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Guernsey is in the grip of the worst flood waters are on the rise. | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
Guernsey is in the grip of the worst outbreak of whooping cough for three | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
decades. That's according to the latest health report. Medical | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
experts say all children and pregnant women should be immunised. | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
And as Mike Wilkins reports, there's been an alarming rise in other | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
preventable diseases as well. The sound of a child with whooping | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
cough is distressing and unmistakeable. You have to go back | :00:32. | :00:38. | |
to the early '80s when this public information was made to match the | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
current rates of infection. Babies are most at risk, suffering from | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
bouts of uncontrollable coughing, which in some cases can lead to | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
death. The increase in Guernsey has been dramatic, there were 36 cases | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
last year, this compares to an average of just three a year over | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
the previous decade. In fact the latest figures reveal that 2013 saw | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
the worst outbreak for 30 years So why now? The whooping cough vaccine | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
is effective but its protection isn't permanent. That may be because | :01:11. | :01:19. | |
the immunity people have waned, but it does mean that parents may be at | :01:20. | :01:26. | |
risk of passing the disease on to children and it is most dangerous in | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
infants, and here we had our first case of infant whooping cough for | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
quite some time. It is important that people take of these | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
opportunities, immunisation is safe, simple and effective. But it's not | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
just whooping cough that's got health experts concerned here. | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
Illnesses that many thought were long gone are actually making an | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
unwelcome return. For example in 2012 there were more cases of the | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
potentially fatal scarlet fever in Guernsey than for more than half a | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
century. We have come a long way since whooping cough victims were | :02:01. | :02:08. | |
treated in the compression chambers. But while there have been huge | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
improvements in the reduction of deaths from the likes of measles, | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
diphtheria and polio over the last century, the island's health chief | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
says there's no time for complacency and is encouraging people to get | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
immunised. Meanwhile Guernsey's Medical Officer of Health also found | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
in his report that islanders are suffering from alcohol related liver | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
deaths. But there have been some improvements in people's drinking | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
habits. This statistics on alcohol consumption are actually going down | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
in Guernsey, which is very good and positive. That doesn't mean to say | :02:37. | :02:43. | |
that we are complacent. We hope we're going into a new strategy that | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
we can put into a new campaign. Meanwhile, Jersey could lead the way | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
in using technology in the health service. Hospital boss Helen O'Shea | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
told business leaders the multi`million pound hospital make | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
over is an opportunity bring more technology into medicine. It's hoped | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
things like iPads, iPhones and the latest medical equipment could be | :03:01. | :03:09. | |
used to treat patients remotely It is just a platform for us to be able | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
to say what sort of things can we create, how innovative can we be in | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
terms of how technology can help us deliver better health care in | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
future. We know technology is moving on at a rapid pace, and we also know | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
that we have the perfect opportunity, when coding and | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
refurbishing, to make sure that hospitals build the models of care | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
around recent technology. Guernsey states have voted to allow | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
rubbish that can't be recycled be exported. The Public Services | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
Department has drawn up a short list of where the waste could be exported | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
to. It also gives new powers to the Douzaines for collection and | :03:46. | :03:46. | |
enforcement. Condor is preparing to pay other | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
ferry companies to take its passengers to France from the UK. | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
The company can't sail to St Malo at the moment, because its crew are on | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
strike over pay and conditions. Today French workers hoisted the | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
Breton flag on board the Rapide in an act of defiance. They are | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
demanding that the company should be re`registered in France ` and that | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
he crew should have the right to social security and pension | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
payments. Condor says it will take travellers to England, then pay for | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
them to sail to France from Plymouth or Portsmouth. Details yet to be | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
finalised. After long delays, Jersey's | :04:20. | :04:21. | |
independent police authority is finally ready to get to work. The | :04:22. | :04:30. | |
Independent group will liaise with senior officers and politicians to | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
monitor the force's success and bring it to account when needed | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
Earlier today, it's Chairman, Advocate Jonathan White, told me why | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
composition of the group was key. We have appointed somebody under 3 . I | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
was very keen that we should have somebody under 30 who is a | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
percentage of the use of the island. But I think we all have | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
responsibility for things, each of us will take slightly different | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
areas, so we can build a greater knowledge and greater expertise | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
which will enable us to discharge our responsibilities. How | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
independent is it going to be? You will always have naysayers who say | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
you will come down on the police's side. It needs to be genuinely | :05:11. | :05:18. | |
independent. It needs to be separate from the police, it needs to be | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
