27/02/2014 BBC Channel Islands News

The hidden epidemic? Concerns grow that islanders with eating disorders

AREN'T seeking help. Anorexia has the highest mortality rates which is

why it is so serious. Also tonight: A mother and daughter

are jailed for trying to smuggle drugs into Guernsey.

And relive rationing as a new exhibition shows what home life was

really like during the Occupation. Work's underway to look at how to

improve services for adults in the Channel Islands who suffer from

eating disorders. Guernsey's Health and Social Services department wants

anyone who's received treatment to come forward to share their

experiences. In the UK, figures show the number of people with eating

disorders has gone up by 15% since 2000, a trend which is likely to be

mirrored here. Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any

mental illness and 20% of the estimated 1.6 million who suffer in

the UK may die prematurely. Penny Elderfield met an islander who's

beaten her illness and now wants to help others.

I am doing a sponsored skydive. A challenge in itself. For Jazz

this was a big part of her own challenge to overcome an eating

disorder. I wasn't thinking so much. It happens so fast, and

suddenly, we were falling 120 mph. I had been trying to raise awareness

for so long, it was a big thing for me. Raising awareness and money for

a charity that's helped her over the last few years. Diagnosed with

anorexia several years ago, she ended up in hospital. I had people

telling me I had a month to live and I was being force`fed through a

cheap. At the time, I didn't think I was ill, so looking backwards, I was

probably very ill and near death. Anorexia has the highest mortality

rate of all mental illnesses which is why it is so serious. Now, I can

look back and say, thankfully, I didn't suffer as long as other

people and want to use my experience to help others, which is why I want

to study psychology. Like other adults with eating disorders, Jazz

also comes here for ongoing support but work's now started to look at

how to improve that service, initially by talking to people about

their experiences. I would like to hear from people who have had

experience with eating disorders. And possibly in the UK. Just come

along and chat, tell me what they think about the treatment they

received, good and bad, so that we can shape our services. For Jazz,

though, the focus now is getting to university, so it's on with the hard

work, that is, now she's back on firm ground.

A mother and daughter from the UK have been sentenced to four years in

prison after being caught smuggling drugs into Guernsey. The pair were

sentenced at the Royal Court yesterday. Mike Wilkins reports

It was under the guise of a family camping trip that 50`year`old

Annette Cronshey and her 29`year`old pregnant daughter Danielle Lucas

were caught red`handed. They were travelling with a juvenile when they

were stopped disembarking the Weymouth ferry at the end of August.

Customs officers became suspicious and arrested them. The women were

found to be internally concealing a package of drugs each. They mostly

contained Flephedrone, a Class B drug similar to Mephedrone, its

street value almost ?20,000. The Guernsey Border Agency says the fact

that one of the women was heavily pregnant and accompanied by a minor

meant it was a very difficult case to deal with. We had a pregnant

female to deal with, who was internally concealing drugs, which

is a difficult and emotive subject for the officers involved. In the

Royal Court, Judge Russell Finch sentenced them both to four years in

prison to run from the date of their arrest.

Nominations have opened to elect a new Chief Minister for Guernsey It

follows the resignation of Deputy Peter Harwood. The first official

nomination for the post was received by the bailiff's office this

afternoon by the Social Security Minister, Allister Langlois.

