04/11/2013 BBC Channel Islands News

An investigation is under way into why an aeroplane searching for two

missing fishermen crash landed in Jersey last night. Nobody on board

the aircraft was injured. The emergency call came in at about 615

yesterday evening. Shortly afterwards, the air search aircraft

joined the investigation and then at 7:15, name telemarketing `` Lion's

Pride ditched. The Lee`on`Solent coastguard helicopter rescued the

two men from the Ecrehous. Operations were stood down just

before midnight. Tonight one of those fishermen remains in

hospital. The first daytime pictures of the

Lion's Pride where it came to rest. This islander aircraft is more used

to rescuing people around the Channel Islands but last night

became caught up in an emergency of its own. The nose of the Lion's

Pride rests in a tree today where the aircraft came to a standstill

last night. You can see the left`hand wheel has buckled upon

impact and the left side of the wing is resting on the ground. The pilot

yesterday evening, for him to bring the aircraft in having realised

there was an engine fault, to bring the aeroplane in and landed on to

rain which would make you nervous in daylight, at night time without any

lights and to bring it to a halt was nothing other than miraculous.

Martin Viney was on a five who set off for the Ecrehous yesterday

afternoon. The aim was to spend today fishing off the reef. After

three of them had dropped off safely on the reef, his brother Stephen and

friend Jason Bonhomme went to more their boat. The dinghy they would

then use to get back to their hut on the islands then lost engine power.

Two very experienced guys are lots of training which stood them in

great stead and we said to them keep the light flashing to the

shore. We were standing there and when the lights went out we

collectively made a decision that we would then phoned the coastguard

emergency services. Which is what we did. What did it feel like at that

point? Absolutely horrendous. As the evening went on, you were in one of

the huts and you heard something outside. One of the lads, Mark, he

was just lying there and I have heard a shout. And I said, "Mark,

somebody shouting". That is when we got up and went downstairs and my

brother appeared at the door and this was 11:15, absolutely

incredible. Back at St Mary, the Lion's Pride remains at rest and

will do so for a while. Investigators will start work

shortly to find out why this plane ended up making an emergency landing

in a Jersey field. Next tonight, representatives from

Guernsey's postal flower industry could be meeting with UK MPs to make

their case for getting LVCR reinstated. The tax relief which

allowed low value items to be sold to the UK tax free at a massive

impact on local flower industries will

and industry under pressure. No longer able to sell to the UK

tax`free, the loss of VAT relief has made it tough for local postal

flower companies. But progress is being made to try to change that.

Representatives of the industry could be heading to Westminster this

month to make their case to MPs about why LVCR should be reinstated

for certain home`grown items. It makes a difference because the MPs

get to understand the problems that some of our growers have here. They

are really facing hard times not having the same benefit that every

other grower and the European Union has stop I desperately want to move

this forward and so this is one of many measures to try to get

something new in place of LVCR to help out what remains of our growing

industry. It may be a slow process but there are at least signs of

progress and not only for this industry. The loss of VAT relief had

a big impact at the post office as well with Guernsey Post losing

around seven of its ten biggest customers and having to foot the

bill for the cost of collecting more tax on behalf of the UK. But now

after months of talking, they are weeks away from signing a new deal

as well. We sped a while analysing our own costs and the cost of

collecting the VAT to put a case forward. That has been well received

by HMRC. We have a certain amount of labour, and they get involved and

those of the cost we will look to recover. That agreement may be

closer to a deal to help the local growing industry but they will be

hoping the talks later this month will get things moving in the right

direction. Some news in brief now, a lawyer

acting for the UK drugs baron Curtis Warren has urged Europe's to treat

him fairly `` urged jurors. Prosecutors are now trying to

confiscate nearly ?200 million from him. His case consists of over 00

agreed statements and legal letters, the trial continues tomorrow.

