:00:00. > :00:11.Guernsey is in the grip of the worst flood waters are on the rise.
:00:12. > :00:16.Guernsey is in the grip of the worst outbreak of whooping cough for three
:00:17. > :00:19.decades. That's according to the latest health report. Medical
:00:20. > :00:23.experts say all children and pregnant women should be immunised.
:00:24. > :00:28.And as Mike Wilkins reports, there's been an alarming rise in other
:00:29. > :00:31.preventable diseases as well. The sound of a child with whooping
:00:32. > :00:38.cough is distressing and unmistakeable. You have to go back
:00:39. > :00:43.to the early '80s when this public information was made to match the
:00:44. > :00:46.current rates of infection. Babies are most at risk, suffering from
:00:47. > :00:51.bouts of uncontrollable coughing, which in some cases can lead to
:00:52. > :00:55.death. The increase in Guernsey has been dramatic, there were 36 cases
:00:56. > :01:00.last year, this compares to an average of just three a year over
:01:01. > :01:06.the previous decade. In fact the latest figures reveal that 2013 saw
:01:07. > :01:10.the worst outbreak for 30 years So why now? The whooping cough vaccine
:01:11. > :01:19.is effective but its protection isn't permanent. That may be because
:01:20. > :01:26.the immunity people have waned, but it does mean that parents may be at
:01:27. > :01:30.risk of passing the disease on to children and it is most dangerous in
:01:31. > :01:35.infants, and here we had our first case of infant whooping cough for
:01:36. > :01:39.quite some time. It is important that people take of these
:01:40. > :01:43.opportunities, immunisation is safe, simple and effective. But it's not
:01:44. > :01:46.just whooping cough that's got health experts concerned here.
:01:47. > :01:51.Illnesses that many thought were long gone are actually making an
:01:52. > :01:54.unwelcome return. For example in 2012 there were more cases of the
:01:55. > :02:00.potentially fatal scarlet fever in Guernsey than for more than half a
:02:01. > :02:08.century. We have come a long way since whooping cough victims were
:02:09. > :02:11.treated in the compression chambers. But while there have been huge
:02:12. > :02:14.improvements in the reduction of deaths from the likes of measles,
:02:15. > :02:17.diphtheria and polio over the last century, the island's health chief
:02:18. > :02:21.says there's no time for complacency and is encouraging people to get
:02:22. > :02:25.immunised. Meanwhile Guernsey's Medical Officer of Health also found
:02:26. > :02:28.in his report that islanders are suffering from alcohol related liver
:02:29. > :02:32.deaths. But there have been some improvements in people's drinking
:02:33. > :02:36.habits. This statistics on alcohol consumption are actually going down
:02:37. > :02:43.in Guernsey, which is very good and positive. That doesn't mean to say
:02:44. > :02:48.that we are complacent. We hope we're going into a new strategy that
:02:49. > :02:51.we can put into a new campaign. Meanwhile, Jersey could lead the way
:02:52. > :02:54.in using technology in the health service. Hospital boss Helen O'Shea
:02:55. > :02:57.told business leaders the multi`million pound hospital make
:02:58. > :03:00.over is an opportunity bring more technology into medicine. It's hoped
:03:01. > :03:09.things like iPads, iPhones and the latest medical equipment could be
:03:10. > :03:12.used to treat patients remotely It is just a platform for us to be able
:03:13. > :03:18.to say what sort of things can we create, how innovative can we be in
:03:19. > :03:22.terms of how technology can help us deliver better health care in
:03:23. > :03:25.future. We know technology is moving on at a rapid pace, and we also know
:03:26. > :03:29.that we have the perfect opportunity, when coding and
:03:30. > :03:33.refurbishing, to make sure that hospitals build the models of care
:03:34. > :03:36.around recent technology. Guernsey states have voted to allow
:03:37. > :03:40.rubbish that can't be recycled be exported. The Public Services
:03:41. > :03:45.Department has drawn up a short list of where the waste could be exported
:03:46. > :03:46.to. It also gives new powers to the Douzaines for collection and
:03:47. > :03:49.enforcement. Condor is preparing to pay other
:03:50. > :03:53.ferry companies to take its passengers to France from the UK.
