:00:10. > :00:11.Good evening, I'm Luxmy Gopal. for the news where you are.
:00:12. > :00:14.A new report shows alcohol misuse is the leading cause of referrals
:00:15. > :00:18.Drinking contributed to nearly half of all community service sentences
:00:19. > :00:26.Alcohol is the single biggest contributory factor to offending.
:00:27. > :00:31.One that Jersey Probation Service has been tackling for decades.
:00:32. > :00:36.But where alcohol related offences are being committed is changing.
:00:37. > :00:38.The Chief Probation Officer says they are seeing
:00:39. > :00:41.a shift away from incidents connected to socialising.
:00:42. > :00:46.We see less of that work than we used to.
:00:47. > :00:52.We're still seeing drink-driving and we only see people when they're
:00:53. > :00:58.repeat offenders or when the level is at a high reading
:00:59. > :01:03.and where custody is a possibility so that's a big worry.
:01:04. > :01:06.It's quite often a factor in domestic violence
:01:07. > :01:11.I wouldn't say that alcohol was the cause of the offending
:01:12. > :01:14.by any means but it's certainly often present in those offences too.
:01:15. > :01:18.In their latest report, alcohol contributed to 42%
:01:19. > :01:21.of referrals to the Probation Service.
:01:22. > :01:24.Overshadowing the other factors related to offending
:01:25. > :01:29.including aggression, emotional instability and drugs.
:01:30. > :01:33.Probation staff work with people to help them develop the skills
:01:34. > :01:37.and confidence they need to control their addictions.
:01:38. > :01:39.They are also working with other support agencies
:01:40. > :01:45.It's no secret we have a big drink or drug problem in the island
:01:46. > :01:48.and I believe that this report highlights that we are actually
:01:49. > :01:51.doing the best we can to deal with the problem
:01:52. > :01:55.and with that is a lot more collaborative working which is,
:01:56. > :01:59.I believe, is a contributing factor to the success of this report
:02:00. > :02:02.and if we carry on doing that then I think we're making a big dent
:02:03. > :02:07.While problems connected to alcohol abuse won't go away,
:02:08. > :02:10.agencies hope that by working together they can control it.
:02:11. > :02:19.Guernsey Police say the public's help is crucial in fighting child
:02:20. > :02:33.This is part of a video which the force will be posting
:02:34. > :02:35.online over the weekend as part of a national campaign.
:02:36. > :02:37.They're asking people to be on the lookout
:02:38. > :02:40.for inappropriate relationships between adults and children.
:02:41. > :02:44.The child is brought into a relationship where they can
:02:45. > :02:49.confuse the relationship with love and attention, the perpetrator
:02:50. > :02:56.Items, expensive items such as phones and tablets,
:02:57. > :03:01.they can give them cigarettes and alcohol, that sort of thing.
:03:02. > :03:04.Jersey's Infrastructure Department says it's confident the island's
:03:05. > :03:07.planned new hospital will come in on budget.
:03:08. > :03:11.A scrutiny panel is looking at proposals to borrow nearly
:03:12. > :03:13.?450 million to fund the project before they're debated
:03:14. > :03:19.The Minister says they need a decision as soon as possible.
:03:20. > :03:22.As you may have seen in the national news today, it's been 50 years
:03:23. > :03:25.since the Torrey Canyon disaster devastated wildlife
:03:26. > :03:28.in the Channel Island and its impact is still being felt today.
:03:29. > :03:31.It was an oil tanker that struck a reef off
:03:32. > :03:33.the Isles of Scilly in 1967, causing the world's
:03:34. > :03:46.His report contains some upsetting images.
:03:47. > :03:48.The tanker has moved aground at the Torrey Canyon.
:03:49. > :03:50.More than 40,000 tonnes of crude oil.
:03:51. > :03:55.And that menace was heading towards the Channel Islands.
:03:56. > :03:57.In a last-ditch attempt to send the supertanker to the bottom
:03:58. > :04:01.of the sea and burn off the oil, the RAF and Royal Navy dropped
:04:02. > :04:10.Thousands of birds and marine life were killed
:04:11. > :04:15.Further damage was caused by the heavy use of detergents
:04:16. > :04:22.Decades later and Guernsey's wildlife was still suffering.
:04:23. > :04:26.A lot of the oil was scooped up and dumped in this quarry.
:04:27. > :04:29.Guernsey Police even sent a diver below the oil to investigate.
:04:30. > :04:36.Just over seven years ago I filmed this quiet corner of shame
:04:37. > :04:45.For these birds who landed in the quarry where oil
:04:46. > :04:53.Since then this toxic quarry of oil has been transformed by a process
:04:54. > :04:56.known as 'bio remediation', where organisms feed
:04:57. > :04:59.off the oil turning it into carbon dioxide and water.
:05:00. > :05:03.But even then it came too late, with dead birds still floating face
:05:04. > :05:31.Work is still a problem. It is extremely distressing to see oil
:05:32. > :05:45.It's extremely sad to see oil affecting birds in this modern age.
:05:46. > :05:48.There is so much regulation and so many rules to prevent oil
:05:49. > :05:51.being dumped over the side of boats or tanks being cleaned, these things
:05:52. > :05:55.It is heartbreaking for us here at the animal shelter.
:05:56. > :05:57.Around all the coastal areas of the British Isles,
:05:58. > :05:59.the animals being affected by things gone on decades gone by.
:06:00. > :06:02.The Torrey Canyon disaster lead to an environmental catastrophe
:06:03. > :06:04.and many hope nothing like it will ever happen again.
:06:05. > :06:06.That's all from me for now. Have a great weekend.
:06:07. > :06:11.I'll leave you with David and the weather forecast.
:06:12. > :06:20.Good evening. I think we'll see a lot of cloud this weekend, capable
:06:21. > :06:26.of reducing a fuse box of Lane. We're on the edge of an area of high
:06:27. > :06:30.pressure but it is not close enough, several weather fronts are close
:06:31. > :06:34.enough to us to produce a lot of cloud and spots of rain. That
:06:35. > :06:42.continues through Saturday and Sunday. Perhaps more wives read more
:06:43. > :06:50.persistent rain on Monday. -- more widespread. Overnight tonight,
:06:51. > :06:56.drizzle and light rain will continue through the morning. Temperature is
:06:57. > :07:03.no lower than eight or 9 degrees. Not a particularly right day. Very
:07:04. > :07:08.cloudy, spots of rain off and on, brisk and westerly wind and a top
:07:09. > :07:13.temperature of ten or 11 degrees. The outlook for Sunday is similar.
:07:14. > :07:19.Very little change, slightly less windy. Rain on Monday, cooler and
:07:20. > :07:26.art on Tuesday when finally the weather front clears. Over the next
:07:27. > :07:33.three days, a lot of cloud, spots of rain.
:07:34. > :07:40.it is rather breezy. Now for the national outlook.
:07:41. > :07:48.It was quite a wet day across many northern and western parts of the
:07:49. > :07:52.UK. This was the view in Lancashire not so long ago. For the weekend we
:07:53. > :07:58.are looking to see further rain, all coming from the west, so the further
:07:59. > :07:59.east you are, it should be drier. It will be quite a windy weekend for
:08:00. > :08:01.all parts.