:00:11. > :00:19.holiday-maker is named as the cyclist killed on Jersey's roads
:00:19. > :00:29.yesterday. And why are some cancers more common in the Channel Islands
:00:29. > :00:32.
:00:32. > :00:35.than the UK. We haven't got a cancer rates for an unexplained reason. We
:00:35. > :00:43.know exactly why we have got them and people can do something about
:00:43. > :00:50.it. And find out why these grooves hold key to Jersey's Bronze age
:00:50. > :00:53.farming history. They have turned up on one or two of the other Channel
:00:53. > :00:59.Islands from the Bronze Age, but this is the first time they have
:00:59. > :01:08.turned up in Jersey stop we are rather excited. A cyclist killed in
:01:08. > :01:11.a crash in Jersey has been named. Neil Blood had been holidaying in
:01:11. > :01:16.the island from Stoke-on-Trent. The 42-year-old died after his bike
:01:16. > :01:20.collided with a van yesterday afternoon. This case and other
:01:20. > :01:24.recent crashes have led to calls for more research into accidents on the
:01:24. > :01:28.island. Pam Caulfield reports. Messages for a much loved father,
:01:28. > :01:31.brother and husband. Neil Blood was from Stoke-on-Trent and had been
:01:31. > :01:34.holidaying in the island. The 42-year-old had been cycling around
:01:34. > :01:44.the harbour in St Helier at lunchtime yesterday when he collided
:01:44. > :01:45.
:01:45. > :01:52.with a van. He died at the scene. Officers from our investigation unit
:01:52. > :01:56.and forensics officers, scenes of crime department attended with the
:01:56. > :02:01.assistance of our colleagues from the honorary police. The road was
:02:01. > :02:05.closed to allow a full, forensics investigation. They say the driver
:02:05. > :02:07.of the van is being treated as a significant witness. And their
:02:07. > :02:14.specially trained officers have been speaking to relatives who gathered
:02:14. > :02:19.at the scene earlier today. Family and friends have travelled here to
:02:19. > :02:24.leave flowers and cards for Neill at the place of this tragic accident,
:02:24. > :02:30.the marks of which can still be seen. And with two fatal and one
:02:30. > :02:39.serious accident involving cyclists in recent months, politicians are
:02:39. > :02:43.calling for more action. Our cities go to the victim 's family. We want
:02:43. > :02:49.understand more about the statistics about these two -- these sorts of
:02:49. > :02:58.incidents rush-hour sympathies will stop there has been unacceptable
:02:58. > :03:01.amount of accidents. Do something the police say they are taking
:03:01. > :03:11.seriously. The force plans to identify the most dangerous places
:03:11. > :03:14.
:03:14. > :03:19.where accidents have taken place stop indeed ourselves. -- it is
:03:19. > :03:24.evident, we need to do something quickly to try and reduce that
:03:24. > :03:29.number. And while more research could save lives in the future, it
:03:29. > :03:37.can't help this family trying to come to terms with the loss of a
:03:37. > :03:41.loved one. Concerns over the spiralling costs
:03:41. > :03:48.of Guernsey's finance industry regular to have prompted a full
:03:48. > :03:51.review of how it is funded. The GFSC came under fire in the States today,
:03:51. > :03:54.after news it spent around twenty percent more last year than 2011.