Jersey's, health Minister has been sentenced to three months in prison

for contempt of court, Stuart Syvret. The judge said Syvret showed

serious and repeated contempt and should be arrested and made to pay

court costs. A community safety group in Jersey

is calling for nightclubs to stay open later for an alcohol free chill

out hour. The Safer St Helier partnership think it could reduce

disturbances. Later in Spotlight with Justin and

Natalie, newts disrupting the network, how they are causing havoc

for a train company. Next, important documents from the

Occupation have been recovered by police in Guernsey. 21 years after

they were stolen. The files tell the stories of relations between Jersey

but the Government and the occupying German forces and today they were

returned to the archives. A crucial part of the history of

occupied Jersey, lost 42 decades and today returned home. These are part

of a huge raft of file stolen from the bailiffs Chambers `` lost for

two decades. Up until now, it was thought these five of the papers

were lost forever. They've form part of the archives which is

correspondence between the bailiff of Jersey, and the German

authorities during the Occupation. So they tell us the story officially

about the island and there occupants experience. It is such an important

part of our history and these files show us what happened during that

time. The Jewish file is interesting... The missing documents

include treatments of Jews and costs paid by the state to billets German

soldiers so when Linda spotted World War II papers up for sale in

Guernsey, she got in touch with Guernsey Police to get them back. We

thought they made part of the collection from 1992 that was still

outside `` outstanding `` Jersey police. We then liaise with our

Guernsey colleagues and they conducted some enquiries and

thankfully they were able to recover almost 500 documents. And we are

glad that we could bring them back to the island where they can be

displayed in the archive which is their rightful home. Police say the

original thieves have already faced the courts so there will be no new

prosecutions. The files will be available to the orbit from tomorrow

in the archive but for now they are back home safely locked away.

To sit `` tickets for next year s Sark folk Festival have sold out

over the weekend, it is not even happening until next year. No

confirmed performers either. Organisers say they cannot sell any

more because the island's transport system would not hope. It attracts

around 1000 fans every year. Let's get the weather now.

After a while 24 hours or so, things are a little bit, now the wind has

died down there is still the risk of some showery outbreaks overnight

tonight. But the main feature of the weather, the strength of the wind

that has eased. Tomorrow for fireworks and bonfire displays,

expect to see some thick cloud which may produce some rain that the early

rain first thing tomorrow morning should clear and then for a while

will get some sunny spells but it is windy with the winds north`westerly

four Match Of The Day. Shortly breaks for an otherwise white

unsettled story. For the moment we have got some clear sky covering

north`west France as well as the Channel Islands. This lump of cloud

is sweeping towards us fast through the night so expect it to give us

some abbots of rain and then it will clear with some sunny spells

tomorrow afternoon but then it leaks back to this Atlantic air system,

thick cloud tomorrow evening. For the fireworks displays, most of them

will be dry. Wednesday is a windy day again, south`west winds which

could be gale force at times and further outbreaks of rain coming in

through the afternoon. The rain tonight, widespread at times quite

heavy and it will Peter out towards the morning. They are mainly from

the west or south West or south`west and nine Celsius, the minimum

temperature. Tomorrow morning will be mainly cloudy but come lunchtime

just after, it will improve and we will see some sunny spells

developing and it becomes largely dry. The winds are north`westerly,

fresh too strong and we will see them produce up to around 14 Celsius

as a maximum. These are the coastal Waters forecasts. And the times of

high water: For most of our surfing beaches the

conditions are likely to be quite messy. Wednesday is a wet and windy

day turning showery on Thursday and Friday.

BBC Guernsey tomorrow morning, following on from the plane crash,

Jim is exploring the cost of funding the air search with its founder

member. And as traffic wraps up with the rope a still closed, we will

hear the latest on the road transport strategy. All that with

Jim Cathcart from 7am on BBC Guernsey. That is it from the

Channel Islands, let's join Spotlight.

are doing as much as they can to make that known where they live.

