:00:00. > :00:08.That's all from t`e BBC Fews `t Six. It's 'oodbye from me.
:00:09. > :00:11.Maternal instincts ` politicians clash over how much maternity
:00:12. > :00:23.The mothers returning to work are not very happy and distressdd about
:00:24. > :00:24.that. Honouring our war heroes `
:00:25. > :00:27.are World War I veterans from the Channel Islands owdd
:00:28. > :00:30.a more fitting memorial in Durope? I do like it in a coffee but it is
:00:31. > :00:41.too rich and fatty. Find out why this has fallen out of
:00:42. > :01:18.favour with islanders in Gudrnsey. Pregnancy can be an anxious time but
:01:19. > :01:22.women in Jersey have added financial worries as there is no legal
:01:23. > :01:29.obligation for employers to pay them for their time off work. Thdy get
:01:30. > :01:31.two weeks wages. After giving birth, two weeks previously,
:01:32. > :02:56.emotionally and physically, a mother will be the key to balance the
:02:57. > :02:59.rights of woman and the needs of the island's businesses.
:03:00. > :03:02.At today's States meeting, members also voted to spend millions
:03:03. > :03:04.of pounds on a new waste water treatment plant.
:03:05. > :03:07.Our reporter Christina Ghidoni was following the debate and johned me
:03:08. > :03:14.Jersey's politicians spent this afternoon talking about plans to
:03:15. > :03:17.spend ?75 million replacing the sewage treatment plant at Bdllozane
:03:18. > :03:22.and update the island's sew`ge system over the next few decades.
:03:23. > :03:28.The plan is by Transport and Technical Services.
:03:29. > :03:31.However the Planning Ministdr Deputy Robert Duhamel said this afternoon
:03:32. > :03:35.in the States that the plans don't fulfil environment principlds the
:03:36. > :03:38.island has signed up to and could be more environmentally friendly.
:03:39. > :03:42.In the end, the plan was passed with just two
:03:43. > :03:50.politicians voting against ht. Interestingly neither
:03:51. > :03:54.of those two were Deputy Duhamel! Also lodged today were proposals to
:03:55. > :03:58.regulate charities under a law which would include
:03:59. > :04:01.a voluntary charities register. Charities would then be overseen
:04:02. > :04:05.by a States funded independdnt Commissioner.
:04:06. > :04:13.But this will be actually ddbated by the States at another sitting
:04:14. > :04:16.After nearly three decades of trading, Quayside in Guernsey
:04:17. > :04:20.The home and leisure store hn St Sampson's will shut next January.
:04:21. > :04:22.The company says it's because the building it occtpies
:04:23. > :04:26.The 25 staff who will lose their jobs were told
:04:27. > :04:32.Jersey's Treasury has confirmed it's in the process of borrowing ?25
:04:33. > :04:36.It's gone to the financial markets to price the bond.
:04:37. > :04:38.The money will be invested in affordable homes,
:04:39. > :04:43.and will be paid off over the next 40 years at a rate of 3.75%.
:04:44. > :04:45.An apprenticeship scheme for young aspiring fishermen
:04:46. > :04:47.in Guernsey is being critichsed by some local fishermen.
:04:48. > :04:50.The scheme was launched in September last year by the Commerce
:04:51. > :04:53.and Employment department and so far, two islanders are taking part.
:04:54. > :05:03.The fish quay in St Peter Port is the heart
:05:04. > :05:06.of Guernsey's fishing industry, a particularly challenging industry.
:05:07. > :05:09.Buying a boat, rising fuel costs and falling fish prices makd it
:05:10. > :05:13.difficult to earn a living. The government's trying to help
:05:14. > :05:16.by offering under`25s the opportunity to run a small boat for
:05:17. > :05:20.three years as an apprenticdship, before investing in a full licence.
:05:21. > :05:21.So far only one person has been granted a licence
:05:22. > :05:33.and one more has applied. The fishermen didn't want to talk
:05:34. > :05:34.today but felt the scheme isn't working.
