24/03/2017 Channel Islands News

These are Friday's headlines. alone.

Could private investment mean the end of sporting

If there is no money to continue running for the region in the way it

has been run, then how are we going to afford to have new sports

facility somewhere else? of literature fly in for

Alderney's literary festival. And doing something funny

for money - islanders go There are concerns private

investment in Fort Regent could lead to the loss of sports facilities

at the site. The government wants to ask private

companies to put forward proposals for the regeneration

of the leisure centre. But there are fears this might NOT

include the same level of provision From welcoming the Dance World Cup

to providing a home Over the years Fort Regent has

hosted a range of different sports. But there are fears that could be

about to change as the States look for funding to help

regenerate the site. If a private investor came forward

with a fantastic plan to turn Fort Regent into a conference centre

with a hotel, restaurant, and so on, the sports facilities

we currently have here would have Now, if there is no money

for the States to continue running Fort Regent in the way in which it

has been run then how are we going to be able

to afford to have sports There's a gym here, dance studios -

even shooting and archery ranges. But the government says it's had no

investment for the past 50 years and there isn't enough

public funding available. So now they're turning

to the private sector for ideas about what the venue

could be used for. But what do people who visit

the site want to see at Fort Regent? I would not mind seeing more

development of the gym and the sports areas. There are facilities

there now but I would like to see them all done up. I would like to

see more exercise facilities because I believe that we don't have enough,

especially for children. It is part of Jersey. Why not keep it as it is?

does change, the man in charge of the project is adamant

Can you guarantee that if sports facilities

are removed from Fort Regent - they'll be catered for elsewhere?

Absolutely, I've said that all along, we have to work

with sport to find the right facilities for them.

I'd love it to remain a sports facility and entertainment complex

looking for new ideas from private investors in the next few months.

Jessica Banham, BBC Channel Islands News, Jersey.

A 29-year-old man from High Wycombe has pleaded guilty in

Jersey's Royal Court to importing cannabis valued

Shane Lee Ray was charged with attempting to bring almost 60

kilograms of cannabis resin into Jersey via Elizabeth Ferry

Ray has been remanded into custody and will be sentenced on 24th May.

Guernsey Police are appealing for information after an attempted

burglary at the Iceland store at Admiral Park last week.

It's thought a man forced entry to the store shortly after one

-- 1am last Monday morning, before being seen sprinting out

He's been described as around five foot 7 inches,

with white mittens or socks covering his hands.

The States of Guernsey is attempting to rubbish what it calls

"myths and misinformation" about the island's new

For two days, anonymous advertisements have been taken out

in the Guernsey Press claiming the new law will be

And today, four Guernsey industry groups met politicians to urge them

to revisit the law and introduce what they call simple,

Writers and bookworms are gathering in Alderney for the island's third

Authors from across the British Isles have flown in to give

talks around the theme of historical writing.

Luxmy Gopal is in Alderney and sent this report.

This room is part of the island hall, which was built in 18th

century here in Alderney, an island rich in history. So what better

place to host a literary festival centred around the theme of

historical writing? 12 authors from around the UK and scores of Reading

fans from across the Channel Islands have flown in for the Alderney

Literary Festival and the festival organiser is Isabel Picornell. Now,

what is it about the history of Alderney that made it such a

suitable theme for the festival? Alderney is known as the fortress

island. There is a fortress from any date, Roman, Tudor, Victorian on

every Suntory and exceeds the character of the island. The

character of the island makes it a bit of a logistical issue getting

here. What were some of the challenges in getting the authors to

arrive? Last is the flights to get it. Some of the authors come from

far afield so that involves a number of changes of flights and then there

is keeping an eye on the weather, which you know, you never know what

will happen. How important is this event to put Alderney on the map? It

is very important for Alderney. This is only the third year of the

festival and already we are being known across historical circles and

people just don't know Alderney exists and this is one way of them

getting to hear about us. Thank you very much, that's Isabel Picornell,

the organiser Alderney Literary Festival. This room will become a

bit of a hub for British historical writers as fans and writers gather

him for the three-day event and I will have the highlights for you on

Monday's programme. You're watching the BBC

in the Channel Islands. Later in the programme,

doing something funny for money - our cameras capture the fun

of Red Nose Day. In rugby, Jersey Reds expect one

of their biggest ever crowds for tomorrow's Championship match

against the leaders London Irish. About 1,000 visiting fans

are expected to swell the overall Irish have won all of their league

games so far this season, while Jersey are themselves

on an eight-game winning-streak, but have a tough few

games ahead of them. If we look at the end goal we're

never going to get through this game and we have got a serious challenge

over the next three weeks. London Irish back-to-back, we are going to

have to find a balance between a championship game and eight Semi cup

final followed by a Doncaster game and a short turnaround.

