11/10/2013 BBC Channel Islands News

Good evening. Customs are seizing travellers breaking the rules on

duty free limits in Guernsey. The £3 million vision for the future, I

plan to take children into a world Those winds dropping tomorrow. There

should be sunny spells. Customs seize cigarettes from travellers

were confiscated and destroyed at the island's borders last year — and

that number's expected to increase. But some believe that's only the tip

of the iceberg and many more are being brought in undetected. In

of the iceberg and many more are A habit that's getting more and

of the iceberg and many more are expensive. The cost of smoking is

rising after Jersey and Guernsey's governments announced their budgets

this week. And to avoid paying extra tax — it seems more people are

Last year 25,000 cigarettes were seized at Guernsey's borders — but

they can't check everyone. We don't have the resources to be everywhere

and speak to all travellers, so have the resources to be everywhere

like to think we will try and put our resources in the right places

for the maximum effect. We do work with the carriers to try and make

allowances. Each person is allowed cigarettes. If you are caught with

more than your allowance, you could be forced to pay the duty, you'd

could find the seized or if the quantity is large enough, you could

seems some offers are too good to resist. This photo shows multi—packs

Southampton Airport duty free. It was taken by Guernsey's Director of

travelling here to break the rules. Some of the standards have clearly

slipped, because I recall people were trying to market quantities

greatly exceeding Customs limits. The second issue is this is exposing

not only adults but children to those representing the tobacco

industry say shops and airlines selling duty free should be made

more responsible for the amount sold. The onus is not on the shop,

the responsibility is to the person buying them. That could be looked at

from a legal point of view, but buying them. That could be looked at

is part of Europe —wide market, buying them. That could be looked at

anything the Channel Islands did would have to match what they do

across Europe. In the meantime customs want to make sure people

know the rules on duty free — and the consequences if they break them.

A major search has been launched after a man was reported missing in

Richard Henderson, who's in his after a man was reported missing in

30s, was last seen near Jerbourg Tottenham Hotspurs T—shirt and a

matching padded jacket. Guernsey Police, the inshore lifeboat and air

search crews are all involved in the A father and son from Jersey who

attempted to smuggle nearly £3 million worth of cannabis into the

island have been sent to prison million worth of cannabis into the

a total of 15 years. Today in the Royal Court, 32—year—old Liam Thomas

Norris and his father, 51—year—old Richard Christopher Norris, pleaded

guilty to conspiring to import the drug. Liam Norris was sent to prison

for eight years and his father for seven years and three months. Rules

governing which airlines can fly to Guernsey could be changed to ensure

new applications don't jeopardise intended to review its policy after

the States—owned airline Aurigny bought an additional aircraft to

minister says it's not a direct application to fly to the island.