:03:54. > :03:58.The cost of offices, and an �800,000 increase in salaries, were two areas
:03:58. > :04:05.of concern. The industry is contracting but the GSE's cost are
:04:05. > :04:12.growing. Every other industry is looking at it its budget and trying
:04:12. > :04:18.to address the issues of much harder business environment. It doesn't
:04:18. > :04:26.seem to apply to the GFS E. Cancer rates in Jersey are higher
:04:26. > :04:30.than expected. A new report shows some forms of the disease are 6%
:04:30. > :04:33.higher than the South West of England. It also reveals there are
:04:33. > :04:36.28 more cases annually based on the size of the islands population. When
:04:37. > :04:40.compared with south west rates, cases of head, neck, skin and lung
:04:40. > :04:42.cancers are higher in Jersey. The figures are in a report commissioned
:04:42. > :04:51.for the island's Chief Medical Officer, Dr Susan Turnbull. She
:04:51. > :04:54.joined me earlier to explain what these figures can tell us. Tells us
:04:54. > :04:58.more about why we have such high cancer rates. We have known for a
:04:58. > :05:05.number of years that we have sudden -- significantly higher rates of
:05:05. > :05:08.lung cancer, head and neck cancers, knitted to smokers. What we have
:05:08. > :05:12.looked at is, are they reasonably explained by the risk factors we
:05:12. > :05:16.know about or is there something else going on? The resounding
:05:16. > :05:21.conclusion of the report is that with the risk factors we have got on
:05:21. > :05:24.the island, the extent of smoking and excessive drinking and extent of
:05:24. > :05:29.sunshine hours, we have got exactly the cancer rates we would expect.
:05:29. > :05:34.But the good news is that the ones we have got higher rates of are the
:05:34. > :05:37.printable ones. What kind of messages can health department be
:05:37. > :05:41.putting out about the thing? It is about reminding people that they can
:05:41. > :05:45.make personal decisions that stack their odds to freely in terms of
:05:45. > :05:50.developing cancer in the future. Some people listening to this and
:05:50. > :05:55.seeing the concrete evidence that smoking is behind it, 50 people
:05:55. > :05:59.every year on the island are being diagnosed with lung cancer. If there
:05:59. > :06:05.wasn't that level of smoking we had, that could be decimated. Somebody
:06:05. > :06:08.listening to this might think, actually it is time to get help.
:06:08. > :06:13.Looking at the skin cancer factor, today people might have spent all
:06:13. > :06:18.day on the beach, there is another problem. What is the message that?
:06:18. > :06:28.The big city behind skin cancer is avoid sunburn. Excessive sun
:06:28. > :06:32.
:06:32. > :06:38.exposure can cause sunburn and that is the thing to avoid.
:06:38. > :06:47.information is power? There absolutely. Macro will this help in
:06:47. > :06:50.terms of prevention? It hasn't -- we haven't got high cancer rates for
:06:50. > :06:53.some unexplained reason. We know exactly where we have got them.
:06:53. > :06:59.People can do something about it they want altered their odds and we
:06:59. > :07:03.can continue to do all sorts of different things at government level
:07:03. > :07:11.to get a workplace smoking ban, smoke-free hospitals and other ways
:07:11. > :07:14.of pushing the boundaries further on smoke-free places.
:07:14. > :07:18.The woman at the centre of abuse allegations against a Jersey church
:07:18. > :07:21.warden says she's homeless in the UK, and sometimes has to scavenge in
:07:22. > :07:26.bins to find food. In an exclusive interview with the BBC, The woman,
:07:26. > :07:29.known as HG, claimed the Dean - the Very Reverend Bob Key - didn't act
:07:29. > :07:32.quickly enough after she claimed a church warden had abused her. The
:07:32. > :07:34.Dean had his commission withdrawn earlier this year, but was
:07:34. > :07:39.reinstated afterwards. HG says she doesn't want one of two
:07:39. > :07:45.investigations into what happened to go ahead. The diocese of Winchester
:07:45. > :07:48.says that investigation will go ahead. The family of Guernsey woman
:07:48. > :07:51.Gillian Sarahs, who was reported missing six months ago, say they
:07:51. > :07:54.haven't given up searching for her .The 54-year-old hasn't been seen
:07:54. > :07:57.since the beginning of February. Guernsey Police are continuing to
:07:57. > :08:07.investigate, but say no clues have been found to explain what happened
:08:07. > :08:10.
:08:10. > :08:16.to Gillian. The company in charge of Jesse's bus service says talks today
:08:16. > :08:19.having positive. Many bus workers said they would go on strike in
:08:19. > :08:22.protest against shift patterns. The BBC understands that Tuesday the
:08:22. > :08:25.20th of August has been set for a strike date.
