12/04/2017 Channel Islands News


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You are now more likely to be prosecuted if you are caught

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using your mobile phone behind the wheel.

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You didn't kill someone really easily if you look at your mobile

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phone for just a couple of two seconds. I do not think it is that

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serious. Is should just receive a fine.

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Good evening and welcome to the late news from BBC Channel Islands.

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Also tonight, delays and cancelled operations.

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Staff shortages are having an impact at Guernsey's

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More people will be prosecuted in Jersey's courts for using

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The island's Attorney General has toughened up on offenders, by making

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the crime too serious to be dealt with at parish hall level.

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The move comes one month after Jersey Police released figures,

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showing prosecutions of drivers using mobiles

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was at its highest for four years. Emma Chambers reports.

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Hard-hitting adverts shown across the British Isles,

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to make people think twice about using a mobile phone whilst

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driving. Now Jersey's most senior prosecutor is taking a tough stance

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on how offenders will be dealt with, to get the message across.

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Historically, mobile phone offences have be heard

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by Jersey Honorary Police at parish hall level.

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But now, anyone using a mobile phone whilst driving heavy

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goods or hired vehicles, carrying passengers for money,

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involved in a collision or if you text, use the internet

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or make or send photographs while at the wheel,

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The Attorney General issued the new directive stating:

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A move supported by Jersey's Honorary Police.

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Deer are taking a much stronger stands to make it socially

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acceptable. Sometimes it is only when people go

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to court that they realise. Particularly if they drive

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for a living author picking children from school,

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it can have effects on their life if they disqualified from it.

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It have a huge impact. But do people in St Helier

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think these offences I think it should go straight

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to court and if the people go I don't, because there

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are 100 million other Yet, it is dangerous, but I

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definitely think it's too serious. A serious move that prosecutors hope

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will prevent people of taking Patients needing surgery in Guernsey

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are having to wait up to The Medical Specialist Group says

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it is waiting for a surgeon But as Mike Wilkins reports,

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it has meant extended injury time This man's desperate to play

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football for his island again. Guernsey FC defender Jack Domaille

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was injured in October. He was told four days before his

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surgery that he would have to wait for more than five months

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for his operation. I'd set my heart on head-on

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and was focused for, and Social media is full

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of people criticising This person, for example,

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claims her father was told to wait two months and soon had a heart

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attack requiring emergency surgery. The Medical Specialist Group

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says in a statement: Jack now won't be able to play

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until at least the start of the 2019-2020 season,

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but he says the delays have affected Memento were looking to buy host

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this year. That has been put on hold. And financially, it has been a

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bit of a struggle. Although the UK has a different

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health system, people now have to wait a maximum of 18 weeks

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for an operation. And for some people,

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like Jack in Guernsey, The family of the woman found dead

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in St Helier last week have paid tribute to "a loving mother,

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who will be deeply missed". Ana Rebelo was found

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strangled in a St Helier home No-one has yet been

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charged with her death. Today, in a statement,

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the 51-year-old's family said they continue to grieve

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and are working with the police They thanked islanders

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for their support, saying They have asked to be left in peace,

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while they try to come The future of dozens of Guernsey

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businesses is still uncertain, after permission to change the use

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of a former vinery site was denied. Applicants wanted to change the use

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of the Pulias Vinery, so it It was one of two sites earmarked

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by the States for businesses being moved from another former

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vinery site at the Fontaine. But this morning, the Planning

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Authority rejected the move, a decision described

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as a victory for common sense by those who did not

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want to see industrial David will have your weather

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forecast in a moment, but first, the UK Met Office today presented

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a gift to a family in Jersey to mark Mary Norman's family in St Brelade

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has been measuring rainfall on the same site since 1917

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and is one of the oldest private weather stations

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in the British Isles. Luxmy Gopal went along

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to find out more. It is a family tradition

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of a different kind. Nearly every day for the past

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century, Mary's family has It started with her grandfather,

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who needed to know rainfall trends for his farming.

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And it's continued since. Even when there's no rain to measure

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- as was the case today - Mary mocked this up for us

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as an example. While April showers may have been

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lacking, there was a showering of gifts from the UK Met Office

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to mark the milestone. Of the 2,500 sites that record

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rainfall across the UK and Channel Islands,

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few are run by private volunteers I didn't really give it

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too much thought. When we came here and I realised it

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will be 100 years in 2017, there was something in me that

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wanted to achieve that mark. Only because it would be

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statistically quite I think actually the interesting

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thing is that the mechanism for reading it has not changed

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in that hundred years. There's a lot of talk these days

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on climate and weather patterns, this has been going on for years

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in farming community. To get 100 years' worth of data

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from one site where you can spot the changes is invaluable

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from a scientific point of view. And Met Officers say Mary's way

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of rainfall-measuring will continue to be invaluable for

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recording weather patterns, You can also have a go at keeping

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an eye on the weather for us Become a weather watcher

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at bbc.co.uk/weatherwatchers. Talking of the weather,

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here is David. Good evening. Some good weather to

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look forward to for Easter weekend. We might see a bit of code on the

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lead up to it, however. Some beautiful pictures which you have

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been sending in. Some shoppers to start with tomorrow. Then, mostly

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dry, with some sunshine. The best of the sunshine in the afternoon. This

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is the front crossing hours this afternoon. That's a pleasure will

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still be around come the weekend, but may weaken slightly unfriendly.

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Every time we get to Saturday, things are improving. Overnight

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temperatures, a minimum of nine Celsius. A rather cloudy start

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tomorrow. Isolated showers, which would that should disappear by the

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afternoon. Maximum temperatures of 15 Celsius. I mentioned it mainly

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rather cloudy on Friday. More persistent rain later in the day.

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But things bringing up on Saturday and Sunday, with a lot of great

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spills. It should also speed drive. That is your news this

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Wednesday evening. BBC Radio Guernsey and Jersey

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will have bulletins from six Brighter on Saturday but cloud again

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on Sunday. Here is Tomasz. Good evening.

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The weather in the run-up to Christmas... Easter! I got ahead of

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myself there! It isn't looking especially great, nor is it looking

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all that sunny. It will be changeable, it's been changeable

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today. You can see cloud streaming out of the north-west of the

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country. You can see some showers getting into north western parts of

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the UK, but eastern areas will remain pretty clear tonight, so here

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we have some frost on the way first thing, ground frost, nothing more,

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and it will be gone by the time the sun is up. First thing in the

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morning, some sunshine around across one or two parts of the east here.

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Western areas

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