28/07/2014 BBC Channel Islands News

That's all from the Good evening.

A Jersey woman accused of stabbing her husband

Plus, a row over how well and how quickly Guernsey hires teachers.

And we are in Glasgow with the action

and reaction to island achievements in the Commonwealth Games.

I'll perform. I know I can do it, and luckily it was enough to get me

through. A 34`year`old woman is standing

trial in Jersey accused of stabbing her husband on

Christmas Eve last year. Marivic Vautier from the Philippines

denies grave and criminal assault, claiming her husband injured

himself. The police were called

to flats here at Westley Court in St Saviour early on the evening

of the 24th of December last year. They found Kevin Vautier lying

in his hall with a kitchen knife Mrs Vautier no longer lived with her

husband The prosecution claim, following

an argument, Mrs Vautier had But the jury also heard that

Mrs Vautier told police when she left there was no knife in his chest

and he must have stabbed himself. DNA tests

of the knife proved inconclusive. The defence case is due

to start tomorrow. Guernsey's education department has

released new evidence to try and allay fears about the time it

takes to recruit teachers. Education expert Denis Mulkerrin

cited recruitment issues as one of the key reasons for his recent

resignation from the board. Figures released today show

125 members of staff were On average it took 3.75 weeks to

advertise, interview and appoint primary school teachers, increasing

to 5.5 for secondary schools. A short time ago, I spoke to

the Education Minister, Robert Sillars, and asked if he thought

recruitment times were good enough. They are underway to being better.

What needs to change? I would like to have a smoother process. We

should be able to take a day out here and a dear dear. You can never

get to a perfect position, but you can improve on where you are at

today. What about retention is a problem. We have a

very good relationship with our housing department. Five`year

licenses are always going to be an issue. It is one we are overcoming

working together with housing. Have had issues in the past. `` you have

had issues in the past getting more against the people involved. How is

that calling? That is going well. The majority of teachers within the

high schools are local. There are some 40% that are not. It is very

difficult to recruit and that is rarer challengers. `` that is our

challenges. A Guernsey racing driver is

in hospital after a serious crash When Marcus Mahy's Ferrari

collided with another Ferrari, the race was stopped and he was taken

to hospital in an air ambulance. He has been woken

from a medically`induced coma Aurigny is starting

a direct flight between Guernsey They will begin in September

with four flights each week day. The airline hopes it will prove

popular with business commuters, potentially freeing up space

on the busy Gatwick service. I think it is inevitable that some

of our passengers will make it is inevitable that some of our

passengers will up some capacity on the Gatwick route.

There has been plenty of Channel Island action

To catch up with the latest Edward is in Glasgow for us tonight.

No medals yet, Clare, but there are still plenty of chances.

We have high hopes in squash, bowls and shooting.

But the shooting is taking place up in Carnoustie on the outskirts

of Dundee, and it is shooting in the full bore pairs that Jersey

I went there over the weekend to see if history could be repeated.

I streamed on targeting a medal. This paper the first of a blunt

sites in the 900 metres events year near Dundee. The competition had to

be doubly after a fall rolled in. Next up, it was jersey. The

islanders were in third place but in `` in medal contention, but sets of

them dropped to 10th place. In the 10,000 metres, guarantee had to

drive with `` the driving rain and fog. He ended up in 11th place. The

fourth year as a known problem. It just send from time from time to

time. It is the same for everyone and you just have to get on with it.

It is a bit frustrating. As jersey returned, to the pool themselves

back`up? Conditions improved and they gave it their all. But it was

not enough for a medal. They were beaten by England, Canada and

Australia into fifth place. If you can put yourself in the next, then

you have a pretty good chance. We was the future many at 900, but to

finish this is good and we just want to do jersey proud and we will give

it a good call over the next few days to try and do that.

Well, those shooters have been in action again today in

the singles and I can tell you that Jersey's Barry Le Cheminant is in

gold, Jersey's Dan Richardson is in silver, with one more day to shoot.

But it has been a disappointing weekend for

Two Jersey bowls teams narrowly missed out on places in the semi

finals and Guernsey's Matt Le Ber lost in the singles yesterday.

It is a sport that has high medal hopes for Channel Islands and this

morning as Jersey pairs Katie Nixon and Lindsey Greechan took on India,

The Jersey girls fought hard against a strong Indian side.

And support from home helped spur them on, but it was not to be.

Jersey lost 14`12 in their opening match in this group

The pair now ready to face Fiji, Kenya and New Zealand.

Today's result come as Jersey's men's triples team lost 16`13 to

This was matched by Jersey's women's fours team who,

after initially beating hosts Scotland in this match, were beaten

We went over with a chance of getting yourself on the door. ``

getting ourselves a medal. This is a big week for bowls

in Jersey. They know medal anticipation is high

but want to do themselves Well, it was a brilliant weekend

for Guernsey squash player Chris Simpson, who gave Nick Matthew

a tough ride on the squash court. And tonight sees Zane Duquemin

in the shot put final. Chris Simpson had high hopes

for these games. What he had not set his sights upon

was coming up against the top seed and World Champion Nick

Matthew in the quarter finals. Despite leading in the second

and third games, He has done everything the resin the

game of squash. He has a lot of experience and when it came down to

the big points, I think that will make a difference for him.