:03:54. > :03:56.The company can't sail to St Malo at the moment, because its crew are on
:03:57. > :03:59.strike over pay and conditions. Today French workers hoisted the
:04:00. > :04:03.Breton flag on board the Rapide in an act of defiance. They are
:04:04. > :04:06.demanding that the company should be re`registered in France ` and that
:04:07. > :04:09.he crew should have the right to social security and pension
:04:10. > :04:13.payments. Condor says it will take travellers to England, then pay for
:04:14. > :04:19.them to sail to France from Plymouth or Portsmouth. Details yet to be
:04:20. > :04:21.finalised. After long delays, Jersey's
:04:22. > :04:30.independent police authority is finally ready to get to work. The
:04:31. > :04:33.Independent group will liaise with senior officers and politicians to
:04:34. > :04:36.monitor the force's success and bring it to account when needed
:04:37. > :04:40.Earlier today, it's Chairman, Advocate Jonathan White, told me why
:04:41. > :04:44.composition of the group was key. We have appointed somebody under 3 . I
:04:45. > :04:48.was very keen that we should have somebody under 30 who is a
:04:49. > :04:51.percentage of the use of the island. But I think we all have
:04:52. > :04:57.responsibility for things, each of us will take slightly different
:04:58. > :05:01.areas, so we can build a greater knowledge and greater expertise
:05:02. > :05:07.which will enable us to discharge our responsibilities. How
:05:08. > :05:10.independent is it going to be? You will always have naysayers who say
:05:11. > :05:18.you will come down on the police's side. It needs to be genuinely
:05:19. > :05:21.independent. It needs to be separate from the police, it needs to be
:05:22. > :05:26.separate from the Minister, who still controls the purse strings. If
:05:27. > :05:30.we are to do a proper job, we have got to work with the police when
:05:31. > :05:34.they do everything well, but we have to be willing to criticise when we
:05:35. > :05:42.think they have done something wrong. Why now? The problems we have
:05:43. > :05:48.heard around some events mean that policing was brought much more into
:05:49. > :05:52.public focus. With the changes we have seen in the police, the police
:05:53. > :05:57.force itself is headed in the right direction. But some more public
:05:58. > :06:01.accountability is a good thing and we can provide that.
:06:02. > :06:05.The BBC TV show Who Do You Think You Are is being credited with a surge
:06:06. > :06:08.in islanders trying to find out more about their family history. Now
:06:09. > :06:11.Jersey Library expanded its archive section to aid the search. Our
:06:12. > :06:21.reporter Emma Chambers went to check out their services. This is my
:06:22. > :06:24.family. Dad, my mum and my sister taken on a blustery day last year. I
:06:25. > :06:30.have come here to find more about my family history. Your
:06:31. > :06:37.great`grandfather's father was a cold bearer, his mother lived at
:06:38. > :06:40.home, looking after the children. It also tells us where his parents
:06:41. > :06:48.were, they were all born in Jersey but his parents, their own fathers
:06:49. > :06:55.came from Yorkshire and Kingston. You don't have their ages and where
:06:56. > :06:58.they were born. So finally get my great, great, great grandfather was
:06:59. > :07:06.from England, that is a new resource? We always had sensors
:07:07. > :07:12.reports for Jersey, but this gives us the UK census information as
:07:13. > :07:18.well. Is there a specific area people are looking more into
:07:19. > :07:21.nowadays? Looking for the anniversary of the First World War,
:07:22. > :07:25.people are looking at military history bit more. We have records
:07:26. > :07:31.that allow you to look up your military ancestors. Some of that is
:07:32. > :07:36.an ancestry as well. But it is in more detail on the forces records.
