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heading our way and wet and windy again. That is

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Good evening welcome to Wednesday's BBC Channel Islands. Coming up on

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the programme tonight: Whooping cough and scarlet fever are at their

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highest level for decades ` Guernsey health bosses urge islanders to take

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action. Do it is important that people take

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up these opportunities. Immunisation are safe and simple and effective.

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Plus ` the French Condor workers strike is felt throughout the

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islands ` school trip travel plans are thrown into disarray.

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And why ancestory just got trendy ` archive facilities expand as more

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and more of us research our family history.

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Guernsey is in the grip of the worst outbreak of whooping cough for three

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decades. That's according to the latest health report. Medical

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experts say all children and pregnant women should be immunised.

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And as Mike Wilkins reports, there's been an alarming rise in other

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preventable diseases as well. The sound of a child with whooping

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cough is distressing and unmistakeable. You have to go back

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to the early '80s when this public information was made to match the

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current rates of infection. Babies are most at risk, suffering from

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bouts of uncontrollable coughing, which in some cases can lead to

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death. The increase in Guernsey has been dramatic, there were 36 cases

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last year, this compares to an average of just three a year over

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the previous decade. In fact, the latest figures reveal that 2013 saw

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the worst outbreak for 30 years So why now? The whooping cough vaccine

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is effective but its protection isn't permanent. It may be because

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that's the immunity in children Wayne. Parents may be at risk of

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passing the disease on to children and it is most dangerous in

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infants. In Guernsey we had our first days of infants whooping cough

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for the first time. It is important that people take up these

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opportunities. Immunisation is safe, simple and effective.

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But it's not just whooping cough that's got health experts concerned

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here ` illnesses that many thought were long gone are actually making

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an unwelcome return. For example in 2012 there were more cases of the

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potentially fatal scarlet fever in Guernsey than for more than half a

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century. We have come a long way since whooping cough victims were

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treated and decompression chambers. But while there have been

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improvements over the last half`century, the island's health

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chief says there is no time for complacency and is encouraging

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people to get immunised. Meanwhile Guernsey's Medical Officer

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of Health also found in his report that islanders are suffering from

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alcohol related liver deaths. But there have been some improvements in

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people's drinking habits. The statistics on alcohol consumption

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are going down generally in Guernsey which is very good and positive But

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that does not mean that we are complacent. We hope going into a new

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strategy that we can put in new campaigns.

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Meanwhile Jersey could lead the way in using technology in the health

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service with the island's future hospital. Hospital boss Helen O Shea

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told business leaders the multi`million pound hospital make

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over is an opportunity to put the island at the forefront of using

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technology in medicine. It's hoped things like iPads, iPhones and the

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latest medical equipment could be used to treat patients remotely It

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is a platform for us to be able to say what sort of things can

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recreate? How innovative can we be in terms of technology delivering

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better health care in the future. We know that we have the perfect

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virginity where we are rebuilding and refurbishing to make sure that

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the hospital meets its models of care around the latest technology.

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Guernsey States have voted to allow residual waste ` that is rubbish

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that cannot be recycled ` to be exported. The proposals from the

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Public Services Department include a short list of where the waste could

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be exported to. They also include new powers for the Douzaines for

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collection and enforcement. The pay dispute between Condor and

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the International Transport Workers' Federation have remained deadlocked

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` with no sign of a resolution. Ferries between France and both

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Jersey and Guernsey are cancelled until next week. Today the striking

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crew ` ten French men and one Frenchwoman, plus a British seaman `

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hoisted the 'Gwenn Ar Du' flag of Brittany on board the Rapide. They

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say they won't leave the ship until Condor gives them what they want.

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Well Fae Clery joined me from our Guernsey newsroom with the very

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latest. The strike started last Thursday and

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the Rapide hasn't left the French port since. The striking crew, have

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stayed on the boat and are refusing to give it up until Condor agrees to

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change their working contracts. One of their demands is that the company

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should be re`registered to France instead of Guernsey, giving the

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staff the same benefit as their counterparts on the mainland, such

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as social security benefits, OR that Condor create a formal agreement to

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give the sailors social security and pension rights. Condor said the

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International Transport Workers Federation rejected the offers it

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had already put on the table. So where does this leave passengers?

