07/03/2017 Channel Islands News

very much again at the Emirates Stadium. Natalie Perks.

Police find the handbag belonging to missing jersey pensioner Valerie

Jehan near Devil's Hole. Good evening and welcome

to the late news from BBC an economic backwater if its airport

runway isn't extended. My own view is if we don't have a

runway extension sooner rather than later, it will be a great bar to

Guernsey developing as an economy. Tonight, a handbag belonging

to missing pensioner Valerie Jehan has been found at Devil's Hole

in the north of Jersey. It comes as teams spent a fifth day

searching for the 75-year-old - and following a new confirmed

sighting of her walking This evening, our reporter

Julie Flanagan was at Devil's Hole At about half past four,

this place was extremely busy with the police,

fire crews and the coastguard. from these pictures that fire

officers were winched When they came back up,

they retrieved an item. The police have confirmed

it was a black handbag. The police have said

there was a confirmed sighting of Valerie Jehan

on the pathway here. In a statement Chief

Inspector Chris Beechey said, Specially trained Family

Liaison Officers continue The police will continue with their

land search of this area over the next few days and after that, they

will explore other lines of inquiry. And you can hear the latest updates

in the search for Valerie Jehan on BBC radio Jersey from 6am tomorrow

and you can also follow developments on social media.

Guernsey's Economic Development president says he has reason

to believe Condor Ferries is for sale.

Deputy Peter Ferbrache made the comments at a Scrutiny hearing

He also said Guernsey could become an economic backwater

But as Mike Wilkins reports, there's no appetite

A parliamentary meeting in a public place.

And beyond the usual confines of the States building,

there was nowhere to hide from the cameras today.

And top of the agenda was to check how much

progress has been made in improving Guernsey's air and sea links.

And the answer was, "some but not enough."

The man responsible says Guernsey needs a longer runway.

I would think we would be crazy not to have the runway extension.

Because we are otherwise going to be an economic backwater.

Deputy Ferbrache says he has reason to believe Condor Ferries

They have not told me that they are looking to sell but

I read the financial newspapers, I'm not completely without some

I believe they want to sell because they are an equity business

and this is probably not their best ever purchase.

Condor's owner Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets has

declined to comment on market rumours or speculation.

However, sources close to the business say there is

For the man chairing the meeting, today

was a reminder of how little progress has been made on

Bearing in mind that it was such a hot topic at the election

and bearing in mind there was a lot of noise made by a lot of people

about Aircon activity and sealinks, there has been a lack of pretext

and I think that is what we have underlined this morning.

about Aircon activity and sealinks, there has been a lack of progress

and I think that is what we have underlined this morning.

It's too early to say, but based on today's hearing,

the Scrutiny Committee is considering a wholesale review

Two Jersey teachers who were left in a critical condition

after an alleged hit and run in the French Alps are

The man and woman, who work at De La Salle College,

The pair were at La Clusaz ski resort during half term

when they were allegedly hit by a motorist at high speed

A spokesperson for the school says they've been moved to a UK hospital

A Guernsey charity who lodged a formal complaint against three

senior deputies is refusing to apologise, despite

Deputy Lyndon Trott, Mary Lowe and Paul Le Pelley

were cleared of a code of conduct complaint last week.

They were alleged to have made disparaging comments about a fellow

politician's ability to work while caring for a

Guernsey's Community Foundation say the sole motive was to ensure

there was no discrimination in public office.

There are no winners in this process.

We would fully understand that, as we have said.

For our part, we continue to feel it was right,

with the information we had, to try to resolve this personally,

discreetly and privately and secondly, not having been able to do

that, on behalf of the Guernsey Disability Alliance and particularly

its members, to try to ensure that such discrimination does not exist.

A Jersey business is still feeling the effects of the weekend's storm,

The strike hit a tree outside Belles Fleurs nursery in Grouville

during a storm on Sunday evening, knocking out the phone lines

The manager says he has lost trade and money.

