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Is the celebrity obsession with weight to blame | :00:11. | :00:12. | |
for girls as young as ten going on diets in Guernsey? | :00:13. | :00:21. | |
If you talk to even quite young children, six, 78 years old, how | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
they feel about how they look, quite a number of them are unhappy with | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
how they look and some would describe themselves as fat. | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
Good evening and welcome to the late news from BBC Channel Islands. | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
Charities in Jersey as being encouraged to help | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
There's concern children as young as six in Guernsey are becoming too | :00:42. | :00:48. | |
focused on their weight, with one local eating disorder | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
specialist saying in particular it's worrying how many ten-year-old girls | :00:51. | :00:52. | |
A recent survey revealed a third of primary school pupils | :00:53. | :01:01. | |
They're rich, they're famous, and, on the whole, they're thin and often | :01:02. | :01:09. | |
But is celebrity culture making us all too obsessed with our looks? | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
And, worryingly, is it it rubbing off on our children? | :01:14. | :01:21. | |
Even quite young children, six, seven, eight years old, | :01:22. | :01:23. | |
actually quite a number of them are unhappy about how they look, | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
A number of them, shockingly enough, say that they have been on a diet. | :01:27. | :01:36. | |
It's something nurses like Christine often come across. | :01:37. | :01:38. | |
She mainly deals with children that are perhaps overweight but she says | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
If parents can avoid saying that they are going on a diet, | :01:42. | :01:48. | |
I think if they don't give those messages out. | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
You eat food because it is nice food, that is a much better | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
Schools like this one are doing their bit, | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
with lessons focusing on making kids proud of their bodies. | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
Children are open to more things, for example the use of social media, | :02:07. | :02:13. | |
Rather than taking a negative slant, looking and comparing, | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
we've chosen to go down the positive route of celebrating | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
Everybody is different becuase they have different | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
They can think differently and feel differently. | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
I always hear lots of adults saying, "I am on a diet." | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
Actually it is not a diet, it is just a healthy lifestyle, | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
it is just what your lifestyle should be. | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
And, a lesson for us all to take on board perhaps. | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
Well, earlier today I spoke to Rosie Williams | :02:54. | :02:55. | |
who volunteers at The Hub - a charity in Guernsey that | :02:56. | :02:57. | |
offers support and advice to children from 11 to 18. | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
I started by asking her if this was an issue she'd experienced. | :03:01. | :03:11. | |
People come to us for a whole range of issues and one of the most | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
prominent as concerns about body image and self-confidence. It can be | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
a huge issue and I think it is often quite unspoken about so people will | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
come and talk to us but maybe will not tell their friends or family. | :03:28. | :03:28. | |
If so many Guernsey youngsters are concerned about their weight | :03:29. | :03:30. | |
from a young age, would you say they're more likely to develop | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
I think it is certainly a really higher risk. There are links between | :03:34. | :03:47. | |
body image and eating disorders. If it is not tackled from an early age | :03:48. | :03:49. | |
then it can definitely escalate. What advice would you give | :03:50. | :03:50. | |
to a young girl or young man who might be concerned | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
about their weight? I would definitely say to talk to | :03:54. | :04:00. | |
someone about it, your friends and family, open up. If you start | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
talking to people about it you can kind of tackle some of those issues | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
and see if maybe some of those thoughts are quite destructive or | :04:11. | :04:11. | |
concerning. If you don't tackle this now, | :04:12. | :04:12. | |
how serious a problem could the island be facing | :04:13. | :04:14. | |
in five years' time? It could be a lot more eating | :04:15. | :04:28. | |
disorders and other issues, Laura mood, -- Lower mood, anxiety and | :04:29. | :04:38. | |
body issues. Is this a ticking time bomb? Yes. | :04:39. | :05:01. | |
The body of a man has been recovered from rocks at Crabby Beach | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
in Alderney..Earlier this evening the Channel Islands Air Search | :05:05. | :05:06. | |
and the Alderney lifeboat were called out to look for Alderney | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
resident Keith Jones, who was reported missing | :05:10. | :05:11. | |
Guernsey police do not believe there are any suspicious | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
circumstances and the death is being treated as unexplained.A | :05:15. | :05:16. | |
Formal identification has not yet been carried out . | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
A postmortem examination is to be carried out on the body of a man | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
recovered from the sea at Pleinmont in Guernsey. | :05:25. | :05:26. | |
A large scale air, land and sea search was carried out over | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
the weekend for 50-year-old Patrick Eker, who went | :05:30. | :05:31. | |
A formal identification is expected later. | :05:32. | :05:33. | |
The police are not treating the death as suspicious. | :05:34. | :05:35. | |
A disciplinary hearing has heard how an ambulance station officer | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
in Guernsey failed to follow up a 999 call from an elderly man | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
Jason Garnham was on duty when Alan Hamilton dialled 999 - | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
but the call was cut off and attempts to call him | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
Procedures including logging the call and dispatching the police | :05:49. | :05:50. | |
and ambulance were not followed through and Mr Hamilton's body | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
The hearing in Southampton continues. | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
Charities in Jersey are being encouraged to hire people who've | :05:58. | :05:59. | |