Jersey men's football captain Luke Watson has

Watson has been man-of-the-match in the last two

Muratti finals, scoring the winning goal last season.

The Jersey FA says the former captain doesn't want to be

The news has emerged just a day before the Muratti semifinal

Today is Red Nose Day and you've been doing a great job making

I'll have the proof shortly but first that all important

Good evening. A couple of things happening this weekend. The weekend

is going to be fine and dry, so fine weather coinciding with the weekend.

The other thing happening is the clocks go forward an hour but that's

start with the detail. Fine and dry, windy at first and some sunshine.

The fine weather coinciding with the weekend. The clocks go forward on

Saturday night and it looks like we will see some fine weather on both

days, Saturday and Sunday because of high pressure. Not quite close

enough to us because you can see plenty of isobars so around this

area of high pressure you have easterly winds. They will be strong

tomorrow, gale force for a time tomorrow morning, then easing into

Sunday. The winds start to change direction coming in from the South

East in the early part of next week. Not a lot to trouble us overnight

tonight. Patchy cloud floating by, drive, but the winds do increase and

by the morning we have a fairly last three East or north-easterly wind,

seven Celsius so not overly warm, you will need to wrap up warmly. The

wind and those low-temperature is making it feel cold. Some strong

winds at time through the day where top temperature of 11 Celsius.

There's our times of high water. For our servers, the waves for most of

our surfing beaches are going to be small. East facing races will have

choppy conditions with those onshore winds. The coastal waters forecast,

East or north-easterly. I would be surprised if it doesn't get to gale

force eight for a short while tomorrow. Decreasing to four or five

late in the day. There were generally good visibility. A's the

outlook as we head into next week. Sunday's a similar day, not as windy

so you should get some sunshine. A bit more cloud. Fine day on Monday

and probably feeling a lot warmer on Monday because of the lighter winds

and then changes on Tuesday as more cloud comes in from the West. Have a

nice weekend. Cakes sales, gunging and dancing -

we've seen the lot today as people across the Channel Islands have been

out in force raising The special fundraising event

is held every other year to support people living tough lives

across the UK and Africa . Our cameras have been out

and about in Guernsey and Jersey to capture the Red Nose fun -

see if you can spot someone you know From all of us here BBC

Channel Islands, goodnight. Hello, I'm Alana. We're from school.

I Michael Jackson! I'm Lorraine from British Airways. I'm David and we

have been raising money for Comic Relief and eight dance. We have

raised ?7,000. We have raised just over ?1200 so far. Still some money

to go. Everybody laughed at my nose! We have had a great day, we have

made 2000 biscuits. 1000 cups sent out to lots of local businesses. Hay

at school we have raised over ?600. Selling red noses, over 11 boxes.

