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pretty soggy. Thank you. That is all from the BBC. We can now

EasyJet has withdrawn its application to operate flights to

and from Guernsey. The commerce and employment Department confirmed the

news. Since the company announced its interest, the states moved to

block airlines the van Aurigny operating on the Gatwick route.

The chance for more competition on a vital food for Guernsey, easyJet

wanted to fly to Gatwick and help fill the Gallup when a Flybe Poulter

next year. At the states had already agreed to back Aurigny to help fly

enough passengers on the route. Yesterday, the department said it

thought Aurigny should keep its monopoly. Tonight, easyJet has

pulled out. The line says... It came just hours after business

leaders voiced concerns tighter rules would make Guernsey looked

like it was not open to new business. We queue is Aurigny, we

acknowledge the crucial role that it plays in servicing our needs, and we

impulse that, but we believe that no competition should be on a level

playing field. Those that supported the application wanted to see more

application and more consumer choice, but the chance of that

happening has gone. Jersey's Solicitor general is trying

to confiscate millions of pounds worth of assets from a convicted

drug smuggler. Curtis Warren was jailed for trying to smuggle

cannabis into Jersey. Now prosecutors who believe he is worth

up to ?200 million want to seize some of money and property. His

defence lawyer told the court that the case was not about taking his

assets but making sure he spends longer in jail.

Should it be compulsory that everyone coming to live in Jersey

should speak English and understand local laws and traditions before

they are grounded the right to stay? That was the question raised

today. You might as well apply for the

job. Why not? I have got nothing to lose. I have got nothing to lose!

Perhaps not nothing, as she has given up her job as a lawyer and her

life in Italy to move to Jersey to improve her career. That instead of

applying to law firms, she spent the last three months here, at St

Brelade's College, learning English at her own expense. It is an

investment. To have the potential to work in a language that is not

mine. Yes, definitely, I am in the right way. I have to be patient it

is not easy, but yes, I am positive, really positive. A positive move for

her, but not everybody chooses to study English. One politician says

immigrants should be able to speak English and understand Jersey's

laws. There is an educational element, but they have to pay to go

to evening classes to learn English or French, because we have got

jawline which, so they would have to make short they were qualified. The

Assistant chief minister agreed education was key to learning

English should not be compulsory. If anybody is going to make a

commitment and be part of our social environment and economic

environment, working in our community, they will find the need

to learn our language, and I would expect them to face that up. That is

what these students have done. There are some who do not have the desire

or the money to take the same path to improve their English.

That's in Jersey say they are worried about rabid animals coming

to the island. Commenting rules have been relaxed, leading to fears that

firms moving cats and dogs commercially could dodge blood tests

by exploiting rules designed for individuals.

Gill Mercury helps prepare a patient for a trip abroad. It is a high risk

country for rabies. If they are planning to go somewhere where there

is a risk of rabies, they will need one of these. Rabies is lethal,

every year it kills over 55,000 people around the world and 15

million are affected. You can get a slow paralysis, it starts from the

bite and works to affect the whole body, until you are completely

paralysed, and you collapse into a coma and died. Most people catch it

from dogs and cats. Vets are concerned that the relaxing of

quarantine rules could put the island at risk as people trading in

pets exploit will still signed for owners. The travel scheme, designed

for people moving around with their pets, subject to controls, because

of the changes that `` there are no people moving animals around

commercially. Parker came to Jersey from Romania and his owner had to

jump from Romania and his owner had

through lots of hoops to get him here. They have to have the rabies

jabs and wait 21 days to do that. They have to go through a medical

control before they can come through. When they get to Jersey,

they go through a medical control again. That may sound like a

thorough system. But dogs being moved commercially require even more

stringent checks, including blood tests. That's all imploring

highlanders `` islanders to check with their vet first if they buy a

dog from another country. They are sticking with an animal

theme later, on Spotlight. People find out why these villagers

are competing to sound most like a stack in mating season.

The staging. It has been derelict for two years

and some say it is an eyesore. It is surprising that Guernsey's only

tower block has become the focus of an art exhibition. An artist has

taken some of the last photographs inside before it is renovated.

