19/05/2014 BBC Channel Islands News

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Tripoli, the Guernsey and lockdown in Libya after violent clashes over

the weekend. I spent the majority of today putting together an evacuation

plan. Jersey's St John's Ambulance appeals for more help to cover the

Island games. If there is no first aid cover, it will draw on resources

from the Ambulance Service. It comes as the application window for games

makers closes early due to ` swell in volunteers. Also tonight. The

board has been smashed up... The life`saving equipment vandalised

just hours after a surfer w`s rescued at sea.

A Guernsey man is in lockdown in the Libya, because of the deterhorating

Ben Remfrey is trapped in the capitol Tripoli,

after a string of violent clashes over the weekend prompted

He was working in the country to destroy and clear

ammunition and is now coming up with an evacuation plan for his staff.

A familiar sound here in recent days.

As fighting has spread across the Libyan city of Tripoli, following

an attack at the weekend on the country's interim parli`ment.

Described as some of the worst violence seen here in recent years.

And caught up in it, local man Ben Remfrey,

who's working in the Saharan desert locating and clearing ammunhtion.

Gaddafi spent 42 years colldcting ammunition and weapons and having

storage area is built. The northern Sahara is one and munitions depot.

Can you hear and see much wdre you are now? I can, yeah. The fhghting

has been going backwards and forwards around Tripoli. It has its

peaks and troughs. One moment, it is fairly quiet. It was eerily quiet

this morning. It all kicked off again. Are you safe at the loment? I

am the only one in Tripoli. The villa is pretty secure. I al fairly

happy. I spent the majority of today putting together an evacuathon plan

if needed, I will evacuate ly staff. That's a plan he thinks he'll

put into action tomorrow. After which Ben will also look to

leave Tripoli temporarily The two men accused

of defrauding the States of Guernsey out of ?2.6 million have re`appeared

at Southwark Crown Court. Fifty`six year`old

John Anthony Woodhatch from Essex and 44`year`old Adrian Taylor

from Kent face charges of conspiracy They have been bailed again

and will re`appear on 25th June A further witness has given evidence

in the trial of Richard de Wit, the man accused of murdering

Sarah Groves twenty`four year old Guernsdy woman

was stabbed to death The trial's been plagued

by delays with today's witndss, Muhammad Shalla, being just

the 12th on a list of 40 witnesses. Outside help will be needed

if the St John Ambulance in Jersey don't recruit more volunteers ahead

of the Island Games next ye`r. They need to double the amotnt

of first aiders they currently have But they haven't had enough interest

so far, so may need to fly in members

from Guernsey and the UK whhch will The Island games. Competitors

suffered heat exhaustion and some had to be stretchered off the track

last year. If people need hdlp next summer, St John's Ambulance will be

providing first aid. Although they are prepared, there is not dnough of

them. They have 50 members but need to double that to cover the 400

people attending the games. It will stretch us. That is why we need more

members. We get support frol the Ambulance Service and the bhg thing

is to consider, with the Island games if there is not any fhrst aid

cover, it will draw on thred sources from the Ambulance Service.

So that's why they are despdrate to recruit enough volunteers.

But if they can't, they havd to seek help from overseas.

The St John volunteers are tsed to helping each other out,

When we help the Island gamds here we have the same problems. @ big

event like that needs a large number of volunteers. A number of people

from Jersey came here. Some first aid training will be

offered to Gamesmakers, but it's not the same depth as

the nine months of training offered The level of training that they will

give is much higher than thd level that we are planning for our

Gamesmakers. As a consequence, it will be a legacy item that people

can take away and other events can benefit from.

The recruitment for Gamesmakers has been so successful, the application

St John Ambulance need some of that volunteering spirit to head

People have until September before the opportunity

The UK government won't be funding a ten million pound upgrade to

Weymouth's harbour, despite an appeal from the town's MP.

Richard Drax met with the Transport Minister Stephen Hammond earlier

today, where he was told thdy don't have the money to fund the tpgrade.

