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Is democracy in Jersey dead as a third of politicians have | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
no`one standing against them? Thai police find no evidence linking | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
two Jersey brothers to the murder of | :00:17. | :00:24. | |
Thai police find no evidence linking two Jersey brothers to the murder | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
of their friend. And are bigger planes better | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
for business? Pressure mounts on Guernsey States | :00:33. | :00:33. | |
to extend the airport runway. One third of Jersey's politicians | :00:34. | :00:51. | |
have been elected unopposed a month ahead of the island's first | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
General Election. Just one out of 12 parish constables | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
will face the ballot box, and six deputies faced no challenge. Edward | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
Sault reports. Meet the 17 Jersey politicians | :01:03. | :01:04. | |
who've been elected to the island's States | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
without anyone casting a vote. Constables are the head of each | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
of Jersey's parishes. Last night, | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
11 of them were returned unopposed. Only in St Mary, Jersey's smallest | :01:14. | :01:20. | |
parish, will there be a contest. Most of them were already | :01:21. | :01:22. | |
current sitting constables. One newcomer though is | :01:23. | :01:23. | |
Trinity's Philip Le Sueur. I certainly don't feel I've got any | :01:24. | :01:34. | |
less of a mandate than somebody who has taken on an election. | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
Parishioners turned out in good numbers last night and if nobody | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
wanted to stand against me there's nothing I can do about that. | :01:44. | :01:52. | |
Carolyn Labey, Steve Luce, Tracey Vallois and Eddie Noel don't | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
need to campaign along with John Le Fondre who said he will miss | :01:56. | :01:57. | |
an election battle. Were you disappointed? In a way. | :01:58. | :02:09. | |
Because since I had something to do with the elect of system I have not | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
`` not had to contend an election. But there's one new deputy, | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
Terry McDonald. He's the man whose bid to break | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
a world record firework attempt was pulled by Jersey's authorities | :02:22. | :02:23. | |
at the last minute. He said it left him out | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
of pocket and living in a caravan. Now he'll represent St Saviour | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
district three after no one stood against him, but he said he will | :02:30. | :02:30. | |
still be knocking on people's doors. Politics is about people and how | :02:31. | :02:40. | |
they are affected eye the issues. I have a small area to cover of less | :02:41. | :02:50. | |
than two thousand 500 voters `` 2500 voters so we can all get to know | :02:51. | :02:52. | |
each other. So, here they are ` | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
a third of Jersey's States elected without any voting. | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
Is this a sign of voter confidence or voter apathy? | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
Well, constable of Jersey's capital, St Helier, | :03:05. | :03:06. | |
was also re`elected unopposed, which means Simon Crowcroft is set | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
to begin his sixth term of office. He joined me earlier and I began | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
by asking him why he though no one else stood against him. | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
Big macro if you want to enter Jersey politics you are | :03:18. | :04:00. | |
the city comfortable `` Constable and that was difficult. Now, | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
deputies had to risk their own seat. We are going into a general election | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
with the vast majority of one section of the states established. | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
There is a question hanging over us about whether constables should be | :04:13. | :04:14. | |
in the state Voters in Jersey will go to the | :04:15. | :05:24. | |
polls in the General Election on the 15th of October and there's a full | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
list of candidates online at bbc.co.uk/jersey. | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
Two Jersey brothers who were being questioned by police over | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
the murder of islander David Miller and British woman Hannah Witheridge | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
in Thailand have been allowed to leave the country. | :05:41. | :05:42. | |
Thai Police say they've found no forensic evidence linking Chris | :05:43. | :05:44. | |
and James Ware to the killings. They were on holiday with David | :05:45. | :05:46. | |
at the time. There are now growing fears over | :05:47. | :05:48. | |
the progress of the police investigation. Jen | :05:49. | :05:50. | |
Smith reports. Chris and James Ware are now | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
free to leave Thailand. They had been asked to stay | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
in the country until police had results of DNA tests. | :06:01. | :06:02. | |
Those tests haven't linked them or any of the 11 Burmese men also | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
questioned about the murders. They did reveal that there was semen | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
from two unidentified men in Hannah Witheridge's body. | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
She was found along with David Miller from Jersey on the | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
Thai island of Koh Tao on Monday. The Ware brothers, who had been | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
on holiday with David, are expected to be heading home to Jersey. | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
But there is growing concern about the investigation. | :06:28. | :06:35. | |
The police are admitting that believes that they have been | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
enthusiastic about have gone nowhere and perhaps they were pursuing them | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