Dressing up with crazy hair. A super fundraiser for Comic Relief

in the UK. It's Red Nose Day today put up we are in fancy dress, we

have had talent shows, singing battles, and we have raised ?6,000

for Comic Relief. Many charities across

the South West benefit One of them is Pete's Dragons,

which helps people who've lost Spotlight's Andrea

Ormsby has the story. Life has been very tough

for 18-year-old India Sanderson Last year, two of her

friends killed themselves. I was just in a state

of shock all the time. I didn't really know

what I was doing, I was just kind of going through day to day just

confused and I couldn't concentrate and I was just so emotional as well

because I realised it could happen to anyone and especially

because you do not know what is happening on the inside

and I worried for my family, for my closer friends,

anything could happen. Her counselling here with Alison has

been helping but it really came into its own a few weeks ago,

when a member of India's family also That helped so much,

because I could have been so much worse than I was when my two friends

committing suicide, but just knowing that Alison was here,

and I'd already learned some of the coping strategies already,

that it helped me a lot, and because I learned those

strategies I could help my family. So have you been practising

your mindfulness? Alison set up the charity after her

brother, Pete, killed himself. Now Pete's Dragons is

getting busier and busier. What we have found this year

is we are picking up historical cases where because we are the first

specific suicide bereavement support group in Devon and we have

approximately 86 suicides a year consistently, we are picking up

historical cases as well where people just haven't had any

support and they have lost a loved Just knowing that there's somebody

there who has been through the same thing and understands the bizarre,

you know, the guilt, the pain, Last year, Comic Relief provided

crucial funding for the charity. Please do get involved

with Comic Relief. I can say that their funding has

made an enormous difference to the face of this charity

and what we are able to offer. They've really changed my life

and the lives of so many other families and they deserve every

penny that they get from funding To run the service this year

alone, Pete's Dragons One of the charities to benefit

from Comic Relief money. And later we'll see how

teams from Spotlight, Radio Devon and Radio Cornwall got

on as they took part It's time for the sport now

and Andy's here with news of a top Promotion isn't enough,

Plymouth Argyle still have their sights set on winning

League Two. While Exeter City take on neighbours

Yeovil Town on Saturday, Plymouth's trip to Doncaster sees

the division's top two The hosts may have the best home

record in the league, but it won't worry the Pilgrims,

who happen to have However they'll need to be

at their best and the return to form of playmaker Graham Carey in recent

weeks couldn't have You know, I've won the title

twice in Scotland so I'd like to try and do it

in England as well. You know, the players

are all focused on that as well, so we need to go to Doncaster

and win the match to push on. Doncaster's football team may be

at home but their rugby players will be making the long journey down

to Penzance for their In the Premiership,

the Exeter Chiefs will be looking to put the disappointment of last

week's Anglo Welsh Cup final behind them when they welcome

the Sale Sharks to Sandy Park. The Chiefs will no doubt have happy

memories of the last time the two sides met just before Christmas

when they ran out convincing Of course another boost

for the Exeter faithful is the return of England winger Jack

Nowell. It will only be our fault

if we do let it slip now, because at the end of the day

we don't have to chase anyone, we're up there, we just need to keep

on picking up points where we can. So it's another good chance

for us to show what we're While the Chiefs look well set

for another final in May, one school from the South West has

already booked their The Thomas Hardye School

hammered their opponents in the last four of the National Schools Vase

competition on Saturday and next week they head to rugby HQ in London

to try and bring the trophy They are friends on and off

the field and they celebrate together reaching a Twickenham

final. Today it was back to school,

and on Wednesday the lads will swap these gates for the gates at rugby

headquarters as they share They will be far from a madding

crowd but it's not about that. Staff are stopping me

in the corridors and The kids are getting

pats on the back. Everybody wants to come

with us next Wednesday. We're taking one coach,

not everyone can come. But, yeah, everybody wants

a little part of it. It's a first for the school to send

a team to Twickenham and following the emphatic victory

in the semifinal confidence is high. It is a team of mates

and everybody knows their job. Just shouting at them

and keeping them going. I've kind of just pictured walking

out through the tunnel, just with the massive stadium,

it's sort of hard to focus on anything else

really at the moment. It is an excellent carry

by number eight John Stewart. Obviously I'm not trying to be cocky

or anything but I think if we could play how we play day in,

day out, we will be OK. The number eight may marshal

the forward pack but the backs also possess some special talent

and in fly-half Orlando Bailey Despite a sparkling performance

in the semifinal capped off by a hat-trick of tries,

the playmaker remains humble. Yes, it's obviously great doing it

for my mates because we're all such a close bunch,

and to sort of go out and do it for each other,

