:00:14. > :00:23.prescription for addiction—Jersey's hidden drugs epidemic. The awareness
:00:23. > :00:30.is getting out there. You see them on programmes and television all the
:00:30. > :00:35.time. People concerned themselves. Hundreds of parents demand action to
:00:35. > :00:40.raise secondary school standards. And why fewer women will be tested
:00:40. > :01:00.less often the cervical cancer as health bosses target at risk groups.
:01:00. > :01:06.abuse. That is the view of bosses at Silkworth Lodge. They say they are
:01:06. > :01:12.seeing more and more people addicted to painkillers and tranquillisers,
:01:12. > :01:15.Islanders can be registered to more than one doctor at the moment and
:01:15. > :01:26.there is no restriction on the authorities have announced plans to
:01:26. > :01:31.change that. It has been branded for Armageddon —— it has been branded
:01:32. > :01:39.problem in the UK and America and it has been an issue for many years in
:01:39. > :01:46.Jersey. Our customs and police are very good at keeping street drugs
:01:46. > :01:51.out of the island like heroin and cocaine. It has created a market in
:01:51. > :01:57.substitutes and prescribed drugs like strong painkillers. Unlike
:01:57. > :02:13.England, patients in Jersey can potential for so—called doctor
:02:13. > :02:17.prescriber. To combat the problem, doctors prescribing patterns are
:02:17. > :02:24.procedure that was scrutinised at the deaths of people using this
:02:24. > :02:30.strong painkiller. Doctors say difficult problem to tackle. We
:02:30. > :02:33.strong painkiller. Doctors say certain protocols that we are to and
:02:33. > :02:38.we will not give drugs that are addictive for a great length of
:02:38. > :02:41.time. The other problem from our perspective is deceit. People will
:02:41. > :02:42.come in and say things and will either not need the drug or will
:02:42. > :02:48.have the drug but not the level either not need the drug or will
:02:48. > :02:54.say they need it. Health bosses falling. They hope the introduction
:02:54. > :03:01.of new database where separate GP practice records will be linked
:03:01. > :03:05.together on a central server to deter doctor shopping will stop
:03:05. > :03:08.together on a central server to trend. Jesse says there are checks
:03:08. > :03:17.in place to make sure it is harder for prescription drugs to be abused
:03:17. > :03:23.Jason Wyse is from the rehab centre. He says abuse could be close to
:03:23. > :03:27.epidemic levels. It depends on how much information we have at this
:03:27. > :03:36.current time. There is an epidemic in the USA, there is a potential
:03:36. > :03:40.epidemic in the UK. Jersey is no different. We have to be aware of
:03:40. > :03:45.these things to avoid an epidemic. As long as we are doing something
:03:45. > :03:49.about prescription drugs now and are aware of prescribing and being aware
:03:49. > :03:54.of why people are on them, we are condition. Do you welcome this move
:03:54. > :03:59.to track who is trying to get these drugs from where? 100%. It is a
:03:59. > :04:04.fantastic move and something we drugs from where? 100%. It is a
:04:04. > :04:10.to be doing. It is working towards avoiding potential and serious
:04:10. > :04:16.issues. Have you noticed an increase in the book to use your services?
:04:16. > :04:24.Yes. We have a mixture of people with alcohol and drug problems.
:04:24. > :04:30.knowledge that we have from people is they have struggled. Importantly,
:04:30. > :04:37.awareness of being addicted to prescription drugs is getting out
:04:37. > :04:46.there. You see it on soap programmes and people are concerned themselves.
:04:46. > :04:50.A man is in hospital in Guernsey after a road crash in Saint Peter
:04:50. > :04:59.Port. Police say the motorcyclist collided with a core on Queens Road
:04:59. > :05:02.at 5:15pm. —— collided with a car. The trial of the Condor Ferries
:05:02. > :05:09.captain and his first mate resumes tomorrow. Paul Le Romancer and Yves
:05:09. > :05:17.Tournon were arrested when there are very collided with a fishing boat.
