04/04/2017 Channel Islands News

Good evening, welcome to BBC Channel Islands.

I'm Charlie McArdle. The headlines tonight:

Man arrested on suspicion of murder following the death

The victim and the man we have detained were known to one another,

there is no suggestion that the wider community should be in fear.

Growing up in Guernsey - young people's survey

reveals significant number are unhappy and stressed.

More than 100 players from 15 nations are in Jersey

for the European Squash Championships.

And after what has been quite a miserable day today, the rest of

this week looks very promising. High temperatures as well. I'll have all

the details later in the programme. A man's been arrested on suspicion

of murder after a woman was found Police were called to a residence

on Victoria Street this morning. Our reporter Luxmy

Gopal is there now. full picture of what happened is

still unknown at this early stage, but we do know that at 10:50am, a

member of the public called the emergency services, the police

arrived to this house behind me here on Victoria Street in the St Helier

where they found the body of a middle-aged woman. We don't know her

age or other details about her because police say they can't

publicly confirm her identity until the spoken to all the members of her

family. This is a very fast developing situation and the few

hours ago at 3pm, a 57-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder.

He had been questioned in police custody. He and the victim knew each

other and police made their statement at the headquarters if you

hours ago. This is the burly early stages of a murder investigation,

led by my colleague, a UK Home Office pathologist will attend the

island to undertake postmortem is in order to help determine the cause of

death. Specialist family liaison officers have been appointed to work

with and support the family. We are not yet in a position to be able to

confirm the identity of the victim. Forensic work is likely to be

ongoing at the scene in the Victoria Street for some time. A major

incident room has been established here at police headquarters. As you

heard, these are the very early stages of the murder investigation

and there's not much more the police can tell is, they don't know how she

died, when she died, or if anyone else was involved. They do say that

public safety isn't a risk. Officers have already spoken to significant

witnesses, but they are still appealing for anyone who may have

heard or seen anything in the past 24 hours, what is very a usually

quiet residential street in St Helier, to come forward. Thank you.

We will bring you any more developments in this story in our

late bulletin at 1025 this evening. A 61-year-old man who grew up

in Guernsey has been jailed Keith Baker and his wife Caroline

had kidnapped a woman with severe learning difficulties

in 2004 and subjected her to eight years of horrific sexual assaults

while keeping her captive The victim was emaciated and kept

in squalid conditions. Baker has been sentenced to 15 years

in jail and a further five years That's how some young people

in Guernsey view life. That's according to findings from

the latest young people's survey. While the majority are content,

a significant number say their emotional health is suffering.

Mike Wilkins reports. This generation has grown

up with the internet And latest research shows

that in Guernsey some I think with the increase in social

media we face pressure is not only with image and the spread of a

certain way you are supposed to look, but also possible bullying

personally, I haven't ever experienced this, but I know people

who may have felt targeted by certain online. -- certain messages.

