22/08/2014 BBC Channel Islands News

tonight: The wrong time to roadworks, people claim these

improvements are hampering summer trade. It is chaotic. It has been

for weeks and weeks. We are going by bike, they are OK. I'm pickhng

history, the painstaking task to separate 70,000 Celtic coins. And

the growing passion for ridhng, it is Guernsey's biggest equestrian

event of the year. A business in one of Jersey's most

popular tourist area says it is losing hundreds of thousands of

pounds of the summer trade thanks to nearby roadworks. It comes `s a

group of traders threaten not to pay their parish rate in protest at the

disruption. A near empty salon has become a familiar sight to the

owner. He has run the busindss the 12 years and think that trade has

never been so bad. He is bl`ming these roadworks outside his front

door. It is the timing. Purdly be timing. To do this sort of work at

the height of the tourist sdason, June, July and August is thd busiest

time at the moment. It is a holiday destination area. They have

steam`rolled it. They have killed the business. Work to improve the

pavements and work layout bdgan in February and is three months behind.

The department in charge believes everyone has been kept informed We

have had business meetings once a month and we spoke to them `bout

membership and if they wantdd pull out. The majority decided they

wanted to continue on and complete the work as soon as possibld,

than demobilising and coming back. That is what we have done. Not

everyone is happy. 14 businesses say they will stop paying

parish improve. They claim it is gdtting

visitors. It should have bedn done a long time ago, at least thrde months

ago. It doesn't bother me mtch. It's just here. It is no problem. At the

moment it is chaotic and has been for weeks and weeks. They are OK. We

are going by bike, it is OK. The constable seems to agree th`t they

are OK. Whether, any long`tdrm, we say that nothing can go one over the

summer is something we need to discuss. I don't think it is really

that one or two people are suggesting that it has been.

Re`surfacing works begin here next week at `` next month and should be

completed before winter sets in A housing development in Jersdy has

been named after a soldier killed in World War I. Captain Brie ardour

died in Belgium almost exactly 00 years ago. He was the first man

be killed in the First World War and his relatives with their today to

remember him. I had was heard a lot about him and admired him. H am

pleased that there is somebody commemorate him and which bdars his

name. He was born here, it ties together here and he would

be remembered in this area `s he now is. After two years of prep`ration,

the mound of 70,000 Celtic coins found in Jersey is about

picked apart. It is thought to date from 50

kind. Staff at the museum now cleaning the

them in full view of the public Two years ago in

Jersey, two metal detector struck gold. One tonne

silver and copper coins, old jewellery and

moulded mud. To free the trdasure, and learn it secret, experts are

about to start picking it apart piece by precious piece. We hope to

do the whole project in thrde years, it is a long time, but the way we

are trying to do it is callhng by coin. This is new. We are using this

may `` laser over the entird surface which uses a high quality model Are

you expecting to find things that a lot of new things about a pdriod? I

think it will. It will give us a real snapshot of the period. We

think it was buried in one night. can tell a great deal about the

tribe, what they owned, the animals, the plants they were growing.

two metal detector tests have turned Conservative as Reg

Miles help with the work and guard the treasure. Figures of ?10 million

being banded around. You know what it will be worth you? We declared it

to the Crown and the Queen. The Queen then negotiate and we can

purchase it at a later date. At the moment, we don't know what ht's

worth. You can forget the ?00 million. That was a hype.

important is it it stayed in Jersey. Should

metal detector than searching for more? No! What happened for 30 years

of painstaking work to get permission and to

who knows, there could be anything lying under the round. It is a case

of perseverance. There is more on our website. Moving on to sport

Jersey Rugby club, tomorrow, will play a friendly against Bath. The

former England player will be amongst other international stars in

the visiting squad. He says he's looking forward returning home to

the first professional side. It will be a great atmosphere. Lots of

people will come down. People will be on the Bath boys. If I come on,

it will be hostile at first, but it is all in jest, and they will be

having fun and sporting a great game of rugby. Riders from across the

Channel Islands are taking part one of the biggest local eqtestrian

events of the year. Today, they went to check out the cupboard to shin.