:05:35. > :05:40.and one more has applied. The Commerce and Employment
:05:41. > :05:45.Department says the scheme's focused on quality rather than quantity
:05:46. > :05:53.It is for fishermen keen to pursue a career rather than encouraghng as
:05:54. > :05:57.many entries as possible. on quality rather than quantity
:05:58. > :06:00.Most of these boats are owndd by men who've fished for decades.
:06:01. > :06:01.It's now up to younger generations to decide if a career
:06:02. > :06:14.at sea is really one for thdm. Thousands of men from the
:06:15. > :06:17.Channel Islands risked their lives Those that fell are recognised
:06:18. > :06:21.on various monuments across Europe but there is no mark
:06:22. > :06:29.of the overall contributions It was described
:06:30. > :06:31.as the war to end all wars. Thousands of men from the
:06:32. > :06:35.Channel Islands fought for the allies against German Elpire.
:06:36. > :06:39.Many didn't come home. Those that died are remembered at
:06:40. > :06:42.the island's cenotaph as well as on various larger monuments in France.
:06:43. > :06:44.But there is no specific melorial dedicated to
:06:45. > :06:46.the overall contribution thd Channel Islands made anywhere in Europe
:06:47. > :06:50.Historian, Ian, witnessed this when he wrote the first ever book
:06:51. > :06:56.on the Channel Islands involvement in the Great War.
:06:57. > :07:03.Canada and Australia have l`rge memorials commended `` commdmorating
:07:04. > :07:08.a sacrifice and the deeds of the soldiers. The exception is Jersey
:07:09. > :07:12.and Guernsey. Nowhere in Fr`nce and Belgium will you find a memorial
:07:13. > :07:16.that commemorates the soldidrs of Guernsey and Jersey. Nothing says
:07:17. > :07:20.they were here fighting. in the Great War.
:07:21. > :07:22.But now the Vice`Chairman of the Jersey branch of the British Legion
:07:23. > :07:34.is behind efforts to change that. We need to get a team to buhld a
:07:35. > :07:40.memorial. We have to find ott who will fund it, how it will bd funded
:07:41. > :07:44.and there is a lot of things to do. Hopefully, we will start thd ball
:07:45. > :07:47.rolling and find a way of achieving something over the centenarx period.
:07:48. > :07:50.is behind efforts to change that. If this memorial goes ahead,
:07:51. > :07:51.our soldiers who risked thehr lives won't be just remembered in the
:07:52. > :07:58.islands, but also where thex fought. We're told it's full of calcium
:07:59. > :08:00.and minerals but some worry that the humble pint
:08:01. > :08:04.of milk is also full of fat. Well, over the last ten years
:08:05. > :08:08.sales of Red Milk in Guernsdy have Penny Elderfield asks why and
:08:09. > :08:20.what the impact is on the D`iry When it comes to the white stuff,
:08:21. > :08:23.apparently most of us like ht blue. It's Guernsey Dairy's
:08:24. > :08:27.biggest seller. But when it comes to picking
:08:28. > :08:30.between blue, green and red... What's your preference?
:08:31. > :08:33.Over the last decade there's been a real shift away from people
:08:34. > :08:36.buying full fat Guernsey milk. Moving onto some of the healthier
:08:37. > :08:37.options like Green milk. But why are people
:08:38. > :08:54.making that change? I do blue because it is healthier.
:08:55. > :08:59.Why? Blue milk is a bit too rich. I buy this one. It is too rich and
:09:00. > :09:09.fatty. making that change?
:09:10. > :09:13.But sales of Red Milk have dropped by 25% and on the flip side,
:09:14. > :09:14.sales of skimmed green milk are up by 36% as we all watch
:09:15. > :09:31.our waist lines a little more. It shows the more people th`t
:09:32. > :09:37.consume low`fat products, the more cream we have to produce butter with
:09:38. > :09:39.and. Our bottom margins are increasing and our sales of butter
:09:40. > :09:42.are increasing. our waist lines a little more.
:09:43. > :09:45.So as the public try and perhaps loose a few pounds, the
:09:46. > :09:49.change in habits could potentially be making the dairy a few.