There's a significant number who are unhappy

Of the 800 respondents, almost a quarter said they didn't

like themselves and more than a fifth said

More than half of 16 to 18 year olds believed

But experts say it's difficult to leave for young people to close

Free you and I might have experienced friendship issues, for

example, when you got home and shut the door, unless they fall due on

your land line, you didn't have to deal with that in the evening. For

our children and young people now those issues present themselves 24

hours a day, seven days a week, through social media and the

Internet connectivity. That exacerbates the issue and it's very

difficult for our young people to shut the door on the things that are

presented to them. But despite these pressures, some

people say they're doing all right. The 21st century has made us very

resilient, despite what young people say -- survey might suggest. There

is a lot we can take from it, we are resilient, we will pick ourselves up

regardless of the situation we are in and most young people are

positive about the future. Their school days may soon be over,

but it's hoped that the findings from this survey will help equip

future students to cope Jersey's planned new hospital

could be paid for with existing reserves of money rather

than through borrowing. A scrutiny panel suggests

using the so-called Rainy Day fund, which currently stands

at ?800 million, whereas the original plan

was for the States to borrow up to 400 million to cover

most of the costs. If you are happy taking on the risk

of a ?400 million debt, over and above what we already have, and this

will take us up to over a billion in liabilities, that the estimate, if

you are happy doing that, then fine. If you're not happy, this gives an

alternative. The BBC highlighted the increasing

number of sexting cases being reported to Jersey Police

in yesterday's programme. They are now dealing with incidents

involving making and sharing indecent images of children

under 16 every week. Not only is it illegal,

but there are warnings of the dangers that come with it,

as Emma Chambers explains in our second exclusive

report into sexting. It's a trend that's growing among

young people in Jersey, making friends and even

relationships from behind a mobile But it seems the barrier of a screen

is making under 16s more confident in what they text

and what they send. Essentially speeding up the flirting

process by sharing explicit images Jersey Police are warning

of the dangers these children are putting themselves in,

not only online but when those digital conversations

turn into reality. There are cases potentially

when young people do turn up to that meeting,

knowing in the back of their mind that actually they probably

have to, in their mind, albeit they don't, but they feel

at the back of their mind maybe they have to go through something

they're really not comfortable with because of the image they've

sent and the position that they put themselves in, and that's a really

dangerous situation. A situation children's charity

Jersey NSPCC are worried about. They are warning young people not

to send the indecent photo or video in the first place,

but also what can be However, if they're not

prepared to do that, and they do post it online,

and that is where it's obviously a real concern for us because that

then can cause that child or young person to be further

exploited or possibly bullied You can contact Childline and speak

to an NSPCC counsellor who will be able to look into having that

image removed online. They believe education is key

to make young people realise what they should

and shouldn't share. Volunteers are needed

to help monitor standards The island's Home Affairs Committee

is looking for three new recruits to join

the Independent Monitoring Panel, a role which involves observing,

listening and reporting back on life It's to make sure prisoners

and prison staff are For the first time, Jersey

is hosting part of squash's The event is being held in

St Clement for the next four days. Russia, Israel and Sweden are among

the countries taking part, and it's a first for Guernsey,

which has sent a team over. It's fast and furious

and even though Jersey's relatively new to the European Championship,

the island is making its mark Jersey was granted international

status by the World Squash Federation two years ago

and the sport hasn't It's been an amazing

experience for our players. It's really given them

a different mindset coming into events like this and,

like you say, to hold it in This is a chance for Jersey squash

players of all ages to get a taste for international sporting and it's

giving young talent Jersey has also been

inspiring its sister island as this is the first year Guernsey has

entered the European As a team, we really

didn't know what to expect when we came into this,

we didn't know where we stood. Certainly in the next few years

and over the next season, we know where we've got to get

to now and our players know Maybe we'll tweak our selection

criteria very slightly. I think it's a learning curve for us

and we've really enjoyed it so far. Players may be working up a sweat

but they have another three days Let's take a look at

the weather with David Braine. It looks like a summers day. Was

that taken today? A few days ago. It is going to be better than this,

quite a bit of cloud around today which has been stubborn to break but

it will overnight tonight and we are looking at good weather thereafter.

A fine, dry day tomorrow with some sunshine and light winds. The

temperatures could be higher but we can't have everything. High pressure

in charge, nudging closer to Earth. This is the middle of the week,

Wednesday, by Thursday it is over the south-west of England and the

Channel Islands. Very little wind and fine bright weather. The

difficulty will be to estimate how much cloud we are likely to see. The

layer of cloud we have had today is breaking up nicely and will continue

to move into France. All the clear sky across Cornwall and Devon will

cross the Channel towards us later tonight. There will be breaks in the

cloud before that really good clear sky arrives, it will turn quite

chilly overnight tonight with temperatures down to eight or 9

degrees. Inland, temperatures could get down to five or six. Tomorrow,

patchy cloud around in the morning and then the sunshine comes through.

By lunchtime or just after, plenty of sunshine to enjoy, lighter winds

from today and temperatures of 12 or 13 in the shade but feeling warmer

than that in the sunshine. Those are our times of high water. For our

servers, the waves are huge but it will be a clean surface. The coastal

waters forecast... Look at this, this is how the temperatures fear

over the next few days. Gradually climbing up and getting up to around

17 or possibly 18 degrees by Saturday. One is coming, we just

have to be patient and a lot of fine weather to enjoy with a good deal of

sunshine. Try and settled over the next few days. A man has been

arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman was found dead at a

property in place-mac. -- St Helier. Residents were called to Victoria

Street this morning. I am back at 8pm and 1025. Good night.

research. And they could just as easily we discover that sort of

inspiration here. It was a tragedy in which hundreds

of men lost their lives when HMS Dorsetshire and HMS Cornwall

were bombed in the Indian Ocean 75 years on, the sinking of those

two Devonport based cruisers, by Japanese aircraft

in the Second World War was commemorated during a special

service today, with wreaths laid

on Plymouth Hoe. Time to remember in Plymouth. 75

years on from a devastating assault on the Indian Ocean. Was Easter

Sunday. HMS Dorsetshire and HMS Cornwall boat sank in 20 minutes

from coming under attack from Japanese dive bombers. More than 400

men died. Among them the father of Derek Bickford. I remember listening

to the radio and hearing about it and then collapsing in the chair,

what I was only eight years old at the time. As I understand history,

they didn't realise that things were around them because they did not

have the radar, that they have now. HMS Cornwall was built in Devonport.

