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heading our way and wet and windy again. That is | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
Good evening welcome to Wednesday's BBC Channel Islands. Coming up on | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
the programme tonight: Whooping cough and scarlet fever are at their | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
highest level for decades ` Guernsey health bosses urge islanders to take | :00:16. | :00:22. | |
action. Do it is important that people take | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
up these opportunities. Immunisation are safe and simple and effective. | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
Plus ` the French Condor workers strike is felt throughout the | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
islands ` school trip travel plans are thrown into disarray. | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
And why ancestory just got trendy ` archive facilities expand as more | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
and more of us research our family history. | :00:44. | :00:56. | |
Guernsey is in the grip of the worst outbreak of whooping cough for three | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
decades. That's according to the latest health report. Medical | :01:03. | :01:04. | |
experts say all children and pregnant women should be immunised. | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
And as Mike Wilkins reports, there's been an alarming rise in other | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
preventable diseases as well. The sound of a child with whooping | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
cough is distressing and unmistakeable. You have to go back | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
to the early '80s when this public information was made to match the | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
current rates of infection. Babies are most at risk, suffering from | :01:26. | :01:27. | |
bouts of uncontrollable coughing, which in some cases can lead to | :01:28. | :01:34. | |
death. The increase in Guernsey has been dramatic, there were 36 cases | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
last year, this compares to an average of just three a year over | :01:38. | :01:46. | |
the previous decade. In fact, the latest figures reveal that 2013 saw | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
the worst outbreak for 30 years So why now? The whooping cough vaccine | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
is effective but its protection isn't permanent. It may be because | :01:55. | :02:03. | |
that's the immunity in children Wayne. Parents may be at risk of | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
passing the disease on to children and it is most dangerous in | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
infants. In Guernsey we had our first days of infants whooping cough | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
for the first time. It is important that people take up these | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
opportunities. Immunisation is safe, simple and effective. | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
But it's not just whooping cough that's got health experts concerned | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
here ` illnesses that many thought were long gone are actually making | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
an unwelcome return. For example in 2012 there were more cases of the | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
potentially fatal scarlet fever in Guernsey than for more than half a | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
century. We have come a long way since whooping cough victims were | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
treated and decompression chambers. But while there have been | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
improvements over the last half`century, the island's health | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
chief says there is no time for complacency and is encouraging | :02:57. | :03:03. | |
people to get immunised. Meanwhile Guernsey's Medical Officer | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
of Health also found in his report that islanders are suffering from | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
alcohol related liver deaths. But there have been some improvements in | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
people's drinking habits. The statistics on alcohol consumption | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
are going down generally in Guernsey which is very good and positive But | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
that does not mean that we are complacent. We hope going into a new | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
strategy that we can put in new campaigns. | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
Meanwhile Jersey could lead the way in using technology in the health | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
service with the island's future hospital. Hospital boss Helen O Shea | :03:39. | :03:40. | |
told business leaders the multi`million pound hospital make | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
over is an opportunity to put the island at the forefront of using | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
technology in medicine. It's hoped things like iPads, iPhones and the | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
latest medical equipment could be used to treat patients remotely It | :03:50. | :03:57. | |
is a platform for us to be able to say what sort of things can | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
recreate? How innovative can we be in terms of technology delivering | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
better health care in the future. We know that we have the perfect | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
virginity where we are rebuilding and refurbishing to make sure that | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
the hospital meets its models of care around the latest technology. | :04:19. | :04:26. | |
Guernsey States have voted to allow residual waste ` that is rubbish | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
that cannot be recycled ` to be exported. The proposals from the | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
Public Services Department include a short list of where the waste could | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
be exported to. They also include new powers for the Douzaines for | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
collection and enforcement. The pay dispute between Condor and | :04:40. | :04:41. | |
the International Transport Workers' Federation have remained deadlocked | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
` with no sign of a resolution. Ferries between France and both | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
Jersey and Guernsey are cancelled until next week. Today the striking | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
crew ` ten French men and one Frenchwoman, plus a British seaman ` | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
hoisted the 'Gwenn Ar Du' flag of Brittany on board the Rapide. They | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
say they won't leave the ship until Condor gives them what they want. | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
Well Fae Clery joined me from our Guernsey newsroom with the very | :05:03. | :05:10. | |
latest. The strike started last Thursday and | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
the Rapide hasn't left the French port since. The striking crew, have | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