been unemployed for a long time, using a States Back To Work scheme. | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
The scheme offers companies and other groups funding | :06:03. | :06:04. | |
for training and up to six months' salary if they take | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
But there's some concern it doesn't suit much of the charity sector. | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
Sammi is learning the ropes for her new admin role | :06:12. | :06:19. | |
at a young people's charity - the Barnardo's service | :06:20. | :06:21. | |
Previously unemployed, her salary here is being covered | :06:22. | :06:28. | |
Without this help, the charity couldn't have afforded her. | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
Sammi's come in and she's picked up the admin work for Plan B. | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
She's able to do the basic admin and project workers are able to work | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
with young people on the ground so, yeah, a huge difference. | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
Sammi isn't the only one who's found work through this | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
The Social Security department set the scheme up three | :06:45. | :06:52. | |
and a half years ago, and it's so far cost | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
It's funded roles for 150 roles for people who were previously out | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
of work and, of those, about half had their employment | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
extended in those placements or found work elsewhere. | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
But, while it doesn't have exact figures, the department admits | :07:08. | :07:09. | |
there's a relatively low take-up of the scheme among charities. | :07:10. | :07:11. | |
They're trying to change that, but it seems they might | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
The scheme doesn't work as well for charities as it does | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
The charities don't always have the resources to continue | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
employing that person, so unfortunately they take them | :07:23. | :07:24. | |
for the short time that covers it and then they have to let them go. | :07:25. | :07:32. | |
So can the States do anything to help? | :07:33. | :07:34. | |
Obviously, some charities do continue employing people | :07:35. | :07:36. | |
particularly if they've been beneficial to the organisation, | :07:37. | :07:38. | |
It's sad if the charity can't continue with employment but, | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
from the client's perspective, they've had valuable | :07:42. | :07:43. | |
This particular Jersey charity has had previous | :07:44. | :07:57. | |
success with the scheme, but even they admit finances | :07:58. | :07:59. | |
will have to be assessed before they can commit to keeping Sammi | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
on after the six-month funding runs out. | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
Sport now and it's been announced that Guernsey and Jersey cricket | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
teams will be heading to Johnannsburg later in the year | :08:13. | :08:14. | |
for the World Cricket League Five tournament. | :08:15. | :08:16. | |
The South African city was chosen over Jersey and the Netherlands | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
2017 is going to be an exciting year for Guernsey cricket according | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
to the head of the sport in the island. | :08:25. | :08:25. | |
Jersey Reds have climbed to fifth in the Championship | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
They beat Rotherham Titans 17-9 at St Peter. | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
And Congratulations to Guernsey's Ladies Rugby Team | :08:34. | :08:34. | |
They ended their season in style with an 85-0 victory over Worthing. | :08:35. | :08:47. | |
It's the start of another week so let's see what the forecast has | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
We have seen some sunshine today. We have seen a spell of rain but the | :08:51. | :09:00. | |
weather front has cleared and we have clear skies. We will see a | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
little more sunshine than today. As we had through this week, it will be | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
a cold start, certainly the next few days, some rain at times, sometimes | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
quite heavy. Breezy as well. It will settle down towards the end of the | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
week. The cold front has cleared out of the way so a little bit of a | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
breeze but largely clear skies overnight, one or two showers. | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
Tomorrow through daylight hours it will be a much better day. It will | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
feel cold but it should be dry with plenty of sunshine. Wednesday is a | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
bit of a mess. Early rain followed by brightness in the afternoon and | :09:42. | :09:48. | |
much lighter winds. Thursday, rain and merging into a heavy downpours. | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
Some hail and thunder as well. Friday settles down, much brighter | :09:52. | :09:58. | |
conditions and like winds. Some showers at the moment clearing | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
through quickly on a brisk wind. Largely clear skies between the | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
showers but even with the breeze we could get down as low as 5-6 saw it | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
it's going to be a chilly night. One or two isolated showers tomorrow but | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
by the time most of us get up it will be dry and bright with a lot of | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
sunshine. Still breezy and I think it will be deceptive because you | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
will see blue skies but it will still feel cold. Temperatures 9-10. | :10:26. | :10:32. | |
Showers and outbreaks of brain through the middle part of the week | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
and it settles down through Friday into the weekend and it will warm up | :10:36. | :10:37. | |
slightly. That's your news | :10:38. | :10:39. | |
this Monday evening. BBC Radio Guernsey and Jersey | :10:40. | :10:40. | |
will have bulletins from six tomorrow morning and I'll be back | :10:41. | :10:42. | |
at 6.30 tomorrow. outlook for Saturday and Sunday is | :10:43. | :11:04. | |
for something dry and settled, sunny spells but a bit on the cool side. | :11:05. | :11:12. | |
This week we are starting off with a taste of winter. This is Paul and | :11:13. | :11:20. | |
maritime air, it has come from a long way north and will push in lots | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
of showers. The last of any mild air gets swept away with the cloud. | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
Tonight we have showers mostly across the northern half of the UK, | :11:29. | :11:36. | |
which will turn wintry and that means more snow, particularly across | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
Scotland and Northern Ireland, perhaps northern | :11:41. | :11:41. |