:09:50. > :09:52.Just before we take a look at the weather ` many
:09:53. > :09:56.of us might like to tell politicians to get on their bikes and this
:09:57. > :10:00.Seven States Members took a ten minutes trip around St Helier
:10:01. > :10:07.And they want more of us to follow suit.
:10:08. > :10:14.Take encouragement and use xour bike maybe once in the next two weeks.
:10:15. > :10:20.There is a perception at pe`k times that there is a level of congestion
:10:21. > :10:25.which would be nice to improve. This is wonderful. We have only gone a
:10:26. > :10:31.short way but every little bit helps. There is an important is for
:10:32. > :10:35.keeping fit for a healthy body. David, they were on their bhkes Is
:10:36. > :10:42.it going to be good weather for us on our bikes?
:10:43. > :10:50.The temperatures this reallx on the rise. For the most part tomorrow, it
:10:51. > :10:54.is a wet cycle to work. We will have some rain that will slowly clear and
:10:55. > :10:59.it will become brighter in the afternoon. We have this are` of low
:11:00. > :11:03.pressure here. It is moving across southern parts of Britain. Ht is not
:11:04. > :11:08.a fast`moving system and it will take its time before it cle`rs out
:11:09. > :11:12.of the way. We have this arda of low pressure through Thursday and
:11:13. > :11:15.Friday. This will be the engine to draw some warm air from the
:11:16. > :11:21.Mediterranean. It will lift the temperatures. There are also bands
:11:22. > :11:27.of showers and we will have to watch those. Rain overnight tonight, it
:11:28. > :11:32.could be heavy at times. Ovdrnight temperatures staying into double
:11:33. > :11:39.figures. For tomorrow, we h`ve a damp start. Outbreaks of rahn will
:11:40. > :11:45.be off and on for the morning. We will get some sunshine and hf you
:11:46. > :11:50.showers that will follow. A top temperature of 15 Celsius. Here is
:11:51. > :12:13.our coastal waters forecast. Here are our times of high water.
:12:14. > :12:22.For most of our beaches, thd surf is likely to be on the choppy side The
:12:23. > :12:26.outlook is warmer. The self or south`east wind will pick up as we
:12:27. > :12:36.move into Friday bringing hhgher temperatures. `` the self or
:12:37. > :12:41.Southeast wind. A top temperature of 21 Celsius on Friday. Have ` good
:12:42. > :12:46.evening. Remember the umbrellas If you have taken some weather photos
:12:47. > :12:50.that you would like to see, you can e`mail them to us. We look forward
:12:51. > :13:04.to getting those pictures. Goodbye. myth welcomes the Queen's b`ton is
:13:05. > :13:07.the `` as the game continues. And an athlete waits to hear if she
:13:08. > :13:09.will be competing one year `fter having a baby.
:13:10. > :13:13.`` Plymouth welcomes. Staying with sport, and Devon League
:13:14. > :13:17.Two football club Exeter City has had to go cap in hand to
:13:18. > :13:19.the Professional Footballers' Association to obtain an emdrgency
:13:20. > :13:22.loan to pay its players. The hard`up Grecians sufferdd a fall
:13:23. > :13:26.in attendances and have had a slow Manager Paul Tisdale has also had
:13:27. > :13:30.his playing budget cut The loan will see the club through
:13:31. > :13:34.the summer months before next The Queen's Baton Relay was given a
:13:35. > :13:40.rapturous welcome today as ht passed through Plymouth on its journey to
:13:41. > :13:43.Glasgow for the Commonwealth Games. The itinerary covers 70 Nathons
:13:44. > :13:47.and Territories and 190,000 km. Plymouth Life Centre hosted
:13:48. > :14:01.today's event and Dave Gibbhns was The Queen 's Commonwealth G`mes
:14:02. > :14:05.baton and came to Plymouth life centre with double bearers.
:14:06. > :14:09.Tae kwon do ace Katie Bradldy and highly rated disabled athlete,
:14:10. > :14:20.though It is really great to be able to see
:14:21. > :14:24.it up close and even see sole of the words on the message. It is great to
:14:25. > :14:27.be a part of it. To carry it for the Commonwealth is a huge honotr and
:14:28. > :14:34.privilege, and I hope that one day I can actually represent Brit`in in
:14:35. > :14:38.the Commonwealth Games and lake my city happy again and my country
:14:39. > :14:42.I think it is a really great experience for hours and I `m proud
:14:43. > :14:45.for it to be implemented. I thought it would be bigger, I did
:14:46. > :14:50.not know it was going to be that size.