Coming up later in the programme ` delayed again by the weather. We'll

hear from the local yachtsman still waiting for the start of the Transat

race. And find out how Great Crested Newts

are delaying rail improvements. More than 100 new jobs will be

created in Plymouth with the development of artists studios and

workshops. The scheme has secured more than ?2 million of European

funding and as John Danks reports, it's hoped it will help to keep some

of the most talented arts graduates in the city.

Moulding a career from the arts can be a challenge for graduates. Jane

completed her degree in contemporary Craft earlier this year. She moved

away from Plymouth for a while, before finding a job back here in

the College of art. She welcomes the boost to arts funding in the city.

That's what Plymouth needs, graduate opportunities where you have

excellent studio space. 32 new artists studios are to be built here

at the Royal William Yard. Artists will be able to create and sell

their work here. We tend to have an intubation space and business

support with various network providers from the region. There

will be workshop facilities, ceramics, jewellery, Prince, which

ordinarily artists wouldn't be able to afford that kind of equipment.

Work is due to start here soon, with the facility being ready by 2015.

Ocean Studios secured the money. If you get a hundred jobs for ?800,000,

that is greatly village of that will stand against any project. Good news

perhaps for some of these arts graduates of tomorrow, but the

demand for studio space is as high, with more than 200 artists already

on the waiting list for the new development.

Time for the sport now and Dave has news from a pretty good weekend for

our teams. We start with their bad news. Yeovil

Town's recent revival was halted at Leeds United in the Championship by

two goals to nil. They were holding their own at half`time, but two

second half finishes from Ross McCormack sent the Glovers back to

the bottom of the table. Gary Johnson's team now face FA Cup

holders Wigan Athletic at Huish Park next Sunday. It is a long way off

yet and at the end of the season, it is 30 games. As long as we keep

improving and I see an improvement in the labs, we're getting there and

we're competing. Onto the rest of the football and rugby. Exeter

Chiefs maintained their top four placing in the Premiership after a

narrow win at Sale Sharks. The round ball game saw precious wins for

Plymouth Argyle and Torquay United in League Two. Earlier, former

professional players Chris Hargreaves and Andy Birkett joined

me to take stock of the results. Another good result, they have

beaten others at home. He is awesome with his boot. Great technique for

any youngster playing sport. A couple of tackles, keen to get his

shirt back. It is a tough team to get into at the moment. Plymouth

Albion went down despite a brave fight against Bristol. Albion a bit

disappointing. Better than some other teams, but still

disappointing. Exeter city second successive defeat, this time at

Portsmouth. They were 3`0 down at Fratton Park. Classic case of

inconsistency. Frustrating for them. Defending crosses is really

important. They scored two on the day, good headers. One crumb of

comfort, a glimmer of hope was the mini fightback. A great striker's

finish here. That will give him some confidence and the team some

confidence, because they nearly did it. Why the sudden turnaround? Art

work, training ground, solid shape, knocking goals away, usual stuff

will stop a brilliant finish across the keeper. No better time to

score, 90 minutes on the clock. Paul McCallum, what a difference as he

made for Torquay? This first man coming up has made a big difference.

But Blair comes back in. 26 days ago, he had surgery, that is a big

mark of a man to do that. Come back in, please, scores the first balls

and calms the nerves. There is his first. A great header, carbon copy

of the first one. He scores a brilliant finish, he scores a great

goal here. Nice to see you, thanks for the entertainment.

Britain's top jump jockey AP McCoy needs two more victories to reach

the 4,000 winners milestone and he could do it at Exeter racecourse

tomorrow. McCoy has three rides at the Haldon track all on Jonjo

O'Neill horses. It will be fitting if he manages the feat as he rode

his first ever British winner at Exeter in 1994 on Chickabiddy.