HMS Dorsetshire was built in Portsmouth in 1926. Their loss was a

huge blow to the Royal Navy. The names of all those who died on the

two Devonport -based cruisers are listed here. Winston Churchill went

on to describe Easter Sunday raid as one of the most dangerous moments of

the war. Given that we lost HMS Dorsetshire and HMS Cornwall and

then Hermes, the following day, with about 400 people lost in the water,

it was a very significant point in 1942. Some survivors were reunited

with the HMS Dorsetshire, Benjamin Martin, seen here in the middle. He

had been transferred to Durban in 1941. When HMS Dorsetshire sank,

many of the crew ended up in Durban. And he took care of some of those

there. And they had two weeks' leave before they had to go back to sea on

a new ship. Because Easter is late this year, the association says that

the ships, those who died and those who survive will be remembered on

Easter Sunday, throughout the South West. Remembering the crews of HMS

Dorsetshire and HMS Cornwall. Now coming up later,

a partnership working I put him through his paces, and he

put me through mine. Yes! And the Penzance pensioner

using pedal power to raise money Now, how did you learn

maths at school? With a calculator, a slide rule

or maybe even an abacus. Well a school in Cornwall has come

up with what they think is the perfect way to help

the children with their sums. I wish they had these when I was at

school. They've adopted two orphaned lambs

called Charlie and Titch and caring for them has become

a real education. Spotlight's Eleanor Parkinson

has been to see how School is simply more fun that a

couple of lambs. They don't know the rules of hopscotch but they are good

at skipping and chase. This school has adopted Charlie and Titch after

they were adopted and caring for them is a full-time job. They have

to be fed every few hours. You put the bottle on top of the land so

that it can suck it down, and it is easier if you hold it by the Chin so

that it does not leave its mouth, and they have got teeth, even though

they are baby. So they could actually give you a bit of a bike.

Yes. They don't use them for biting people. They are just for biting

leaves and grass. What happens when you are feeding them? It sucked my

finger! Did it think your finger was a bottle? Yes. The benefits to the

children are fantastic. Lots of maths involved. They have two way

out the milk powder and the water to mix with it and get everything in

the right ratio and then they have two way the lambs, then you have got

all be looking after animals and taking care which is good for

children, as well. So how do you weigh a wriggling land? Can you pass

me the land? The scale now say 62 kilograms. How much is that? The

lamb weighs nine kilos. I think he's right. These lambs are getting

bigger every day so when they get too big for the classroom, what

happen? The head teacher says that the children will make the decision

so they might just be added to the school register, after all. What a

brilliant idea. We could have some lip -- we could have some lambs at

Spotlight! And what are the chances

of getting it? Well a 19-year-old from Dawlish

has done just that - combining her love of animals

and the military Helen Fewings is a student

at Bicton College and, as Heidi Davey reports,

to have secured the prestigious role at such a young age

is quite an achievement. Helen has always wanted to work with

animals. When she was 16 she enrolled in a college animal care

course. As well as food, what can you give them? Leafy vegetables and

insects, and bar. Bicton College is known for its strong ties with the

agricultural industry but the campus at Budleigh Salterton has set up a

military academy. For Helen, that was the perfect opportunity to take

a second course and test out her yearning to have a career in the

Army. Two years later, she has landed her dream job. You're only

19. That is a hard unit to get into. You went through several rounds of

interviews. What was it like to be told that you were making the cut?