We said in July that the risk of competition on the route was the

single most important risk and therefore we did need to look at the

doing. We are with what we said therefore we did need to look at the

Piles of toxic ash generated by Jersey's incinerator should start to

be exported by early next year. Jersey's incinerator should start to

island's government is tendering for companies off island to treat and

recycle the ash, but local firms can bid to transport 15,000 tonnes of it

It's been a long time coming. The minister for transport and technical

services has been waiting two years — some campaigners have wanted rid

of toxic ash for more than ten. Today — a tender finally went out to

get the job done. Here it is — it's the air pollution control residue,

it was part of my election pledge that I would get rid of this ash on

a permanent basis and that's exactly what we're doing, so we've got

a permanent basis and that's exactly tonnes of APC residue to be shipped

remediation. The tender to remove collected before it comes out the

chimney — has already started. Today the tender to dispose of the less

toxic residue from the bottom of the incinerator — incinerator bottom

ash, was advertised by TTS. The capability to dispose of it Jersey —

but there are opportunities for local firms elsewhere. The key thing

businesses in the haulage side because we believe that it starts in

Jersey and there's no reason why local firms cant be involved in

that, they may have to subcontract, but there is definitely a great

opportunity for local companies but there is definitely a great

campaign group Save Our Shoreline welcomed today's news — but insisted

there is still more to be done. We've been campaigning for this

there is still more to be done. quite a long time now, I would say

ten out of the 20 years, but we would like to see the asbestos go

material that will come in from would like to see the asbestos go

new financial quarter development if approved will take up a massive

amount of space, and that too should go off island as well. The minister

won't be drawn on how much this go off island as well. The minister

insisted there is a budget allocated to finally get rid of Jersey's ash

A man hurt after falling more than 20 feet down a bank while working on

the roadside at Mont Felard in Jersey is still in hospital. The

51—year—old, injured on Wednesday, is in a stable condition. The Health

investigating after the accident. In We'll tell you about a very

special work of art to celebrate a £3 million will be spent on what

been labelled A new vision for IT education in Jersey. The plan is to

spreadsheets and documents, and education in Jersey. The plan is to

Showing off high—tech computing skills. These Jersey pupils have

computers at school. And they're in the minority. But not for long.

computers at school. And they're in the next three years this type of

hands—on computer lesson will be coming to all island schools. It's

strategy to change in the way IT is taught. It's generating that level

of excitement that has been missing for some time, and waking people up

computing or coding has. So schools now have the opportunity to turn

collaboration with business and now have the opportunity to turn

collaboratively and change people's lives. So teaching will move from

away from just how to use computers, programme them. The Raspberry Pi

foundation specialises in getting children to learn to programme and

code. Bosses say the strategy will make Jersey a global leader in IT

education. It's certainly unique. I've not seen anything like it in

terms of teacher training, and openness to allow each school to do

what suits them and their pupils, the UK has obviously changed the

curriculum, but it certainly has nothing in place like this strategy

and this vision, so I think it's leading the world in terms of this

vision for teaching IT. That's music multi—million pound investment will

turn these youngsters in to the multi—million pound investment will

Football and Guernsey travel to Jersey tomorrow for the first round

of the FA Inter League Cup. It's a saw them go on to represent England

in the UEFA Regions Cup. Jersey saw them go on to represent England

the same last season and are the reigning champions. There'll be

the same last season and are the coverage on that match on BBC Radio

We have this area of low pressure, that the lump of cloud you can see

gradually westwards overnight. The tail end of that weather system

gradually westwards overnight. The across us and then slowly moving

away from us during the course of the day. Even though we have the

risk of outbreaks of rain on Sunday, they are mostly in the form of

showers. Winds are north—easterly After a brief morning showers, it

should brighten up. The second half of the day promises dry weather

should brighten up. The second half sunny spells, with lighter winds, so

The outlook for Sunday is generally quite cloudy. We might see some

showers, possible on Monday. Tuesday mainly dry, but also rather cloudy.

I'm back with the headlines at A fully restored Victorian railway

carriage which was once used by royalty has been unveiled in

Cornwall today. The Great Western Railway Special Saloon, which was

built in 1881, was rescued from the scrap yard and, thanks to a

dedicated team, the luxurious carriage has been brought back to

life. John Danks was in Bodmin for its arrival.

A piece of railway history rolling into Bodmin's heritage station. This

carriage, built in Swindon more than 100 years ago, is packed with

Victorian splendour. It's beautiful furnishings befitting a certain type

of the Intel. It was the equivalent of a corporate jet, for VIPs. The

great rest and records say, used by King Edward seventh when the Prince

of Wales, laid —— later by Madame Patti, who was a very famous opera

singer. And we believe she may have known the Prince of Wales better

than she should have! I think they had to pay for 24 ticket, the

equivalent of that, to use it. I am not sure you would have got 24

people inside in that rate comfort. The rolling stock was used as an

inspector 's saloon up until the 1960s before being left on the

sidings to rot. It has taken five years of work by a team of cross

work and engineers to restore it to its grandeur. Today they joined

people for an inaugural ride. It is a really good bit of news that this

line has been kept open to Bodmin, maybe one day we would get regular

trains back here. In the meantime, we have this fantastic carriage

which is a good facility to show off Cornwall and what we can do.