Guernsey's landscapes have long captured the fascination of artists.

That includes this local photographer. But now, he has taken

inspiration from what some believe to be a blot on the landscape. A

tower block such as this has been full of residence for so long, and a

building without residence is a peculiar concept, an empty shell.

Because of that, I was curious to see what signs had been left by the

residents, there will still be odd piece of furniture, stickers on the

ball, and by adding my photography, I could in Bella Stadt theme. I

could make the rooms feel like there was a real presence still in each

unit. These are the results. After ten nights working in the pitch

black. This technique of light photography has taken him years to

perfect. Many people have seen photographs from a busy road or a

motorway with the car light trails, and you cannot see the cars. The

concept is the same, ie and the car moving the lights around. I saw

something that is not going anywhere, the tower block itself.

But some will see it in a different light.

A much quieter day to enjoy tomorrow, with some sunshine. Apart

from a Q morning showers, most of the day is dry. There is somewhat

weather overnight, and some of it could turn heavy. The wind does

ease. He Hugh Bayley Chavez, then sunny spells, but much lighter winds

than we have seen recently. The wind could be quite strong. There is a

line of showers coming in off the Atlantic later that could give some

torrential downpours, even the risk of thunder, and strong gust of wind.

It is this clutch of showers that we are keeping a close eye on. The low

pressure does not change much, but these were the systems will move out

of the way overnight, and it is a more straightforward picture

tomorrow. This system will approach bus on Thursday, but late in the

day. Here comes those showers. As well as the strong gusts of wind.

Eventually, the showers died down towards dawn. For tomorrow, briefly

in the morning, a few showers. The priest will move west. It will drop

and we will see some sunshine. It is mainly dry until the end of the day,

when a few more showers will turn up.

It is a bit choppy for the surfers. The outlook for Thursday is largely

dry until late in the day. Heavy rain overnight, replaced by showers

on Saturday. Chefs from the best restaurants and

hotels in Guernsey have been taking on Jersey on their own turf. They

have been cooking at Highlands College a four course dinner for top

London chefs, judging in the Culinery Muratti. Jersey cooked

yesterday, the winner will be declared tonight.

Quietly confident. When we do win, if we win, I will be loudly

confident! It would be nice to win again. If we lose, I might have to

do it again next year! I shall let you know whether

Guernsey or Jersey is victorious in that Culinery Muratti at 10:25pm. I

am back then after a short update at 8pm. Have a good evening.

After months of suffering major losses, pig producers in the South

West are finally being paid more than the cost of production. Factors

such as high feed costs have seen many farmers go out of business. The

South West is the third largest English region in terms of pig

production. Anna Varle has been finding out more. Jeremy has been

farming pigs for nearly 30 years, but in recent times he's barely made

a profit. But the future is now starting to look brighter. I am

feeling more positive, I think with pig prices a bit more static, but

there is a long way to go. We still need a margin in that pig price. We

need to be investing, we need to be moving forward. After years of

losing money, many farmers are starting to get paid the price it

takes to produce pork, but it's come at a cost. The pig industry lost 7%

of its national herd in the last six months of 2012 alone, due to so many

farmers going out of business and it's cost the UK millions of pounds.

