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Welcome to BBC Channel Islands. Tonight's headlines: | :00:03. | :00:07. | |
Slipped through the net. An inquest hears housing and charity bosses | :00:07. | :00:17. | |
Plus: Culture clash - the Alaskan tribe in Jersey fighting for their | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
right to hunt whales. And raining on Guernsey's parade. | :00:22. | :00:32. | |
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Tourism counts the cost of a cool, A Jersey charity says it has | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
changed its policies after a pensioner in its care lay dead for | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
six weeks. David Le Bourgeois's badly decomposed body was found in | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
a complex at the beginning of April. Today, an inquest heard he could | :00:56. | :01:02. | |
have been found a fortnight earlier. It is designed for retired people | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
to live independently, with support. And it was home to 66-year-old | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
David Le Bourgeois. But in this flat in Victoria Cottage Homes, he | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
lay dead for six weeks without anyone noticing. Neighbours raised | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
the alarm after four weeks, but it took another two weeks before | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
anyone knocked on the door. And it is that delay that has angered his | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
son. It would have been much less upsetting obviously, it would have | :01:30. | :01:37. | |
made life a lot easier. Particularly for milder uncle's. | :01:37. | :01:46. | |
Brian, his older brother, was very upset. And myself as next as Ken -- | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
of King, obviously sorting things out, it is not good. It was the | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
time delay the was the biggest upset. Mr Le Bourgeois was in the | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
care of the Shelter Trust replaced him in at the complex and carried | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
out retain checks. When alerted he had gone missing, they sent a | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
letter that only appeared in person two weeks later to find his body. | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
Today, the Trust boss would not speak on camera, that in an inquest | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
here, he said lessons had been learned. Meanwhile, the housing | :02:17. | :02:23. | |
department which manages the complex denied any wrongdoing. | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
is independent living. So had he not had his care package around him, | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
we may have gone in earlier. As it happened, he was missed, we | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
contacted his care support workers, and they were I think at the time | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
comfortable about what was happening. Mr Le Bourgeois's body | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
was too decomposed to find the cause of death. But the inquest | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
heard it was likely to be due to natural causes. One no one can be | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
blamed for his death, the extra time he lay undiscovered has meant | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
extra distress for his family. They welcome the changes in policy so | :03:00. | :03:08. | |
this cannot happen again. Fishermen in the Channel Islands | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
have been watching with close interest after changes to fishing | :03:11. | :03:17. | |
practices in Europe were proposed. The European Union wants to ban | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
discarding unwanted fish, to improve knowledge about local | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
stocks, and to give regional bases more power. Beckie Williams reports | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
on why those changes will affect our fishing industry more than we | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
may think. For many in the Channel Islands, | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
fishing is not just a job but a way of life. Kevin should know, he has | :03:38. | :03:45. | |
been doing it for the last 40 years. Things need changing, and the | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
sooner you can govern your own fishing industry and ports, the | :03:48. | :03:54. | |
better. They do not know what is happening in Jersey. Our fisheries | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
do a fantastic job and they know what is being caught and what is | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
being landed. For intensive techniques, these mean that people | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
who catch wet fish are or bound by quotas. Kevin can only catch a set | :04:09. | :04:16. | |
number of pollock, haddock, plaice and cod because there under threat. | :04:16. | :04:22. | |
When they over catch, the key fish get thrown back into is the dead. | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
The he wants to make changes, and whilst in the Channel Islands most | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
people catch shellfish, Jersey Fisheries say it will still have an | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
impact. There are proposals to change the way that quotas are | :04:34. | :04:43. | |
managed. If that is at a local level,... Of does this mean I will | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
pay less for my fish as a consumer? Not necessarily, but it does mean | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
that you may have a greater range of fish to choose from. So whilst | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
the fisheries welcome these new proposals, some believe it could | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
take a while for the new practices to catch on. | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
As special text number has been set up for people in the Channel | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
Islands to report child abuse. The children's charity the NSPCC hopes | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
it will encourage islanders to report signs of neglect or abuse | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
earlier, rather than waiting. It is hoped the service, which will be | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
manned 24-7, will help improve the lives of children in need. I think | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
people are very comfortable with text. And it is another option, | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
rather than having to phone, you can do it when there are people | :05:33. | :05:40. | |
around. And people feel comfortable up and can think about it. | :05:40. | :05:46. | |
If you have been watching this week, you will know that the | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
International Whaling Commission is meeting in Jersey. A small group of | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
delegates come from Alaska's. The Inupiat say hunting whales is vital | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