Another Guernseyman to lose to the eventual winner was Louis Plevin.

His opponent in the under 90 kilo class was

South African Zack Pinotek, who picked up the gold medal.

The bout was short and not so sweet for Guernsey's first Commonwealth

competitor in Judo who was beaten by Uchi`mata in a very quick time.

It lasted 19 seconds, but he was good. She is seventh in the world he

has won competitions and Japan. I could not do much more.

The athletics kicked off at Hampden Park yesterday

and first up of the six Channel Island athletes was Zane Duquemin.

He threw a seasons best of 18.9 meters, good enough to book

him a place in tonight's final, that despite a back injury.

I was cautious in the first round. This is what I trained for. You have

to take a few risks in the championships. I'm lucky it paid off

and I am in the final. And you can see how Zane gets

on when he throws Coverage of the athletics is on

BBC One. Craig Gascoyne has met the Queen,

but can he be crowned The men's and women's table tennis

singles begin tomorrow at 9:30. And the wait is almost over

for our cyclists. A quarter of Guernsey's team will be

competing on two wheels and two of those will be in action in

the tomorrow's mountain bike event. They will be joined

by a Jersey trio at 2pm. The shooters you mentioned earlier,

that is the closest we have come to a medal. How are you getting on?

They were the last medal winning peer from Jersey, the father and son

team back in 1990. The Jersey boys have to shoot 900 metres and 1000

metres in the event tomorrow. We should note the results by 4pm

tomorrow afternoon. If we get a medal, I may even wear tartan tie.

But I would pay to see two `` that I would pay to see!

Another bit of sports news to tell you about.

Guernsey's Heather Watson has won the WTA Baku Cup doubles title

She beat the third seeds in straight sets with her partner

She went out in the first round of the singles.

It is the British number one's fourth WTA

It may be until the end of the week before we see a change. It is

certainly more cool this week. We have one line of showers that has

travelled road across into Central Europe in the last 24 hours or so. A

scattering of showers, and we are on the edge of high pressure. There are

a couple of weather systems. A fair amount of cloud. I feel like we will

see a fair amount of rain from them. This range of high pressure comes in

tomorrow afternoon. It will hold until Wednesday and Thursday and

perhaps a change as we move into Freddie. Overnight, there is the

chance of a shower. Temperatures lower than they had been. We cannot

rule out the possibility of a passing shower, but the winds coming

in from the north and west. There is more chance of a shower in the

morning. By afternoon that will have gone. High of 20 or 21 Celsius. The

coastal waters forecast. Fear, with good visibility. `` fear. `` fair.

Here is the outlook. Mainly dry on Wednesday and Thursday. I don't

think we'll see much in way of showers. Have a good evening.

His jockey Hayden Frost says winning is in his blood.

Not surprising when you consider his father won the Grand National

Three winners in one fantastic day at Newton Abbot.

One Devon jockey, Hayden Frost, and one trainer, Martin Hill.

All local, all the owners were local, ridden by Hayden who I've

His dad rode my very first winner in 1979 or something.

Hayden's dad is none other than Jimmy Frost from Dartmoor.

What do you think has rubbed off on you from your dad?

We just get on a horse and ride first and then worry

about what was supposed to be said or done afterwards.

Would you like to win the Grand National?

Martin says three winners in one day is big news, especially

It would be the same as Martin Pipe or Paul Nicholls winning streak

on the day because, as a percentage of what we got

They don't come much better than this.

Next tonight, a rare insect has stopped a Devon village

The scaly cricket is so important that work can't go

ahead in Branscombe on repairs to damage caused by the winter storms!

Some chalets were left hanging in mid`air by the bad weather.

But Natural England says the species is important because it's only found

Spotlight's environment correspondent Adrian

Branscombe Beach was devastated by this winter's storms.

Beach huts were left hanging in thin air and since then,

there's been a concerted effort by local people to reconstruct

On a sunny day such as today, you expect to see lots

of people enjoying themselves on the beach but, when it comes to scaly

crickets, it's very difficult to find them here amongst the shingles.

Scaly crickets are a rare phenomenon which

I think the scaly crickets have a lot to do with it.

If it wasn't the scaly cricket, I think Natural England might look

at things differently and might allow the National Trust

to let us move some of the shingle up the beach, which

would be the natural thing to do to support the topple afore shore.

The shingle out the water's level can be washed away, whereas

if you pull it back up you got a chance of more shingle to build.

One of the people with a chalet on the beach says the scaly cricket

is effectively making it impossible for him and his wife to repair

It's also because the great storms in February damaged

quite a lot of the chalets and the infrastructure and the roads.