Pig producers have been been losing money since 2010, so they need a

sustained period of profitability to be able to recoup their losses and

then be able to reinvest in their businesses for the future. So for

the moment it is positive, but we need retailers to maintain their

support for pig producers. But this news is of little comfort to those

who have already called it a day. Lester farmed pigs for 21 years, but

after such little return, he decided to sell this unit as a going concern

last year. He's now focussing on his Christmas business. You're trying to

keep people employed, we are trying to make a margin for ourselves so we

have personal drawings from that business and for the last three

years that was at a position of really just breaking even and

perhaps a little bit better. And that's not really good enough,

because you want the investment. You want sufficient margin to enable you

to reinvest in the business and so it was a reluctant decision, because

I enjoyed outdoor pig farming and it's quite a wrench to change

direction. But for now it is good news for those like Jeremy who have

decided to stay in, but the question is how sustainable are these prices

in the long`term. He rode his first winner at Exeter racecourse 19 years

ago. Today, Britain's top jockey was back where he started his rise to

fame and fortune. AP McCoy is a household name and Exeter have

honoured the Irishman by naming a bar after him. Dave Gibbins has the

story. He's 22 winners from the 4,000 milestone and he has been

champion jockey on 18 occasions and won the Grand National three years

ago. Tony McCoy, or if you prefer, AP is the attraction for race goers

up and down the country and he was back at the track where it started

for him to open a bar in his name and remember the first success in

Exeter in 1994. The trainer, Edward, still lives in the area. I didn't

know him until until I rode the horse. He doesn't train that many

horses, but the ones he did train he was successful with. I will be

forever grateful to him for giving me that ride. He has riden a few

more winners for me since that and also we have had a few skirmishes

with the Stewarts at Taunton one `` stewards at Taunton one day between

us. He always remembers, yeah, I like to think that I'm just a very

small part in his career. Despite the fact that Tony McCoy fell in his

first race today, wouldn't it be fitting if he does record his

4,000th winner at the course where he made his name? At least he was

able to walk away. Yes, it is good to see. Now, the village of

Dulverton on the edge of Exmoor was home to a world championship at the

weekend. Bolving is the art of imitating a stag during the mating

season. This is what it should sound like: URGH! Excuse me. My stomach

usually does make that kind of noise at this time of the evening! The

idea is to trick a stag into answering your call ` and this year,

almost 50 competitors took part. Andrew Plant was there. Right good

evening and welcome to the tenth annual World Bolving Competition

here on Exmoor. You're going to be judged on how well you imitate a

stag. The start of this annual competition and a demonstration in

the art of exactly how bolving should be done. Urgh! Urgh! Urgh!

Somewhere between Tarzan of the Apes and a roar of pain ` an impassion of

Exmoor stags, in this their mating season. `` imitation. Competitors

need a call loud enough to carry across the rolling countryside and

perhaps persuade a real stag to answer back. It's the October rut,

so it's the mating season for the red deer stags and, yeah, this call

that they do, the bolve, it sends out a challenge, "I have got some

hinds here, I'm a big, ruthless stag, high on testosterone."

Word`of`mouth has made the bizarre world of bolving increasingly

popular and crowds now come from miles around to test their tonsils

and pick up some tips. Right. OH! OH! OH! OH! OH! Jane Colman from

Ilfracombe training hard for her first bolving Championship. And so

as darkness begins to fall, the bolving finally begins. Quiet,

quiet, quiet. URGH! Between calls, everyone listens for the sound of a

response from the countryside below. OH! OH! OH! OH! Bolving clearly open

to interpretation. WOAH! WOAH! With some surprising variation in each

attempt. WURGH! It is the most resounding that's seen to be most

successful. URGH! URGH! URGH! Each attempt is marked by torch light by

a panel of judges. Jane didn't take the title this time around, but says

she'll be back to do it all again this time next year. Urgh! URGH!

URGH! URGH! Natalie makes a similar noise when she wants a cup of tea in

the afternoon. I am sure I have heard the that. They sound like him

from Star Wars. A unique collection of pictures taken by four

generations of photographers from the same family is to be sold at

auction. More than 200 photos of shipwrecks taken by the Gibsons of

the Isles of Scilly will go under the hammer next month. Spotlight's

David George has been looking at the collection. Now The raging sea in

the South West has caused the enof many a fine ship. More than 200 have

been photographed in their dying throes by generations of Gibsons.