For us, it is really the start of our spring time, really,

and after the winter months, we do not really need this to happen

but it is going to take a few days to get it sorted out.

There is going to be some cost because we have lost trade,

we cannot do credit card transactions because that is through

The Channel Island's largest ever emergency exercise

Today, Jersey's firefighters practised being lowered from

The exercise continues tomorrow and will involve all of the island's

emergency services dealing with an incident at sea.

It's the world's largest dog show and this week, for the first time

ever, a finalist from Jersey will compete to be

National Therapy Dog of the Year at Crufts.

Sausage - a Staffordshire Bull Terrier - was nominated by residents

where he provides some much-needed company as Jessica Banham reports.

Sausage isn't shy about showing affection for the people

He's visited these residents every week for the past four years.

He seems to know what you are saying to him.

It gives you something to talk about when you're having tea.

Funny, we haven't got sausage on the menu today.

Sausage is a Staffordshire Bull Terrier,

which might not be the first breed you'd think of for a therapy dog.

But his owner Angie believes they're misunderstood and says

He chooses how long he stays with each person so I've had

incidences where people haven't been that well before and he's stayed

as if to say, "Yeah, you need picking up a bit,"

he wants them to smile before he leaves.

Sausage is part of the charity Pets As Therapy or Pat,

they have 21 dogs working on Jersey and more than 5,000

They visit hospitals and schools with students

who have special needs, as well as residents in care homes.

They get very emotional because it brings back all the memories

of what used to happen in their lives.

They love the sort of contact and the one-to-one and their eyes

sparkle and we had one particular resident and he would just keep

alive, his wife said, that those Wednesdays and those

alive, his wife said, for those Wednesdays and those

It was St Ewolds who nominated Sausage to be Pat's Dog of the Year.

He's up against five other finalists and will appear

at Crufts to hear the winner announced on Friday.

Angie reckons he may even pull out his signature

move for the judges - the Sausage roll.

Let's take a look at the weather now, with David Braine.

We are into some milder air now but it's not without its problems

because the mist and fog return at the same time.

Some hill fog around overnight tonight and tomorrow,

the risk of either mist or sea fog too, very murky conditions,

quite a lot of cloud as well capable of producing a few spots of drizzle

but generally for all of us, it will feel quite a bit milder.

The reason for that is where the air is coming from, coming from a long

way down across the south-west, trickling weather fronts towards us

at the same time which means we continue with a lot of cloud

Thursday, perhaps a brief bit of brightness before we see further

spots of drizzle before he head into Friday.

All the while, though, with southerly winds,

we are going to see higher temperatures so finally, we are

The rain that we saw earlier today will gradually move away

Brisk south-westerly winds will continue to feed in a fair

amount of cloud and produce some hill fog through the night to come

and a relatively mild night, really, with overnight temperatures probably

hanging around nine or 10 degrees, so staying in double figures,

maybe a few places getting lower than that, most of us

And then tomorrow, we're going to have lots of drizzle in the wind,

brisk south-west winds and temperatures getting back up

to ten, 11, possibly even 12 degrees as a maximum.

But it will be quite a blustery day and there is the risk of some mist

The warmth across Spain and Portugal will gradually drift northwards

through Thursday and into Friday, hopefully beginning to lift

the temperatures up so we will find temperatures will rise as we head

through the rest of this week, possibly by Friday up

to 13 or 14 degrees, with the wind still from the south,

brighter but fresher as we head into the weekend.

You are up-to-date with the news from the Channel Islands. We will be

back at 6:30am tomorrow. Have a good night.

rain on Saturday. The national picture now from Nick Miller.

It looks like next week high pressure will become a player again

in our weather, settling things down for some of us for a time but until

then it is low-pressure, rain moving across the UK overnight but not wet

all the time. Many of us at a fine day today, this was at you from West

Yorkshire and Yorkshire and northern England and Northern Ireland will

farewell tomorrow, after this frontal system has pushed on through

the UK with rain. But as it does, it introduces milder air so for the

rest