We are now being told that we can't do remedial work, possibly

Natural England confirmed it's very well aware of the potential delays

to the re`profiling of the beach after the winter storms.

It confirmed it has requested a survey be carried out about

the scaly cricket, which it says has a particular impact and importance

within Branscombe and the special site of scientific interest here.

A retired pub landlord who lost his ?500 watch, found it again when its

Yes. Terry Morgan was planning to spend

the vet to retrieve it for him, although in the end the dog managed

Spotlight's South Devon reporter John Ayres has the story.

A timepiece ticking away inside an animal might seem

like something from Peter Pan, but this was no fairytale.

to do with it but he had not expected him to have eaten it.

John Danks reports. couldn't find it anywhere.

1935 and Plymouth celebrates King George V's Silver Jubilee. The film

captures not only a unique event but also accords `` records what the

city looked like a few years before city looked like a few years before

a German bombs rained down on it. Just as Old Street were destroyed,

old ones were created. These films and thousands like them were until

recently stored at the Royal yards. The South West Film and TV Archive

has moved out to make way for a new hotel.

We have over 20,000 reels of film. We have tens of thousands of tapes,

as well. Planning how to move all of that material to three different

locations within our new premises was extremely challenging. The

collection now lives in Catherine collection now lives in Catherine

Street in Plymouth city centre, which was once home to BBC radio

Devon. Older news items from West for a TV, DFW and the BBC are now

held here. It gives me great pleasure to open

the tame our bridge. The films `` it appears that the nature of TV hasn't

evolved much over the years. We still have Royal visits and man`made

and natural disasters. There are plans for a new heritage centre in

Plymouth in a year's time. A multi`million pound development on

the site of the city's museum could be ready archive ends up

permanently. We are intending to create a major visitors attraction

that secures the city's historic collections. We want to use those

collections to really tell the story of Plymouth. What was making the new

16 years ago this week? An escaped convict on Dartmoor and a robot

cricket bowling machine at a boy's School in Tavistock.

We had temperatures of 28 degrees on Saturday. That shows you the

difference. Good evening. For most of us, you will appreciate that

because it has been pretty worn and uncomfortably warm night. Night`time

temperatures this week much lower. Temperatures tonight around 13 or 14

degrees. The week ahead is not completely dry buddies `` it is

cooler. Dry for most of the week but we will see some showers develop

towards the end the week. Until then, some fine weather around. Not

a completely blue sky as we saw last week. Certainly not the same heat.

One weather system Mr Flint would not overnight and through the day

showers we have seen recently, showers we have seen

moving away into being this channel. moving away into being this channel.

This line of showers is a fairly This line of showers is

weak affair, arriving in the weak affair, arriving in the

afternoon tomorrow. It increases the amount of cloud in the sky. We might

see a shower after that. For Wednesday, fine and dry.

have seen today have been pretty have seen today have

lively. Nothing compare to what we lively. Nothing compare to

have seen the south`east of England. have seen the south`east of

Over the top of Dartmoor, our cameraman caught a glimpse of

heavy showers. Every now and then, heavy showers. Every now and then,

Some fairly spectacular cloud we got a drenching over Dartmoor.

Some fairly spectacular cloud structure as

The clear skies that we have now will

a few showers drifting into words a few showers drifting into

the coast. Much of the night is the coast. Much of the

clear and dry. A few degrees Celsius clear and dry. A few degrees Celsius

colder than last night. He struggled colder than last night.

last night, temperatures will be last night, temperatures will be

temperatures down as low as 12 temperatures down as low as 12

best of the sunshine in the morning. best of the sunshine in

By the afternoon, all this cloud By the afternoon, all

coming down from the North. Perhaps coming down from the North. Perhaps

a few showers drifting into the north coast of Cornwall and Devon.

temperatures are we hold onto the temperatures are we hold onto the

sunshine for longest. Part of the `` sunshine for longest. Part of the ``

parts around Torbay up to 24 parts around Torbay up to 24

degrees. For the Isles of Scilly, a degrees. Most of us around 20 or 21

degrees. For the Isles of Scilly, a bright morning much more in

of cloud in the afternoon. Not as of cloud in

breezy as today. Signs of high breezy as today. Signs of

water, at Penzance it's 60 5am. For water, at Penzance it's 60 5am. For

compared to last week. Up to about compared to last week. Up to

four feet. Cleaner on the south four feet. Cleaner on the south

coast. The sea temperatures still coast. The sea temperatures still

doing very well at around 19 doing very well at around 19

forecast, the winds are forecast, the winds are

north`westerly forced three to four. The outlook is turning a little bit

more unsettled as we head towards the end of the week. It is more

chance of a few showers turning up on Thursday. They will be light and

fleeting, very isolated. An increasing chance of widespread

showers as we move into Friday. Wind direction is from the West with

Northwest, all the way through this week. That means lower temperatures

during the daytime. Perhaps a bit We will be back with the late news

and weather at 10:25pm. That's all from us for now. Have a lovely

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