stayed on the boat and are refusing to give it up until Condor agrees to | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
change their working contracts. One of their demands is that the company | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
should be re`registered to France instead of Guernsey, giving the | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
staff the same benefit as their counterparts on the mainland, such | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
as social security benefits, OR that Condor create a formal agreement to | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
give the sailors social security and pension rights. Condor said the | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
International Transport Workers Federation rejected the offers it | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
had already put on the table. So where does this leave passengers? | :05:42. | :05:48. | |
With half term fast approaching many holiday`makers are being forced | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
to make contingency plans, including the organisers of the Grammar School | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
ski trip who were due to sail to St Malo to catch the coach to their | :05:56. | :06:02. | |
Italian ski resort. There is worried they are. The strikes went public at | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
the end of last week. We are grateful to Condor that they were | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
reasonably early and telling us the ceilings were cancelled. We have | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
been trying to arrange alternative transport. Condor have been very | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
good, we sympathise with them. We would like to say thank you to the | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
local airline providers. They have been helpful hand have offered us | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
their services. Condor meanwhile is putting plans in | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
place to get islanders to France via the UK using other ferry companies. | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
People booked onto Condor ferries to travel to France will be offered | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
sailings via the UK. Condor says it will pay for passengers to travel to | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
the mainland, and then on to France from either Plymouth or | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
Portsmouth.Details of how this will work are being finalised. | :06:50. | :06:58. | |
Jersey's new police authority is now ready to start work, according to | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
the chairman. Advocate Jonathan White says a panel has now been | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
appointed with a mixture of islanders and politicians. It's an | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
independent group, set up to make sure the force sticks to its aims | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
and is working as well as it should. I spoke to Mr White earlier about | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
why he thinks his new team will work. | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
We have appointed somebody under 30. I was keen that we should have | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
somebody under 30 who was representative of the youth of the | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
island. I think we all have responsibility for things. We will | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
all take different areas of responsibility so we can build a | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
greater knowledge and a greater expertise, which will enable us to | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
discharge our responsibilities. How independent will it be? | :07:46. | :07:55. | |
I think it will, it needs to be genuinely independent. It needs to | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
be separate from the police and it needs to be separate from the | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
Minister who still controls the purse strings. I think if we are to | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
do a proper job, we have to work with the police when they do | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
everything well. But we have to be willing to criticise when we think | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
they have got it wrong. Why is that the Shana 30 now? `` why establish | :08:19. | :08:28. | |
another tea now? Recent events have put us into this public focus. The | :08:29. | :08:36. | |
police force has to be headed in the right direction. Some public | :08:37. | :08:38. | |
accountability is a good thing and I think we can provide it. | :08:39. | :08:45. | |
Now, have you ever wanted to dig deeper into your family history but | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
you haven't got the information or resources to know where to begin? | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
Well Jersey Library ` the home of thousands of stories ` has expanded | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
its archive section to help islanders look into their very own | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
family story. We sent our very own Jersey girl Emma Chambers to find | :08:59. | :09:00. | |
out more. This is my family, my mum, my dad | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
and my sister, taking in a blustery day last year. I have come to Jersey | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
library to find out more about my family history. Your | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
great`grandfather's father was a call bearer. And his mother lived at | :09:15. | :09:21. | |
home, obviously looking after all the children. It tells us where his | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
parents, they were all born in Jersey. But his parents, their own | :09:27. | :09:36. | |
father's came from Yorkshire. You have the information there to go | :09:37. | :09:43. | |
back. Finding out about my great, great, great`grandfather was England | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
is a new resource the library? The online access gives us all the UK | :09:48. | :09:55. | |
census information. Why have you added your resources here? Family | :09:56. | :10:03. | |
history is a growing thing. Television programmes have increased | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
people's interest. I think more people look at their families and | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
they get enthusiastic and they tell other people. It spurs other people | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
on to look into theirs. Is there an area that people are looking more | :10:17. | :10:23. | |
into? They are looking into the First World War, people are looking | :10:24. | :10:30. | |
into their military history more. Some of that information is on the | :10:31. | :10:37. | |
website, but it is in more detail here. It has been fascinating about | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
finding out about my family history. I have come away with names | :10:42. | :10:48. | |
and other details that I did not know. If you are a member you can | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
use the resources here. If you're not a member, you can sign up to use | :10:53. | :11:04. | |
the resources free. If that has whetted your appetite, a free event | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
is being held in Jersey this weekend by the island's Family History | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
