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However, over recent years, events such as the Alderney Festival | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
Events are held throughout the Islands to honour those who | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
The curtain comes down on the Commonwealth Games, | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
but what do the Islands need to do end a 20 year medal drought? | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
we are in the Northern Ireland as this year's Alderney week gets | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
underway. The thousands of Channel Islanders | :00:36. | :00:47. | |
who lost their lives in World War People across the Islands are being | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
asked to switch off all but one light at home tonight to | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
remember those who fought. In Guernsey | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
the lights will be switched off In St Peter Port the church bell was | :00:58. | :00:59. | |
rung throughout the day in honour At the going down of the sun, and in | :01:00. | :02:20. | |
the morning, we will remember them. I think it is good for | :02:21. | :03:23. | |
this evening for a ceremony and parade to remember | :03:24. | :03:25. | |
the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the Great War. | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
We'll have more for you on the Jersey World War One commemorations | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
Jersey is giving ?120,000 to help those affected by the violence | :03:32. | :03:47. | |
Hundreds have been killed and thousands injured in Israel | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
and the Gaza strip since violence escalated in July. | :03:51. | :03:52. | |
The Jersey Overseas Aid Commission has approved | :03:53. | :03:53. | |
a ?30,000 grant to each of the four charities Christian Aid, the British | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
Many athletes from Guernsey and Jersey have of made their way | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
home today after the Commonwealth Games came to a close last night. | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
Almost 80 athletes from the Channel Islands competed in the | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
Glasgow Games, some for the first time, others for the last time. | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
Sadly, no medals are being brought home, but what do the Islands need | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
to do to break the medal drought that's lasted for over 20 years? | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
Spectators filled the streets of Glasgow for one of the last events | :04:21. | :04:37. | |
of the Commonwealth Games, the men's Road race. | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
Two cyclists from Jersey and six from Guernsey were competing among | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
the 140 strong race. It was a technically difficult course for the | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
riders but the heavy raid mean it `` that the heavy rain made it worse. | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
Slippery conditions caused many cyclists to crash including James | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
McLauchlan from Guernsey. By the ninth lap there was only one Channel | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
Islander left but it made it harder to compete. He also did not finish | :05:05. | :05:21. | |
the roads. I was trying to petition myself well but it is hard when you | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
are a small nation and you have other teams who are riding well and | :05:25. | :05:26. | |
you have several guys from each nation and you get pushed to the | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
back. Being a single Guernsey person up there it is pretty tough holding | :05:30. | :05:31. | |
your own. There was also disappointment on the netball court, | :05:32. | :05:33. | |
Serena Guthrie was playing for England and they lost by just one | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
point in the last two seconds of their semifinal match against New | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
Zealand. Then they placed Jamaica in the bronze medal play`off and it was | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
a close game but Jamaica won the match. Although disappointed not to | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
win a medal, Serena Guthrie was pleased to be part of team England. | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
It is a massive honour. Every athlete here will be flying their | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
flag for where they come from and where they have grown up so I am | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
just proud to be able to do it for Jersey. With no medals for any of | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
the Channel Islander is, does more need to be done before the next | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
Commonwealth Games? Every Games we see the level of competition | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
increase and improve. We obviously look at that with the qualification | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
standards that were set and we will review this for 2018 and we are | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
where we will have to increase our standards again. As team jersey, if | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
we can improve the preparation of the athletes and improve their | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
lifestyle and their whole attitude to sport then perhaps we will get | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
athletes that are better and stronger and better organised as a | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
lot of those things may give us better results. | :06:44. | :06:50. | |
As the Commonwealth Games close, preparations begin for the next one | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
