:00:14. > :00:17.However, over recent years, events such as the Alderney Festival
:00:18. > :00:21.Events are held throughout the Islands to honour those who
:00:22. > :00:25.The curtain comes down on the Commonwealth Games,
:00:26. > :00:31.but what do the Islands need to do end a 20 year medal drought?
:00:32. > :00:35.we are in the Northern Ireland as this year's Alderney week gets
:00:36. > :00:47.underway. The thousands of Channel Islanders
:00:48. > :00:50.who lost their lives in World War People across the Islands are being
:00:51. > :00:54.asked to switch off all but one light at home tonight to
:00:55. > :00:57.remember those who fought. In Guernsey
:00:58. > :00:59.the lights will be switched off In St Peter Port the church bell was
:01:00. > :02:20.rung throughout the day in honour At the going down of the sun, and in
:02:21. > :03:23.the morning, we will remember them. I think it is good for
:03:24. > :03:25.this evening for a ceremony and parade to remember
:03:26. > :03:28.the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the Great War.
:03:29. > :03:31.We'll have more for you on the Jersey World War One commemorations
:03:32. > :03:47.Jersey is giving ?120,000 to help those affected by the violence
:03:48. > :03:50.Hundreds have been killed and thousands injured in Israel
:03:51. > :03:52.and the Gaza strip since violence escalated in July.
:03:53. > :03:53.The Jersey Overseas Aid Commission has approved
:03:54. > :03:57.a ?30,000 grant to each of the four charities Christian Aid, the British
:03:58. > :04:03.Many athletes from Guernsey and Jersey have of made their way
:04:04. > :04:07.home today after the Commonwealth Games came to a close last night.
:04:08. > :04:10.Almost 80 athletes from the Channel Islands competed in the
:04:11. > :04:13.Glasgow Games, some for the first time, others for the last time.
:04:14. > :04:17.Sadly, no medals are being brought home, but what do the Islands need
:04:18. > :04:20.to do to break the medal drought that's lasted for over 20 years?
:04:21. > :04:37.Spectators filled the streets of Glasgow for one of the last events
:04:38. > :04:41.of the Commonwealth Games, the men's Road race.
:04:42. > :04:46.Two cyclists from Jersey and six from Guernsey were competing among
:04:47. > :04:50.the 140 strong race. It was a technically difficult course for the
:04:51. > :04:55.riders but the heavy raid mean it `` that the heavy rain made it worse.
:04:56. > :05:00.Slippery conditions caused many cyclists to crash including James
:05:01. > :05:04.McLauchlan from Guernsey. By the ninth lap there was only one Channel
:05:05. > :05:21.Islander left but it made it harder to compete. He also did not finish
:05:22. > :05:24.the roads. I was trying to petition myself well but it is hard when you
:05:25. > :05:26.are a small nation and you have other teams who are riding well and
:05:27. > :05:29.you have several guys from each nation and you get pushed to the
:05:30. > :05:31.back. Being a single Guernsey person up there it is pretty tough holding
:05:32. > :05:33.your own. There was also disappointment on the netball court,
:05:34. > :05:36.Serena Guthrie was playing for England and they lost by just one
:05:37. > :05:40.point in the last two seconds of their semifinal match against New
:05:41. > :05:43.Zealand. Then they placed Jamaica in the bronze medal play`off and it was
:05:44. > :05:49.a close game but Jamaica won the match. Although disappointed not to
:05:50. > :05:54.win a medal, Serena Guthrie was pleased to be part of team England.
:05:55. > :05:57.It is a massive honour. Every athlete here will be flying their
:05:58. > :06:02.flag for where they come from and where they have grown up so I am
:06:03. > :06:06.just proud to be able to do it for Jersey. With no medals for any of
:06:07. > :06:10.the Channel Islander is, does more need to be done before the next
:06:11. > :06:14.Commonwealth Games? Every Games we see the level of competition
:06:15. > :06:20.increase and improve. We obviously look at that with the qualification
:06:21. > :06:26.standards that were set and we will review this for 2018 and we are
:06:27. > :06:31.where we will have to increase our standards again. As team jersey, if
:06:32. > :06:34.we can improve the preparation of the athletes and improve their
:06:35. > :06:40.lifestyle and their whole attitude to sport then perhaps we will get
:06:41. > :06:43.athletes that are better and stronger and better organised as a
:06:44. > :06:50.lot of those things may give us better results.