:05:17. > :05:24.We will have the latest from that programme tomorrow at 6:30pm. Parent
:05:24. > :05:31.Guernsey's Education Department programme tomorrow at 6:30pm. Parent
:05:31. > :05:34.people have joined a group calling first things to change. It follows a
:05:34. > :05:43.fall in Guernsey's GCSE results first things to change. It follows a
:05:43. > :05:45.Walking home after a day at school but some parents in Guernsey have
:05:45. > :05:50.serious concerns over what kind but some parents in Guernsey have
:05:50. > :05:53.receiving. So much though —— so but some parents in Guernsey have
:05:53. > :05:55.so that one has started a group but some parents in Guernsey have
:05:55. > :06:02.social network website demanding that the dip apartment is more about
:06:02. > :06:10.falling results. The benchmark is 40% of children are pre——— achieving
:06:10. > :06:13.five GCSE's at grade C and above. We are nowhere near that. A failing
:06:13. > :06:18.school is a failing school and two of hours of failing. Guernsey's
:06:18. > :06:23.results have seen a fall compared to last year. This has prompted an
:06:23. > :06:28.investigation by the Education Department. It insists it is not
:06:28. > :06:32.making excuses for underperformance. The Education Minister says his
:06:33. > :06:39.concerns but also says it is not just the teachers who have a role to
:06:39. > :06:42.play when educating children. It is a triangle, a partnership between
:06:42. > :06:49.the school from the student and parent. It is great that parents
:06:49. > :06:54.care. There are children who have parents who seem to think you put
:06:54. > :06:58.your child into a school and they will get educated and walk away
:06:58. > :06:59.your child into a school and they that responsibility. The overall
:06:59. > :07:05.bailiwick figure was the second that responsibility. The overall
:07:05. > :07:09.since 2007. As these parents stand up to the status quo, the Education
:07:09. > :07:16.Department will continue to be under Starter pistols have been banned
:07:16. > :07:21.from Jersey schools after a pupil Education Minister told the States
:07:21. > :07:28.continuing. A teacher was fined Education Minister told the States
:07:28. > :07:36.Jersey's magistrates Court and deputy, Patrick Ryan, is saying
:07:36. > :07:39.there would be no risk to islanders. We are looking at whether they are
:07:39. > :07:45.necessary in schools and we have concluded that they are not. There
:07:45. > :07:48.is no need for them to be in schools with the associated health and
:07:48. > :07:54.safety risks. We have decided to withdraw them. Women and the age of
:07:54. > :07:59.25 will no longer be tested for cervical cancer under changes to
:07:59. > :08:03.Jersey's screening programme. At the moment, women can be screened from
:08:03. > :08:04.the age of 20 that people say it is rare for women to get cervical
:08:04. > :08:12.cancer. Earlier on I was joined rare for women to get cervical
:08:13. > :08:17.the studio by Doctor Fiona Nelson, a consultant at Jersey's General
:08:17. > :08:21.Hospital and she denied the move was about cost—cutting. It is definitely
:08:21. > :08:25.not a cost—cutting measure. We following best practice and we know
:08:25. > :08:26.it is better for women to start screaming when they are a bit older
:08:26. > :08:37.at the age of 25. That way they screaming when they are a bit older
:08:37. > :08:42.increasing the gap between tests for older ladies as well? Wants the
:08:42. > :08:47.women reach the age of 50, we will scale down the screening and test
:08:47. > :08:55.every five years rather than three between 25 and 50, they will still
:08:55. > :09:05.have screens carried out every three pleasant process. They might worry
:09:05. > :09:08.that they will not have access to the process. If women have any
:09:08. > :09:15.symptoms of irregular bleeding intercourse, unusual discharge,
:09:15. > :09:18.symptoms of irregular bleeding must get screened. They must go
:09:18. > :09:20.symptoms of irregular bleeding their GP to get checked over. If
:09:20. > :09:27.there is any problems, they will be referred to the gynaecology clinic.