:07:37. > :07:41.I've even come away with names and information I didn't know. If you
:07:42. > :07:53.want to do the way, you can do this at the Jersey library. That is it
:07:54. > :08:01.from me. I am back tomorrow evening. The Channel Islands whether next.
:08:02. > :08:11.We have had a very stormy day across the islands. The highest gust was
:08:12. > :08:16.around 67 mph across Guernsey. Everywhere else, 50 to 60 mph. The
:08:17. > :08:21.very wet weather has now moved out of the way, tomorrow is generally
:08:22. > :08:26.quieter, still windy, and you showers around but hopefully some
:08:27. > :08:29.dry weather and sunshine as well. One or two of showers might have the
:08:30. > :08:36.odd rumble of thunder, they will keep coming until dawn tomorrow
:08:37. > :08:45.Tomorrow is quite a cold day, they will be some sunshine but also some
:08:46. > :08:48.sharp showers. A top temperature of around eight degrees, feeling colder
:08:49. > :08:52.because of that brisk westerly wind. On Friday, we have a new area
:08:53. > :08:56.of low pressure. Windy conditions again. Blustery into the start of
:08:57. > :09:13.the weekend. Good evening. What an incredible day
:09:14. > :09:18.of weather it has been. We saw gusts of wind up to 108 mph in the West of
:09:19. > :09:21.Wales. The wind is easing down a notch or two but we still have a
:09:22. > :09:25.high-level amber warning from the Met Office for the strength of the
:09:26. > :09:29.wind over the next few hours over quite a large swathe of the UK.
:09:30. > :09:32.Northern Ireland, northern England and down across Wales, there is
:09:33. > :09:38.still potential for damaging and disruptive gusts of wind. This huge
:09:39. > :09:41.curl of cloud is bringing wet and windy weather across much of the
:09:42. > :09:45.West of Europe. It curls back across the north of the UK and that's the
:09:46. > :09:49.centre of the area of low pressure with the strongest winds just to the
:09:50. > :09:53.south of that. Let's focus on the winds over the next few hours. The
:09:54. > :09:59.ease down by a notch or two but still blustery conditions over most
:10:00. > :10:05.of Wales. High seas around the coast and gusting up to 70 mph. Easily
:10:06. > :10:08.around the 80 mph mark across much of northern England. Across the
:10:09. > :10:14.Pennines this evening and overnight, travelling will be treacherous. Wind
:10:15. > :10:18.and rain at lower levels will produce a lot of spray. You don t
:10:19. > :10:22.have to go to high up the Pennines to see that turned to snow. One way
:10:23. > :10:27.or another, further disruption to travel is more than likely. BBC
:10:28. > :10:31.local radio will keep you up-to date on where you are and where you are
:10:32. > :10:36.trying to get to. The centre of the low system moves northwards. Pretty
:10:37. > :10:40.heavy snow developing across the hills of Scotland with several
:10:41. > :10:43.centimetres by dawn. A bit of snow for Northern Ireland and wintry
:10:44. > :10:48.showers drifting across the southern counties. A risk of ice with most
:10:49. > :10:52.races are seeing the temperatures a degree or so either side of
:10:53. > :10:57.freezing. A cold, windy start Thursday but I think it be a better
:10:58. > :11:02.day. No persistent rain to be seen. There should be some spells of
:11:03. > :11:07.sunshine for many of us, as well. Does it last until the end of the
:11:08. > :11:11.week? I'm afraid not. It goes downhill on Friday. This low
:11:12. > :11:17.pressure will head our way. Lots of isobars on the chart later in the
:11:18. > :11:21.day. Gusts of 60, 70 or 80 mph, with rain spreading northwards.
:11:22. > :11:24.Significant snow for parts of Northern Ireland and southern
:11:25. > :11:28.Scotland. Windy into the start of the weekend. Saturday has outbreaks
:11:29. > :11:31.of rain. On Sunday, something of a respite. The winds will ease down
:11:32. > :11:32.and it should