:06:51. > :06:54.As the Commonwealth Games close, preparations begin for the next one
:06:55. > :06:57.in 2018. Will Jersey and Guernsey be able to bring a medal of any colour
:06:58. > :07:02.back from Australia's Gold Coast? Jersey's Under 19 cricket
:07:03. > :07:04.team have been promoted to The Island side won all four of
:07:05. > :07:08.their matches against runners`up the Netherlands, Denmark, Guernsey and
:07:09. > :07:10.Italy in ICC Europe Division Two. As well as promotion to
:07:11. > :07:16.ICC Europe Division One, Jersey now also have the opportunity to qualify
:07:17. > :07:28.for the Under`19 Cricket World Cup. Well done to them. You are watching
:07:29. > :07:31.the BBC in Channel Islands. I had in Spotlight with Justin tonight:
:07:32. > :07:34.We hear the story of the gardener of Heligan, and how his disappearance
:07:35. > :07:41.eventually played a part in the gardens themselves being lost.
:07:42. > :07:46.Stating for that and David will have the weather forecast for the week
:07:47. > :07:47.ahead as well. `` stay tuned for that.
:07:48. > :07:51.Now, it's a total of eight days, with over 130 events, This year's
:07:52. > :07:55.This year's theme is Treasure Island and our Alderney reporter David Earl
:07:56. > :08:02.It's the first Monday in August and that means it's Cavalcade Day
:08:03. > :08:08.The theme this year is Treasure Island, harking back to
:08:09. > :08:20.For many, this year's parade was the best ever.
:08:21. > :08:23.The star of the show, as always, is Miss Alderney, with 16`year old
:08:24. > :08:26.Emma Etheridge taking over the role from her elder sister, Maria.
:08:27. > :08:29.And Emma was joined by a pageant queen from a sister island,
:08:30. > :08:32.as Miss Jersey Battle Of Flowers, Taye Park, came along for the ride.
:08:33. > :08:35.Alderney Week is a big show and a big effort for a small island.
:08:36. > :08:38.In fact, organisers claim it is the Channel Islands' largest annual
:08:39. > :08:42.It already encompasses 100 different events spread across eight days, and
:08:43. > :08:45.this year a new planning team is on board inject even more new ideas.
:08:46. > :08:50.I do not think I will miss it too much. I will still be associated
:08:51. > :08:54.with it and busy behind`the`scenes but I will not be as busy officially
:08:55. > :08:58.and it is great, it is a lovely year to bow out on because I really feel
:08:59. > :09:02.that I am in my comfort zone and for once in my life I am not the only
:09:03. > :09:09.person on the island wearing an eye patch so it is great fun for me.
:09:10. > :09:11.Dating back to 1948, Alderney Week has always dominated
:09:12. > :09:14.However, over recent years, events such as the Alderney Festival
:09:15. > :09:17.of Performing Arts and the the Alderney wildlife Festival have
:09:18. > :09:20.Emma Odoli is one of the new Alderney Week team members.
:09:21. > :09:24.There is a lot to organise and I am learning that this year with the
:09:25. > :09:27.current team having done an amazing job for such a long time. I am
:09:28. > :09:31.learning how to pull every thing together, all the volunteers that
:09:32. > :09:34.you have two thank Emma Pullen, so we have a lot of challenges and we
:09:35. > :09:36.will overcome the man be fine and every year they pull it off
:09:37. > :09:37.brilliantly. Whatever the future holds
:09:38. > :09:40.for Alderney Week, organisers say the floats and family fun
:09:41. > :09:52.of Cavalcade Day are here to stay. Loving the weeks in Alderney today!
:09:53. > :09:55.It was lovely weather as you saw there but what will it be like for
:09:56. > :10:00.the rest of the week and the rest of the islands? Here is the forecast.
