:00:00. > :00:00.Good evening, I'm Charlie McArdle, welcome to BBC Channel Islands.
:00:00. > :00:10.The mental health of teachers should be one of the priorities for
:00:11. > :00:30.In order to make this a success, they've got to have a happy
:00:31. > :00:35.workforce and really they need to pay more attention to the welfare of
:00:36. > :00:40.teachers and two teachers are more general well-being. .
:00:41. > :00:42.Making sure the Channel Islands are not forgotten
:00:43. > :00:48.Plus, start your day in the best possible way with Wake and Shake
:00:49. > :00:49.Raising standards, teaching local history, and responding
:00:50. > :00:52.to care inquiry findings - these are some of the priorities
:00:53. > :00:54.for Jersey's Education Department in the coming years revealed
:00:55. > :00:58.It says, despite having to make savings, it can deliver.
:00:59. > :01:00.While unions welcome the plans, they're highlighting the pressures
:01:01. > :01:08.Education in Jersey has been in the spotlight a lot lately,
:01:09. > :01:10.from issues around free nursery places to funding
:01:11. > :01:15.Today, the department laid out its progress
:01:16. > :01:20.over the past two years, and its priorities for the next two.
:01:21. > :01:21.These include: teaching children more about the island's
:01:22. > :01:23.history and politics, updating guidance on children
:01:24. > :01:27.with special needs, and improving standards in schools,
:01:28. > :01:32.all against a background of having to make savings.
:01:33. > :01:34.While some union reps welcome the business plan,
:01:35. > :01:37.they say teachers' mental health should be a priority.
:01:38. > :01:41.In order to make this a success, they've got to have a happy
:01:42. > :01:46.workforce and they really need to pay more attention to the welfare
:01:47. > :01:50.of teachers and to teachers' emotional well-being,
:01:51. > :01:55.The issue of stress in the industry was highlighted in a recent
:01:56. > :01:56.survey of Jersey teachers, with concerns about workload
:01:57. > :02:03.The department say they're taking the responses seriously.
:02:04. > :02:05.There were two key areas, one was, as you mentioned, workload,
:02:06. > :02:08.which is why we're working with teachers to see
:02:09. > :02:16.The second is training, they'd like more than we currently
:02:17. > :02:20.provide, so we're responding to both those issues.
:02:21. > :02:23.The department's confident it can follow through its business plan,
:02:24. > :02:26.despite the challenge of having to tighten its belt
:02:27. > :02:34.Flags are flying at half mast in the Channel Islands today
:02:35. > :02:37.in sympathy for those affected by the Westminster terror attack.
:02:38. > :02:40.It was requested flags on public buildings be flown
:02:41. > :02:45.Guernsey's senior politician has today written to the Prime Minister
:02:46. > :02:52.Meanwhile, security at the ports in Guernsey and Jersey
:02:53. > :02:53.has been stepped up, although the threat
:02:54. > :03:00.A former ambulance station officer in Guernsey has been suspended
:03:01. > :03:05.for a year after failing to follow up an aborted 999 call from a man
:03:06. > :03:09.Alan Hamilton called the St John Ambulance in July 2014,
:03:10. > :03:14.The station officer at the time Jason Garnham has now been suspended
:03:15. > :03:19.Our reporter Jessica Banham has been following this story.
:03:20. > :03:26.Jessica, what more do we know about the call?
:03:27. > :03:29.Back in July 2014, Alan Hamilton, who was a groundsman
:03:30. > :03:31.at the King George VI playing fields, called the St
:03:32. > :03:36.That call was cut off and the next day he was found dead
:03:37. > :03:40.Now, this week, Jason Garnham - who was in a supervisory position
:03:41. > :03:44.that day as the ambulance station officer - was the subject
:03:45. > :03:48.of a conduct and competence hearing at the Health and Care Professions
:03:49. > :03:51.council over the way this call was handled.
:03:52. > :03:54.The hearing heard how the member of staff who took the initial call
:03:55. > :03:58.did attempt to call Mr Hamilton back twice but was unsuccessful.
:03:59. > :04:01.She said she then asked Mr Garnham whether she should carry
:04:02. > :04:04.on trying, but was told she should "stop panicking."
:04:05. > :04:08.And what did Mr Garnham say happened next?
:04:09. > :04:11.Mr Garnham denied all the allegations against him and told
:04:12. > :04:15.the hearing he had followed the correct procedures.