in 2018. Will Jersey and Guernsey be able to bring a medal of any colour | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
back from Australia's Gold Coast? Jersey's Under 19 cricket | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
team have been promoted to The Island side won all four of | :07:03. | :07:04. | |
their matches against runners`up the Netherlands, Denmark, Guernsey and | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
Italy in ICC Europe Division Two. As well as promotion to | :07:09. | :07:10. | |
ICC Europe Division One, Jersey now also have the opportunity to qualify | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
for the Under`19 Cricket World Cup. Well done to them. You are watching | :07:17. | :07:28. | |
the BBC in Channel Islands. I had in Spotlight with Justin tonight: | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
We hear the story of the gardener of Heligan, and how his disappearance | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
eventually played a part in the gardens themselves being lost. | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
Stating for that and David will have the weather forecast for the week | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
ahead as well. `` stay tuned for that. | :07:47. | :07:47. | |
Now, it's a total of eight days, with over 130 events, This year's | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
This year's theme is Treasure Island and our Alderney reporter David Earl | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
It's the first Monday in August and that means it's Cavalcade Day | :07:56. | :08:02. | |
The theme this year is Treasure Island, harking back to | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
For many, this year's parade was the best ever. | :08:09. | :08:20. | |
The star of the show, as always, is Miss Alderney, with 16`year old | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
Emma Etheridge taking over the role from her elder sister, Maria. | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
And Emma was joined by a pageant queen from a sister island, | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
as Miss Jersey Battle Of Flowers, Taye Park, came along for the ride. | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
Alderney Week is a big show and a big effort for a small island. | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
In fact, organisers claim it is the Channel Islands' largest annual | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
It already encompasses 100 different events spread across eight days, and | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
this year a new planning team is on board inject even more new ideas. | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
I do not think I will miss it too much. I will still be associated | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
with it and busy behind`the`scenes but I will not be as busy officially | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
and it is great, it is a lovely year to bow out on because I really feel | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
that I am in my comfort zone and for once in my life I am not the only | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
person on the island wearing an eye patch so it is great fun for me. | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
Dating back to 1948, Alderney Week has always dominated | :09:10. | :09:11. | |
However, over recent years, events such as the Alderney Festival | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
of Performing Arts and the the Alderney wildlife Festival have | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
Emma Odoli is one of the new Alderney Week team members. | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
There is a lot to organise and I am learning that this year with the | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
current team having done an amazing job for such a long time. I am | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
learning how to pull every thing together, all the volunteers that | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
you have two thank Emma Pullen, so we have a lot of challenges and we | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
will overcome the man be fine and every year they pull it off | :09:35. | :09:36. | |
brilliantly. Whatever the future holds | :09:37. | :09:37. | |
for Alderney Week, organisers say the floats and family fun | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
of Cavalcade Day are here to stay. Loving the weeks in Alderney today! | :09:41. | :09:52. | |
It was lovely weather as you saw there but what will it be like for | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
the rest of the week and the rest of the islands? Here is the forecast. | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
Good evening. We start with a look at the chart for 100 years ago today | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
when low pressure was taking charge of the weather across the British | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
Isles and northern parts of Europe. They had a pretty good summer, | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
similar to what we have seen but it all changed, not only did the | :10:14. | :10:15. | |
political climate change but the weather changed as well. On this day | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
particularly through the day we had much more of the breeze and some | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
outbreaks of rain. Rain is also in the forecast for us. We expect some | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
showery rain later on this week and some overnight tomorrow and into | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
Wednesday. It will be mostly dry with some sunshine and potential for | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
outbreaks of rain overnight. A lot happening with quite a big area of | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
low pressure developing to the south of agreement. The whole driving | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