Complete with working kitchen including this original of, the

carriage is thought to be the oldest of its kind still in use. I am

happier when I see this and any other railway project I have been

associated with, it is truly wonderful. It is 1881, old,

Victorian magnificence. 45 foot long of Victorian furniture. The carriage

will be taking paying passengers this weekend.

They knew how to travel in style back then!

A very different sound will be ringing around Exeter Cathedral this

weekend. A Devon composer is putting on a concert with a slight twist.

There's a choir, but to accompany them there's a jazz big band!

Spotlight's Heidi Davey has been a long to see how the two go together.

Rehearsal time at Exeter Cathedral and it is the moment everyone has

been waiting for. Months of hard work, but will be jazz mass work

with a big band? I have always had a great love of jazz and big band

music. To try and combine all of those things in a single piece has

been a challenge for me. Hopefully it will come off. And he didn't mess

about. He brought in a big band that has been together for over 30 years.

But had they ever played his sort of music with eight 100 strong choir?

It is slightly unusual to play this kind of music with a jazz band,

certainly with a big band. We thought it was a great thing for the

band to do, we really wanted the challenge of doing this. Certainly

at the cathedral it is great. The challenge was also on for the two

Mac requires. So what did they make of them performing at a very

different place? —— a different pace? When you hear those jazz

musicians, particularly the saxophone, you can't help but smile.

It makes you want to move. Some of us came with headaches tonight

feeling tired, you start singing and it is fantastic. It is the best

drug. It is such a privilege to perform this superb moving music in

a great building like this. And the Jazz Mass choir and big band will be

in their full glory on Saturday night on Exeter Cathedral.

To the sport now and the Heineken Cup kicks off this weekend. The

Exeter Chiefs will be welcoming some of the biggest names in the sport to

Sandy Park, as Cardiff come to town. Andy Birkett reports.

The Exeter Chiefs will be looking to hit the ground running when they go

against the Cardiff blues on Sunday. I go into the game off the back of a

morale boosting win at Gloucester but with the holders in their group,

a good start against the Welsh visitors is a must. There is the

reality that Toulon home and away is a big challenge. Way to Cardiff and

Glasgow will be challenges. If you get yourself off and running and

make sure the last couple of games are going to be of value to you, we

need to get something out of the game. They will be without the

injured Tom James who has made quite an impression since signing from

Cardiff. Ceri Sweeney has made the switch as well, and after five

seasons at the blues, he knows they will fancy their chances. They will

do well in the Heineken cup, they have had a couple of games to build

up to it, they have been building up gradually with Alliance boys coming

up. They are looking dangerous. Tonight marks a special milestone

for Pirates skipper Gavin cattle as he makes his 200th appearance for

the club. Yeovil Town have the weekend off

because of the World Cup Qualifiers. In League Two Plymouth Argyle are

involved in the battle of the dockyards and last week's opponents

Exeter are looking to consolidate their lofty status. Scott Bingham

reports. Exeter city are flying high in third

place after last weeks win over Devon rivals as Argyle. Today they

take on —— tomorrow they take on Hartlepool. Another move could see

them go very high. The pilgrims will be looking to defeated —— forget

their defeat last week when they entertain Portsmouth tomorrow

lunchtime. Argyle are without a league win since September. Torquay

United are desperate for points after the drubbing last Saturday.

Another bad result could see them slip into the relegation zone. Their

manager has brought in Jack McCourt on a month loan from Leicester.

One of Cornwall's most successful football teams celebrates its 50th

anniversary this weekend. Penryn Athletic started back in the '60s in

a teenager's back garden. Now they have a ground and three teams.

A football match in a farmer 's field. But did any of these players

dream that one day their love of football would bring them here to

their own ground? These three men, the secretary, treasurer and

chairman, are the reason that Penryn Athletic exists at all. They started

the club in the 60s. The hairstyles might have been a friend, the car is

certainly worth and these lads just wanted somewhere to kick a ball

around. We were nomads for a while, we had several pitches, we have had

six different grounds. It is quite difficult getting flatland around

here. Definitely, we had to find somewhere that was reasonably flat

to start with. The funds, they turned to the enterprising parents.

