05/08/2014 BBC Channel Islands News

It is at an acceptable to h`ve him as the head. Maybe it will push us

in the right direction. Also tonight ` major changes are

announced to way you call And find out why for these two

athletes from the Channel Islands, the Commonwealth Games could have

been their first and their last The UK Minister in charge

of relations with the Lord Faulks met senior politicians

to discuss the island's Some people said he didn't get the

full story. Four years ago, it was said that the relationship needed to

be fixed. This is the man in charge of fixing that relationship and he

is in Jersey today and thinks the problems are now in the past. I

think it is good. There werd one or two suggestions including speeding

up the legislative process `t both ends, both in Jersey and thd

Ministry of Justice. We havd having had conversations ovdr the

last 24 hours, I think that is going well. Lord

ensuring the islands are properly governed

dissenting voices because hd is being shown around by

are not going to be relayed to the minister through the Chief

voices were being heard and listened to. `` Jersey's.

charged with driving without due care and attention.

After a stay in Guernsey, leaders of Unite today opendd

It comes as States workers are balloted

Unite's Jersey spokesman saxs strike action isn't on the table ydt.

proposed pension changes. The results are in and we are in the

process of advising members and we They help us in very differdnt

ways but all our emergency A new joint control centre `t the

island's fire station is thd first And this is the room where 899 calls

are received by the ambulance And this is another room

in another building where 989 calls are received by the fire

and rescue service. This is where the emergency calls

are taken. In two month's thme, they will be taking emergency calls here.

There emergency services with their own control room.

operationally, it makes sense to move them into one facility.

Same`macro in the future, they will have

the control room. It will ilprove the joined

of incidents like a road tr`ffic collision.

Thousands of people gathered in Jersey's Royal Square last night

to mark the centenary of the start of the First World War.

They watched a Ceremony of Light designed to symbolise the start

And at 11pm, the moment 100 years ago th`t war

Many of these images haven't been seen in Jersey before this ceremony.

They showed what life was lhke for some islanders in the

So popular was the commemor`tion, those without tickets crowddd

Before the light faded, some people told me why it was

around the world, the better it is and it reminds people that we should

not go down that road again. these people volunteered and some

were as young as 15. It is such a pity. Mum's father fought in the

First World War and like him, we wouldn't be here today,

would we? Five years of occupation by enemy

forces. The effect of the Fhrst World War is less

less dramatic. It was equally profound.

And then just before 11, the square was bathed in blte light

as 12 lantern bearers from dach of the 12 parishes arrived.

More than 1,600 islanders died in the Great War

You're watching the BBC in the Channel Islands.

Later in Spotlight with Justin and Natalie. From French and Satnders to

the Vicar of Dibley ` Comiddnne Dawn French talks about her life

Now the 2014 Commonwealth G`mes may have come to an end but imagine what

it?s like to represent your island on the internathonal

I spoke to two of the youngest members

of team Guernsey and Jersey and they told me why Glasgow may havd been

George Square in Glasgow and Louis and Charlotte meet for the first

time. They may not know which other but they

This is their first ever Commonwealth Games and

first time their sport has been represented by the islands

international event. It was an honour and I feel privileged to

represent my island, especi`lly in gymnastics. Hopefully I will show

younger ones that we can go further than the Island games. I

doing judo for a decade and it is a great moment to represent Gternsey.

Louis faced the South Afric`n here in Glasgow. For Charlotte, her first

games could be her last. I had an operation when I was 13 and to

remove some of my cartilage and it has not been right since. Gxmnastics

and Louis, it is a short lived joy as

there is no judo event in you will see me in that. If not

eight years time. the weekend. Expect to see some

persistent rain on Friday. That is it.

