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