The number of girls under 18 getting pregnant in Jersey has fallen. The

Medical Officer for Health says the rate has dropped to 7.5 pregnancies

per 1000 girls in that age group, which is lower than England and

Wales. Now, all this week on the BBC, we're

running our World War One at Home series, looking at how the Channel

Islands were affected by the First world War. Tonight, Edward Sault

reports on the remarkable short`hand diary which tells the story of war

from a woman's perspective. Today, there was a large meeting. I

hope there was. These journals give an insight into the experience of

the First World War from a woman's perspective living in Jersey. They

are all written in shorthand. She starts off quite gung ho and

positive towards war, but as you continue Reading, the horror of war

becomes apparent. The weather, very dull. We all felt anxious about the

militia go to the front. She lived in this house. Although her diary

entries were transcribed into English, the diaries are not

complete. It's a shame we don't have the end because even a throwaway

sentence makes you feel as if she's going back and looking over the

whole of that period. It's easy to go back and say, it wasn't a lovely

War a Christian, she would have had some difficulty coming to terms with

the idea of killing anyway. She was a deeply Methodist lady and even her

conscience would have troubled her. The weather, very fine. Today we had

the sad news of Charles's death Sometimes, it's useful to have not

only a woman's perspective, but a woman who was sheltered from the

reality. She died in 1979 but through this journal, the memories

of war will live on. From the First World War to the

Second World War, rationing was a part of everyday life during the

Occupation here in the Channel Islands, and as part of Jersey's War

Tunnels new exhibition, visitors can step inside a wartime house for the

first time. Emma Chambers reports on why the house means so much to those

behind it. A real`life story about rationing

from a housewife during the Occupation now set in a traditional

country house. This is the new exhibition at the Jersey War

Tunnels. They've made a 1940s house to display previously unseen

artifacts from the war. This is a fully stocked Lada which would have

not been fully stocked during the occupation, but when the SS arrived,

many of these items would have arrived in Red Cross parcels. They

were in our collections and we decided to bring out for the public

to see. The house not only shows you what people used but also what the

families had to do. This boy tells the story of hiding a pork joint

from the German soldiers. My father put the joints of meat inside my

sister's pram. To make the display authentic, Kathy and her team have

added a personal touch. The wedding day is my grandparents in 1936, so

it adds that family touch. Somebody's mother`in`law's brass

jugs were also donated. It adds that human touch. The revamped display

revives the stories of those in the Occupation just in time for the

first visitors this weekend. Time for the weather now and there's

more wintery, stormy weather on the way for the weekend. Condor has

cancelled its fast ferries tomorrow already.

We are expecting to see the strength of wind increase. Rain in the

forecast is well and tomorrow will be a cold day. A raw and strong

wind. We have a warning about the strength of wind. The strongest gust

of wind sure that there is a possibility you are seeing gusts of

60`70 mph. The wind direction will be a West then north westerly

direction. What is happening is we have had the rain last night which

has moved into France and another clump of cloud is a developing area

of low pressure. This is a small area but quite powerful. As it

develops, it moves down across the north coast of France. It is moving

steadily, and by the end of the day, it would have gone. And then, a

weather system means a dreary day. A few showers around initially, then

the more persistent rain. That will sweep through pretty fast. Tomorrow

morning, they will become north`westerly. The isolated gust to

70 mph. Showers in the afternoon. Not very warm tomorrow. Eight

degrees the highest temperature The wind whipping up the waves. Much

quieter on Saturday. A brightly on Sunday. More showers and breezy

again on Monday. the cost of pumping water of flooded

areas like the Somerset Levels. 100 years ago, the outbreak of the

First World War changed lives right across the South West. Walter Yeo

was a sailor from Plymouth who suffered horrific facial injuries.

The pioneering treatment he received from the eminent surgeon, Harold

Gillies, had a major impact on Walter's life and on the techniques

used in reconstructive surgery for decades.

Walter Yeo was almost destined for a career in the Royal Navy. He was

born in the Devonport area of Plymouth. His mother worked in the

victualling yard, and his father served in the Royal Navy for 15

years. He died when his ship was wrecked off the Spanish coast in

1890, just three weeks after Walter was born. Walter's own career in the

Royal Navy ended in dramatic fashion during a battle. On the 31st of May,

1916, he was wounded while manning guns aboard HMS Warspite. He

suffered horrific facial injuries from exploding cordite. He underwent

intensive reconstructive surgery by an imminent surgeon of the day, Sir

Harold Gillies. Walter's case file is held in the archive here at the

Royal College of Surgeons. Talk us through how horrific Walter's

injuries were. This injury resulted in a loss of most of his upper face,

so Gillies was trying to recreate this so that this man could re`enter

society. So for its time, this is pioneering? Absolutely. He designed

this, and said, "OK, I want to reconstruct this area here with

skin." He's lifted it off the neck, and he's taken it down onto the

upper chest. He has left it there for several weeks until it's

survived. Then he turned that up and made that flat across here. After a

period of months, he checked blood supply was coming from the area. We

have the dates here, and this shows this operation was done over a

number of months going into years. He has done a dramatically good job.