it's what it's all about, really. So the big question, is running out

on the hallowed turf enough or does We've come this far,

we want to win now. Of course it does matter

because it makes that memory You don't want to go

to Twickenham and lose. Obviously it's amazing to still play

there but to win there, If you can't wait until tomorrow

for your sport, the Plymouth Raiders match against the Bristol Flyers

is being shown live Tip-off at the Pavilions

is just after 7.30. Let's hope they can bounce

back in style after last Today is Comic Relief 2017,

and yesterday we saw BBC presenters from radio and television going head

to head in a Great British Bake Off style Cake Off challenge

to raise money for charity. Their task was to make a Victoria

sponge, and as we saw they did that with varying

degrees of success. Tonight we see them baking

and decorating their cakes and then trying to sell them to unsuspecting

students and staff at The winner is the one

who makes the most money. But as you're about to see it wasn't

quite as straightforward as that. Ladies and gentlemen,

you should think about getting I went to look at Martin's

mixture, my cake's gone. BBC Radio Cornwall

have vanished as well. We haven't thrown it

away, don't worry! Last time I baked a cake

was when I lived with my parents! Are you still getting

texts from your expert? Well, it's whether I can go home

tonight, really, isn't it? This is a moment we never

thought we'd see. It will be an improvement

from last time. This is one of those things that

you think when you've seen it on the internet it's going to be

a really good idea, and then you actually start doing it

and you realise it's not a good idea because it's really

intricate and really fiddly. David, is there

something to admit here? I gave the oven a little bit

of a shake, it looks like it might It does have quite

an alarming crack in it. Well, there's only two

words to say to that. It's going in the

bottom of the cake. Firstly let me say thank you very

much indeed to all of our presenters for throwing themselves into this

task with such gusto. It's very clear that some

of you spend an awful lot of time in the kitchen baking,

some of you perhaps less so. I think the most spectacular cake

and I think the one that's probably It looks like fantastic fun. Mel

Osborne's cake looked fantastic. And in true Oscar style

BBC Radio Cornwall's Mel Osborne wasn't the winner

- it was... The whole aim of the game was to

sell the cake and make the most money. My cake was rubbish but I

sold it all! Julia looked lethal with a palette knife. Three palette

knives under the cake! I couldn't possibly say is. It is very nice.

Congratulations on your win. You shouldn't eat cake just before

the weather. I want to see that all eaten up by

the time I get back. It looks like we will see some

lovely weather for the afternoon. If you have jobs queued up for the

garden, this is the weekend to do it. You may have to wrap up more

warmly than looking out the window suggests because we have blue sky

but a keen wind from the east. It will be windy, especially tomorrow,

and rather chilly at night but during the daytime it will feel

rather pleasant out of the breeze. The cloud we have seen today is

melting away from us so we have high pressure coming our wafer the

weekend. It looks like we will see the cloud in the South sink slowly

away from us. -- high pressure coming our way. We are on the edge

of the high pressure so it squeezes the isobars are bit so it is likely

to be windy on Saturday and Sunday, not so much on Sunday. By the early

part of next week we start to see low pressure getting closer so only

really for the weekend and into Monday before the low pressure

brings more cloud. That was the cloud we saw earlier today. It looks

like it is breaking up quite nicely now. It will continue to move

westwards and the skies are largely clear tonight. Ordinarily we could

see a frost because of that but there is enough of a breeze to keep

the air moving. A few places will C temperatures close to freezing,

particularly for Northern Devon and parts of Somerset. -- will see

temperatures. Tomorrow we have a blustery day but a fine day. Plenty

of sunshine, in fact almost unbroken for most of us, just a bit of patchy

cloud floating past. Winds from the north-east or East, strong at times

and quite dusty, especially over the high ground of Dartmoor, Exmoor and

Bodmin Moor. We could get pretty good temperatures but the wind will

hold those down. 14, 15 possible to stub out anywhere away from the wind

but along the coast not so warm. -- possible just about anywhere. It

will be a blustery day for the Isles of Scilly, fine weather but a bit

breezy with a top temperature of 11 or 12. Onto the times of high water.

Penzance, 2:36am and 15:01pm. For the surface, not a huge wave, the

winds will whip up the seas are bit but most of our main surfing

beaches, no more than two or three feet and predominantly clean. There

is the coastal waters forecast, the winds from the east or north-east,

five to six but occasionally seven through the English Channel.

Generally fair with a bit of a haze. On Saturday night the clocks go

forward and our so I think that means we lose an hour's sleep as we

move into Sunday. Sunday's forecast is bright and dry, a wee bit more

cloud coming our way on Sunday. By Monday and Tuesday the winds start

to change direction, southerly and south-westerly winds and the threat

of a few more showers later in the day. I will have to remind myself

not to eat cake before I do broadcast this time.

It was very nice, could have done with a cup of tea.

From seven o'clock this evening we have more from Red Nose Day. Good

night.