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With half term fast approaching many holiday`makers are being forced

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to make contingency plans, including the organisers of the Grammar School

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ski trip who were due to sail to St Malo to catch the coach to their

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Italian ski resort. There is worried they are. The strikes went public at

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the end of last week. We are grateful to Condor that they were

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reasonably early and telling us the ceilings were cancelled. We have

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been trying to arrange alternative transport. Condor have been very

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good, we sympathise with them. We would like to say thank you to the

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local airline providers. They have been helpful hand have offered us

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their services. Condor meanwhile is putting plans in

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place to get islanders to France via the UK using other ferry companies.

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People booked onto Condor ferries to travel to France will be offered

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sailings via the UK. Condor says it will pay for passengers to travel to

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the mainland, and then on to France from either Plymouth or

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Portsmouth.Details of how this will work are being finalised.

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Jersey's new police authority is now ready to start work, according to

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the chairman. Advocate Jonathan White says a panel has now been

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appointed with a mixture of islanders and politicians. It's an

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independent group, set up to make sure the force sticks to its aims

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and is working as well as it should. I spoke to Mr White earlier about

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why he thinks his new team will work.

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We have appointed somebody under 30. I was keen that we should have

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somebody under 30 who was representative of the youth of the

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island. I think we all have responsibility for things. We will

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all take different areas of responsibility so we can build a

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greater knowledge and a greater expertise, which will enable us to

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discharge our responsibilities. How independent will it be?

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I think it will, it needs to be genuinely independent. It needs to

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be separate from the police and it needs to be separate from the

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Minister who still controls the purse strings. I think if we are to

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do a proper job, we have to work with the police when they do

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everything well. But we have to be willing to criticise when we think

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they have got it wrong. Why is that the Shana 30 now? `` why establish

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another tea now? Recent events have put us into this public focus. The

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police force has to be headed in the right direction. Some public

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accountability is a good thing and I think we can provide it.

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Now, have you ever wanted to dig deeper into your family history but

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you haven't got the information or resources to know where to begin?

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Well Jersey Library ` the home of thousands of stories ` has expanded

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its archive section to help islanders look into their very own

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family story. We sent our very own Jersey girl Emma Chambers to find

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out more. This is my family, my mum, my dad

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and my sister, taking in a blustery day last year. I have come to Jersey

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library to find out more about my family history. Your

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great`grandfather's father was a call bearer. And his mother lived at

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home, obviously looking after all the children. It tells us where his

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parents, they were all born in Jersey. But his parents, their own

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father's came from Yorkshire. You have the information there to go

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back. Finding out about my great, great, great`grandfather was England

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is a new resource the library? The online access gives us all the UK

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census information. Why have you added your resources here? Family

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history is a growing thing. Television programmes have increased

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people's interest. I think more people look at their families and

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they get enthusiastic and they tell other people. It spurs other people

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on to look into theirs. Is there an area that people are looking more

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into? They are looking into the First World War, people are looking

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into their military history more. Some of that information is on the

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website, but it is in more detail here. It has been fascinating about

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finding out about my family history. I have come away with names

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and other details that I did not know. If you are a member you can

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use the resources here. If you're not a member, you can sign up to use

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the resources free. If that has whetted your appetite, a free event

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is being held in Jersey this weekend by the island's Family History

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Society. That's on Saturday between nine and one at the Jersey archive.

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Well it's been another day of unpleasant weather ` so it won't

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surprise you to learn that Guernsey has had 85% more than average

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rainfall over the last year. Guernsey Water says the island

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experienced nearly double the amount of rain in January than it normally

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would, and now ALL of the island's reservoirs are full. Time for our

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weather forecasts now. David, we have seen some harrowing pictures on

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the national news. Is that for us as well? We have got away quite lately.