:10:01. > :10:05.Good evening. We start with a look at the chart for 100 years ago today
:10:06. > :10:08.when low pressure was taking charge of the weather across the British
:10:09. > :10:13.Isles and northern parts of Europe. They had a pretty good summer,
:10:14. > :10:15.similar to what we have seen but it all changed, not only did the
:10:16. > :10:20.political climate change but the weather changed as well. On this day
:10:21. > :10:25.particularly through the day we had much more of the breeze and some
:10:26. > :10:30.outbreaks of rain. Rain is also in the forecast for us. We expect some
:10:31. > :10:34.showery rain later on this week and some overnight tomorrow and into
:10:35. > :10:38.Wednesday. It will be mostly dry with some sunshine and potential for
:10:39. > :10:43.outbreaks of rain overnight. A lot happening with quite a big area of
:10:44. > :10:46.low pressure developing to the south of agreement. The whole driving
:10:47. > :10:49.force of the weather changes with a westerly flow developing as we move
:10:50. > :10:55.through the week. Showers dotted around with a night and we keep the
:10:56. > :10:58.area of high pressure across northern France but eventually we
:10:59. > :11:02.lose it and we see a more active weather system come through fairly
:11:03. > :11:09.swiftly in the small hours of Wednesday. Tonight it will be mostly
:11:10. > :11:15.dry and the temperatures will drop down to 14 or 15, 16 around the
:11:16. > :11:19.coast. More clout developed by Dawn and tomorrow is not a bad day. We
:11:20. > :11:22.may see patchy cloud coming and going in the morning and generating
:11:23. > :11:26.showers but one chick comes through there will be sunny spells in the
:11:27. > :11:46.afternoon and temperatures getting up to about 19 or 20 as the top
:11:47. > :11:49.figure. In the evening more to show. Here is the outlook. As we head
:11:50. > :11:54.through this week it will be cooler and more unsettled and by Friday the
:11:55. > :11:58.potential for more persistent rain. That is all for me. Have a good
:11:59. > :12:01.evening. Thank you very much. That is it for
:12:02. > :12:07.now and I will have your headlines at 8pm tonight and especially
:12:08. > :12:10.extended bulletin at 10:25pm. Back to Justin Melck who is at Plymouth
:12:11. > :12:17.Hoe. Back now to
:12:18. > :12:34.our World War one commemorations. This is one of the centrepieces of
:12:35. > :12:41.the regional commemorations for the 100th anniversary. We will talk more
:12:42. > :12:47.later but what is planned but I am joined by Todd Gray to reflect on
:12:48. > :12:53.the events of 100 years ago. Across the world millions of lives were
:12:54. > :13:04.lost but is it possible to narrow it down and ask how many lives were
:13:05. > :13:12.lost from here? The roll of honour gives almost 12,000 for Devon,
:13:13. > :13:18.mostly men. And just for one county that is a colossal figure. What sort
:13:19. > :13:23.of proportion is that? It is about 3% and the reason this war was so
:13:24. > :13:30.important is that the numbers were so high that everybody knew someone,
:13:31. > :13:37.and it came home to you. You mentioned one end, not a
:13:38. > :13:42.straightforward with the men going out because they were women on the
:13:43. > :13:47.front line? Lots of men and hospitals were seen with wounds, so
:13:48. > :13:59.the war came back to Devon. You had women going on the front line, one
:14:00. > :14:03.Belgian aristocrat, who was an Exeter girdle, remarries and becomes
:14:04. > :14:19.a great headline on the Western front. `` heroine. It was such a
:14:20. > :14:26.horrific war and was described and hoped to be the war to end all wars,
:14:27. > :14:32.but what changed if anything? There was a different sensibility and an
:14:33. > :14:40.idea about war that permeated the 1940s. The first thing that happens
:14:41. > :14:47.is the economy collapses with high inflation and low employment. Loads
:14:48. > :14:56.of women without husbands. Widows and women who never married because
:14:57. > :14:57.they feel unsafes died. Going into the Second World War, people
:14:58. > :15:09.remembered what happened. The two world war is really need to
:15:10. > :15:14.be studied together. I know you are involved in the leading tonight,
:15:15. > :15:15.with the famous phrase about the lamps going out all over Europe, but
:15:16. > :15:23.thank you for joining us. All this we'll be marking this 100th
:15:24. > :15:26.Anniversary in our series World War 1 At Home, in partnership
:15:27. > :15:29.with Imperial War Museums. Tonight we hear the story
:15:30. > :15:31.of the gardener of Heligan, and how his disappearance eventually
:15:32. > :15:33.played a part in I've been to meet historian
:15:34. > :15:37.Peter Lavis who's rediscovering the stories of the families who
:15:38. > :16:16.worked there at the time. 100 years ago, the peace and
:16:17. > :16:22.tranquillity of life in the gardens of Heligan was shattered by the
:16:23. > :16:27.outbreak of war. This was one of 23 gardeners who worked on the land and
:16:28. > :16:33.left to join the Navy. Many were called up even before the
:16:34. > :16:40.declaration. There was a prearranged signal with the town crier marching
:16:41. > :16:49.on to the peer and ringing the bell. That was the signal for the men to
:16:50. > :16:54.put on their uniforms. By 1917, the gardeners at Heligan numbered just
:16:55. > :16:59.eight. It is not often there's a poignancy about a toilet but here,
:17:00. > :17:04.the gardeners who went off to war wrote their names on the wall of
:17:05. > :17:09.this outside toilet, and as far as we know this is the only toilet that
:17:10. > :17:12.is designated as a living memorial to those who served in the First
:17:13. > :17:23.World War, by the Imperial War Museum. 48 left town that day and
:17:24. > :17:30.channels was among them. He actually went to work on a trawler in the
:17:31. > :17:35.First World War. Something like 500 trawlers from around the coast of
:17:36. > :17:39.the United Kingdom used to supplement ships. Many were fitted
:17:40. > :17:46.with small guns and about half of them went out hunting submarines.