We start off in 1917, and by 1919, he has got eyebrows, he has a much

more normal looking face. But it has taken a series of operations. And

although such reconstructive work nowadays would be done in a single

procedure, all those operations to rebuild Walter's face continued to

be an inspiration to modern`day surgeons. They are also an

inspiration to this artist. It represents a unique period in social

history, and the people that treated these guys. His mannequin, dressed

in naval fabrics of the time, illustrates Walter's accident and

his recovery. In terms of patient injuries today, exactly the same

thing is happening now as it did then with the advance of medical

technology. Guys are surviving more and more horrific and life`changing

facial injuries. The more they survive these, the more surgeries

have developed to get these people into a state where they can live and

function as fully as possible. Many soldiers, though, struggled to

return to anything like the normal way of life. But Walter seemed to

cope well. Walter's story is interesting because despite being

severely disfigured, and even after the operations, he remained severely

disfigured, and yet he came back and continued with his life and had

another child with his wife. You can see his workplace behind us. His

reintegration was quite significant. He seems to have coped well with

what happened to him. What do you make of the fact that Walter came

back with those facial injuries to such a high profile role as a

publican? It is rather surprising, really, because you might expect

somebody who suffers from facial disfigurement to hide or maybe not

want to be too visible, so I think Walter's decision was quite brave.

What do you think Walter's story tells us about not only his

personality, but about his family? I think his family was probably

accepting, which is something really encouraging, and valuable for these

men who returned from the front. In Walter's case, maybe this wasn't the

life he was planning for beforehand, but he still had a normal life,

which is more than what many disfigured soldiers had. Walter Yeo

died in Plymouth in 1960. He was born into an ordinary family. In the

Great War, he suffered extraordinary injuries. But to his credit, and to

that of his family, he returned to live an ordinary life in his home

city. Tomorrow, we'll be finding out how a

nurse from Exeter risked her own life to help save wounded soldiers

on the front line in Belgium. If you'd like to find out more about

World War One At Home, a partnership between the BBC and Imperial War

Museums, go to bbc.co.uk/ww1. And there'll be more on your BBC

local radio station at 8:15 tomorrow morning.

A man who spearheaded the rescue effort in a storm`hit Cornish

coastal community says he can't believe no`one was killed. George

Trubody risked his life to help people flee the storms, which

smashed windows and flooded homes in Kingsand and Cawsand. Grabbing a few

hours sleep when he could, George co`ordinated the emergency response.

He's the second in our series, 'Heroes of the Storm', as John

Henderson reports. In the midst of the perfect storms

that hit Kingsand and Cawsand, one man appears to have stood out and

stood calm. The storm water was halfway up the door, and I couldn't

get out to secure it from the outside. So I had my life jacket on

and in between waves, managed to brace myself in the doorway and then

work my way around a corner to put the shutters in place to stop them

flooding out. As waves pounded the villages, George Trubody was well

and truly in the thick of it. This is his footage from one storm. Oh,

my God! A week later, he was there during another pounding. Several

people have nominated the Cornwall councillor for a storm hero award.

Without George, it would have been even more terrifying, and I looked

out of the top window there, and I saw him running around with his life

jacket on, thankfully, and going around the corner, which is quite

tricky, and making sure that everybody was all right. George's

knowledge of the area was a huge help. Hello, Helen. How are you?

Alan Hudson's front room in Kingsand looks right out onto the sea. During

the peak of the storms, huge waves smashed windows, crashed onto the

roof, and threatened to overwhelm the house. When the message came

through to evacuate, George was there. I think he was really the ace

who saved us all. He really did far more than the call of duty. He was

here on duty when the waves were coming down. He has been nominated a

hero. You would obviously second that? Absolutely. Absolutely, yes. I

think he should get an OBE. LAUGHS. For the man himself, there was no

choice but to help others. I thought the ingredients were there for

someone to be seriously injured or killed. I've never seen anything

like it. It was terrifying. The adrenaline does kicks in, and all I

thought about was making sure people were safe, and get them out. He may

have met the top man, but all George cares about are the people who

survived the storm in his part of Cornwall.

So, who are your storm heroes? If there's someone you think we should

celebrate, then you can contact us by email at [email protected] or

on Facebook or Twitter. After all the grim stories, it is good to

feature some positive news. It's not often here at Spotlight

that we're credited with the role of music moguls ` but it seems we may

be responsible for shaping the careers of a young Cornish band.

You might remember back in July, we featured the group Blue Horyzon,

Here's a bit of them in action. UPBEAT MUSIC.

Well, following their appearance on Spotlight, Blue Horyzon have now won

a record deal. The band members Nathan, Sam, and Seb joined us

earlier ` with Vicky Daniel from Riverfish Music.

Things obviously really looking up for you since we last spoke. It

follows the appearance on Spotlight. Where we a lucky charm?