:14:51. > :14:54.I think it will be a big evdnt, happening around here.
:14:55. > :14:58.The life centre is synonymots with swimming and there will be five of
:14:59. > :15:03.Plymouth Leander's swimmers at the games in Glasgow, led by a lan who
:15:04. > :15:09.has already proved himself `t Olympic Olympic level.
:15:10. > :15:13.For the baton to come here, trabecular lead to this part of the
:15:14. > :15:19.country, there is no better place than to come to the life centre ``
:15:20. > :15:22.particularly to this part. With the Commonwealth Games coming
:15:23. > :15:26.up, we have international tdams coming to train at the life centre,
:15:27. > :15:31.as well, so it is not only for England, it is world`renowndd now.
:15:32. > :15:34.This is the fourth day of the English leg of the Queen's Baton
:15:35. > :15:38.Relay. There are 50 days to go before the start of the Comlonwealth
:15:39. > :15:39.Games in Glasgow, and these two young ladies enjoyed every single
:15:40. > :15:46.minute of holding the Queen's baton. young ladies enjoyed every single
:15:47. > :15:50.minute of holding the Queen's baton. Meanwhile, a Devon athlete hs hoping
:15:51. > :15:53.to be named in the England team for the Commonwealth Games.
:15:54. > :15:56.Jo Pavey has run the times needed to qualify for the five
:15:57. > :15:59.and ten thousand metres at Glasgow. She's returned to the track only
:16:00. > :16:03.a year after having a baby. Brent Pilnick has the story.
:16:04. > :16:14.She is a little baby with a very busy money. As Emily plays with APPC
:16:15. > :16:18.Daisy, her playmates contemplate the next training session. Jo P`vey has
:16:19. > :16:21.been Britain's leading dist`nce runner for some years and is
:16:22. > :16:24.balancing her nine`month`old daughter with putting in thd miles
:16:25. > :16:28.on the roads of Devon. I did not even know if it would be
:16:29. > :16:31.possible for me to get back to fitness at this age. It seeled a
:16:32. > :16:35.long way back and I was still breast`feeding at the start of
:16:36. > :16:39.April. With the trials for the 10,000 for the Europeans especially
:16:40. > :16:44.at the start of May, it was quite a battle to get fit in time. Ht seemed
:16:45. > :16:48.like I made it at the last linute, so I have been pleasantly strprised
:16:49. > :17:03.and it has been fun being b`ck. This was the last time Jo Pavey put on an
:17:04. > :17:04.international vest, when shd represented Great Britain at the
:17:05. > :17:07.Olympics in 2012. You have to go back eight ydars for
:17:08. > :17:09.the last thing she represented England at the Commonwealth Games,
:17:10. > :17:12.some things she hopes she c`n do again in Glasgow this summer.
:17:13. > :17:14.To actually compete in Great Britain again with the roar of the home
:17:15. > :17:17.crowd, it is something that is really appealing to me, it raises
:17:18. > :17:20.the motivation and makes it even more exciting. It is definitely
:17:21. > :17:23.something I am looking forw`rd to. Could Emily have a mummy who is a
:17:24. > :17:29.medal winner? I guess we will just have two wait and see.
:17:30. > :17:37.Throughout this year on Spotlight, in partnership with
:17:38. > :17:39.Imperial War Museums we ard marking the 100th anniversary
:17:40. > :17:43.of the outbreak of the Great War, and tonight we have the rem`rkable
:17:44. > :17:47.Captain Oscar Greig was shot down by the notorious Red Baron,
:17:48. > :17:51.and was held as a prisoner until the end of the War.
:17:52. > :17:53.He escaped in 1918 and lived out his days on
:17:54. > :18:01.As part of our series, World War One at Home, I've been to meet two
:18:02. > :18:03.people who remember Oscar in later life, including Maggie Clark,
:18:04. > :18:14.There is nothing to compare with the joys of flying. To express joie de
:18:15. > :18:27.vivre to the fullest extent. It is necessary to fly.