:04:16. > :04:18.But today the committee panel found that Mr Garnham failed to send
:04:19. > :04:21.the police or ambulance out and failed to ask the call-taker
:04:22. > :04:25.to fill in the appropriate call log afterwards.
:04:26. > :04:27.It's worth noting here that the hearing was told
:04:28. > :04:29.there is "no suggestion" the alleged failings contributed
:04:30. > :04:34.But the panel did find that Mr Garnham's behaviour constituted
:04:35. > :04:37.misconduct and he's been suspended from the council's register
:04:38. > :04:41.for a year, which means during that time he won't be able to practice
:04:42. > :04:49.The inquest has opened into the death of Valerie Jehan,
:04:50. > :04:51.who went missing from Jersey's north coast.
:04:52. > :04:53.The 75-year-old's handbag was found on cliffs
:04:54. > :04:56.near Devil's Hole and her body later discovered three miles off Noirmont.
:04:57. > :05:00.Today's inquest heard her death is not suspicious
:05:01. > :05:07.and was adjourned waiting for results of the post-mortem exam.
:05:08. > :05:10.Concerns have been raised about the number of late deliveries
:05:11. > :05:15.The aim is to deliver all letters by 2pm each day.
:05:16. > :05:18.The consumer group PostWatch says it's been made aware of instances
:05:19. > :05:23.It's now looking into the situation to assess
:05:24. > :05:40.There will be exceptional circumstances and if it is due to
:05:41. > :05:45.fault, we can't alter the weather. Our understanding is that hasn't
:05:46. > :05:48.been really do to those sort of circumstances, beyond Guernsey's
:05:49. > :05:50.post-control. We don't really know the reason why some of them are
:05:51. > :05:51.going late. A report says the Channel Islands
:05:52. > :05:54.relationship with the UK must be protected and their voices heard
:05:55. > :05:56.in Brexit negotiations. The House of Lords has been
:05:57. > :05:58.investigating the implications of Brexit for the Crown
:05:59. > :06:00.Dependencies. It identifies concerns
:06:01. > :06:03.for the finance industry and the ability to attract EU
:06:04. > :06:06.citizens to live and It also questions the islands
:06:07. > :06:10.abilities to trade freely with the UK and Europe,
:06:11. > :06:26.as Lord Kinnoull Farming and fishing are both things
:06:27. > :06:31.which the UK will be discussing with the EU and because of the close
:06:32. > :06:35.relationship between the UK and the Channel Islands, these things will
:06:36. > :06:40.need to be on the agenda as well. So the position is completely clear for
:06:41. > :06:47.the Channel Islands as well as for the UK. What are the implications
:06:48. > :06:50.for the island's finance industries? The relationship between the
:06:51. > :06:56.financial services industry is pretty symbiotic with the City of
:06:57. > :07:01.London, that is actually a good thing because it's clearly very high
:07:02. > :07:06.up on the list of things to be dealt with with the EU in the Brexit
:07:07. > :07:09.negotiations. You are calling on the UK Government to make sure the
:07:10. > :07:13.island voices are heard. How confident are you that their voices
:07:14. > :07:18.will be heard? We are confident at the moment the process is working
:07:19. > :07:21.well. We heard from the Chief Minister both of Guernsey and Jersey
:07:22. > :07:26.that the impression was that interaction between the UK
:07:27. > :07:31.Government and the Government of the Channel Islands was going well. How
:07:32. > :07:35.can the islands make sure they are not forgotten in this process? I am
:07:36. > :07:39.sure the Chief ministers will work very hard indeed to make sure their
:07:40. > :07:43.voices are heard with the UK Government ministers, but they also
:07:44. > :07:48.will note those we as the scrutiny committee in the House of Lords and
:07:49. > :07:53.the scrutiny committee in the House of Commons, are extremely interested
:07:54. > :07:54.in making sure the whole UK family, the interests are advanced and
:07:55. > :07:56.properly considered. Senior politicians in Guernsey
:07:57. > :07:58.and Jersey have welcomed We're told exercise is good not just
:07:59. > :08:03.your body but your brain as well, especially first thing
:08:04. > :08:04.in the morning. So, as part of their wellbeing week,
:08:05. > :08:07.teenagers at one Jersey school put that theory to the test today,
:08:08. > :08:11.as Chris Harrison reports. After only just waking,
:08:12. > :08:13.its time for these students Here at Hautlieu School,
:08:14. > :08:30.pupils took part in a quick exercise It wakes you up and most teenagers
:08:31. > :08:34.struggle to get out of bed, dragging themselves into school, it gets the
:08:35. > :08:38.blood pumping and muscles moving, wakes them up and sets them up the
:08:39. > :08:43.day, keeps them awake during lessons. It's a good idea, they do
:08:44. > :08:46.it in China and Japan and they seem to have really good academic
:08:47. > :08:50.results, so maybe there is a correlation there. It's been really
:08:51. > :08:54.fun, something we do in the form time and sometimes, just hanging
:08:55. > :08:55.around dance around, it's really fun for the whole school.
