14/07/2014 BBC Channel Islands News

Good evening. Hammond, moving

Television adverts aimed at raising awareness of child sex exploitation

The campaign by Jersey Police comes after a group of girls were targeted

he wanted me to show him photos to show how much I liked him. Ht was

just a photo, right? He scrdenshot it. It must be all over the place. I

should have known. These locally made adverts lay be

hard to stomach but they show what?s happenhng to

some youngsters in Jersey. We know that it exists. We led an

operation last year focused on a group of girls who were being

exploited by an older group of boys. To a certain extent, that h`s

continued this year and we've continued to take positive `ction.

But we feel the best approach is through education and we hope these

three adverts will not only inform young people are also parents and

guardians. It was a laugh. He gave me a phone for us just to chat, and

the rest. It?s hoped that education c`n stop

young people being pressured The year`long campaign isn?t

designed to scare people, jtst Something one Jersey politician

feels is long overdue. A dozen children had been groomed

but no convictions were brotght because the children wouldn't give

evidence against the perpetrators and the parents wouldn't. At the

time, I felt had the police advertised the fact rather than

coming out through the newspapers in the States, they may have h`d other

people who had been groomed and other parents who would havd given

evidence come forward. I thought I was the only one.

Jersey's authorities don't know how widespread the problem hs, but

And now islanders are being helped to spot the warning signs.

A former Jersey taxi driver has been sentenced to four years in prison

for defrauding the Social Sdcurity Department out of more than ?51 000.

65`year`old Richard Albert Cocks was sentenced by the Royal Court today

for wrongly claiming income support while he had nearly ?1.5 million

The top civil servant in Jersey's Treasury has resigned after

Laura Rowley says she's rettrning to the UK to be closer to her family.

The Chief Minister faced qudstions over her departure in the States

today, but said there had bden no golden handshake,

and her leaving arrangements were within States guidelines.

Condor's Commodore Clipper ferry is out of action

until tomorrow night after `n incident in Guernsey this evening.

The boat touched the seabed in the Little Russel,

but no passengers were on board and no`one was injured.

for a further ten`year licence to operate in the Channel Islands.

Three people have been arrested after a two`car collision in

A Ford Fiesta and a Mitsubishi Shogun collided

at the junction of the Rue Peudreuse and Les Merriennes at around eight

Their injuries are not thought to be serious.

The road was closed for sevdral hours while the scene was cleared.

Guernsey Police want to hear from anyone who might have witnessed

Hundreds turned out to march for equal rights for same`sdx

St Helier was full of rainbow flags and placards in support

The protest came after last week's States decision to postpone a vote

Hundreds of both gay and straight people took to

the streets of St Helier thhs weekend in the first event

Organised by Reform Jersey, it is in protest to the States?

decision to postpone a vote on introducing same`sex marriage.

At the end of the day, the dquality agenda needs to be higher up. It's

not being given due attention it needs and we have a lot of

politicised is very out touch. Marriage should be for everxone not

just straight people. I belheve in equality, if two people lovd each

other, why can't they be together? If we can't have it now in this day

and age, what chance we havd it in the future?

The rally made its way to Liberation Square, where music

No matter who you are or wh`t your background is, you deserve dqual

rights for the law in Jersex. There were also other

Channel Islanders present for the rally, including

a speaker from Guernsey`basdd I've never known anything lhke this

in the Channel Islands. It was my first pride march, that's for sure.

Each year, it will grow in success and hopefully before long wd will

have true equality. Senator Ozouf,

the only openly gay States lember, You are sending a message... If we

go for marriage equality, the church don't want to be compelled, and I

understand that. I hope that changes in time but we need the leghslation

to give them the right to choose. In the eyes of the state, we w`nt

equality and we want it as soon as possible.

But with a general election looming in the autumn, exactly who

the politicians will be that'll eventually vote is still unknown.

That is the late news from BBC Channel Islands. I am back tomorrow

evening at 6:30pm. BBC Jersdy and Guernsey will be on air frol 6am

tomorrow with all of the news, sport, weather and travel. Now,

David with the weather. Humid would be a good way to

describe the weather across the islands. Tropical maritime `ir, warm

and moisture laden, we could see some thunderstorms. Overnight,

rather cloudy and the drizzle will arrive later. It will be around for

tomorrow morning. Slowly brdaking up the cloud, even the risk of fog

patches through the day. A thin line of cloud stretching out into the

Atlantic, the weather front coming overnight tonight. It gives us a

fair amount of moisture overnight as it slowly sinks towards us. By dawn,

sunlight and patchy rain arriving. Overnight temperatures no lower than

14`15. Early tomorrow, it could be a bit damp. The roads will be a bit

wet as the line of rain credps through. For the rest of thd day, it

just about Brighton is up hdre and there, but we keep a lot of cloud.

`` just about Brighton is up. The outlook is a rise in the

temperature. By the end of the week, the risk of thunderstorms.

Thursday. Of course, there is more chance of seeing thundery downpours

as a result. Good evening. The forecast will

divide the nation in two camps, one where you are looking forward to

what is coming and the other where you may not be too keen. For those

on their summer break, good sunny spells. Heat and increasing humidity

starting to build, which later in the week will lead to some nasty

thunderstorms. So such thunderstorms out there at the moment. Breezy out

there. Sporadic showers. If your gardens need a watering, I can not

promise everywhere will see the showers. We could start with some

showers over East Anglia. Of note are the temperatures