:18:28. > :18:32.He was a pioneering pilot, flying fanatic, and the war gave hhm great
:18:33. > :18:41.Where one can perform antics utterly impossible on the ground
:18:42. > :18:46.and amongst scenery of the lost magnificent and majestic be`uty
:18:47. > :18:52.Part of Oscar's role in the early war years was to photograph cloud
:18:53. > :18:55.formations to help other pilots and this album is a collecthon of
:18:56. > :19:07.As well as a prolific photographer, he was an avid author,
:19:08. > :19:10.and the Imperial War Museum in London is now home to his
:19:11. > :19:20.This is the diary he was wrhting in the run`up to the time hd was
:19:21. > :19:26.He says he was in machine 6897, and rights, shot down.
:19:27. > :19:29.He then takes up the story hn his memoirs, and he writes about the
:19:30. > :19:34.He says, there was another burst of fire from my right putting
:19:35. > :19:39.the engine out of action and hitting me on the right ankle, knocking
:19:40. > :19:47.He said, I had no pain in mx foot, only a not unpleasant sensation
:19:48. > :19:54.What strikes me is how polite they remain throughout this orde`l,
:19:55. > :19:57.because he says to his observer once they have crash landed, was he hit?
:19:58. > :20:02.I told him, I got a Blighty one in the foot and
:20:03. > :20:11.At which point he asked me
:20:12. > :20:15.me if we were in Hun land and was not pleased to find that we were.
:20:16. > :20:18.It turns out they were shot down by the notorious Red Baron.
:20:19. > :20:21.And Oscar later discovered a picture showing his plane number,
:20:22. > :20:36.6997, on display in the Red Baron's headquarters.
:20:37. > :20:40.He was held as a prisoner until the end of the war, btt
:20:41. > :20:42.in December 1918, determined to get home for Christmas.
:20:43. > :20:45.And he did, but his experience left its mark.
:20:46. > :20:47.He lived out his days in thhs Devon farmhouse,
:20:48. > :20:55.There were cobwebs hanging in all the rooms.
:20:56. > :21:00.And he had an ancient Hoover, which he never used.
:21:01. > :21:04.In fact, as you walked throtgh the hall
:21:05. > :21:07.you'd leave your footprints in the dust, we always said.
:21:08. > :21:13.I used to make cakes for hil sometimes, I would pop them through
:21:14. > :21:17.the door, because I would ptt lots of eggs in and make sure he was ..
:21:18. > :21:30.Well, this is a landscape that has barely changed since Oscar's day,
:21:31. > :21:33.and I am off to meet Tom Endacott, who farmed in this area when Oscar
:21:34. > :21:38.lived here. What sort of effect do you think the
:21:39. > :21:42.First World War and being a prisoner of war had on Oscar later in life?
:21:43. > :21:45.It left him certainly very nervous. He did not like barbed wire being
:21:46. > :21:53.used anywhere on the farm. One of the things was leaving his door open
:21:54. > :21:59.always, that was just I think a fear of being shut in, locked up.
:22:00. > :22:03.Canny about his flying exploits He used to fly about three liles
:22:04. > :23:56.from here. Just above where I was living here,
:23:57. > :27:12.Here is the causal waters forecast, north`westerly four or five
:27:13. > :27:16.tomorrow, especially through the afternoon.
:27:17. > :27:21.`` coastal waters forecast. The temperatures are on the rise.
:27:22. > :27:24.Note how the temperatures climb up to 19, possibly 20 Celsius by the
:27:25. > :27:28.weekend but also an increashng risk of seeing some heavy showers
:27:29. > :27:31.develop, especially overnight Friday night and into Saturday.
:27:32. > :27:36.That is all from me, have a good evening.
:27:37. > :27:38.Another county sure, we will be ready for anything the weather has
:27:39. > :27:40.to throw at us! Come rain or shine, we will be
:27:41. > :27:45.there. That is all from us, we will be back
:27:46. > :27:47.with you tomorrow, from all of us here, good night.