This means that if Condor does buy a new "Trimaran"

vessel, it's likely that it won t fit into Weymouth's harbour, forcing

travellers to and from Jersdy to use Poole or Portsmouth instead.

I believe it can get into Wdymouth but there are restrictions hn bad

weather. It is important, from the perspective of Condor at th`t

Weymouth seek to make changds to be able to facilitate it. I am hopeful

that Weymouth will find a solution. If that is not the case, I think

there is a workaround. A piece of rescue equipment

on Jersey's West coast has been so badly damaged it can no longer

be used. The surf rescue board, kept publicly

available beside a restaurant was The same evening, a surfer had to

be rescued after getting into This rescue board will no longer be

available at this beach. It was useful because it had the btoyancy

to carry two people, essenthal in an emergency. This board has bden

available here at the beach for decades, to help anyone who gets

into difficulty in the water. After it was badly damaged on Friday

night, it is no longer going to be in the use and at a cost of ?14 0, a

replacement is unlikely. Earlier in the evening, lifeguards helped

rescue a surfer who had been slammed against the sea wall after getting

cut off from the beach by a high tide. He was pulled to safety by a

lifeguard who went into the water to help at the surfer got tangled in

help. The beach is known to be dangerous at high tide and the beach

lifeguard say surfers and swimmers have to respect the tides. We have a

big sea wall which runs the length of beach. With those big tides and a

little bit of swell behind ht, we find people get caught out, leaving

the water too late, so all was check the timetables. Last year, the

lifeguard patrols had their busiest year, dealing with 355 incident and

helping nearly 500 people. Islanders in Guernsey are bding

urged to consider becoming foster parents as there's an urgent need

for placements in the Bailiwick There are only thirty foster

families in the island at the moment and HSSD are joining a

national campaign to recruit more. The department say those who do

step up are doing vital work. Giant jellyfish are being

spotted all over the south west It's a Happy Birthday for

Guernsey's Heather Watson as she moves back into the World Top

100 tennis players. Watson celebrates her 22nd birthday

today after winning the Prague Open. Heather beat Anna Schmiedlova in

straight sets to claim her second The victory puts Watson at 82 in the

world rankings and British Number 2 She'll now enter the qualifxing

rounds of the French Open. Our reporter took these pictures on

the West Coast. It looks like a summer's day. I managed to get into

the water myself. Look at those pictures. Stunning. David, H got

into the water, the shorts were on and that is why I think you have

some thunder behind you. Sole people say that our summers is thrde fine

days followed by a thunderstorm and it is not far off that. There are

some thunderstorms ahead. You may see a flash of lightning in the

distance. More across the wdstern parts of Guernsey. For this week and

tomorrow, it is a humid and warm feel, but not dry, there is the risk

of thundery showers, that rhsk continues this week, perhaps the

risk highest as we move into Thursday and we see a new b`nd of

showery rain moves in from the south. We have this line of thundery

showers, which stretches not just from parts of Spain and Portugal,

but we have more showers wr`pped around an area of low presstre and

it is this area of low pressure we will keep for the rest of this

week. Weather resistant to the east of us will bring the risk of

showers, but more showers on Wednesday. On Wednesday, it will go

downhill. There are the showers we have seen in the last few hours

There are some more showers to come this evening. For the rest of us,

some dry weather before these showers reappear. Especiallx

tomorrow morning, overnight temperatures will be 13 degrees

Tomorrow will see plenty of shower activity. You can see towards the

end of the afternoon, some pleasant sunshine to enjoy and that will lift

temperatures up to around 17 degrees. That is the coastal waters

forecast. Times of high watdr.. Not great deal for our servers, up to

about perhaps two feet if they are lucky. The outlook is bright for

Wednesday morning. The showdrs will get going and I continued rhsk of

thundery showers into Thursday and Friday. Not all of the time, there

will be some sunshine. Have a good evening. I think I have cursed the

weather with my shorts. That is it for now.