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We have some lively gusts of wind. The islands have not had as much

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strong wind as in other parts of the south coast. Guernsey had the

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strongest gust at 67 miles an hour. Those wins are starting to ease

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down. We continue to see showers overnight tonight. Some of those

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could be heavy, even a risk of thunder and lightning. A windy day

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tomorrow. There will be further showers and it will feel cold. Some

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cold error behind this area of low pressure. Some showers out of the

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Atlantic, being blown on in that brisk westerly wind. It is a sherry

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day tomorrow and then the next area of low pressure is here. That is

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moving quite fast. It should move into our showers `` showers on

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Friday. That is one to watch. At the moment the main threat is showers.

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Overnight the will return. Winds continuing to drop a little bit and

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do overnight temperatures down to five degrees. For tomorrow, expect

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the frequency of showers to be very frequent. Perhaps drier for a short

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while in the morning, then more showers returning over the

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afternoon. Some of those could be heavy with ill stones and thunder.

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Eight degrees will be the maximum temperature. `` heavy hail and

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thunder. Times of high water. Similar times in the evening. For

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our servers, some big waves. `` surfers. Friday will be a windy day.

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It will be less cold. Saturday is wet and it will be brighter on

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Sunday. That is it from the Channel Islands. Let's go back to

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Spotlight. Dear Anna, how I long for your debt

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was `` such `` touch. I have been practising writing a special letter

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for my life `` wife. We are here to talk about love and how to express

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it and get it. This is a class to learn how to write a love letter. It

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is a one`off evening lecture at Exeter University. Doing something

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like this makes you come across as an old romantic but I want to write

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a meaningful letter. The letter means you, not all these other

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people. It means going for it and putting down how you feel on paper.

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Since meeting you, I can only smile. That technology can also be

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romantic. We use a lot more images in digital culture. You can express

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what literally cannot be expressed. Everyone else in the world is just

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in black and white. Even now, in this digital age, the pack things

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away for later also letters provide the ability to do that. Have to hold

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onto. We may begin to lose the edge to send valentines that we will

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never lose the urge to receive them. `` but we will never lose the urge.

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Lovely stuff. We can return now to our top story. Western Power

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distribution have told us 5000 homes are without power cut Devon,

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Somerset and Cornwall. David is here with the forecast.

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The winds are beginning to drop. Tomorrow is a quieter day and we

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should see a few showers dotted around. The possibility of some snow

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on higher ground. We will not see the strength of wind we saw today.

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The highest gust was that Eddie head. `` at Berry Head. They are now

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lower and continue to drop. We still have the saturated ground and more

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rain. It is likely to return in the form of showers tomorrow for top

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Friday will bring in a new area of low pressure. The curl of cloud here

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is a lovely book of cloud. The highest winds are between Ireland

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and the South of Scotland. That pressure will move out of the way.

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Notice how much further apart the isobars are for midday tomorrow.

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Another area of low pressure races in from the Atlantic to bring more

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of the same. More rain, wind and gusts of wind could be up to 70 mph

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on Friday. That is the rain we saw earlier today. It is now gone. Those

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showers could be heavy throughout the night. They will turn

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increasingly wintry. High areas could wake up to a dusting of snow

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tomorrow morning. Most likely over Exmoor and Dartmoor. A cold night to

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come with overnight temperatures along the coastline at four or five

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Celsius. Inland, closer to serial Celsius. `` 0 Celsius. S have a look

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at the forecast for tomorrow. We have some sunshine and a few

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scattered showers. Wrap up warm there is a cold wind tomorrow.

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Temperatures struggling up to six or seven Celsius. With the wind chill,

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it will feel colder. Quite a list read they for the Isles of Scilly.

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Surfing conditions will be hundreds that horrendous tomorrow. ``

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horrendous tomorrow. For the coastal waters forecast, this is easier on

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the eye. Very rough but the policing `` that decreasing. Saturday will be

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a windy and blustery day. Next week, a lot less stormy.

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Snow and ice. That is all we need! We will be back with an update after

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the ten o'clock news.

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