We ran cake stalls and jumble styles, made Cornish pasties for

people to sell, game nights, wash the kit. It was a different world,

changing behind a hedge! So 50 years on, Penryn Athletic is a popular

club with a string of Sophie 's —— trophies. Not bad from a kick around

in the back garden. Before we go a reminder that we're

looking for our Unsung Sporting Hero of 2013. If you know someone who

voluntarily gives up their time to encourage others to take part in

sport then nominate them. There are two ways of doing that, you can

either go to the website. Or you can give us a call.

As birthdays go, celebrating a thousand years is pretty impressive.

Which is why the monks at Buckfast Abbey in Devon are already planning

ahead to 2018 when the monastery celebrates its millennium year. At

the heart of the celebrations will be a specially commissioned

sculpture, created by a Devon artist. Spotlight's Clare Casson

reports. There has been an abbey here on the

banks of the River Dart for 995 years. Now one of the oldest active

ministry is left in the UK. Over the centuries it has been converted and

even ruined before finally being rebuilt by a team of six month

around 100 years ago. Health and safety word is not exactly a high

priority back then. Today the Abbey being renovated and a small

community of Benedictine monks still live here. We have just done this

side, we have done the back partly. The Abbey now attracts almost half a

million visitors a year and its millennium submissions are gathering

pace. With five years to go, the Devon sculptor Isabel Colton is

working on a specially commissioned Madonna and child. This one is

modelled in clay to develop the show, designed to mimic a medieval

statue in the Abbey. The abbot was very keen to have a new statue made,

a loving and smiling Madonna. I was also keen to have a modern aspect to

this which is having the child sitting astride his mother. All of

us mothers hold our babies like that. Throughout the ages. I haven't

seen a single Madonna anywhere that holds her child like that. They are

normally being proffered on the hands. Eventually this will be

carved in stone before being moved to a permanent home at the entrance

to the Abbey. All part of the millennium celebrations honouring

not only the foundation charter but also the future of monastic life

here. I think it is worth celebrating. It is something I have

lived now for almost 40 years here, I am very pleased to have done that

and I would like other people to know something about it. I am not

expecting everyone to be a monk or none, but I think there is something

that they can learn from our way of life today.

What a beautiful place. It is time for the weather forecast. Please do

not let it rain this weekend? I can't hold the weather back! It

doesn't look that bad. We will see a few showers but we might get away

with some of the best way —— weekend whether competitor the rest of the

country. It will be less cold, the keen wind we will have has been

easing. There will be some showers but also sunny spells. We have an

area of low pressure which is moving around at the moment, covering a

good part of southeastern England. That'll move around over the next

few days, keeping a weather system close to the English Channel this

evening. Through the day tomorrow, the weather system wants to move a

little bit further away from us. Hopefully we are between weather

systems tomorrow afternoon. Some sunny spells. On Sunday, we will

have one creeping toward us from the east. On Monday, the low pressure is

across the eastern side of the country again. So it hops around a

bit. We are between weather systems for most of those days. Not too bad.

It is quite daunting looking at this picture when you look at the rain

creeping in from the east in the afternoon. We are still essentially

dry. This was earlier in Exeter Cathedral. The has —— the wind has

been a feature. You will need to wrap up warmly if you are out and

about. Our cameraman goes to the top of the Cathedral. For most of us

today it was a dry day. There are now tours of Exeter Cathedral, 120

steps, according to fill the cameraman, I am sure he felt the

last few! Some showers tonight, they will fade away. We will see some

clear sky, but not as cold as it was last night. The blanket of cloud

here and they're hoping holds the temperatures up. As for tomorrow, a

cloudy start for many of us. A few showers coming and going. Gradually

the cloud will break out, sunny spells developing. Reasonably

pleasant. It will not be as windy as it has been today. It will feel bit

warmer. For the Isles of Scilly, bright and mainly dry.

For our surface, not a regular surface weekend.

The risk of showers returned on Sunday. Dick cloud coming in the

Wiest —— thicker cloud coming in from the west.

That is all from us. The local radio will be keeping you up—to—date over

the weekend. We will be back on Monday.