The business began in 1869. Many were taken in difficult conditions,

with the photographers carrying heavy equipment over the rocks to

capture the dramatic shots. The collection was started by John

Gibson, the family say he obtained his first camera at sea. Each

generation carried on the work and continued to photograph wrecks in

the area. San ra Gibson ` Sandra Gibson still runs the business. We

have always photographed a huge diversion `` diverse range of things

that have been happening in the area. Ship wrecks were just a part

of that, but in that day and age there were a huge amount of ship

wreck and disasters in the area. So you they took those pictures

alongside everything else and over the years as the collection has

built, we have made a particular effort to continue with the ship

wreck archive. In many cases these pictures were made using glass

negatives, which allow us to see detail, even by modern standards. My

favourite is a picture of the wreck of the Enterprise, after the drama

was over and they took a picture of the rigging and the broken masts and

broken wood. For that day and age, it was what you would call a very

arty picture. The last really big wreck on the area was in 1997 and

Frank Gibson was there. He was supposed to be retired. I was

running the business, but he ran faster than I ever could go and get

pictures of that wreck. We took pictures of it together and it

seemed, as it was the last big wreck in the area, it seemed the right

place to close the ship wreck archive really. The action of the

archive is expected to make around ?150,000. Some fantastic

photographs. And some were taken right at the start of photography.

Gibsons, a family name and very famous. Sorry about some of the

sound in that. Now time for the weather and hopefully we are hearing

David loud and clear. And we have some lighting tonight. Sound and

lighting, it is a miracle. This television business will catch on!

We have some reasonable weather tomorrow. Probably the best day of

the week. A lot of dry weather and some sunshine. The problem is the

wet weather we will see tonight. Not op some wet weather, but some gusty

winds. That is a summary for tomorrow, much quieter and lighter

winds and some respite from the wet weather with some sunshine in the

afternoon. How far, we have got tonight to get away with first.

Tonight we will have some strong winds and also some heavy rain in

the form of thundery showers. Those showers will be around later on

tonight. There is some now particularly across parts of Dorset

and Somerset. You can see some over Dartmoor as well. But to the west we

will see some heavy and thundery down pours. Is in these showers we

could have gusts of wind 50 to 60mph. The brighter colours showing

where the heavy showers will develop. By the small hours they are

beginning to move away. But they are still around by the morning and

still a brisk south`westerly wind. The winds though easing tomorrow.

Tonight temperatures cooler than they have been with temperature

between 11 and 14 Teggs `` degrees. Warmest along the coast. Tomorrow,

the showers will be around first thing. But through the day there is

some lengthy spells of sunshine. It is probably going to be the best day

of the week. So make the most of it. And much lighter winds. The lavs two

days the `` last two days the winds have been very strong and we have

had rain as well. So it would be nice to get a dry day. A brisk

westerly wind and a top temperature of around 16 degrees. But feeling

warm and pleasant in the sunshine. It is however short`lived. I will

come to the forecast later in the week in a second. For the Isles of

Scilly, some showers in the afternoon, but they will clear in

the later afternoon. A top temperature of 16 degrees. The times

of high water: Now for our surfers the surf's been

quite choppy along the south coast. Very messy conditions. The north

coast after some clean waves today, the waves tomorrow will be on the

choppy side. Not as strong a wind as they have been. Not as big on the

south coast. But also cleaner than it has been for the last two days.

The sea temperatures are around 16 degrees and if you're hetdest

heading out to `` heading out to sea, the wind are lively first thing

tomorrow morning. South`westerly force five to six. Veering westerly

force four, showers or fair with mainly good viz griblt. ``

visibility. Now looking further ahead. This clutch of cloud here is

the cloud that will produce the showers tonight. We are keeping a

closy `` eye on that. It is one area of low pressure and does move out of

way come the middle of day we have got high pressure and fewer isobars

on the the chart. But by Thursday we have a weather system coming in from

the south`west and Thursday night it becomes windy and wet again. Some of

the rain on Thursday is going to be quite heavy. Particularly in the

evening. Friday is a mixture of sunshine and showers. And we

continue unsettled as we head into the weekend. Thank you. And we leave

you tonight with memories of the singer Noel Harrison, who has died

at his Devon home at the age of 79. The son of the late Rex Harrison,

Noel lived and worked for most of his life in America, but he returned

to Devon ten years ago. Here he is performing his best known song,

Windmills of your Mind. Goodnight. # A circle in a spiral, a wheel

within a wheel # Never ending or beginning on an ever spinning wheel,

as the images that unwind in the wind mills of your mind! #