`` competition. They make it look easy, but this takes years of hard

work and with the judges watchful eyes upon them, now is the loment it

difficult than it looks, but that is the

higher you go up the levels, the harder it gets.

are doing a great job. Hundreds of riders of all ages

of days. You can really appreciate the skill it

involved. One rider took a tumble and was taken to hospital whth

dangerous the board can be. But for those who love it,

riding at 11, and a lot of blood, sweat and tears has gone into

sport, it is the love of thd animals, I think.

keeps on growing, too. Issud has got and bigger.

a lot of very good riders coming through. ``

a lot of the senior riders competing in the UK too, they will be putting

on a show further afield th`n Guernsey in the coming months. Our

greatest equestrian is in action next week in the games in France. We

will follow his progress. Jtst before our weather, spare a

for the two Guernsey brothers `` runners who have been playing this

the seasons in seven days. They are for two charities and the showers

are bother us. We have been trahning

since the hail and the weather warnings.

We said, then, we have been training in the

heat. The elements There are a lot of worse thhngs

going on. seven, will be the Guernsey marathon

of seven. What will be battling Barrow who has won gold

in the ten metres platform `t the The 25`year`old recorded

a personal best score of 363.7 She's the first British Wom`n to

medal at the European Champhonships She is the first ever British woman

to win gold. I am so happy. It is my last competition and I have had a

lot of injuries and I am to finish the season on a good high

and I will have a good come back next year. Andy B`nks is

now staying in Britain, in news. I heard that yesterdax which

is quite positive. This knowing where we stand and to hear

the good news is put me in ` good to Andy Banks who is with us with

good news of his own. she had had tough year with a leg

problem that has been on and She is delighted to hear yot are

staying in Plymouth and you must Plymouth College got togethdr to say

they could put some together and course they have come up with a

great package that means I petition to keep you in Plylouth so

you are popular chat? I heard Rio I didn't want to leave the

girls. championship today we will hear a

lot more south`west. Meanwhile the football

and Yeovil Town seek back`to`back the Games. We are still at the

seventh at St Mellion and the British amateur but we have

not hosted the challenging the leaders in the past

three Now, some enthusiasts love

everything rail, others prefer What is it like down there?

It is very good. does not get much better th`n this.

This waiting room has been real ales for people to try and on

the platform we have the people this weekend, they whll think

that this is British passions, hail and rail It

is as if they were destined another. If I wanted to better this

now I would have to be on 90 miles an hour and having a pint

of cider so thing. It is thought fans of real

ale and vintage railways sh`re similar DNA, I love of the finer

things in life. I came down from Derby specially for this.

great event and hopefully the people coming at the weekend

that the BA gets sold next xear they will do the same again. It hs

lot more families than just guys with beer bellies. This is the ninth

year of this real ale it all helps. During the fotr`day

event pins will be sold as well to raise money to restore this beauty.

They are going to need to sdll an awful lot of pins, ?400,000 worth so

if you like pins then this hs where you need to be. `` Pimms. It is

classic stuff. If it all gets too much, then take the train home.

I am not sure what Johnny C`sh would have made of all of this. I am on

the footplate. You can see the fire here, several

gingerly, I will come off backwards. I have passed thd health

and safety test. Andy, thank you for joining us you are from this

society, what is the This stems back nine years `nd we

had the then we had six beers and every year

the festival has grown a real success story for us. They

complement railway and the Heritage bedr

industry go hand`in`hand. the station he was built in 187 and

it has hardly changed since. surrounded by his story all through

the weekend. I noticed when I was come from all over the country for

the event. Indeed, we build people can come down on the mainline

and we have a and have an enjoyable beer `nd a

great day. come to see the vintage diesels

running as well as the steal so it turnout and we are open tomorrow and

Sunday from 11 is time for the weather fordcast. A

bank The waves are a bit disappohnting

for our surfers. spells and also a risk of some

heavy, blustery showers. It of a mixed picture. Hanky. I think we

should play surprise Holly with the weather pictures every night. What,

get the cow? Have a lovely bank holiday weekend. Take