:08:56. > :08:58.It's all part of the schools wellbeing week, highlighting how
:08:59. > :09:01.important it is to take time to look after both mind and body.
:09:02. > :09:08.This morning's Wake and Shake event was led by a local health agency.
:09:09. > :09:12.This was originated between the school and ourselves and we were
:09:13. > :09:16.having talks about what we can do to get ourselves into the community and
:09:17. > :09:18.it is the most fun way and it's nice to get to a lot of kids quite easily
:09:19. > :09:18.as well. After a positive start,
:09:19. > :09:30.could this school be onto something? I think that's a real possibility.
:09:31. > :09:32.In the first stages, it was a voluntary activity, students can she
:09:33. > :09:36.will, we are not doing this because we are told to, but because it works
:09:37. > :09:38.for us, makes us less moody in the morning and more are ready to learn.
:09:39. > :09:41.The students now head off to class, hopefully more awake
:09:42. > :09:44.And if it proves popular, it could be their regular
:09:45. > :09:53.David, is Wake and shake something you might consider to get
:09:54. > :10:06.I think it will, yes, especially if the weather is good and it looks to
:10:07. > :10:10.be good this weekend. We have had rained today, this is the grey skies
:10:11. > :10:16.across Jersey. It looks like tomorrow a lot of that cloud should
:10:17. > :10:20.move away, much brighter, some sunshine and a keen wind, not as
:10:21. > :10:24.warm as we would like. This cloud is an area of low pressure heading down
:10:25. > :10:28.towards the west coast of Spain and Portugal by the middle of the day
:10:29. > :10:32.tomorrow. Behind there are clearing skies, brighter weather, a windy
:10:33. > :10:35.weekend, certainly on Saturday morning. Strong easterly winds, gale
:10:36. > :10:42.force for a time but high pressure is taking. Patchy cloud this
:10:43. > :10:46.evening, still giving outbreaks of rain here and there but a lot of
:10:47. > :10:49.that will move away overnight tonight as it goes away to the
:10:50. > :10:53.western end of the English Channel, these guys were clear and by the
:10:54. > :10:58.small hours of the morning, a fair amount of clear skies and
:10:59. > :11:04.temperatures are low. Fort tomorrow, we are expecting to see patchy
:11:05. > :11:10.clouds, summer showers, most of us dry, with sunny spells developing
:11:11. > :11:14.and top temperature of 11 or 12 degrees, but a brisk north east wind
:11:15. > :11:18.developing. Those could be quite strong, especially by the end of the
:11:19. > :11:27.afternoon and into the early part of the evening. The is our times of
:11:28. > :11:31.water. The ways are small tomorrow with those easterly winds and not
:11:32. > :11:42.much for most other beaches. The easterly winds will feature in the
:11:43. > :11:46.weather. Generally fair with good visibility. It will be a windy start
:11:47. > :11:51.to the weekend, Saturday is going to be fine, dry, plenty of sunshine,
:11:52. > :11:54.but cold and strong winds, the wind evening on a Sunday and a little bit
:11:55. > :12:00.warmer by the time we get to the early part of next week.
:12:01. > :12:07.A reminder of our top story tonight. Raising standards, teaching local
:12:08. > :12:10.history and responding to your enquiry findings, these are some of
:12:11. > :12:13.the priorities for Jersey's education department in the coming
:12:14. > :12:17.years is revealed in its latest business plan. That's it for now,
:12:18. > :12:19.I'll be back with the news update just before eight o'clock and then
:12:20. > :12:24.again before a past ten. Good evening.
:12:25. > :12:28.A Torquay explorer whose adventures are at the heart of a new Hollywood
:12:29. > :12:31.blockbuster film is being celebrated at a South-West museum
:12:32. > :12:34.Lieutenant Colonel Percy Fawcett disappeared in the Amazon in 1925
:12:35. > :12:40.They were searching for an ancient lost city, which is the story behind
:12:41. > :12:46.Ahead of the film being released this weekend, our South Devon
:12:47. > :12:51.reporter John Ayres has been taking a look.