to the exclusion of other possible angles. | :06:45. | :06:46. | |
A Former British CID officer says the Thai police have | :06:47. | :06:48. | |
been making mistakes. The scene should be secured and the | :06:49. | :06:58. | |
evidence collated so it could possibly match with suspects but | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
that is the important first feature they should look at. If they haven't | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
preserved the seam and haven't secured the evidence then they are | :07:08. | :07:09. | |
at a disadvantage. And that won't be much comfort to | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
those who knew David and Hannah. Earlier, Hannah's family arrived | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
in Bangkok to meet with Thai police amid fierce media attention. | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
Their bodies have released for repatriation. | :07:21. | :07:28. | |
The family are deeply distressed and my role is to support them at this | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
very difficult time. It's been four days since David | :07:34. | :07:41. | |
and Hannah were killed. The "strong evidence" | :07:42. | :07:43. | |
the police first cited hasn?t yet led to the identification | :07:44. | :07:44. | |
of any prime suspects. Flybe has announced it is | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
temporarily stopping its weekday flights between Guernsey | :07:49. | :07:50. | |
and Southampton. For the first three weeks of October | :07:51. | :07:51. | |
it'll only run two flights a day After that, | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
it will re`introduce a limited one It's an air link often used patients | :07:56. | :07:57. | |
travelling to Southampton Flybe says it's not making enough | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
money Blue Islands also operates | :08:02. | :08:03. | |
on that route. Islanders in Guernsey are being | :08:04. | :08:14. | |
asked how they think teenage pregnancies and sexually`transmitted | :08:15. | :08:15. | |
infections can be reduced. A Chlamydia Screening Programme | :08:16. | :08:17. | |
and free contraceptives are just a couple of the ideas in the new | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
public consultation from the Health and Social Services Department. | :08:22. | :08:32. | |
We feel it is a key to tackling teenage pregnancy rates. Our rates | :08:33. | :08:42. | |
are about just under 28 per thousand, roughly in line with the | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
UK but considerably higher than what is seen in Jersey. | :08:46. | :08:56. | |
Coming up later: An exclusive and intimate performance from the | :08:57. | :08:57. | |
world`famous tenor, would a long runway be better for | :08:58. | :09:17. | |
business in Guernsey. More than ?80 million has been spent in upgrading | :09:18. | :09:18. | |
the airport. The low cost airline Easyjet has | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
recently begun flying to Jersey. But it doesn't see Guernsey | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
as viable partly due to the commercial limits imposed | :09:28. | :09:29. | |
by the length of the island's runway and also while the Gatwick | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
route is protected for Aurigny. And now a Guernsey`based former | :09:33. | :09:34. | |
board director of the British Aviation Group, which represents | :09:35. | :09:36. | |
British aviation companies, says the runway needs to be extended. | :09:37. | :09:43. | |
The fleets in the sky is now are full of well`heeled individuals | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
going to destinations in Eastern European countries in cold | :09:49. | :09:55. | |
alignments full of well`heeled individuals on short breaks days. If | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
we had the ability for that market to come here then certainly there is | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
a significant income stream to tap into. It is something we can't | :10:05. | :10:06. | |
ignore. But the Minister responsible | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
for the airport says there's no business case for it. | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
Politically it would be an uphill task and it would be a struggle. | :10:15. | :10:22. | |
More importantly, there is no business case. No airline operator | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
or commercial operator asking us to have a longer runway and if we did | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
they would fly to us. Guernsey's Deputy Treasury | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
and Resources Minister used to be a British Airways Captain flying | :10:36. | :10:37. | |
jumbo jets. He says he's going to take political | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
action to prove there is a business case for a longer runway. | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
A business case can be made and I have already talked to people in the | :10:46. | :10:53. | |
business world and I've said I'm willing to keep this going forward | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
if I get complete support from the whole business community and, in | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
particular, the tourist industry. So | :11:01. | :11:07. | |
while some feels there's no business case for a longer runway it could | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
now be up to the business community to persuade the States otherwise. | :11:11. | :11:19. | |
And now to the weather. What is coming next? Certainly the risk of | :11:20. | :11:30. | |
further showers and the odd rumble of thunder too but it gets better | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
towards the recount. But still very humid overnight tonight `` towards | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
the weekend. We are close enough to the area of | :11:40. | :11:48. | |
low treasure to continue in the same vein but I think things get better. | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
This swirl of cloud in the Bay of Biscay is the area of low pressure. | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
It moves closer towards us over the next 24 hours. This is the middle of | :12:00. | :12:06. | |
the day tomorrow. One weather system has moved across more central parts | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
of the UK. This then moves southwards. High pressure comes back | :12:10. | :12:18. | |
and we get a fresh airfield to the air with north`east winds. So clean | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
air and better visibility and it will become cooler. Tonight, mainly | :12:24. | :12:32. | |