:09:27. > :09:31.We are also doing HBV testing and it is a good thing that we will be
:09:31. > :09:35.picking up women that need to be treated. We will be screaming women
:09:35. > :09:46.for this condition in addition to doing so vital smear tests. —— these
:09:46. > :10:01.We have a fine start and it will generally be clouding over. We still
:10:01. > :10:06.have this ridge of high pressure and we are between weather systems at
:10:07. > :10:14.systems will get closer together over the next 24 hours. They will
:10:14. > :10:21.move southwards. By Thursday, we have rather more cloud. Until then,
:10:21. > :10:24.it is largely dry. There is a small chance of some early showers but
:10:24. > :10:29.they will disappear and later in the night, enough clear skies to let the
:10:29. > :10:32.temperatures get fairly low. The wind will be strong first but slowly
:10:32. > :10:37.easing. Tomorrow is a fine day. wind will be strong first but slowly
:10:37. > :10:47.will have patchy cloud around. It will thicken up with temperatures
:10:47. > :11:17.The forecast for Thursday and Friday is a lot of cloud. The cloud is
:11:17. > :11:25.thick enough to produce light and patchy rain on both days. The day
:11:25. > :11:32.persistent and whites red rain will Temperatures are up to 19 Celsius.
:11:32. > :11:36.Saturday into Sunday, we have a Temperatures are up to 19 Celsius.
:11:36. > :11:39.area of low pressure. Sunday could be quite windy with outbreaks of
:11:39. > :11:52.Congratulations to Jersey shoot Gareth Callen. He has become world
:11:52. > :11:54.champion shooter over 500 metres using a muzzle loaded gun like this
:11:54. > :11:57.one. He is currently captaining using a muzzle loaded gun like this
:11:57. > :12:13.GB at the competition in South Africa. That is it from me. Goodbye.
:12:13. > :12:14.the city on Saturday. Her condition has been described as critical but
:12:14. > :12:19.stable. Plans to turn a section of the A30
:12:19. > :12:24.near Bodmin into a dual carriageway have passed their latest planning
:12:24. > :12:28.hurdle. The Government has agreed to pay for half the cost of the £60
:12:29. > :12:33.million pound scheme, but Cornwall Council would still need to find
:12:33. > :12:34.funding for the rest. You are watching spotlight. Thanks
:12:34. > :12:39.for beginning your evening with us. Still to come: And insight into the
:12:39. > :12:42.desperate plight of refugees on the ground from a charity worker from
:12:42. > :12:46.Cornwall who was just returned from Syria and is appealing for help.
:12:46. > :12:47.We will have the latest weather forecast. If Dr Dolittle was looking
:12:47. > :12:52.for a drinking companion, then Star the duck might be just the animal to
:12:52. > :12:56.share a pint with — he's already causing quite a stir at his local.
:12:56. > :13:00.Just this summer, children in the South West were out campaigning for
:13:00. > :13:04.motorists to slow down to 20 miles an hour near their schools but their
:13:04. > :13:08.efforts may have been in vain. Today the police in Devon and Cornwall
:13:08. > :13:12.told BBC Spotlight they can't routinely check for speeding drivers
:13:12. > :13:15.even in areas where the limit's already 20. Now a number of
:13:15. > :13:16.councillors in Exeter say more needs to be done. Hamish Marshall reports.
:13:16. > :13:22.It doesn't take long to see how often the 20 miles per hour speed
:13:22. > :13:26.limit is ignored here. Yet organised surveys as well as random ones like
:13:26. > :13:34.ours show the limit in residential areas has support from drivers and
:13:34. > :13:40.non drivers. In a built—up area, I can't see the point of driving more
:13:40. > :13:44.than 20 miles an hour. You're not gay to get anywhere any faster. The
:13:44. > :13:48.police could do more, but that has to be funded by somebody.