:12:52. > :13:03.What you seek is far greater than you ever imagined.
:13:04. > :13:06.The film may be typically Hollywood, but the main character
:13:07. > :13:09.It's the story of Lieutenant Colonel Percy Fawcett,
:13:10. > :13:12.who was born in Torquay and schooled in Newton Abbot.
:13:13. > :13:15.He was a former soldier, cartographer, spy and explorer -
:13:16. > :13:17.some might argue the inspiration for that well-known film
:13:18. > :13:24.The photos we have of Fawcett, they almost evoke that
:13:25. > :13:33.Indiana Jones-type image, but also, he has been linked
:13:34. > :13:37.to other famous characters and he was a definite inspiration
:13:38. > :13:43.for a character in Arthur Conan Doyle's Lost World novel,
:13:44. > :13:48.because Fawcett and Conan Doyle became close friends
:13:49. > :13:50.and Conan Doyle effectively wrote the Professor Challenger character
:13:51. > :13:59.This film is based on a true story where Percy Fawcett,
:14:00. > :14:03.played by Charley Hunnman, went off in search of the lost
:14:04. > :14:06.city of Z with his son and son's best friend,
:14:07. > :14:14.Torquay Museum has various artefacts relating to Fawcett,
:14:15. > :14:18.including his school cap, false teeth and his diary
:14:19. > :14:22.from the film, based on the diaries they have.
:14:23. > :14:24.The production company came to the museum and,
:14:25. > :14:28.during that research process, they decided that they needed
:14:29. > :14:35.to reconstruct their own diary that Charley Hunnam could use.
:14:36. > :14:38.They made it a little bit bigger, as well, because on the screen
:14:39. > :14:40.they wanted to make it nice and visible.
:14:41. > :14:43.He even, during the film, used a diary to block an arrow
:14:44. > :14:49.Percy Fawcett has featured in Torquay Museum's ongoing
:14:50. > :14:51.Explorers' collection, but they are hoping
:14:52. > :14:54.to have an exhibit dedicated to him later in the year.
:14:55. > :15:03.The film The Lost City Of Z comes out on Friday.
:15:04. > :15:05.Now it won't have escaped your notice that tomorrow
:15:06. > :15:08.is Red Nose Day, when people will be taking part in all sorts
:15:09. > :15:12.of events to raise a smile and money for Comic Relief.
:15:13. > :15:15.Here at BBC South-West there is much talk of the Great British Bake-Off
:15:16. > :15:18.style Cake-Off challenge when presenters from radio
:15:19. > :15:21.and television went head to head in the kitchens of City College
:15:22. > :15:31.Their challenge was to bake a Victoria sponge,
:15:32. > :15:34.decorate it and sell it, with the winner being the one
:15:35. > :15:37.Simple, you'd have thought, but there were a few surprises.
:15:38. > :15:40.Radio Devon's David Fitzgerald was there to compere the event.
:15:41. > :16:00.Big mistake having a husband-and-wife team here.
:16:01. > :16:10.There's no way you need that much butter.
:16:11. > :16:20.My wife wife packed me off with a little box of stuff,
:16:21. > :16:25.a recipe to follow and even the teddy, for extra comfort.
:16:26. > :16:28.I quite like cooking, but I've never baked a cake.
:16:29. > :16:31.I've got no sort of technical hinterland or anything to draw on,
:16:32. > :16:33.so I'm literally just going to follow these instructions
:16:34. > :16:41.I'm doing mini Victoria sandwiches today.
:16:42. > :16:43.My thinking was that what would you prefer to have?
:16:44. > :16:50.I'm actually mixing it up and I'm going for a chocolate
:16:51. > :17:02.You've been on one, two, three, four rows now.
:17:03. > :17:07.I can move around as I wish, I've been told.
:17:08. > :17:14.If you put them all in at once, they go all squiffy.
:17:15. > :17:17.Well, I'm not sure that's right, now.
:17:18. > :17:22.Is the shell supposed to be in there like that?
:17:23. > :17:27.I tell you, I'm making double the amount here.
:17:28. > :17:38.I'm not sure what, but it's got something.
:17:39. > :17:43.Victoria sponge or Victoria cocktail?
:17:44. > :17:47.Well, I concede that my offering is looser than any of my rivals.
:17:48. > :17:51.I've had a quick peek around the room.
