12/03/2012 BBC Channel Islands News


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Good evening. Welcome to our first BBC Channel Islands of the week.

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Coming up: Why and break can stop a breakdown, autism charities demand

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more help for respite care. Plus a new footage of the sniffer

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dog that sparked the search of Haut de la Garenne.

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And the house with 45 at vacancies. Nominations begin for Guernsey's

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Parents caring for children with autism are facing a daily struggle

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to continue looking after them and the rest of their family according

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to one local charity worker. Sally Gallichan is the trustee for Autism

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Jersey. She says without better respite care many families find it

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hard to cope. It comes as the island's health minister, Deputy

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Anne Pryke, faced a Scrutiny Panel today to answer questions. Sally

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Gallichan joined the earlier to explain just how important respite

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care really is. It is crucially important for families and

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individuals in that family, so it could be the sufferer or the family

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member. Very seldom is it offered. Approximately how many people are

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we talking about? It is hard to quantify how many families because

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many families have not accessed support yet. But if we look at

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statistics we are looking at 700 people who would be diagnosed as

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autistic at some stage. What sort of form does respite care take? Is

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it a centre where people would go for help inside the home? At the

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moment the model in Jersey is a bricks and mortar solution and

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individuals go to that setting. But we believe that is not the best fit

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and it needs to be more flexible and creative centred around the

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individual's need. Is that what happens in the UK? It has moved

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towards that personalise care system whereby the individual has

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choices and there is more choice. Presumably a more individualised

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service will cost more. Are you looking for more funding?

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necessarily. When people have personalised funding and they get

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the support that suits them, they reduce the level of support they

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need overall and it reduces the cost. Sally Gallichan, thank you

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very much. If you have experience of or an

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The police are investigating the unexplained death of a 90 knew Lord

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from Jersey. They confirmed he died at 2:30pm yesterday. A post-mortem

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examination will be carried out. The Channel Islands will tomorrow

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begin to make their case for why the UK Government should not be

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allowed to scrap VAT relief. No value consignment relief allows

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companies here to sell low-value goods tax free. It was announced

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last year that it would be stopped in April. They hearing at the Royal

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Courts of Justice in London begins today and is expected to begin on

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Thursday. Video footage has been published of

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the initial stages in the Haut de la Garenne investigation. In 2008,

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Jersey police began investigating and discovered what they said could

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be the partial remains of a child. But it was the work of a sniffer

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dog that gave them enough evidence to start the work in the first

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place. This contains flash photography.

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This was a defining moment in the Haut de la Garenne investigation.

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Video footage of a sniffer dog searching that former children's

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home. Ad is trained to smile and Human remains and it was this

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reaction that encouraged the police to start digging. The dog reacted

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to a particular part of the building and that led us to date in

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the area where we found what turned out to be a disputed fragments. But

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it was also in the area where builders before had found some

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bones which they were convinced were children. The dog was brought

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from Yorkshire to work in Jersey. He has been used in a number of

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high-profile cases, including the Madeleine McCann investigation.

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suppose I had a typical police officer's scepticism whether a dog

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would be able to detect traces of dead human flesh in an area where

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no one had been for some time. footage was posted on an internet

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blog, but the man behind it will not speak on camera because his

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family and himself have received death threats, but he hopes it will

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raise awareness of their historic abuse investigation and resolve

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many unanswered questions. Guernsey is one step closer to a

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new bus service. An agreement has been made between the Environment

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Department and HCT Group. The service should take over from

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Island Coachways in April. It is also Jersey's preferred bidder.

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Two extra reception classes will open in Jersey in September after a

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rise in demand for primary school places. The new classes will be at

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Rouge Bouillon and Samares schools. It will help keep the average class

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size down to 26 pupils. Coming up later in Spotlight: The

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dancers getting into the swing of it with a special dance to

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celebrate the queen's diamond jubilee.

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In just over a month's time people in Guernsey go to the polls to vote

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for food they want to represent them in the States. All 45 seats

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are up for grabs and today nominations opened for this year's

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candidates. At the top of the stairs that 45

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deputies meet every month to make the decisions that affect everyone

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of us in Guernsey. Some of them have said they are not going to run

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in the next election, but there are some new faces who have come here

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to the Royal Court today for the first date of registration as a

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candidate. The man overseeing this is the deputy registrar. What has

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the turnout been like so far? Nominations opened at 9 o'clock

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this morning and there was a flurry of activity within the first 20

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minutes. We have 15 or 20 candidates. By the end of the week

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how many do you think you'll get? Our expectation will be somewhere

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between 70 and 90. There are just over 29,000 people signed up to

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register in the election. It is down on previous numbers. Why is

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that? It is a little disappointing that the numbers are down. The

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comparative figure is at the 30,000 of eight years ago. One does not

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know why. It could be apathy, it could be other reasons I am not

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aware of. Already the candidates will be electioneering and calling

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from house to house and they will be giving out manifestos. Interest

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will be stimulated by that process. Just a few days to go and by the

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end of this week we will know who the people are who want to take up

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the reins of power. Rugby and Jersey's lead at the top

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of the table is down to a four points after they suffered their

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first defeat since October. They lost to bottom club Barking, ending

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an 18 game winning streak. There was confusion over the weekend with

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Guernsey's table and they are top of their division. The table was

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showing they had been overtaken, but they are clear up with 91

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points. Channel Island's hockey star Beckie Herbert is hopeful of

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making Team GB for the Olympics. She was in Devon over the weekend

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meeting young hockey players and she says she is confident about

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making the team. The selection process is tough. There are 28 of

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us vying for only 16 places, so it will be tough on the girls who

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missed out. I have been there before and I am hoping I will not

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be there again. It is all part of it and that his elite sport. The

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competitiveness drives our training on and makes our standards higher.

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It is something which helps the final performance. There has been

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lots of fog around and I think Over the next week we have got a

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lot of fine and dry whether to look forward to. High pressure is in

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charge, although the mist and the fog is quite tricky. Some days we

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will have quite a lot of sunshine and others it will remain quite

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misty. There is the high pressure and that is why we have got settled

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weather and that does not move over the next 24 hours. It slowly drifts

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away to the east through Wednesday and into Thursday. A couple of

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weather fronts out here get closer to the islands at the end of the

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day on Friday. This evening and overnight the mist and low cloud

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will return. Overnight temperatures are down to five or six degrees.

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Tomorrow morning it is a mistake, in places foggy, start with a slow

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improvement and by the afternoon some sunny spells will develop. The

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winds are light and where we get the sunshine that temperatures will

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be up to 14 or 15. These are the If you are heading for the beach,

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you may well be disappointed because the waves are not very big.

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