06/06/2014 BBC Channel Islands News

A former Jersey Politician has been found guilty of misconduct

Graeme Butcher, who was Constable of St John until 2011, used the

parish credit card to buy things for himself including a satdllite

accounts here at the Parish Hall they noticed something was wrong.

Today, the former father of the Paris was convicted on 10 counts of

misconduct in public office. He did not want to talk on his way out of

court but he is a wealthy m`n. Will you be saying anything to the media?

He made his money and property before taking office. The

prosecution said he committdd the offences not to get rich but through

arrogance. He told the court he simply had forgotten to rep`y them.

The jury said it happened too often to be simple oversights.

A man who used an 8 inch knhfe to try and rubber supermarket has been

sent to prison. The judge c`lled it a serious offence now community can

tolerate. Government workers in Guernsey are threatening to act

unless more is done to improve their pay conditions. Employees mdt to

discuss the offer. The union member says his representatives ard very

angry. It is a threat. Therd are some very angry people, talking

amongst themselves seeing if Bob cannot sort it out they shotld sort

it themselves. Today marks the 0th anniversary of D`Day. There were

many from our island is fighting on that day and the BBC has bedn to

meet some of them. Among them paying their respects

were Channel Island veterans, some of them making their 1st visits

since the war. I spoke to 2 of them making the journey. Are meeting for

the 1st time about to set s`il for France. On D`Day, John was carrying

an anti`tank guns and bombs when he waded onshore. It was scary but you

knew what you did it to do `nd it was a case of get off the bdach as

soon as you could. You did not really have time to appreci`te

anything. Your main object was to get off the beach. He said the

mortars were particularly h`rrowing. We were ordered, we were shdlled,

then the big came up behind us. `` the big guns. The noise was

terrible. Terrible. Even today, the memories are too painful to share. I

walked along the beach, see if it was as I remembered it. It hs not

good standing here and talkhng about it. All right. The Channel Hsland

veterans live in the closest part of Britain to the Normandy beaches

They found the courage to go back after all the horrors of war and no

doubt they feel proud that they and all their friends who never came

back are being honoured tod`y. I had tunnel vision. I was not looking

this way that way, I would just get on beach. When we went in, there was

a destroyer that had been stnk sticking out of the water, `nd all

the dead bodies around it, `nd then the carnage on the beaches. Driving

through the minefield. It w`s pretty frightening, actually. When the

fighting finished and they return home they found a very diffdrent

Island to the one they had left Everywhere there were reminders of

the occupation they had esc`ped From the prisoners of war clearing

the minefield to the bunkers and barbed wire, Jersey would ndver be

the same again. 70 years on, the Normandy veterans still remdmber

what they did with pride. So do the people of France, who this xear gave

them a gift of sand from Om`ha Beach. These men from a small island

played an important part in one of history's biggest battles. Thank you

to those veterans for sharing their stories with us. That is thd news

tonight. I will leave you whth the weather forecast. Good evenhng, it

has been a warm day in the Channel Islands today. Breezy at tiles but

into the weekend we are expdcting thundery showers. Although H think

we will see plenty of sunny spells as well. This low pressure hs trying

to push some cold air towards the east. At the same time, warl air is

coming up from the continent. Where they collide we see some thtndery

showers but once this cold front pushes through tomorrow I think

things should freshen and sdttle down a bit. For tonight we `re

starting to see those showers pushing up. It is quite a htmid

night full stop average is not falling much below 14 or 15 degrees.

Some of those showers will be around but I think they will clear through

the morning and by then it will tend to be drier and brighter with some

sunshine, particularly for the afternoon. Temperatures will be

creeping into the 20s for some of us. Still a risk of showers but

generally it should be dry. Generally another dry day on Sunday

with further sunny spells and light wind. Just the chance of a shower

arriving. It is a similar phcture as we go into the working week. In

improve to some extent. Phe showers move !way an$ a fre3h `ppe!l to

things. Good evening. The good news is,

there will be some decent dry on a sunny moment to come through the

weekend. But over the next 24 hours, the threat of thunderstorms

looms large. The ingredients have been coming together today - warm

air pushing northwards out of Iberia, cooler air from the Atlantic

trying to pushed