:17:52. > :17:56.A pint and a half of cake isn't going to work!
:17:57. > :18:04.Larry, I'm sorry, where it says tablespoons of milk, can you show me
:18:05. > :18:17.She has split milk in their to weigh up to two tablespoons.
:18:18. > :18:22.I think you and I should start again at this point in time.
:18:23. > :18:38.Tomorrow, on Red Nose Day itself, we will find out whether any of them
:18:39. > :18:41.actually managed to bake a cake and sell it, and if
:18:42. > :18:59.Did you really have eggshells in viewers, David? And how you cheat,
:19:00. > :19:03.as well. It looks like good fun. A big important weather day-to-day.
:19:04. > :19:05.Today, we celebrate World Met Day and this year s theme is clouds .
:19:06. > :20:10.We asked you for your photos and here they are.
:20:11. > :20:22.Thank you to everyone who has been sending in your photographs.
:20:23. > :20:28.Tomorrow it will still be a great day. It is been pretty miserable
:20:29. > :20:32.today with the brain, wind and cold. Tomorrow will be cloudy, patchy rain
:20:33. > :20:36.beginning to clear but also quite breezy. The promised the moral of
:20:37. > :20:40.brighter skies and even some sunshine yet in the day. We have an
:20:41. > :20:47.area of low pressure at the moment but it is on the move and it is
:20:48. > :20:51.moving away from us. That is high pressure and it is coming at the end
:20:52. > :20:56.of the weekend. For the weekend, that is the good news. The bad news
:20:57. > :21:00.is that we are on the edge of it so there will be a keen wind to look
:21:01. > :21:03.forward to on Saturday and Sunday, particularly on the south coast. At
:21:04. > :21:10.the time you get the Sunday that wind will begin to drop. Cold at
:21:11. > :21:13.night for the weekend, with some pretty good daytime temperatures.
:21:14. > :21:18.That was the rain we saw earlier today. It is moving away but still
:21:19. > :21:22.the risk of showers left behind. That will continue for this evening
:21:23. > :21:28.and overnight tonight. It is rather misty grey, spots of light rain and
:21:29. > :21:33.drizzle on the south coast. Any breaks in the cloud will be in the
:21:34. > :21:36.North Devon and the northern part of Somerset. Some of that rain will
:21:37. > :21:42.come back before dawn tomorrow morning. There will be a keen wind
:21:43. > :21:47.tonight, temperatures will not be as low as last night. A mild night, 5
:21:48. > :21:51.degrees the minimum. Tomorrow will be warmer but still quite damp
:21:52. > :21:55.through the morning. Gradually, a lot of that patchy rain will fizzle
:21:56. > :21:58.out by the time you get to the afternoon there will be breaks
:21:59. > :22:04.developing in the cloud, sunshine and North Devon, fine weather
:22:05. > :22:08.drifting into parts of Somerset and Dorset. Hopefully we will see more
:22:09. > :22:13.in the way of sunshine. It will feel warmer despite the fact that is
:22:14. > :22:19.quite windy. Many others inland, not a bad second half to the day. At top
:22:20. > :22:24.temperature of 11 degrees. The forecast as we head into the weekend
:22:25. > :22:30.has a strong wind developing. For the Isles of Scilly, it is a
:22:31. > :22:33.blustery day tomorrow, a few showers around but also sunny spells. For
:22:34. > :22:44.all of us the wind will be a feature on Saturday. Times of high water.
:22:45. > :22:53.Small waves on the coastline tomorrow for our surfers. Usable,
:22:54. > :22:58.but only two or three feet. The coastal water forecast has the winds
:22:59. > :23:02.from the ether north-east, occasionally seven. Patchy rain,
:23:03. > :23:06.becoming merely fair with good visibility. Those winds will be
:23:07. > :23:10.strong on Saturday, possibly reaching gale force through the
:23:11. > :23:17.English Channel. Saturday is a blustery day, but a fine day. Not a
:23:18. > :23:23.cloud in the sky on Saturday, a maximum of 14 degrees. Sunday, more
:23:24. > :23:27.in the way of cloud, windy conditions. Similar conditions on
:23:28. > :23:32.Monday. So, at last, some fine weather, and awarded the weekend as
:23:33. > :23:36.well. My mum got several that taught us
:23:37. > :23:40.out today. He is 70. He likes the warm weather. Thanks for joining us.
:23:41. > :23:45.Join us again tomorrow, good night.