:13:48. > :13:51.So what difference does the ten miles per hour make? To stop while
:13:52. > :13:55.at 20 miles per hour needs 12 metres — a combination of 6m each of
:13:55. > :13:59.thinking and braking time. If the speed rises to 30 miles per hour,
:13:59. > :14:02.the distance is 23 metres — with both thinking and braking time
:14:02. > :14:09.rising. When 20 zones were introduced in Portsmouth — casualty
:14:09. > :14:17.numbers dropped by 22%. But Devon and Cornwall Police doesn't
:14:17. > :14:21.routinely enforce 20 limits. It says it has to prioritise and targets
:14:21. > :14:26.areas with known problems and where there have been accidents in the
:14:26. > :14:30.past. The few resources we have, we dedicate to those areas. If we have
:14:30. > :14:36.complaints in 20 miles bra limit areas, we will undertake high
:14:36. > :14:46.visibility trolls —— 20 mph limit areas. The local council would like
:14:46. > :14:51.to see more police action, but first he wants Devon County Council to
:14:51. > :14:58.ensure the zones are signed properly so that action can be taken. It is a
:14:58. > :15:04.very small zone, and there are five areas that are not compliant, where
:15:04. > :15:08.the traffic calming measures or the required signs are more than 100
:15:08. > :15:13.metres apart. So every time I'm in this zone, you could get off on a
:15:13. > :15:19.technicality if the police stopped you. The County Council says it is
:15:19. > :15:29.aware of the concern over the zones, and is reviewing them.
:15:29. > :15:34.Within the last week, one council member has been talking about
:15:34. > :15:37.devastating cuts to come. As one budget squeeze follows another, the
:15:37. > :15:58.impact on people's lives will become more apparent. As council cuts in
:15:58. > :16:03.the region start to dig deep, one area of the South West could lose
:16:03. > :16:07.almost half its public toilets and its council run CCTV coverage. With
:16:07. > :16:10.39 sites, Teignbridge Council has the second highest number of public
:16:10. > :16:14.loos in Devon. Cuts to the budget are forcing the council to consider
:16:14. > :16:18.closing 17 of them, many in rural areas. Our South Devon reporter John
:16:18. > :16:21.Ayres has more. Teignmouth is a busy seaside town attracting thousands of
:16:21. > :16:25.visitors each year. It has a number of public loos, but the council
:16:25. > :16:30.feels it can't keep all of them. This one, near The Triangle in the
:16:30. > :16:34.town, is earmarked to be sold off or closed. The Central Fish Cafe is
:16:34. > :16:40.just around the corner and already has its fair share of people asking
:16:40. > :16:42.to use their toilet. I think people will just use the bushes in the
:16:42. > :16:50.future, as they do already when the toilets are shut. It is a tough
:16:50. > :16:51.economic climate, but they have posh offices. Children will need to go.
:16:51. > :16:52.There are not many restaurants where you can go and ask, and they are
:16:52. > :17:03.quite strict. And it is rude, it is like going into someone's house and
:17:03. > :17:04.asking to use the toilet. This cafe already has its fair share of people
:17:04. > :17:05.asking to use the toilet. They cafe pays its busiesses rates, so it
:17:05. > :17:15.feels it's not its job to provide toilets for the public. The current
:17:15. > :17:16.Teignbridge admistration promised the electorate they would freeze
:17:16. > :17:17.council tax. But the money recieved from Government is reducing rapidly,
:17:17. > :17:17.forcing them to make cuts. Closing public toilets is an emotive
:17:17. > :17:25.subject. They are having to make tough decisions, and it would appear
:17:25. > :17:26.that if the service being provided is not a statutory requirement, it
:17:26. > :17:27.is not sacred. If your budget falls by 10% every year, something has got
:17:27. > :17:34.to happen to make you make ends meet. You are not getting any more
:17:35. > :17:35.money because you are freezing council tax, and yet your budget is
:17:35. > :17:36.falling. The decision on the future of the
:17:36. > :17:37.toilets, and CCTV provision in Teignbridge will be made in a week's
:17:37. > :17:40.time. Many of us will have been moved by
:17:40. > :17:58.the pictures of the humanitarian crisis on the borders of Syria. The
:17:58. > :18:05.Cornish —based charity Shelter no —— Shelter box is trying to help. How
:18:05. > :18:14.big is the scale of the problem? I have just returned with a team from
:18:14. > :18:24.Iraqi Kurdistan. Over the last two years, huge amount of displacement,
:18:24. > :18:31.both within is area and externally. We work spurred to go back of weeks
:18:31. > :18:43.ago because an additional 45,000 poured across the border. There was
:18:43. > :18:48.a huge new influx in the Midsummer sun tried to find shelter, and we
:18:48. > :18:55.wanted to help those people. And some of those families have terrible
:18:56. > :19:01.stories to tell, don't they? Yes, young children, mothers, all sorts
:19:01. > :19:06.of stories involved, and what hit home to myself and the team is that
:19:06. > :19:12.you don't need to find a story, we would walk into one camp which had
:19:12. > :19:18.just been set up, originally for 10,000 people, but already looking
:19:18. > :19:22.at 20,000, and the UN were working there, and use big to people in
:19:22. > :19:27.different tents, and there was a lot of hospitality involved, which is
:19:27. > :19:32.amazing given what people have been through. There are schools where
:19:32. > :19:38.people are waiting to move into the camps. There was a young mother who
:19:38. > :19:42.rushed up and grabbed us and wanted to tell us is a link to the outside
:19:42. > :19:46.world what had happened to her family, and it was the chemical
:19:46. > :19:50.attacks in Damascus about four kilometres from where they lived.