force of the weather changes with a westerly flow developing as we move | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
through the week. Showers dotted around with a night and we keep the | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
area of high pressure across northern France but eventually we | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
lose it and we see a more active weather system come through fairly | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
swiftly in the small hours of Wednesday. Tonight it will be mostly | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
dry and the temperatures will drop down to 14 or 15, 16 around the | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
coast. More clout developed by Dawn and tomorrow is not a bad day. We | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
may see patchy cloud coming and going in the morning and generating | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
showers but one chick comes through there will be sunny spells in the | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
afternoon and temperatures getting up to about 19 or 20 as the top | :11:27. | :11:46. | |
figure. In the evening more to show. Here is the outlook. As we head | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
through this week it will be cooler and more unsettled and by Friday the | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
potential for more persistent rain. That is all for me. Have a good | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
evening. Thank you very much. That is it for | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
now and I will have your headlines at 8pm tonight and especially | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
extended bulletin at 10:25pm. Back to Justin Melck who is at Plymouth | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
Hoe. Back now to | :12:11. | :12:17. | |
our World War one commemorations. This is one of the centrepieces of | :12:18. | :12:34. | |
the regional commemorations for the 100th anniversary. We will talk more | :12:35. | :12:41. | |
later but what is planned but I am joined by Todd Gray to reflect on | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
the events of 100 years ago. Across the world millions of lives were | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
lost but is it possible to narrow it down and ask how many lives were | :12:54. | :13:04. | |
lost from here? The roll of honour gives almost 12,000 for Devon, | :13:05. | :13:12. | |
mostly men. And just for one county that is a colossal figure. What sort | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
of proportion is that? It is about 3% and the reason this war was so | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
important is that the numbers were so high that everybody knew someone, | :13:24. | :13:30. | |
and it came home to you. You mentioned one end, not a | :13:31. | :13:37. | |
straightforward with the men going out because they were women on the | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
front line? Lots of men and hospitals were seen with wounds, so | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
the war came back to Devon. You had women going on the front line, one | :13:48. | :13:59. | |
Belgian aristocrat, who was an Exeter girdle, remarries and becomes | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
a great headline on the Western front. `` heroine. It was such a | :14:04. | :14:19. | |
horrific war and was described and hoped to be the war to end all wars, | :14:20. | :14:26. | |
but what changed if anything? There was a different sensibility and an | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
idea about war that permeated the 1940s. The first thing that happens | :14:33. | :14:40. | |
is the economy collapses with high inflation and low employment. Loads | :14:41. | :14:47. | |
of women without husbands. Widows and women who never married because | :14:48. | :14:56. | |
they feel unsafes died. Going into the Second World War, people | :14:57. | :14:57. | |
remembered what happened. The two world war is really need to | :14:58. | :15:09. | |
be studied together. I know you are involved in the leading tonight, | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
with the famous phrase about the lamps going out all over Europe, but | :15:15. | :15:15. | |
thank you for joining us. All this we'll be marking this 100th | :15:16. | :15:23. | |
Anniversary in our series World War 1 At Home, in partnership | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
with Imperial War Museums. Tonight we hear the story | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
of the gardener of Heligan, and how his disappearance eventually | :15:30. | :15:31. | |
played a part in I've been to meet historian | :15:32. | :15:33. | |
Peter Lavis who's rediscovering the stories of the families who | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
worked there at the time. 100 years ago, the peace and | :15:38. | :16:16. | |
tranquillity of life in the gardens of Heligan was shattered by the | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
outbreak of war. This was one of 23 gardeners who worked on the land and | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
left to join the Navy. Many were called up even before the | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
declaration. There was a prearranged signal with the town crier marching | :16:34. | :16:40. | |
on to the peer and ringing the bell. That was the signal for the men to | :16:41. | :16:49. | |
put on their uniforms. By 1917, the gardeners at Heligan numbered just | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
eight. It is not often there's a poignancy about a toilet but here, | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
the gardeners who went off to war wrote their names on the wall of | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
this outside toilet, and as far as we know this is the only toilet that | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
is designated as a living memorial to those who served in the First | :17:10. | :17:12. | |
World War, by the Imperial War Museum. 48 left town that day and | :17:13. | :17:23. | |