dry with the small chance of a shower. A bit misty. Another warm | :12:33. | :12:40. | |
night. Tomorrow, after the mist has cleared we get a bit of sunshine but | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
there is the chance of a shower at any point tomorrow. Fairly isolated | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
and much of the day dry and warm. We will see a few showers around | :12:48. | :13:16. | |
through the day tomorrow. The possibility of quite frequent | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
showers overnight but that is a long way away. But the weekend, birthdays | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
are largely dried and a bit fresher on Sunday. | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
Thank you. That is your news and weather in the Channel Islands. I am | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
back at eight o'clock. with our know`how. Plenty of new | :13:36. | :13:50. | |
possibilities on the Verizon. `` horizon . | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
Now how's your trigonometry, calculus or geometry? | :13:56. | :13:57. | |
Perhaps some branches of maths are better left to a new specialist | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
mathematics school in Exeter which officially opens its doors tomorrow. | :14:01. | :14:02. | |
The sixth form college has already started lessons for | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
Johnny Rutherford has been along to meet some of them who've already got | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
I want to be a number theorist. Particle physicists. Astrophysicist. | :14:10. | :14:22. | |
That?s what they want to become, if their numbers add up they may | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
The aim is to take students who have a huge amount of potential in | :14:27. | :14:42. | |
mathematics that are keen to learn and wants to embrace a new world | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
working `` a way of working. The sixth form school takes students | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
from all corners of the South West. There's also physics | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
and next year they plan to include Classes are small. You won't get the | :14:59. | :15:16. | |
same attention anywhere else. You will get things that are tailored to | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
you. Because you earn in an environment where everyone wants to | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
learn the same things as you, it is a stretch to learn it, but when you | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
do it forces us together. A real sense of achievement when you | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
complete something. It is quite different here. Lectures are quite | :15:39. | :15:39. | |
laid`back. Even their canteen area is geared | :15:40. | :15:47. | |
for creativity and problem solving. three A`levels from the school | :15:48. | :15:54. | |
and a fourth personal choice which Who along with The University | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
of Exeter sponsor the school Teachers feel relaxed mind is a | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
focus mind. Can you help me with my son's maths | :16:05. | :16:14. | |
homework? If you read Lord of the Flies when | :16:15. | :16:21. | |
you were at school, you might just find your children or grandchildren | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
are still studying it. And while there has been a debate | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
over whether there need to be more books on the curriculum, the family | :16:29. | :16:36. | |
of William Golding, who's from Cornwall, have been marking the | :16:37. | :16:38. | |
anniversary by loaning his literary A literary classic read | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
by millions all over the world. There have also been | :16:42. | :16:49. | |
two film adaptations. It was also a stage play | :16:50. | :16:51. | |
and a recent contemporary dance tour The story of a group of English | :16:52. | :17:00. | |
schoolboys marooned on a tropical island started life | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
like this, hand written by It was rejected by ten publishers | :17:06. | :17:07. | |
and one literary agent. When we read | :17:08. | :17:14. | |
a good novel we are impressed by the polish and the finish and | :17:15. | :17:16. | |
what we do not see is the struggle I think you could see that in Lord | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
of the Flies and the added drama of trying to get the thing | :17:21. | :17:33. | |
published and having readers writing things like ?rubbish? | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
and ?dull? along the top of it. Absolutely, the draft brings to life | :17:38. | :17:39. | |
the process and reminds us that art Golding persevered and eventually | :17:40. | :17:42. | |
one agent took a chance. So to | :17:43. | :17:52. | |
a certain extent he was confident. But I don't think he imagined that | :17:53. | :17:59. | |
it would become the sort I mean, 60 years later, and we | :18:00. | :18:01. | |
are still receiving the benefits. And now fans | :18:02. | :18:10. | |
of the book can benefit, too. The manuscript is going on show | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
in the South West. I still meet the grandchildren of my | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
friends who are doing it at school. It is an extraordinary thing | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
and he couldn't have imagined that. Everyone from Stephen King to | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
The Simpsons has been influenced There are TV series like Lost that | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
are clearly influenced by it. You can look through this unique | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
piece of literary history by contacting the Special Collections | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
Team at the University of Exeter. From railway lines reopening, | :18:42. | :18:53. | |
to people finally moving back Recovering | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
from last winter's weather has Truro Cathedral was hit by high | :18:59. | :19:00. | |
winds which sent some of the David George reports | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
on the work being carried out to repair the Victorian building's | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
north`west tower. Truro Cathedral, once again | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
partially cloaked in scaffolding. While the camera gets a ride up | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