You like it was all down to you. Ever since then, things have started

looking up for us. We have more lax on Facebook. People are recognising

us more. Vicky and Riverfish, they saw us on Spotlight, and things have

been looking up since then. Tell us about what you have been doing since

we saw you in July in terms of your musical development. We have been

recording a lot of new songs. A sound has changed a lot from when we

did that just to incorporate the new songs. Hopefully we will record them

in the future. You have been busy with festivals. You are talking

about that. How important is to raise your profile the UK? It is

very important. The gig we played last year was in front of 3000

people, and it was amazing. We had to do more stuff like that in

future. Fahma Mohamed `` Vicki, there is an element of truth in

that, isn't there? We saw them at in the programme, and because we live

in Penzance and they are regular buskers, we saw them quite a lot of

times, and my partner is a record producer and saw them and wanted to

work with them. He said there were good and wanted to record them one

day. And we didn't do anything about that, but we saw them on Spotlight,

check them out on the Internet, on their website, and called them in.

They came over to the studio, and they gave as a private gig. That is

it. What was it about this sounds that attracted you? I have to say

was much more my partner, who is a record producer and songwriter. He

absolutely loved the soul of what they did. We just love it, really.

You does can't help but instantly love it. It is a distinctive sound,

isn't it? When you see that going? That is a big question. But the

top. That's the right and sell. We will be taking a cut is, of

course, after our involvement. we wish you all the best. We will hear

from you at the end of the programme. Thank you for coming in

today. Great to see them doing so well. We

will be greedy, though. 20%. We are joking, of course. Time now for a

look at the weather. Good evening. It looks like we will

see a storm developing later on. It is mostly the Cornwall. By the end

of the night, it will be a windy affair. Tamara is a blustery and

windy day. It will be showers and sunshine reserves of the afternoon.

The morning is cloudy. There is a potential for the high ground of

seeing some snow. The more land could turn out to be witchery by the

end of the day tomorrow. At the moment, we have on the satellite

picture, the bands of rain moving away into Scandinavia. That was last

night's wet weather. This developing area of low pressure means we will

probably see storm`force winds, most likely from the far west of Cornwall

across to the Isles of Scilly. The receivers gusts of wind peaking at

around 70 mph briefly tomorrow morning before they ease through the

afternoon as the low pressure moves into northern France. By the time we

get to Saturday, there are a few isobars on the chart, so expect

Saturday to be quieter. Quite cloudy with patchy rain. When it comes in

tonight will be accompanied by strong winds, and for a short while

later in the night, some of that rain will turn into sleet and snow.

I have to stress, it is over the high ground, mostly Exmoor and

Dartmoor. The winds do pick up across the far west of Cornwall by

the end of the night. The shows we have seen today have been lively at

times, but now they have tended to fade away. There are isolated

showers left behind now, and overnight, to start with, there is

dry weather before that rain band turns up. This was earlier today,

where we managed to get some sunshine in between the showers.

Despite all of this wet weather and this windy weather, the spring rooms

are still struggling through. It seems daffodils don't take any

notice of the weather. They came up a bit later than they normally do,

but for many of our spring flowers, they are starting to show. That will

continue over the next week or so, because the weather remains

relatively unsettled, but nothing too dramatic with the temperatures.

Just out to the west of us, there is a line of rain. That will come out

later tonight. It is moving fast. Heavy bursts of rain possible. That

will be replaced by blustery showers in the second half of the night, and

there's gale`force winds. Overnight averages of a five degrees.

Tomorrow, the showery rain through the morning will gradually peter

out. It is much better in afternoon, and the potential over

the high ground across parts of Dorset and Somerset the sleet. By

the end of the day, temperatures getting up to seven or eight

degrees, but no higher. At least we will get some late sunshine. For the

Isles of Scilly, the strongest winds for a time with sunshine and showers

that much of the day tomorrow. If you're worried about the times of

high water, here big waves too. The post will be

messy. Up to ten feet because of that strength of wind. That is the

coastal waters forecast. The winds dropped to the day. Here are the

gale`force strengths. Quieter on Saturday, but cloudy with outbreaks

of rain and showers returning on Sunday. Have a good evening.

That is all from us this evening, but we will leave you tonight with a

little bit of music from Cornish band Blue Horyzon ` this is Broken

Bridges. # We will run away, runaway

# We will run away, runaway