17/06/2014 BBC Channel Islands News

Good evening. first look at the

The passengers of a private plane had a lucky escape after thdir

aircraft crashed shortly after taking off from Guernsey Airport.

The two occupants of the single`engine light `ircraft

walked away uninjured, but were taken to hospital as a prec`ution.

The tangled wreckage of a plane that failed to fly.

A green house took the brunt of the impact.

The UK registered light aircraft crashed seconds after take

off shortly after five o'clock this aftdrnoon.

Police cordens were immediately in place and homes evacuated to

the east of the runway but I managed to speak to the person

At first I thought it was a lorry that had lost its load. It was a

heck of a bang. Minutes later

and the emergency services ordered We have been confined to thd house

in the crash zone. Emergencx services are pumping fuel away.

The two people on board are very lucky and walked away unharled.

And BBC Radio Guernsey will be live at the crash site in

the morning from 6 and you can read more online at bbc.co.uk/gudrnsey.

An inquest has heard that a man who died at a house bding

62`year`old Georges Le Maistre was working at the property at

Upper Midvale Road in St Helier when he was killed last week.

Today's inquest focussed on personal details so that Mr Le Maistre body

The details of what happened here on the 9th June are subject to

a Health and Safety Inspectorate investigation that is underway.

The deputy viscount was told that a post mortem examination found

the cause of death was traulatic asphyxiation ` compression

of the chest and that the rdsults of toxicology and histological

The police said that the accident wasn't being treated as suspicious.

The insurers for Mr Le Maistre employers, Skinner Skips,

were at the hearing which was adjourned until

Guernsey's fire service rescued four people this morning

after a fire broke out at a hotel in St Peter Port.

Most of the residents and staff had evacuated the Grange Lodge Hotel

when fire officers arrived just after four thirty am, but a few were

One person has been treated for smoke inhalation.

The fire is believed to havd started in the laundry room.

Jersey's government has supported the signing of an agreement

All financial institutions handling money on behalf of US citizdns will

need to inform and give det`ils to the American tax authorities.

High level swimming competitions can no longer be held at the Be`u Sejour

swimming pool in Guernsey, because it's too short.

A recent change in regulations set by the International governhng body

of swimming, means the 25 mdtre pool is fractionally too small when

If national competitions ard to be held there in future,

the pool must be extended, as Emma Chambers reports.

Training hard this morning ` Beau Sejour is the home to

It's also been the home to national swimming competitions in Gudrnsey

A recent rule change means the pool is now considered too small

when electronic timing pads are used in the water.

Beau Sejour has been the centre of swimming obviously

And the ASA originally accepted 25 metre pools and putting the pads in,

this was acceptable, but because the new pools are being built with

this extra bit they've deemdd all pools have to be re`measured.

And unfortunately Beau Sejotr didn't meet regulations by only a fraction.

Now this is one of the electronic timing devices

that are put at the end of dach lane during competitions and as xou can

see they're not very thick `t all in fact they're only about 1cm wide.

But now this new rule means the pool is too short

They must be now held at thd pool in St Sampsons.

St Sampsons pool hasn't got a swim down pool so when yot get

a bit older, when you have ` big programme it makes it that luch more

You need to flush that lacthc out before you get to the next race

That could deter visiting tdams so the Minister in charge is keen

We would have to take the thles off, skim some of the concrete

We don't know what?s involvdd unfortunately with

the cost that's something wd'll have to go to property services

Being one centimetre short hsn't affecting these swimmers

preparations for the Commonwealth Games taking place next

month, but they hope a solution can be found so Beau Sejour doesn't sink

Sport and in tennis Guernsey's Heather Watson is through

to the next round at the Eastbourne Ageon Championship She came back to

beat former Wimbledon semi finalist Tsvetana Pironkova of Bulgarian

I am back tomorrow at 6:30pl. There isn't a great deal of changd in our

weather pattern. The high pressure is not quite close enough to keep

all of the cloud at bay and we keep a bit of the breeze. Tomorrow, it is

more cloudy but it is dry and warm and we should see some sunnx spells.

Same process that has been happening over the last 24 hours. We have a

lot of cloud coming through the edge of this pressure. It is drifting

into Northern France into goosing cloudier skies. That process will

happen over night to night. It will start off clear and later wd will

see more cloud creeping in. Light winds to start the day. The cloud is

extensive at first and it whll break up to sunny spells and we should see

temperatures of 19 Celsius. The forecast onto the weekend is still

dry with plenty of sunshine. days, a dip in teeperature Frhday

with warmer temperatures o6er t`e weekend.

The main theme through this week is one of mainly dry weather but with

important variations from place to play sand from day-to-day. That was

the case again today. A sizzling