He got to the final 60. 60 people, and 20 dogs, week-long interviews. I

walked away, high hopes, then I got a call one morning, good news, I

have passed and they told me that I would start training in October. It

is thanks to the academy at Bicton that she was fully prepared for all

aspects of military life. What we do here, we prepare students for

potential recruits and it is the plastic to see how successful Helen

has been. That is our goal at the end of the day. What Helen has

experienced is coming through the animal care side, I potentially

being interested in the military, what we then offer is that exposure

so that Helen can see what we do. Helen has already made plans for the

future. Yes. I want to work with explosive search dogs. The most

dangerous bit. We will see what happens as time goes on. They make a

great partnership, don't we? -- don't they.

Now as we get older some of us may think about slowing down a bit.

But that's not for George Inns from Penzance.

He's about to get in the saddle and cycle

He'll start in the bustling city of Bo in Sierra Leone,

before crossing the border into Liberia, where

he will end on the palm fringed beaches of Robertsport.

Did we mention George is 88 years old?!

His trip is to raise money for the UK charity Street Child

which helps some of the poorest and most vulnerable children

Spotlight's David George has been to meet him.

George Inns taking a training ride on the cycle path. He's no stranger

to let the bike rides. He has cycled from Land's End to John O'Groats

four times. The last time, seven years ago, when he was 81 years old.

He will soon be smote -- swapping St Michael's Mount, Cornish coast for

the rough roads and tracks of Sierra Leone, a country and people close to

his heart. I went there as an engineer in the early 50s. And I

enjoyed my time there. It was a very interesting and beautiful country.

The people are very friendly and cheerful and very resilient. George

has always followed the fortunes or should that the misfortunes of the

country. He has been upset to see the aftermath of the ebola outbreak

there and wanted to support charities in the country. They do

educational work for children which is very seriously needed because it

is a very poor country. George is taking part in the 196 mile cycle

challenge with his grandson and another eight riders who have signed

up. It will take place at the end of the dry season so it could be hot

and wet. A bit different from today's brisk and bracing weather.

Do you mind if I join you? Lead the way. People keep mentioning your

age. You are 88. I am, yes. But I don't think too much about my age.

It is something that comes to all of us unfortunately and you just have

to make the best of it. Not think, I am too old to do this or that, just

go ahead and do it. I have got a lot more cycling to do, yet. The man is

an inspiration. He certainly is. Good luck to George. It is going to

be hot and wet, possibly, when he does that challenge. The weather

conditions they're the perfect today, though.

Good evening. High pressure is coming our way. That means settled

and dry weather. It is a dry story. We're going to look back briefly,

now. March was quite an unusual month across the British Isles.

Certainly one of the mildest. Reckons going back to 910. -- 1910.

It was something like the fourth or fifth warmest March on record. A

poor start on a cool night. You will have noticed the change, slightly

cooler air today despite the sunshine. The risk of some frost.

Fine and dry and we will have that sunshine back, as well. There is

some cloud of wind, but it is gradually dissipating. It is to the

rest of us at the moment, allowing some cloud to bobble around the top

of it. Hence the patchy missed earlier on today. This is the middle

of the day tomorrow. By the middle of Thursday, it is across cars, and

by Friday it is well and truly across southern Britain. Not

everyone will see sunshine. But at times you will get some of that

sunshine and it will be warm, as well. You will notice some chilly

nights over the next few nights. This is a satellite picture from

earlier today. Some spots of rain affecting northern France, but most

of the weather we have now with broken cloud and clear skies. This

was earlier today up on Dartmoor, where some sunshine came through

eventually but it was rather cloudy and felt quite cool because of it. A

brisk northerly breeze and it has not been overly warm. It did not

stop some walkers and backpackers enjoying some dry weather although

there was some drizzle first thing this morning and it is going to be

chilly for camping on Dartmoor tonight because those skies will

Claye. That cloud is now beginning to dissipate. We will have fairly

clear skies overnight. Temperatures quite low for the month of April

with temperatures getting as low as three Celsius in some places. On the

coast, a bit milder and in the towns and villages, five, six Celsius.

Tomorrow, plenty of sunshine, lighter winds than today, and

although temperatures initiate will be the figures we show you here, in

the sunshine, out of the breeze, considerably warmer at perhaps 12,

13 Celsius. For the Isles of Scilly, bright and dry with some sunshine.

And the times of high water... And for our surfers... And the coastal

waters forecast, the wind from the north-east, for three to four with

good visibility. And here is the picture for the rest of this week.

The cloud comes and goes, that'll be the way of it over the next few

days. Have a good evening. There is a lovely film on our Facebook page

about the little lambs and learning at school. You can log onto that

now. But from all of us here, good night.

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