for their economic and cultural survival. Doreen Walton, who lived | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
with the Inupiat for red van, caught up with them at the | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
conference. It is far from Jersey's sunny | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
shores. This is the northernmost point of the United States, the | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
town of Barrow in Alaska. It is the home of the Inupiat people. When | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
the weather and time of year is right, they travel out on to the | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
sea ice and wait for migrating whales. They have hunted whales for | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
millennia. Now they are in Jersey for one of the world's biggest | :06:27. | :06:37. | |
whaling conferences. We have no gardens, everything is frozen. The | :06:37. | :06:44. | |
ocean is our gardens. We deal with marine mammals, eyes seals, polar | :06:44. | :06:52. | |
bears, whales. Putting to sea in the eyes choked waters is dangerous. | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
The Inupiat used traditional wood and sealskin boats, and hand-held | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
harpoons. They have spiritual beliefs about our hunt, that the | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
spirit of the whale is reborn, and that the animals sacrifice | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
themselves to deserve income -- punters. They have whales give | :07:11. | :07:21. | |
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themselves. They give themselves up to you, to the crew and the | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
community. There is a strict quota on the number of whales that can be | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
hunted. When one is landed, the lead is shared in a mass | :07:32. | :07:41. | |
celebrations. Her I do not have words that express buy happiness | :07:41. | :07:48. | |
escalates from a successful hunt, feeding the community. Up to 2000 | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
people in one day. It is an all-day Neil. The Inupiat hope their visit | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
to the conference will help to show how vital whaling is for the | :07:58. | :08:07. | |
survival of their ancient culture. As the school holidays approach, | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
many of us are keeping our fingers crossed for a decent summer. We | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
have just had a very cold June, and some businesses in the islands say | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
they have been affected. As Mike Wilkins reports, the forecast for | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
the rest of the summer is not looking at great either. | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
As what a difference a day makes. Today people were out enjoying the | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
sunshine. Quite a contrast to the rainy weather over the last few | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
weeks. Good for gardens, but not for some businesses. Bel De Frietas | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
runs the beach cafe, and says the coldest June for almost a year has | :08:42. | :08:49. | |
not helped his trade. It has been the worst June I ever remember. But | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
we will see. We will take it month- by-month. It is still great, even | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
when it rains here. It is not good for business but it looks great! | :09:00. | :09:07. | |
what is going on? I went to Guernsey airport to the main | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
meteorological observers point for the Channel Islands. The weather | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
depression is normally go to the north of us, but not this year. | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
This cold wet spell is not really out of the ordinary. What has | :09:17. | :09:23. | |
happened is that, in the late 1990s, we had a run off really quite mild | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
winters. And warm summers, many of the summers were warm and hot. As | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
people got used to that. But it was not the norm. What we are back to | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
now is not actually that bad. Last year's temperatures were only a | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
little bit below normal, this year's a little bit it off normal. | :09:41. | :09:47. | |
It is about average. He is not forecasting any heat waves on the | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
horizon is. In fact, he predicts an unsettled summer. So if you like | :09:51. | :09:57. | |
getting out in the sun, enjoy it while you can. | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
Fittingly, there is a new series starting tonight on BBC One called | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
The Great British Weather. That is at 7ZD pm. But it is time to see if | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
at 7ZD pm. But it is time to see if we are due some great Weather! A | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
lot of dry weather in the forecast for the next 24 hours or so. But as | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
we head towards the weekend it will turn unsettled. For the time being, | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
we still have high-pressure close by so that is keeping our weather | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
of quiet and settled. That is still with us by lunchtime tomorrow, the | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
change comes from Friday when we will start to feel the influence of | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
low pressure close by to the North West of the UK. That will introduce | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
a lot of cloud and bring some rain for the weekend. Overnight, patchy | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
cloud at times but also some clear spells. It will not be particularly | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
cold, temperatures no lower than 12 or 13 degrees Celsius. As we start | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
the day tomorrow, a little bit of patchy cloud first thing. That it | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
clear away through the morning, and lengthy spells of sunshine for the | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
rest of the day. Pleasantly warm, 21 degrees Celsius is the top | :11:05. | :11:11. | |
temperature. And just a gentle westerly breeze. Winds will be from | :11:11. | :11:19. | |
the North West tomorrow, for Delay- Repay to four. Times of high water | :11:19. | :11:29. | |
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Not a huge amount of swell around at the moment, flat conditions on | :11:33. | :11:39. | |
the beaches. The outlook for the rest of the week and into the | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
weekend, turning increasingly unsettled from Friday onwards. | :11:43. | :11:49. | |
Friday itself, increasing amounts of cloud. Generally staying dry, | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
but temperatures starting to drop - just 19 degrees Celsius that high | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
at the end of the week. Over the weekend, more blustery conditions. | :11:58. | :12:02. |