Racing starts at ten to two with the feature race, the Haldon Gold Cup,

an hour later. Falmouth yachtsman Sam Goodchild

will have to wait three more days before being able to start the

Transat Jacques Vabre yacht race from France to Brazil. The start has

been delayed for a second time due to bad weather. Spotlight's Andy

Breare has the latest from Le Havre. After news of another delay, there

has been a despondent moods in their race village. The skipper says while

the postponement is frustrating, it is understandable. If we have an

option to go in light winds, which might be an option on Thursday,

definitely, let's take it. I want to race with everyone else. 45 knots

doesn't normally allow that to happen. Last night, the skipper is

here held an unofficial meeting, where the majority decided they

weren't happy starting the race today because of the very high

winds. They took that decision to the race director, who capitulated

and promptly postponed the release until Thursday. 80% of us didn't

want to leave. For us, it was the right decision. The last thing we

want is to go in that weather. The frustrating game continues for the

race fleet as they prepared to race to Brazil on Thursday.

Finally, Guernsey's Heather Watson had to withdraw from the singles of

the Barnstaple Tennis Open. She was feeling unwell, but did return for

the doubles in which she and Jo Konta were eliminated in the

semi`finals. Network Rail has been forced to

delay improvement work to its track in Devon after rare Great Crested

Newts were found near the site. The amphibians are protected by EU and

UK law. The train company has put up several

miles of special newt fencing so it can remove the creatures before it

starts work at Whiteball tunnel at Burlescombe. Spotlight's Janine

Jansen has the story. What is made of white plastic and

goes on and on and on? It is new to fencing. Network rail wants to

improve the track, but the trouble is, there is a pond nearby and in

our prayer and protected Great Crested Newts. So network We'll have

to remove them before they start work. Simon Williams has to check

more than 200 buckets and mats for 60 days. So far, he has found 45.

The day I met him, we weren't so lucky. A few frogs, but now Great

Crested Newts. When was the last time you counted them? Day before

yesterday. The local farmer is amazed. Never heard of them before.

I couldn't believe that. I much fencing have they put up? I would've

thought something like three miles of fencing, because it's all round

my spots here and they have gone inside the railway to the end of the

tunnel and then they have gone in this other field. They said the

fencing alone has cost ?25,000. The traps are made as enticing as

possible. A bit of foliage, bit of sponge, increase any mammals I'm in

there and they can climb out if it gets waterlogged. Simon says the

biggest number of Great Crested Newts years found here in one`day

was 19. It is amazing what you learn. I

never knew there was such a thing as Newt fencing. Time for the weather

forecast. More to come this week, don't expect

anything to settle down. We have had a lovely day today, but only for one

day. If you were kept awake last night by the gusts of wind, these

are the gusts of wind between midnight and three in the morning.

It is a little bit quieter this evening. The winds to pick up in the

second half of the night. The reason for the unsettled weather is the

position of the Jetstream coming out of Canada, stealing low`pressure

across the Atlantic and down across us. That doesn't change much for the

next three to four days. That cloud will bring us rain overnight. This

was a picture from earlier today. The cloud has increased from the

farm waste, bringing drizzle. Earlier today in Plymouth, it wasn't

that bad. We had blue sky and sunshine. It has felt warmer. With

the clear skies, later on this evening, it could turn quite chilly.

Eastern parts of the region could see temperatures well down. Today

has been marked by that blue sky and excellent visibility. Overnight, we

follow this cloud and rain as it goes through Cornwall, moves into

Devon. Not a great deal of work where there, but big enough cloud to

bring rain just about anywhere. Around 67 degrees, claiming up to

nine or ten by Dawn this morning. Once the main band moves through, we

should get some sunshine. Showers more frequent in the early evening.

For most of us, the second half of the day promises some sunshine.

Temperatures struggling a little, up to 13 degrees.

The north coast is quite dangerous at the moment, with those big waves.

Another belt of wet weather coming in, difficult to say where they

really strong gusts of wind are likely to be. Showers on Thursday,

staying unsettled, somewhat cooler into Friday.

That's all for now, but there will be a news update at 8pm and the late

news at 10:25pm. We will be back with you at 6am tomorrow.

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