief just blew them away. This is another guy who has

been catching the eye of some selectors at the moment. A mild of

the match performance from him. `` mild of the match performance. They

will not be happy with this one. He makes them look like schoolboys. It

was all over for Cardiff. The award for the easiest try. What a

celebration! It is almost like he is running from 50 yards! Here, the

referee takes a tumble. In fairness to the referee, he got up quicker

than some footballers do! That brings us to the football. Exeter

City, not such a great result. Hartlepool made monkeys out of them!

Yes, a bad day at the office for Exeter. The mild of the match was

Jack Compton. It was just one traffic really. Look James fits in

with a bit of help. It went too long, too often. Plymouth Argyle,

the only side not to lose. A fair result for them? A fair result.

Plymouth probably should have edged it on chances but because they had

been sober, a drop was not bad. `` they had been so sure. The momentum

was killed and they could not quite get it. Away now to Torquay. They

will feel hard done by? Especially being in the lead. They should have

been 3`0 up at half`time. The defending was poor on the day. How

the referee or a linesman did not see this, it was ridiculous. Very

scruffy goal. A very good header. But they could not hold on. This is

a manager 's nightmare. There are struggling at the moment. Come on

Torquay! We can say that rugby reigns supreme in the south`west

this weekend. A clean sweep for the clubs. The Pirates won on Friday

night. Three out of three. We need bigger goals. Your old Cardiff!

If you have not got a head for heights, you may want to look away

for this next item. The chimney which is part of Coldharbour Mill in

Uffculme is being restored by steeplejacks so that the working

museum can continue to fire up its two steam engines.

It might look up at applying `` it might look like a climb up an

average that but this mild is 70 feet up a chimney. This is 126 feet

high and it is being given a face`lift. We are renewing the

mortar of the top 30 feet of this chimp me because it has eroded to

such a bad state. It was built in 1799 and ran as a commercial

spinning mill until 1981. A year later it became a working museum.

The mail is a listed building so we have a duty to look after it and

preserve it. We have events throughout the year and when it is

in steam, we need the chimney to be working. The stonework is coming

away so we will have to repair that. The mill started with the spinning

Jenny. Then in Georgian times, the apparatus got bigger. In Victorian

times, the machines were more powerful and they could have many

more of them, thanks to the power of steam. The mill often steps back in

time. School trips is the resource as projects about Victorian times. I

had experienced what it is like to be a Victorian child in the mills

and doing all the hard work that you had to do. Some children had to come

to work because their family had nothing to eat or because their

family was sick. Girls were doing the same jobs as boys and they got

less payment. Was that fair? No, I don't think that was fair. I wonder

if in Victorian times, they had children climbing this chimney to

clean it! I would rather look at it that way.

Very brave! The weather is next. We have some milder air heading our

way. But it is turning more and settled this week. We will see some

rain. Higher temperatures by the end of the week but it also becomes a

breezy. At the moment, we have an area of low pressure around Central

prison. It has produced the rain that we saw this morning. It will

move away from us in the next 24 hours. The big change as we move

into Wednesday. No pressure and a low band of cloud and rain. It is

moving quite fast so it will be ringing in the morning on Wednesday

but it will be brighter for the afternoon. This is the centre of the

area of low pressure. Our skies had cleared quite nicely. Earlier

today, our cameraman was on rich toward Dorset and he caught a

glimpse of some of the low cloud first thing this morning but also

some of the blue sky later in the day. Some fantastic views of our

coastline. The winds had not been overly strong and sees relatively

quiet. It was clear skies are still around this evening which means it

will turn quite chilly. The showers will fade away tonight and all the

clear sky were moving across all of us tonight. Overnight temperatures

getting down as low as three degrees. Most of us around six or

seven degrees. As for tomorrow, a bit misty with some fog patches

first thing. Through the morning and into the afternoon, once they lose

the mist and fog, the sunshine will return and it will feel warmer than

today. The winds are generally liked and we could see temperatures of 15

degrees. Not a bad day at all. Looking at the forecast for the

Isles of Scilly, here, a lot more cloud around and it could produce

rain in the morning. Wednesday morning, we see some rain

coming in. It will be replaced by brighter conditions as it moves

through. Breezy, milder but with sunny spells on Thursday. For which

weather again on Friday but even that should move through to allow

sunny spells into the afternoon. The temperatures are on their way up. 19

degrees by the end of the week. You are not holding back when it

comes to the story of the lollipop mild. Take a look at our Facebook

page and you will see the comments there. Good night.