:17:47. > :17:52.Some went out minesweeping. Was that how he spent the rest of the war? We
:17:53. > :17:58.also know he was either windowed or endurance and he went back to
:17:59. > :18:02.hospital, and one morning, he got up as usual and got ready and walked
:18:03. > :18:07.out of the main gates and disappeared and was never seen
:18:08. > :18:14.around here again. The Navy had no idea of what happened to him and he
:18:15. > :18:21.was notified as a disaster and his wife was accordingly contacted. ``
:18:22. > :18:25.deserter. His wife and three children were stuck here with no
:18:26. > :18:37.income and the family reputation was ruined. The family were vilified.
:18:38. > :18:44.And the stigma of that legacy is still felt by his granddaughter. She
:18:45. > :18:51.always felt there was shame. I do not think she ever got over it and
:18:52. > :18:57.stayed like that for all of her life. She loved him so much and
:18:58. > :19:02.could not say anything about him. I think it broke her heart. She could
:19:03. > :19:14.never speak about him without crying. She could never speak about
:19:15. > :19:20.her husband. From the day he disappeared until the day she died,
:19:21. > :19:25.she wore a black and she and the three children lived with their
:19:26. > :19:29.shame until this gold ring restored the reputation. The ring engraved
:19:30. > :19:35.with his initials helped identify his remains, discovered in woods
:19:36. > :19:44.near the hospital. His body was brought home for burial. They took
:19:45. > :19:49.him off the deserter's West and gave her a pension, but more importantly
:19:50. > :19:56.she got the family reputation back. He was no longer listed as a
:19:57. > :20:03.deserter. Even more poignantly, she was home in Cornwall again. The
:20:04. > :20:09.family all knew what this meant. When they did find him, it gives
:20:10. > :20:13.closure of some sort. At least she had a grave to visit and knew where
:20:14. > :20:24.it was. How does it feel talking about him now? I could cry actually.
:20:25. > :20:29.The losses of the great war were too great for many to be and as well as
:20:30. > :20:37.changing the lives of this family fodder, it signalled a big change at
:20:38. > :20:40.Heligan as well. They all said he could not live with the ghost of the
:20:41. > :20:46.place because so many of the team perished. We can't race to that
:20:47. > :20:53.moment in time the beginning of the decline of Heligan. So the one
:20:54. > :20:57.gardener was eventually found and if he was to return today he would see
:20:58. > :21:04.the garden is looking much as the dead 100 years ago, but the loss of
:21:05. > :21:13.so many lead to the gardens themselves eventually being lost.
:21:14. > :21:15.Tonight in communities across the region, people will be
:21:16. > :21:17.playing their part commemorating the outbreak of the First World War,
:21:18. > :21:21.by dimming their lights, leaving just one candle burning.
:21:22. > :21:24.There will be church services taking place all over the South West,
:21:25. > :21:26.including at Exeter and Truro Cathedrals.
:21:27. > :21:29.In Camelford there will be an open air vigil, with community singing.
:21:30. > :21:34.In North Devon a special walk is being held to
:21:35. > :21:39.Service personnel from St Mawgen will be joining the community of
:21:40. > :21:41.St Columb Major in an act of commemoration.
:21:42. > :21:49.Our reporter Philippa Mina has been to find out more.
:21:50. > :21:59.Later tonight, service personnel from here at RAF Saint Morgan will
:22:00. > :22:05.join and Navy service people as well as members of the public. They will
:22:06. > :22:12.carry 57 candles, one for each serviceman who lost his life in the
:22:13. > :22:16.conflict. I am joined by the station commander. How do you feel about
:22:17. > :22:26.tonight's Memorial and why are you taking part? We are honoured to be a
:22:27. > :22:33.part of it. It is about remembering the beginning of a war and once we
:22:34. > :22:43.have about a hundred people going up with 57 lives lost, and it is
:22:44. > :22:43.remembering those brothers, husbands, sons who gave the ultimate
:22:44. > :23:25.sacrifice. but I would not have liked to have
:23:26. > :23:31.been in the trenches. We will be live tonight from 10:30 p.m.. And we
:23:32. > :24:36.would like to see with live coverage of events here on
:24:37. > :27:04.The Hoe and across the South West. But tonight is not just about
:27:05. > :27:07.remembering the start of the war. It's also a chance to reflect
:27:08. > :27:10.on the next four years and how We've got factory boys and butchers'
:27:11. > :28:14.apprentices and office clerks Don't stop moving!
:28:15. > :28:20.If you go back you'll die!