:08:25. > :08:29.You're watching the BBC in the Channel Islands. Later in Spotlight
:08:29. > :08:35.with Justin and Natalie: Soaring over the urban jungle - the unusual
:08:35. > :08:37.species living right under our noses.
:08:37. > :08:41.Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of farming dating back
:08:41. > :08:45.thousands of years in a Jersey graveyard. Plough marks and
:08:45. > :08:50.decorated bits of pottery have been discovered in a dig in St Clement,
:08:50. > :08:55.which date back to the bronze age. And as Emma Chambers now reports it
:08:55. > :08:58.was a discovery they weren't expecting to make. They may not look
:08:58. > :09:02.much but these markings have got archeologists excited in Jersey.
:09:02. > :09:08.They are plough marks uncovered in a dig next to St Clements cemetery
:09:08. > :09:12.dating back to the bronze age. It probably is something relatively
:09:12. > :09:15.common and in certain areas where you've got a build up of soil later
:09:15. > :09:19.on which has preserved them - um, one might expect quite a lot of
:09:19. > :09:23.evidence of that sort of thing, but the thing is that in Jersey they
:09:23. > :09:26.have not previously been found. They've turned up on one or two of
:09:26. > :09:30.the Channel Islands from the neolithic and the bronze age, but
:09:30. > :09:33.this is the first time they've turned up in Jersey and we're really
:09:33. > :09:37.excited. Robert and his team had expected to
:09:37. > :09:41.find remains from the Roman Period at the start of this dig so this
:09:41. > :09:51.discovery as come as a surprise. Along with the plough marks they've
:09:51. > :09:56.uncovered some detailed pottery too. We have got a piece of Bronze Age
:09:56. > :10:00.pottery here. It was decorated by applying a blob of clay squashed in
:10:00. > :10:08.with the fingers like so. There was a little pit in the middle which
:10:08. > :10:13.display in St Clements church alongside the remains found from
:10:13. > :10:17.last year. The site is also open to the public on Saturday 10th August.
:10:17. > :10:20.It's official - today was the hottest day of the year so far in
:10:20. > :10:26.Jersey. Jersey Met say the mercury hit 30.6 degrees Celsius at
:10:26. > :10:30.lunchtime, and it was still rising. As you can see people on the beach
:10:30. > :10:40.today were certainly making the most of it. But is it set to last? Here's
:10:40. > :10:42.
:10:42. > :10:50.today across the Channel Islands stopped Jersey, the hottest day of
:10:50. > :10:53.the year so far with temperatures just over 30 degrees. Just for one
:10:53. > :10:57.day only because there is quite a big change tomorrow. A lot more
:10:57. > :11:02.cloud coming our way overnight and a fresher feel to the air I tomorrow
:11:02. > :11:06.afternoon. The good the misty as well. Later we will see some mist
:11:06. > :11:16.and low cloud appearing. Tomorrow, it becomes writer but certainly a
:11:16. > :11:17.
:11:17. > :11:21.lot cooler as we move into the afternoon. That it becomes cooler.
:11:21. > :11:27.Fresher air coming in and quite a nice start to the weekend, apart
:11:27. > :11:30.from a few showers dotted around. For all of us, it was feel cooler. A
:11:30. > :11:36.bit misty overnight tonight. Some human itty remaining high until that
:11:36. > :11:43.front comes in. Overnight temperatures no lower than 16
:11:43. > :11:52.degrees. The rain patchy in nature and gradually petering out by early
:11:52. > :11:57.afternoon. As the front clears out of the way, lower humidity air. 19
:11:57. > :12:07.to 22 degrees will be the maximum temperature. The winds will be
:12:07. > :12:16.
:12:16. > :12:22.feet and mostly clean for our beaches. The outlook is staying
:12:22. > :12:27.fresh air into the weekend. A bright, fine day on Saturday. Sunday
:12:28. > :12:31.is a bit warmer. Late Sunday, the possibility of some overnight rain