The project stalled during the recession and thd plans

They include 1,500 homes and a school in the West Carclaze area.

A public consultation will be launched next month.

It is a case of prioritising what we need to deliver.

It was one of the first sitds we had on our priority.

It was a gateway to the St @ustell area.

So it was very high on our list of ones to achieve.

But the other sites are still there.

They're still available and waiting to be brought forward.

But you can't do all of thel at the same time.

We're marking a major milestone for the region's lighthouses.

Plus, if you go down to the woods today you may be surprised

And lurking in the waters off our coast ` a close encounter

Now not many institutions c`n boast five centuries of continuous

service, but tomorrow Trinity House, the lighthouse authority for England

The safety of shipping and the well being

of seafarers has been at thd heart of its role from the beginnhng.

In the first of two special reports, David has been looking

Variable four, becoming south eastly.

Since Trinity House first started on the the River Thames hundreds

of years ago, its main role has been the safety at sea for sailors

and nowhere is more dangerots than the coast of Cornwall.

Henry VIII granted a Royal Charter to the Gild

of Mariners called the Holy Trinity in 1514.

Their job was to provide pilots on the River Thames.

By 1566, the first beacons signs and marks for the sea were drected,

allowing sailors to recognise headlands and help them navhgate.

40 years later, Trinity House became the pilot authority all over

the country, including the lajor ports in the south of England.

The first offshore lighthouse in Europe was built

by Henry Winstanley in 1698 on the Edison reef.

Two more lighthouses were btilt on the reef, but they were still

Triniy House took over Smeaton's Tower and by by 1836 openership

Devon and Cornwall continued to pioneer the technology.

The first compressed air fog horn was installed near Padstow

The idea being a ship at se` in fog could hear the horn `nd

from its sound recognise which headland it was close to.

The flashing lights operated in the same way, so at night sailors

could recognise which head land or rock they could see

Trinity House was busy throtgh the war years as well, lighting

For the D`Day landings in 1844, the corporation marked the safe route

across the channel using buoys, marking the safe path to Normandy.

115 of their men lost their lives in this conflict.

And there will be more on the work of Trinity Housd

in Spotlight tomorrow and of course David will be herd later

Exeter Chiefs and England whng Jack Nowell is

among the contenders for thd Young Rugby Player of the Year aw`rd.

21`year`old Nowell from Newlyn broke into the Dngland

senior team this year and played in all five of their Six Nations'

Nowell is one of six players named for the award which whll

The Cornwall county rugby tdam is one step away from making a second

successive appearance at Twhckenham in the Bill Beaumont Cup Final. They

face a winner`takes`all tie at Hertfordshire this Saturday to

determine who goes to rugby's headquarters. The Duchy beat

Gloucestershire by 33`27 at Camborne. Redruth wing Tom Notman

scored two of Cornwall's trhes as they outscored their opponents by

10 emerging sculptors have been chosen as finalists in a National

Their work will be on show at Broomhill near Barnstapld

The summer exhibition attracts visitors from far and wide

and they're even allowed to help judges chose a winner.

Spotlight's North Devon reporter, Andrea Ormsby, has the storx.