separate from the Minister, who still controls the purse strings. If | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
we are to do a proper job, we have got to work with the police when | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
they do everything well, but we have to be willing to criticise when we | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
think they have done something wrong. Why now? The problems we have | :05:35. | :05:42. | |
heard around some events mean that policing was brought much more into | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
public focus. With the changes we have seen in the police, the police | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
force itself is headed in the right direction. But some more public | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
accountability is a good thing and we can provide that. | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
The BBC TV show Who Do You Think You Are is being credited with a surge | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
in islanders trying to find out more about their family history. Now | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
Jersey Library expanded its archive section to aid the search. Our | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
reporter Emma Chambers went to check out their services. This is my | :06:12. | :06:21. | |
family. Dad, my mum and my sister taken on a blustery day last year. I | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
have come here to find more about my family history. Your | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
great`grandfather's father was a cold bearer, his mother lived at | :06:31. | :06:37. | |
home, looking after the children. It also tells us where his parents | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
were, they were all born in Jersey but his parents, their own fathers | :06:41. | :06:48. | |
came from Yorkshire and Kingston. You don't have their ages and where | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
they were born. So finally get my great, great, great grandfather was | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
from England, that is a new resource? We always had sensors | :06:59. | :07:06. | |
reports for Jersey, but this gives us the UK census information as | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
well. Is there a specific area people are looking more into | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
nowadays? Looking for the anniversary of the First World War, | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
people are looking at military history bit more. We have records | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
that allow you to look up your military ancestors. Some of that is | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
an ancestry as well. But it is in more detail on the forces records. | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
I've even come away with names and information I didn't know. If you | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
want to do the way, you can do this at the Jersey library. That is it | :07:42. | :07:53. | |
from me. I am back tomorrow evening. The Channel Islands whether next. | :07:54. | :08:01. | |
We have had a very stormy day across the islands. The highest gust was | :08:02. | :08:11. | |
around 67 mph across Guernsey. Everywhere else, 50 to 60 mph. The | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
very wet weather has now moved out of the way, tomorrow is generally | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
quieter, still windy, and you showers around but hopefully some | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
dry weather and sunshine as well. One or two of showers might have the | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
odd rumble of thunder, they will keep coming until dawn tomorrow | :08:30. | :08:36. | |
Tomorrow is quite a cold day, they will be some sunshine but also some | :08:37. | :08:45. | |
sharp showers. A top temperature of around eight degrees, feeling colder | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
because of that brisk westerly wind. On Friday, we have a new area | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
of low pressure. Windy conditions again. Blustery into the start of | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
the weekend. Good evening. What an incredible day | :08:57. | :09:13. | |
of weather it has been. We saw gusts of wind up to 108 mph in the West of | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
Wales. The wind is easing down a notch or two but we still have a | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
high-level amber warning from the Met Office for the strength of the | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
wind over the next few hours over quite a large swathe of the UK. | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
Northern Ireland, northern England and down across Wales, there is | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
still potential for damaging and disruptive gusts of wind. This huge | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
curl of cloud is bringing wet and windy weather across much of the | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
West of Europe. It curls back across the north of the UK and that's the | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
centre of the area of low pressure with the strongest winds just to the | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
south of that. Let's focus on the winds over the next few hours. The | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
ease down by a notch or two but still blustery conditions over most | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
of Wales. High seas around the coast and gusting up to 70 mph. Easily | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
around the 80 mph mark across much of northern England. Across the | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
Pennines this evening and overnight, travelling will be treacherous. Wind | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
and rain at lower levels will produce a lot of spray. You don t | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
have to go to high up the Pennines to see that turned to snow. One way | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
or another, further disruption to travel is more than likely. BBC | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
local radio will keep you up-to date on where you are and where you are | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
trying to get to. The centre of the low system moves northwards. Pretty | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
heavy snow developing across the hills of Scotland with several | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
centimetres by dawn. A bit of snow for Northern Ireland and wintry | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
showers drifting across the southern counties. A risk of ice with most | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
races are seeing the temperatures a degree or so either side of | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
freezing. A cold, windy start Thursday but I think it be a better | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
day. No persistent rain to be seen. There should be some spells of | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
sunshine for many of us, as well. Does it last until the end of the | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
week? I'm afraid not. It goes downhill on Friday. This low | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
pressure will head our way. Lots of isobars on the chart later in the | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
day. Gusts of 60, 70 or 80 mph, with rain spreading northwards. | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
Significant snow for parts of Northern Ireland and southern | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
Scotland. Windy into the start of the weekend. Saturday has outbreaks | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
of rain. On Sunday, something of a respite. The winds will ease down | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
and it should | :11:32. | :11:32. |