Society. That's on Saturday between nine and one at the Jersey archive. | :11:11. | :11:18. | |
Well it's been another day of unpleasant weather ` so it won't | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
surprise you to learn that Guernsey has had 85% more than average | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
rainfall over the last year. Guernsey Water says the island | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
experienced nearly double the amount of rain in January than it normally | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
would, and now ALL of the island's reservoirs are full. Time for our | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
weather forecasts now. David, we have seen some harrowing pictures on | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
the national news. Is that for us as well? We have got away quite lately. | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
We have some lively gusts of wind. The islands have not had as much | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
strong wind as in other parts of the south coast. Guernsey had the | :11:44. | :11:50. | |
strongest gust at 67 miles an hour. Those wins are starting to ease | :11:51. | :11:58. | |
down. We continue to see showers overnight tonight. Some of those | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
could be heavy, even a risk of thunder and lightning. A windy day | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
tomorrow. There will be further showers and it will feel cold. Some | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
cold error behind this area of low pressure. Some showers out of the | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
Atlantic, being blown on in that brisk westerly wind. It is a sherry | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
day tomorrow and then the next area of low pressure is here. That is | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
moving quite fast. It should move into our showers `` showers on | :12:26. | :12:32. | |
Friday. That is one to watch. At the moment the main threat is showers. | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
Overnight the will return. Winds continuing to drop a little bit and | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
do overnight temperatures down to five degrees. For tomorrow, expect | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
the frequency of showers to be very frequent. Perhaps drier for a short | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
while in the morning, then more showers returning over the | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
afternoon. Some of those could be heavy with ill stones and thunder. | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
Eight degrees will be the maximum temperature. `` heavy hail and | :13:01. | :13:12. | |
thunder. Times of high water. Similar times in the evening. For | :13:13. | :13:20. | |
our servers, some big waves. `` surfers. Friday will be a windy day. | :13:21. | :13:29. | |
It will be less cold. Saturday is wet and it will be brighter on | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
Sunday. That is it from the Channel Islands. Let's go back to | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
Spotlight. Dear Anna, how I long for your debt | :13:38. | :21:50. | |
was `` such `` touch. I have been practising writing a special letter | :21:51. | :21:57. | |
for my life `` wife. We are here to talk about love and how to express | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
it and get it. This is a class to learn how to write a love letter. It | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
is a one`off evening lecture at Exeter University. Doing something | :22:10. | :22:22. | |
like this makes you come across as an old romantic but I want to write | :22:23. | :22:31. | |
a meaningful letter. The letter means you, not all these other | :22:32. | :22:39. | |
people. It means going for it and putting down how you feel on paper. | :22:40. | :22:50. | |
Since meeting you, I can only smile. That technology can also be | :22:51. | :22:57. | |
romantic. We use a lot more images in digital culture. You can express | :22:58. | :23:07. | |
what literally cannot be expressed. Everyone else in the world is just | :23:08. | :23:14. | |
in black and white. Even now, in this digital age, the pack things | :23:15. | :23:20. | |
away for later also letters provide the ability to do that. Have to hold | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
onto. We may begin to lose the edge to send valentines that we will | :23:27. | :23:33. | |
never lose the urge to receive them. `` but we will never lose the urge. | :23:34. | :23:42. | |
Lovely stuff. We can return now to our top story. Western Power | :23:43. | :23:45. | |
distribution have told us 5000 homes are without power cut Devon, | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
Somerset and Cornwall. David is here with the forecast. | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
The winds are beginning to drop. Tomorrow is a quieter day and we | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
should see a few showers dotted around. The possibility of some snow | :24:02. | :24:09. | |
on higher ground. We will not see the strength of wind we saw today. | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
The highest gust was that Eddie head. `` at Berry Head. They are now | :24:14. | :24:26. | |
lower and continue to drop. We still have the saturated ground and more | :24:27. | :24:34. | |
rain. It is likely to return in the form of showers tomorrow for top | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
Friday will bring in a new area of low pressure. The curl of cloud here | :24:39. | :24:50. | |
is a lovely book of cloud. The highest winds are between Ireland | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
and the South of Scotland. That pressure will move out of the way. | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
Notice how much further apart the isobars are for midday tomorrow. | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
Another area of low pressure races in from the Atlantic to bring more | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
of the same. More rain, wind and gusts of wind could be up to 70 mph | :25:13. | :25:29. | |
on Friday. That is the rain we saw earlier today. It is now gone. Those | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
showers could be heavy throughout the night. They will turn | :25:34. | :25:45. | |
increasingly wintry. High areas could wake up to a dusting of snow | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
tomorrow morning. Most likely over Exmoor and Dartmoor. A cold night to | :25:52. | :25:58. | |
come with overnight temperatures along the coastline at four or five | :25:59. | :26:09. | |
Celsius. Inland, closer to serial Celsius. `` 0 Celsius. S have a look | :26:10. | :26:22. | |
at the forecast for tomorrow. We have some sunshine and a few | :26:23. | :26:25. | |
scattered showers. Wrap up warm there is a cold wind tomorrow. | :26:26. | :26:32. | |
Temperatures struggling up to six or seven Celsius. With the wind chill, | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
it will feel colder. Quite a list read they for the Isles of Scilly. | :26:38. | :26:55. | |
Surfing conditions will be hundreds that horrendous tomorrow. `` | :26:56. | :27:10. | |
horrendous tomorrow. For the coastal waters forecast, this is easier on | :27:11. | :27:17. | |
the eye. Very rough but the policing `` that decreasing. Saturday will be | :27:18. | :27:29. | |
a windy and blustery day. Next week, a lot less stormy. | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
Snow and ice. That is all we need! We will be back with an update after | :27:35. | :27:42. | |
the ten o'clock news. | :27:43. | :27:44. |