Sean is one of ten sculptors chosen to be a finalist in the Broomhill

prize. It is such a great opportunity. People recognise the

sculpture prize and it is ilportant for the emerging artists. Today he

is installing his work based on the famous painting of Ophelia. Like in

the painting, you will see the water coming up to by where the e`rs are

and some of the chest will show and the hands. And the knees and feet

and the rest of it will be just sitting under the water. Broomhill's

garden holds around 350 sculptures. We are from Lancashire and very

interested in the arts. I'm an author, Cathy is a gardener. And we

are on holiday. We wanted to see this place. We have seen others up

north near Sheffield and Yorkshire. And this is up with them if not

better. The competition is the idea of the owner of Broomhill. H don't

know where the passion comes from, but I started collecting art and set

up a gallery in Holland and ran that for ten years and then decided to do

more with sculpture. I ended up in Devon and founded Broomhill in

grew it into a national sculpture park. The competition startdd five

years ago as a challenge for new UK`based artists. Judges will choose

the top prize and visitors get to vote for the runner up. The

sculptures will be on show from June and the winners announced in

October. There's been an invasion all

along the South coast of Devon Strange creatures have been seen

at sea, on the beaches Barrel jelly fish have been spotted

in huge numbers over the wedkend. Spotlights David George has

been finding out more. They are monsters. The thick dome

with be the size of a dustbhn lid across with the unusual tentacles

hanging down as much as six feet. It is the barrel or dustbin jellyfish.

They're the largest of our native jellyfish and can be up to 80

centimetres in width and wehgh up to 20 kilos and possibly more. When you

spot one it is alarming, yes. They're being seen in huge numbers.

paraglider. Each of the dots is a paraglider. Each of the dots is a

jellyfish. He said there was hundreds. Anna found one washed up

in a creek near Truro and wd filmed one in a river. Not your normal

skwij of jelly that I yo sed on the beach. Is in giant of the jdllyfish

world lives off one of the sea's smallest creatures. They have been

described as the basking sh`rks of the jellyfish world, they jtst

feeding on plankton and catch it with their tentacles that they have

that have stinging cells. They're only feeding on tiny animals.

Wildlife watchers hope one of the the fish's pret or thes will soon be

seen. One of the biggest prddators are leather`backed turtles. We get

them but they're rare. But the fact they mainly feed on the jellyfish

means they could come as well. The jellyfish has a sting, but hn its

case it is not strong enough to penetrate human skin. So to us, it

is harmless. I would still be scared. I wouldn't want to dncounter

one swimming. Now the weathdr and if they were attracted by the hot

weather. I guess they will be going soon. Well, I don't think wd will

lose the warmth. But it had to change. Some people describd our

summer as three fine days followed by the thunder storm and wif had

some showers today. And for the week ahead it is warm and humid. But

there is still the risk of thundery showers. This line of cloud is

giving some showers through the channel. And some thunder storms in

Somerset, particularly the Somerset levels. Some more to come l`ter on

tonight. The area of high pressure that gave us such nice weather at

the weekend has gone. It is low pressure and it will be arotnd all

week. One system moving to the north of us through the day tomorrow means

the showers in the morning `re replaced by brighter condithons in

the afternoon. And more low pressure will move in on Wednesday. Wednesday

is probably the best day of the week. Scattered showers that we have

seen today are still around. That line of showers going through

Somerset is giving some torrential down pours. But let's go back into

the weekend. The warmth hasn't just brought out the jly fish. Btt ``

jellyfish, but also the basking shark and this one was scend off the

south coast of Devon. You c`n see some calm sea and some good shots

here, because this came verx close to the boat B it is harmless. They

have wide mouths and they c`pture and eat the same things as the

jellyfish do. They eat the plankton in the water and filter it out. Tea

saechlt has picked `` sea temperature has picked up. But still

on the low side for a dip, `t 1 or 13 degrees. There are plentx of

showers around and a few more tonight. They will fade awax for a

time and then come back in the small hours. Some quite heavy showers

developing towards dawn. A warm and muggy night. 12 degrees for many.

Some showers in the morning, but it gets better during the day. After

lunch and in the afternoon the showers become isolated and some

pleasant late sunshine at the end of the day. There is our temperatures.

17 possibly 18 degrees. Not as warm as the weekend. But pleasant enough.

For the Isles of Scilly, a small chance of a shower. But mainly dry.

If you're head fog tr beach `` heading for the beach here `re the

time o's high water. Waves are disappointing. No more

than two or three feet. But some clean waves. The winds are variable

or south`westerly three, but the risk of thundery showers th`t. Risk

continues later in the week. Thank you. We are keeping a close eye on

the weather with the Devon `nd County show coming up. We are back

tomorrow at 6 ppt 30. From `ll of us. Good night.