:19:51. > :19:55.She was incredibly emotional, telling us that her children
:19:55. > :20:00.shouldn't have to see this. School has been disrupted, they have had to
:20:00. > :20:05.leave quickly, they couldn't afford to travel and had to borrow money,
:20:05. > :20:10.the buses were being bombed. She said they had seen mass graves being
:20:10. > :20:14.dug, and the things they had witnessed were horrific. And they
:20:14. > :20:19.have had to leave everything they own, and perhaps sometimes family
:20:19. > :20:25.members? Family members, friends, colleagues. People have very normal
:20:25. > :20:29.lives, and you really can't imagine, thinking back to here in
:20:29. > :20:35.the UK, back in Cornwall, Devon, imagine everyone from your town
:20:35. > :20:41.being uprooted and displaced hundreds or thousands of miles away.
:20:41. > :20:48.Some people were lucky and had their families. There was one man who had
:20:48. > :20:53.completely lost his two sons on the journey, and he still hadn't found
:20:53. > :20:59.them. He was talking about people who had died along the journey, and
:20:59. > :21:03.he had been there some days and hadn't found his sons. I to Mac and
:21:03. > :21:06.they find real comfort in the practical aid organisations like
:21:06. > :21:11.yourself were able to them? Definitely, and it is speed of
:21:11. > :21:18.response. In the context of a protracted disaster, , viewers have
:21:18. > :21:26.Dibley seen us following an earthquake or so one, we respond
:21:26. > :21:31.quickly and effectively. We have been working for 18 months on the
:21:31. > :21:36.crisis, and the emergency phase is still very much there. People still
:21:36. > :21:41.need that very quick response, and we have helped over 4500 families
:21:41. > :21:47.already by providing emergency items such as tents, blankets, and now
:21:47. > :21:52.with winter coming, we need to provide more to see families
:21:52. > :21:58.through. And that is what this £2 million will go towards funding.
:21:58. > :22:01.Thank you very much for joining us this evening.
:22:01. > :22:06.The work of one Cornish charity. A grade one listed church in Devon has
:22:06. > :22:10.had special solar slates fitted to its roof in order to generate
:22:10. > :22:13.renewable energy. It had an application for ordinary solar
:22:13. > :22:19.panels turned down because they looked to modern, but the vicar said
:22:19. > :22:21.the new slate enabled the look of the 19th—century building to be
:22:21. > :22:28.preserved. And the sun shone on Dartmoor today for the famous
:22:28. > :22:33.Widdicombe fair. The Dartmoor village is packed with thousands of
:22:33. > :22:37.visitors later for the popular country show. The event, which is
:22:37. > :22:41.always held on the second Tuesday of September, is believed to date all
:22:41. > :22:44.the way back to the early 19th century. Organisers said they
:22:44. > :22:47.expected it to be a bumper year for visitors.