channels was among them. He actually went to work on a trawler in the | :17:24. | :17:30. | |
First World War. Something like 500 trawlers from around the coast of | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
the United Kingdom used to supplement ships. Many were fitted | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
with small guns and about half of them went out hunting submarines. | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
Some went out minesweeping. Was that how he spent the rest of the war? We | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
also know he was either windowed or endurance and he went back to | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
hospital, and one morning, he got up as usual and got ready and walked | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
out of the main gates and disappeared and was never seen | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
around here again. The Navy had no idea of what happened to him and he | :18:08. | :18:14. | |
was notified as a disaster and his wife was accordingly contacted. `` | :18:15. | :18:21. | |
deserter. His wife and three children were stuck here with no | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
income and the family reputation was ruined. The family were vilified. | :18:26. | :18:37. | |
And the stigma of that legacy is still felt by his granddaughter. She | :18:38. | :18:44. | |
always felt there was shame. I do not think she ever got over it and | :18:45. | :18:51. | |
stayed like that for all of her life. She loved him so much and | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
could not say anything about him. I think it broke her heart. She could | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
never speak about him without crying. She could never speak about | :19:03. | :19:14. | |
her husband. From the day he disappeared until the day she died, | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
she wore a black and she and the three children lived with their | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
shame until this gold ring restored the reputation. The ring engraved | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
with his initials helped identify his remains, discovered in woods | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
near the hospital. His body was brought home for burial. They took | :19:36. | :19:44. | |
him off the deserter's West and gave her a pension, but more importantly | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
she got the family reputation back. He was no longer listed as a | :19:50. | :19:56. | |
deserter. Even more poignantly, she was home in Cornwall again. The | :19:57. | :20:03. | |
family all knew what this meant. When they did find him, it gives | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
closure of some sort. At least she had a grave to visit and knew where | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
it was. How does it feel talking about him now? I could cry actually. | :20:14. | :20:24. | |
The losses of the great war were too great for many to be and as well as | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
changing the lives of this family fodder, it signalled a big change at | :20:30. | :20:37. | |
Heligan as well. They all said he could not live with the ghost of the | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
place because so many of the team perished. We can't race to that | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
moment in time the beginning of the decline of Heligan. So the one | :20:47. | :20:53. | |
gardener was eventually found and if he was to return today he would see | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
the garden is looking much as the dead 100 years ago, but the loss of | :20:58. | :21:04. | |
so many lead to the gardens themselves eventually being lost. | :21:05. | :21:13. | |
Tonight in communities across the region, people will be | :21:14. | :21:15. | |
playing their part commemorating the outbreak of the First World War, | :21:16. | :21:17. | |
by dimming their lights, leaving just one candle burning. | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
There will be church services taking place all over the South West, | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
including at Exeter and Truro Cathedrals. | :21:25. | :21:26. | |
In Camelford there will be an open air vigil, with community singing. | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
In North Devon a special walk is being held to | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
Service personnel from St Mawgen will be joining the community of | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
St Columb Major in an act of commemoration. | :21:40. | :21:41. | |
Our reporter Philippa Mina has been to find out more. | :21:42. | :21:49. | |
Later tonight, service personnel from here at RAF Saint Morgan will | :21:50. | :21:59. | |
join and Navy service people as well as members of the public. They will | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
carry 57 candles, one for each serviceman who lost his life in the | :22:06. | :22:12. | |
conflict. I am joined by the station commander. How do you feel about | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
tonight's Memorial and why are you taking part? We are honoured to be a | :22:17. | :22:26. | |
part of it. It is about remembering the beginning of a war and once we | :22:27. | :22:33. | |
have about a hundred people going up with 57 lives lost, and it is | :22:34. | :22:43. | |
remembering those brothers, husbands, sons who gave the ultimate | :22:44. | :22:43. | |
sacrifice. but I would not have liked to have | :22:44. | :23:25. | |
been in the trenches. We will be live tonight from 10:30 p.m.. And we | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
would like to see with live coverage of events here on | :23:32. | :24:36. | |
The Hoe and across the South West. But tonight is not just about | :24:37. | :27:04. | |
remembering the start of the war. It's also a chance to reflect | :27:05. | :27:07. | |
on the next four years and how We've got factory boys and butchers' | :27:08. | :27:10. | |
apprentices and office clerks Don't stop moving! | :27:11. | :28:14. | |
If you go back you'll die! | :28:15. | :28:20. |