the edge of the rain band so Sainsbury's is dropping plans

for a new food distribution depot in East Devon that would have

created more than 400 jobs. It was planned for land near Exeter

airport next to a site for It would have supplied stords

across the south west. The supermarket giant now s`ys

after an extensive review the depot is no longer needdd

so the land will be sold instead. The South West is taking ond

of the biggest cuts in houshng spending anywhere in the cotntry

despite having a longstanding Government figures out todax show

that local authorities across the country have had

their overall budgets cut bx a third Truro Cathedral Choir is to include

female choristers for the first time since it was

formed nearly 130 years ago. The cathedral is looking to recruit

20 girls aged 13 to 18 and says The Dean of Truro said it h`d been

the cathedral's desire to h`ve Now you probably best know her

as the Vicar of Dibley... but people in the South West will

soon be able to see a very different side of the famous comedienne

and actress, Dawn French. She's

on the road with a new one woman show, called Thirty Million Minutes,

based on her life and career. Eleanor Parkinson has

been to meet her. 30 million minutes is, according to

Dawn French, roughly the amount She says a good excuse for

a one`woman show about her life I'm trying to speak on behalf

of plenty of women my age ` the things that can happen to you

by the time you're 56. Married, divorced, had illndss,

lost my dad, my mum... All the rich tapestry of life

that happens to anybody this age. No more has happened to me than

anyone else, I'm just trying to find In fact, her father took

his own life when she was 18. Anyone with a suicide in

the family knows a bomb goes off. My dad was the lynchpin

of our family. I'm not scared to talk

about that sort of stuff. Instead you got a babe with

a magnificent bosom. In her show she'll talk abott her

career and famous colleagues such Really,

I fell into my career by accident. We didn't like each other for the

first few weeks, we were different! I'm relishing the chance to do this

in front of the people it's about. That's what I'm made of,

so of course for me it's Do you want to know what

I'm having for lunch? Now in the second in our series

on World War One At Home, I've been finding out

about a famous author whose name is known around the world, but whose

war time work is little known. In 1914 Agatha Christie joined the

volunteers helping wounded soldiers She quickly moved up

the ranks to become a nurse. In a rare interview,

recorded towards the end of her life and now held by the Imperial War

Museum, Agatha described her time I think it's very satisfactory work,

nursing. Because somehow, what you'rd doing,

you feel that if you're going to succeed `t all

in it, that person will be cured. With her fianc? Archie Christie

among the first to go to Fr`nce Agatha wanted to do her bit

for the war effort. He had just been accepted

in the RAF, so I felt, you know It's quite eerie being in hdre

in a way, isn't it, because these surroundings would be exactly

as Agatha would have known them She worked here in Torquay Town

Hall, which had been transformed This woman, Joan,

has studied the life and work of this First World War nurse,

and on tours of Agatha's Torquay After a few days, she was promoted

to the bedside because the mature ladies hadn't re`lised

what hospital nursing involved. So they discovered it

was quite gruesome? Gruesome, yes ` emptying urhnals,

washing and scrubbing. The casualties came straight

from the trenches in those days with the very galling injurhes,

bandaging, not looking very clean. And long before Agatha's wrhting

career began, she was penning letters for the

wounded soldiers, though thdy didn't He said put what you like ` no,

she said, you tell me... So they managed a letter

which finished 'yours till hell One for Nelly, one for Marg`ret

and one for Jessie. Oh, hah`! She said,

surely they will compare notes! They live in different towns,

they don't know each other! He may have got away with that,

but most people conformed to protocol and life

in the military hospital, jtst as She said she hadn't realised that

one had to almost fall down We'd hand things to her and she

would hand things to the doctor If I'd handed them to the doctor,

done it straight, While she was nursing,

Agatha fell ill. She didn't return to

the hospital but instead went to work in the dispensary, which

reminded her of a conversathon she'd Agatha said at the time, "I'd

love to write a detective story " But this new work gave her

the inspiration ` it seems @gatha "I've now got time, and I'm going to

try to write the detective story. During her time working in the

dispensary, Agatha wrote thhs poem: 'From the bourgeois time to

the present day... Their power has been proved

and tried. Monk's head blue called Aconite

and the deadly cyanide. Here is sleep and solace

and soothing of pain Here is menace and murder

and sudden death in these fhles "One day I was having to do an

ointment for someone, At three o'clock in the morning I

woke up and I said to myself: 'I believe I've put

the old carbolic in the ointment'. I realised that dispensing had

a certain amount It seems her time in the dispensary,

and nursing the sick and wotnded and refugees from places such

as Belgium, went on to infltence her writing career, creating famous

characters such as Hercule Poirot and the Agatha Christie who is

now known around the world. And you see Hercule Poirot's office

from the television series, in the Agatha Christie exhibition

at Torquay Museum. Our World War One at Home Sdries

continues tomorrow with the remarkable story of

a soldier from Cornwall who'd been We have a soaring and will be

followed by some cave ERA. For a short while, some heavy weapons It

has been pretty extensive, high`level cloud. Area, somd

sunshine. This could be mistaken for the Caribbean. It looks fantastic.

It has been a lovely day here, until the rain. It is not quite so good

now. Indeed, indifferent, have had two of the lows of

sunshine. When they shower you what h`s

happened. This is the wet wdather. Some current strong winds. By the

morning, it will be clear of the south west. Tomorrow is not

bad. We should have some sunshine. More rain

easy. We have a warning frol The Met Office.

going to work, it will have cleared. Tomorrow is a nice day.

possible. Temperatures are recovering quite nicely.

on the islands. Times of high water. Waves increase for the

surfers. Looking for a hearhng, this is the middle of the day tolorrow.

We have some high pressure on those days. On Friday, a new area of low

pressure. It's safe to say puite a lot of clouds.

Britain's opt out on the st`rt of the meeting we have some

will leave you with humans back at the events

The lamps are going out all across Europe. We wil not see them lit

again in our time.