:22:47. > :22:50.It has been reported in the past that pets can behave like their
:22:50. > :22:55.owners. A duck has followed his master's lead and started sipping
:22:55. > :22:56.beer, and if you thought that was a story only told in the pub, judge
:22:56. > :23:06.for yourself. A duck walks into a bar and orders a
:23:06. > :23:14.pint. Obviously. Starr is a regular at this hostelry in Cholmondeley.
:23:14. > :23:25.His owner discovered his liking for beer by accident. —— Chumleigh. Next
:23:25. > :23:29.thing I knew, I heard a lot of slurping, and he was helping
:23:29. > :23:36.himself. The RSPCA doesn't recommend giving a duck beer, but says it is
:23:36. > :23:40.unlikely to pursue the owner if the duck is happy. The landlord says he
:23:40. > :23:45.certainly seems content. He is just like a pet dog. He just wanders
:23:45. > :23:52.around the place. He is quite content in my company, because I
:23:52. > :23:57.serve his beer, I suppose! The duck and his owner go busking and collect
:23:57. > :24:00.money for children's hospices. They have a book coming out soon,
:24:01. > :24:09.although strangely, the dog doesn't tweet. And as far as we know, he
:24:09. > :24:14.hasn't yet tried skateboarding. And now I have met the duck who drinks
:24:14. > :24:16.in the pub, my reporting career is complete! You can put it on his
:24:16. > :24:28.bill. He doesn't tweet. I love it! From
:24:28. > :24:35.one duck to nice weather for ducks, because the rain is on the way.
:24:35. > :24:40.That is the new name for a social media site, quack quack.
:24:40. > :24:49.It has been quite a nice day, and tomorrow has a reasonable start, but
:24:49. > :24:54.as Rebecca mentioned, it will cloud over, and by the end of the day,
:24:54. > :25:00.most of us will have had some rain. There are couple of weather systems
:25:00. > :25:03.out to the west of us, thicker cloud across the eastern side of England.
:25:03. > :25:10.We have a ridge of high pressure for overnight tonight. Whilst there is a
:25:10. > :25:14.lot of cloud now, later tonight, it will turn quite chilly. The weather
:25:14. > :25:20.systems will be around again as we move into Thursday. Various that
:25:20. > :25:25.satellite picture, and a little more in the way of detail. In the last
:25:25. > :25:29.few hours, a little more cloud has developed. This was the scene
:25:29. > :25:38.earlier today in Plymouth, fine weather but chilly in a keen breeze.
:25:38. > :25:43.But some good visibility, blue skies and sunshine for most of us. With
:25:43. > :25:48.this amount of clear sky overnight tonight, it will turn quite cold.
:25:48. > :25:54.Still quite a lot of cloud around for the more western parts of
:25:54. > :25:59.Cornwall. Further east, East Devon and into Somerset and Dorset, with a
:25:59. > :26:04.lot of clear sky, it is going to turn quite chilly. We could get as
:26:04. > :26:11.low as five or six overnight tonight. Further west, in contrast
:26:12. > :26:17.to that, a fair amount of cloud, 13 or 14 for almost all. Tomorrow, a
:26:17. > :26:21.good start with some sunshine, patchy cloud, and then the cloud
:26:21. > :26:26.generally thickens throughout the day. Come the end of the afternoon,
:26:26. > :26:30.it turns out to be quite wet. Not quite as windy as today, and
:26:30. > :26:34.temperatures similar sort of figures. The forecast for the Isles
:26:35. > :26:37.of Scilly, briefly some brightness in the morning, but it doesn't last.
:26:37. > :27:09.Times of high water: Let's look at the forecast as we
:27:09. > :27:15.head towards the weekend. Not a great deal of brightness, it has to
:27:15. > :27:21.be said. Perhaps briefly some brighter spells before we return for
:27:21. > :27:26.some patchy rain in the evening. Similar conditions on Saturday, and
:27:26. > :27:31.Sunday into Monday, it becomes quite windy again and also turns quite a
:27:31. > :27:35.bit cooler. There is certainly ought the forecast. —— and or Tom nor
:27:36. > :27:44.forecast. We are off to take our pets out for
:27:44. > :27:44.a drink! Have a lovely evening. Goodbye.