16/02/2012 BBC Channel Islands News


16/02/2012

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Good evening. The headlines. Jailed for Will

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Genia is - the drugs careers built using a child to smuggle heroin

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into Guernsey. And the Green team, signing up to investigate the

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future of tidal power. And this man was paralysed, now he

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hopes to inspire others right here in the Channel Islands.

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Children are increasingly being used to try and smuggle drugs into

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Guernsey. That's the warning from the island's customs service. Two

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people from Weymouth have just been sent to prison for importing heroin

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worth up to �20,000 into the island. 31-year-old David Shields was

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sentenced to eight and a half years, and 24-year-old Emma Pring to six

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years. They were travelling with a three year-old. Mike Wilkins

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reports. The look of a man who knows the

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game's up. David Shields comes from Weymouth, but he's been to Guernsey

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before. He visited five years ago, but was convicted of importing

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crack cocaine and ecstasy. And in the summer he tried to smuggle in

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drugs again. In July he took the ferry with Emma Pring and when they

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got here, disembarked separately. It was then that Guernsey Border

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Agency officers swooped. Shields was detained and taken to

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the Princess Elizabeth Hospital where he was found to have

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internally concealed heroin and diazepam. Pring was travelling with

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a three year-old child and removed a package of heroin from her jeans

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after becoming concerned about the child's welfare.

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We have had a few instances in the past year has sold would couriers

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using the cover of a young child which is disturbing. It shows the

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lengths that people will go to. That coupled with internal

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concealment show her devious people can be but it shows that the

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officers of the 18 seats are up to these kind of methods. -- the

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agency. We don't know much about their

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backgrounds. But for Shields, his attempt to import drugs a second

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time has put him behind bars for the best part of a decade.

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Could a new pan-island deal help speed up the development of tidal

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power in the Channel Islands? Guernsey, Jersey and Sark have

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signed up to a new deal to work more closely together. But the

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formal agreement was a step too far for Alderney. Penny Elderfield

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reports. It's a powerful resource. And one

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that isn't in short supply. But whilst the authorities here in

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Guernsey want to make the most of the seas around us, we're not the

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only Channel Island looking to do it. Which is why Jersey, Guernsey

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and Sark's government have joined forces to explore the options for

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tidal power. There has been a number of individual approaches but

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the question keeps being trotted out, why aren't you not working

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together? And that's what will now happen. To

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look at the various technologies out there. But also to get on with

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all the ground work that needs doing. We need to meet regularly to

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get up to date with what is happening with the resignation --

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with legislation and developments. I think the experience we will gain

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from sharing the information with each jurisdiction means that we can

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well forward with a bit more speed than each acting in its own way.

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But there's an island missing from the mix - Alderney. And although

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they will be included in the ongoing talks, the government

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doesn't want to sign up formally. We are all at different stages of

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development and the product that will eventually arrive in each

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jurisdiction will probably be different.

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There's still years to go before the Islands will even come close to

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seeing tidal power generated. But it's hoped by joining forces it

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will not only save time, but money. The boss of bus operator, Connex,

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has spoken out about the decision to give a rival operator the

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opportunity to run Jersey's bus services. Connex has been running

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the buses on the island for ten years, but the states have now said

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UK bus operator, CT Plus, is the preferred choice when the contract

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finishes at the end of the year. Connex say they were surprised to

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be excluded this early in the process.

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And we worked in the process but what is surprising is at that stage

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of the competition, they have not kept more than one contender. We

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were expecting to were three containers to reach the final stage.

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-- contenders. Jersey's Fish Festival has been

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cancelled this year. It's a celebration of the island's fishing

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industry and local seafood, with food stalls, live music and a "man-

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powered flight" competition. The event at Victoria Pier attracted

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about 13,000 people in 2011. Plans to build a new cinema complex

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in Guernsey must take into account the traffic problems already in the

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area. The proposals for Admiral Park, which also include flats and

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offices, are currently being considered by the Environment

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Department. One long term critic of traffic management in the area says

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whilst he's supportive of more development, the issue does need to

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be addressed. We are looking to add hundreds of new people working in

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the area, they will all have a traffic impact. We need to consider

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that as part of the overall picture. You tend to do tings in isolation

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and then you end up with a road traffic system that does not work.

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Coming up, we have the South Devon man battered and bruised after

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wrestling a monster fish. A former serviceman who was told he

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was unlikely to walk again is bringing his inspirational

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challenge to the Channel Islands this weekend. Phil Packer suffered

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severe spinal damage four years ago but has slowly learnt to walk again.

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Now he's set off on a mission to walk 2,012 by the end of 2012. Some

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of those miles will be walked in our islands - and Jersey's

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Lieutenant Governor will be joining him. He started his challenge in

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the UK last month, as Beckie Williams reports.

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Phil Packer smiled through the drizzle as he started to walk. He

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uses a stick as his injuries haven't properly healed. Phil's

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doing this to raise money for a centre in West Sussex that will

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help children who have to overcome adversity, something Phil had to do

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when he was told he might not walk again.

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I lost my self-belief and my self- esteem overnight and it took me a

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long time to get that back. When I did it was being inspired by other

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people, because they believed in me. Phil Packer is used to challenging

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himself. He climbed El Capitan, a mountain peak in California, for

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charity and completed the London marathon on crutches. Over the next

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300 days, famous faces will be joining him on the walk.

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He is an enormous inspiration to everybody so it is fantastic that

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this centre of excellence can be achieved. His aim is to raise a lot

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of money this year. He is going to walk 2012 miles which is a long way,

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I hold him in such high regard. Phil's walking in Alderney tomorrow,

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Guernsey on Saturday and Jersey on Sunday. It is a wonderful thing to

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do to try to give disadvantaged young people an opportunity and I

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encouraged the community to get behind him. I will be with him. I

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encourage everyone just to go with him for a short distance to show

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support for a stock -- show support. So get your walking boots at the

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ready, because anyone's welcome to join in. And to find out more about

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where and when Phil's walking, tune into BBC Radio Jersey tomorrow

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morning. Phil's speaking to Chris morning. Phil's speaking to Chris

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Stone live at about ten to eight. The cloudy and quiet weather

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continues overnight. There is a change on the way but it is quite

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slow. There is a weather front slowly making its way down the UK

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but still far enough not to close too much concern. And by Saturday

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morning, still at looking OK but rain coming later in the day. For

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tonight there is still a lot of cloud around keeping things quite

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mild overnight. Temperatures are no lower than six or seven degrees

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overnight. So of cloudy start once again tomorrow. The chance of a

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shower throughout the day but still a good deal of dry weather.

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Temperatures around nine degrees at their highest tomorrow afternoon.

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The inshore waters forecast, the risk of a shower out at sea. And

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For the rest of the week, another a cloudy day tomorrow. Saturday

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afternoon sees that rain approaching common turning quite

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wet and windy for a time. On Sunday the winter becomes more clearly so

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it actually will feel cooler by the it actually will feel cooler by the

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A Jersey drummer has been selected from thousands to perform in the

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London Olympics opening ceremony, but his usual style isn't actually

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what you'd expect for the event. Tom Ashcroft Nowicki plays in

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Jersey band, Salem's Lot. Here they are in action. He responded to an

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advert for performers posted on the notice board at his music college.

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He said he was "dumbfounded" when he found out he'd got the gig. But

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he's not allowed to tell us much about it.

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