10/04/2012 BBC Channel Islands News

Good evening Tilstock welcome to BBC Channel Islands. Coming up: how

and why it did a Guernsey man died in an explosion?

This is rare for the United Kingdom, never mind Guernsey.

Budget cuts mean staffing problems for Chelsea prison. We assessed the

impact. And the Return of the traditional

town market - we meet the trader has given a traditional -- a new

Investigations are still continuing in to how and why a middle aged man

from Guernsey was killed by an explosion and one of the island's

most expensive residential areas. Robert Blakemore died in Fort

George on Friday night. It has been four days since the explosion.

Among the manicured lawns and immaculate properties nobody knew

much about the victim. He left in an annex adjoining his parents'

house. This is generally a quiet place but in the last few days the

area behind this barrier has been a hive of activity. Experts have now

returned to the UK. I have been told that this road should open in

the next few hours. Police say that the explosive materials have now

been made safe and that all four bomb making equipment was found

that there was no sign of terrorist activity.

The mechanics of the device we have yet to process. We are putting

together the pieces. When we reach their inquest we will have a better

indication as to what happened. Detectives are trying to piece

together what happened. We know that Robert Blakemore called the

police before to incident and it is the nature of the phone call which

could explain why the blast or card. We are looking at the phone call.

It does not appear to be straight forward. Police officers were

dispatched because clearly their individual needed police attendance.

A post mortem has been carried out A 32-year-old man has been arrested

after a woman was sexually assaulted in the Jersey. Police say

it happened near the Grand Vaux tennis court just before Saturday

morning. The victim was supported by specially trained officers who

Sheep farmers in Jersey are meeting an expert in the virus which is

causing birth defects and stillborn lambs. Tests last month confirmed

that the Schmallenberg virus had affected sheep at a farm in the

island. It is thought the virus was brought by my cheese from the

Continent. -- midges.

An annual report has come from that number of prison officers has

fallen below the desired level was the number of prisoners up at La

Moye prison. Any fall in levels below recommended levels reveals a

funding pressure on the prison. That is true of all state funded

organisations trying to meet the demands of the comprehensive

spending review. But the prison governor told me that standards had

not dropped. But there definitely is pressure.

If I took a decision last year to allow staffing numbers to drop.

That was in the knowledge that we could only pay for fewer staff the

following year. It is the same from the sea here. We will run short

because we know we have to reduce our numbers in 2013 to let within

budgetary constraints. Bill Miller has been in post for

four years. He arrived following the highly critical report into La

Moye prison. How does he think the prison is progressing now?

He arrived after two consecutive critical reports which highlighted

the prison was one of the worst in Europe with practices like slopping

out, no proper toilet facilities, limited educational and

recreational facilities. But he is confident things have turned around

since then. There has been huge investment in

the architecture and the buildings. We have also made significant

changes in the regime. And in the policies that we used to manage the

prison. Will the inspectorate make a return

visit? One is scheduled for next year.

They expect a very different report them.

St Helier has been twinned with the capital of Madeira. A formal

agreement was signed today. James Street has been renamed to reflect

the links between the two islands. One in 10 people living in Jersey

have Portuguese roots. It is important for both

communities. As I said to your mare, next year it we will open a region

in our island named after St Helier. This is a consequence of something

spontaneous. To mark the 100 years since the

sinking of the Titanic crowds gathered for a memorial service in

Southampton today. Alfred Oliver, from Jersey, was a quarter master

on Titanic, and today his granddaughter claimed that the

ceremony was a fitting tribute. He saw the I spared. He described

it not as white but as dark blue. - - he saw the end spared. He was

then told to look after people in the lifeboats. He was a Jersey man.

The family all returned because at the time he was only temporarily in

Southampton. What happened that night to him and

so many others gives me a connection. I just want to be there

for Ham. This is when it was spelt but the

days of the GMC's market building actually being a market have long

gone. -- Guernsey's market building. But those days could return. It has

been the Monte's trade for decades. But it has been years since he did

it here. Fisher Friday is about returning

local produce to the market square. It is for the locals. Every time we

hear about the market a rear we want the local producers to come

back and create a proper market. -- the market a year. We now have

funding and we are saying, let's do The weekly stalls will be some way

away from the permanent market turn say once had. But traders are

looking for what took that a term. -- looking for to the return.

It will be nice to get more local people into local produce.

This will not bring back the old market but it will bring back some

all memories and some tradition. Before we bring you the weather -

the latest figures from turn say what a show that rainfall in March

was 53% below what the average. -- Guernsey water. Let's see a friend

Showers for the rest of the week. One or two could turn out to be

heavy. Some sunshine in between. But not very warm, just 12 Celsius

the top temperature. Low pressure anchored off the west coast of

Norway. That will bring in the showers. Little changed by the time

we get to forestry. Slightly more northerly winds towards the end of

the week. Each day will bring colder air than the last. The

showers will keep going overnight. They might become isolated but do

not be surprised if you hear rain on the roof of the window. The

showers will stare with us through to the morning. Overnight

temperatures as low as seven Celsius. Show was quite frequent in

the morning but more isolated in the afternoon. They could be quite

heavy. Winds from the north-west. For the coastal waters, generally

very good visibility at sea. Wins Westerleigh, veering north-westerly.

Force for. High water - here are the times. Four hour sufferers,

most of the beaches are exposed to a north west wind. -- four hour or

so for us. The vote Look, colder. The butter on Thursday very few

showers. -- but on Thursday. Night- time temperatures fairly law.

Feeling chilly with a northerly Today marks the 25th anniversary of

Condor first sailing between the Channel Islands and Weymouth. She

was given a celebratory water salt today. The captain in charge a

quarter of a century ago chatted to the captain in charge of today.

It was a 33 metre hydrofoil. We went along way and exposed seas. It

was a pioneering route. How challenging was that?

On a nice day it was very nice, on a rough day, very rough.

Our top story - police in the Jersey think a home-made bomb

caused a fatal explosion. Robert Blakemore was found dead in his

home on Friday night. That is all I have time for. But with just over