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A 79`year`old Jersey man has told how he was given electric shocks

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and had darts thrown at him when in a children's home in the 1940s.

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Gifford Aubin was giving evidence at the Jersey Care Inquiry today.

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He said the Jersey Home for Boys, which is now known as Haut de la

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Well, six years ago, when the scale of abuse in the care system first

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Christina Ghidoni takes up his story then and now.

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That's me there and this is my brother.

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2008, and as allegations of abuse at Haut de la Garenne hit the

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headlines, former resident Gifford Aubin told a BBC reporter about the

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abuse he had suffered there, usually at the hands of older boys.

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They did all sorts of things from putting wires on your legs, watching

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your legs, and they had a generator which they turned with a handle to

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pass electricity to you. And they threw darts at you. These were real

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darts. at the hands of older boys.

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Today Gifford took to the witness stand at the Jersey Care

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Inquiry and told his story again. Mr Aubin was giving evidence

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at the independent inquiry here at Seaton Place.

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He started by telling how he was taken away

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in a car when he was about six with his brother and sister and taken to

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the Jersey Home for Boys. He said he didn't know why he was

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being taken away from his family. He spent ten years at the children's

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home and described it like a prison. Mr Aubin told the inquiry today

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that he was caned by staff for escaping and going home for meals.

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He said there were about 150 boys at the home and only three staff

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members and life was hell there, but he couldn't complain through

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fear of being beaten. When asked what he wanted out

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of the Inquiry he said to make sure that nothing

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like that would happen again. Six years ago he told the BBC

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the same thing. This time he's hoping

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the authorities listen. It's something that should have

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never happened. Sometimes you feel, those who were responsible, probably

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you shouldn't feel that way but you feel that they should have been put

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inside to know what it was really like.

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Well, after Mr Aubin's evidence, a woman who spent time in the

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Jersey Home for Girls, also in the 1940s, told the panel her story.

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Christina joined me earlier to explain.

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78`year`old Violet Renouf spoke publicly for the first time. Today

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she told how at one stage she wet the bed and was made to parade

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around the dining room in front of the other girls with soiled linen on

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her head. She also told one point she was put into isolation for three

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weeks. She says times of the other girls with soiled linen on her head.

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She also told how at one point she was put into isolation for three

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weeks. She says times there were very hard and she still has

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nightmares. The inquiry will hear

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from more witnesses on Thursday. Guernsey Police has released

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an image of a man captured on CCTV in the High Street

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in the early hours of Monday. Martin Martin Jewellers

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was burgled at about 4:50am, and police are appealing for anyone

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who saw this man to come forward. A 22`year`old man

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from England has been arrested on suspicion of burglary and remains

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in police custody for questioning. The Chinese ambassador to the UK

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says there are lots of opportunities for Jersey to work

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more closely with his country. His Excellency Liu Xiaoming is in

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the island this week, and today he He's offering to host

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a round table discussion in London. A plaque put up to commemorate

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the 70th anniversary of the D`Day landings has been vandalised

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and ripped off a wall in Guernsey. Police are investigating after it

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was pulled from the wall and bent. Two months ago the island's

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Lieutenant Governor unveiled this plaque to honour a Canadian pilot

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who died whilst trying to knock It's a memorial to this guy who died

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doing good for the island and for Britain. And it's very sad, it makes

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me feel very sad and very angry that this has happened.

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A shortlist of companies who could run Guernsey's bus service

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More than ten operators expressed an interest.

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Now the Environment Department has to decide who gets the job.

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Getting you from A to B for decades. Over the years Guernsey's

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buses have changed a lot. And change is on the cards again.

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The current bus contract's expiring next April.

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We've known that for a while. But what we now know is that more

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than ten companies have expressed an interest in running it in future.

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And having looked at those initial bids, Environment's

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now decided which of those companies can officially tender.

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Where each will make a case for what they can offer,

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including looking at the size and type of buses they'd use in future,

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the timetables and routes.

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The States will decide who gets the job, but the local bus users

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group hopes it can be involved. The experience we had a previous

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consultations is that our advice was normally taken six months late. And

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I think that the new environment board is more consultative and more

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interested in getting it right first time, rather than having to patch

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rings up. So I would say very interested in being consulted and

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being listened to. `` patch things up.

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group hopes it can be involved. The earliest the new service

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will start is next April. And with the States still hoping to

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make the buses free, it really will signal another big change

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in the history of the Guernsey bus. David has the weather forecast for

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you now. I am back tomorrow at 630. Good night.

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Not much change in the weather, same wind and strength of wind and risk

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of showers, but more isolated showers tomorrow and a better chance

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of some sunshine. Still breezy and we will not see temperatures much

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more than 18 or 19 degrees. The culprit is the same area of low

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pressure, a long way away across the north of Scotland. One weather

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system will trickle across central France overnight and move away from

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us. We will see more showers coming in from the west, some lengthy clear

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spells in between those showers and we cannot rule out the possibility

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of one or two showers through the night. Overnight temperatures

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dipping as low as 14 or 15 degrees. Tomorrow the wind changes

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direction, gradually becoming more north`westerly. Showers fairly

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isolated into the afternoon, top temperature of 18 or 19 degrees. And

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with the breeze it will feel colder than that. The forecast for Thursday

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's four showers to become more widespread and frequent and quite

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heavy. Then it becomes largely dry heading into Friday and the start of

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the weekend. Still quite grew at 18 or 19 degrees, the top temperature.

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In a second, the forecast for the UK, but in the meantime it is good

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night and I will leave you with the summary for tomorrow.

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of a messy couple of days with some heavy rain and showers but here'sing

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Matt with the national weather. Good evening. Given the recent

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change in weather conditions I am esure a few of you have mentioned

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"autumn" who would blame new western Scotland today a mid-August day,

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driving wind, strong winds, temperatures at one po incompetent

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were just 13. A better day tomorrow, here, though. The cloud we have had

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today will work southwards. You will notice still unstable air across

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England and Wales. Lively thunderstorms through today. They

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are fading away by in large. One or two showers in the West but longer,

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clearer periods here. We still have that cloud, pushing through to the

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Scotland, Northern Ireland, north Wales and the north Midlands by the

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end of the night. But rather than persistent rain, away from the hills

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it'll

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