in the lift we have to walk the 200 Below, shoppers go | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
about their business unaware Stonemasons are using traditional | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
techniques just like the men who built the cathedral | :19:28. | :19:39. | |
more than a hundred years ago. It is a mallet and a chisel. | :19:40. | :19:47. | |
Traditional tools. In the New Year storms, high winds | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
sent parts of the stonework crashing to the ground, this is one of | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
the bits that fell onto a footpath. It was very serious. It happened in | :19:57. | :20:09. | |
the middle of the night and thankfully no one was around when it | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
fell. But you have to take immediate action, so close off area around | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
Weatherstone fell and we managed to get the scaffolding and the work | :20:19. | :20:27. | |
under way. `` where the stone. They are pieces of stonework that were | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
here, sitting in the middle of this arch and that is what crashed down | :20:32. | :20:39. | |
earlier in the year. Instead, a new trace route stone has been put | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
here. Right next to it, you can see a sample of the type of erosion we | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
are talking about. The cathedral has a historic problem. The original | :20:50. | :20:57. | |
architect used Bastogne for a lot of the high`level stonework. `` Bath | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
stone. He was advised against this. But he went through. The key feature | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
has had a problem since 1920 with stone a religion. `` the cathedral. | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
We have tried various different stones in the cathedral. | :21:14. | :21:14. | |
Once worked, the new stones are carefully fixed | :21:15. | :21:15. | |
The work is costing ?130,000, the scaffolding alone costs ?80,000, | :21:16. | :21:22. | |
and it?s being paid for from the Government?s World War One | :21:23. | :21:24. | |
They say they have another three weeks of work to do. It will be | :21:25. | :21:38. | |
mid`October before people start to see all of this scaffolding coming | :21:39. | :21:48. | |
down. That's an incredible sight, isn't it? What do the Royal Albert | :21:49. | :21:59. | |
and BBC Radio Cornwall have in common? | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
Well, singer Alfie Boe has sung in all of them. | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
The tenor paid a flying visit to our Plymouth and Truro studios today. | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
He's used to the bright lights of the West End and Broadway, | :22:09. | :22:21. | |
and singing to his legions of fans at sell`out concerts | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
across the world at venues such as the Royal Albert Hall, the Royal | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
But today it was the more humble setting of | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
BBC Radio Devon and BBC Radio Cornwall in which we found Alfie Boe | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
Serenata is described as a revival of the golden era of Italian song | :22:36. | :22:51. | |
and features well known hits such as Volare and Mambo Italiano. | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
For Alfie, it's been a labour of love. | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
I love these songs. I grew up listening to them, I studied them, | :23:01. | :23:09. | |
I've heard a lot of different artists throughout time sing them | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
from people like Elvis and Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra to | :23:15. | :23:21. | |
Pavarotti and Domingo. These are songs that are natural and | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
beautiful. They are very romantic. Everybody has grown up listening to | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
them . Alfie is also in the South West | :23:32. | :23:32. | |
promoting his latest UK arena tour, which takes place in November | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
and December. Sadly, for his army of fans here, | :23:36. | :23:37. | |
it doesn't include a date Cardiff is the closest. | :23:38. | :23:52. | |
Unfortunately. Saying that, there is no reason why we shouldn't plan some | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
sort of showdown here for you guys. `` show down. | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
So it seems Alfie will be South West bound again sometime in the future, | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
That is good news, isn't it? Time for the weather now. One question | :24:05. | :24:23. | |
for you, what is it all about? See what I did? I get it. He is | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
underwhelmed. Anyway. Good evening. activity for us is tonight, because | :24:28. | :24:53. | |
tomorrow move away and north. Warm and humid tomorrow, some sunshine | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
and the risk of an isolated shower. The risk is a high one tonight, Met | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
Office have put a warning out for hefty downpours of rain and flashing | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
of lightning. `` flashes of lightning. It is mainly a feature | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
for the middle of the night. Some showers crossing the Channel in the | :25:14. | :25:16. | |
small hours of the morning. Lots of cloud on the satellite picture. | :25:17. | :25:23. | |
There should be some sunshine in between. This area of low pressure | :25:24. | :25:26. | |
Not much for the surfers. Coastal next 24`hour is. | :25:27. | :27:00. | |
Not much for the surfers. Coastal waters forecast, the winds are | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
mainly from the East tomorrow, showers and a bit of sea mist | :27:05. | :27:10. | |
around, moderate or poor Ms ability, improving the West Cornwall and the | :27:11. | :27:16. | |
Isles of Scilly. The outfit has a go through the weekend, it gets better. | :27:17. | :27:23. | |
`` poor visibility. A risk of showers, slightly cooler and | :27:24. | :27:29. | |
certainly fresher. Perhaps better visibility, as well. Have a good | :27:30. | :27:33. | |
evening. We are back from ten tonight, big | :27:34. | :27:40. | |
night here on BBC News. Stay tuned. For now, have a lovely evening, | :27:41. | :28:14. | |
MENACING VOICE: You will rob the Bank of Karabraxos. | :28:15. | :28:19. |