:00:08. > :00:08.Extinguishing the extinct. for the news where you are.
:00:09. > :00:18.Dinosaur dental work causes a fire at Tamba Park.
:00:19. > :00:25.It was a dominant -- domino effect. Another good day.
:00:26. > :00:28.Good evening and welcome to the late news from BBC Channel Islands.
:00:29. > :00:32.The children's choir overcoming heartbreak and suffering
:00:33. > :00:41.Repairs to a giant model dinosaur sparked a fire and full
:00:42. > :00:44.evacuation at a Jersey tourist attraction today.
:00:45. > :00:47.Staff at Tamba Park in St Lawrence were welding teeth
:00:48. > :00:52.in a 10-foot dinosaur exhibit when the fire started.
:00:53. > :00:55.No-one was hurt, but it took more than 20 fire fighters to bring
:00:56. > :01:03.Thick black smoke could be seen for miles, after a welder doing dino
:01:04. > :01:06.dentistry at the St Lawrence theme park sparked a big fire.
:01:07. > :01:11.Staff were doing routine maintenance on the exhibit when it caught fire.
:01:12. > :01:17.Flames soon spread to plastic on the roof, on to a car
:01:18. > :01:21.We noticed some black smoke appearing from behind
:01:22. > :01:26.the greenhouses and then there was some
:01:27. > :01:41.The smoke got a lot worse, billowing up into the sky.
:01:42. > :01:45.No-one was hurt in the fire, but it took 19 firefighters
:01:46. > :01:47.a couple of hours to bring the flames under control.
:01:48. > :01:50.They say the smoke was particularly dangerous because rubber and plastic
:01:51. > :01:55.Any smoke is a bad thing, but this one in particular,
:01:56. > :02:05.is going to full of some very nasty chemicals.
:02:06. > :02:07.The firefighters limited the fire very quickly,
:02:08. > :02:12.Roads close to the the park were closed for several hours
:02:13. > :02:15.Visitors praised the Tamba staff for their quick
:02:16. > :02:17.actions, as they cleared the play-areas and cafe.
:02:18. > :02:21.The owner was relieved there was not any more problems.
:02:22. > :02:37.A good few thousands worth of equipment.
:02:38. > :02:39.Fire crews remained on site throughout
:02:40. > :02:48.The park itself has not been damaged and will open as normal tomorrow.
:02:49. > :02:51.A man has gone on trial for the indecent assault and rape
:02:52. > :02:57.30-year-old Kevin Irving is alleged to have got
:02:58. > :02:59.into the bed of the woman and assaulted her while she thought
:03:00. > :03:04.The trial is expected to last four days in Jersey's Royal Court.
:03:05. > :03:09.This is not the archetypal rape case of struggling
:03:10. > :03:13.and shouting to stop, the court was told
:03:14. > :03:15.by the prosecution, but it was still rape,
:03:16. > :03:20.with the traumatic consequences associated with it.
:03:21. > :03:22.On this the first day of the trial, we heard
:03:23. > :03:35.In front of the jury of six men and six women,
:03:36. > :03:38.she told the court what happened last summer.
:03:39. > :03:41.The woman explained how she had signed up to the dating site,
:03:42. > :03:44.Plenty Of Fish, where her profile made it clear she was not adverse
:03:45. > :03:46.to meeting for a relationship with no strings attached.
:03:47. > :03:49.She and another man started messaging and, while on a night out
:03:50. > :03:52.with friends on July 29 last year, the two messaged and met up.
:03:53. > :03:55.When they met up, Kevin Irving was also with the man.
:03:56. > :03:57.They went to a property in St Helier.
:03:58. > :04:00.The victim said she was happy to go back with the man,
:04:01. > :04:03.while Kevin Irving planned to call a taxi from the house.
:04:04. > :04:05.But in the hours following, the prosecution claims,
:04:06. > :04:07.while vulnerable, in bed and in the dark, the woman
:04:08. > :04:10.was assaulted and raped by Kevin Irving, when the other man
:04:11. > :04:13.The victim said she only realised it was someone else
:04:14. > :04:24.when there was shouting and the door opened.
:04:25. > :04:28.She left the property in a state of shock and reported to the rape
:04:29. > :04:30.to a policeman she found on the street.
:04:31. > :04:32.Kevin Irving denies the charges and the trial
:04:33. > :04:39.Ministers have paid ?33,000 for advice
:04:40. > :04:42.from a public relations firm on how to handle media interest
:04:43. > :04:45.They got a UK political consultant to give guidance
:04:46. > :04:47.on dealing with national and international interest
:04:48. > :04:49.in the Jersey inquiry into historic child abuse,
:04:50. > :04:51.which is due to publish its report soon.
:04:52. > :04:53.The Chief Minister wants to improve upon the way Ministers have handled
:04:54. > :04:58.The number of people using Guernsey's buses has gone up.
:04:59. > :05:01.In the first three months of this year, passengers increased by 12%
:05:02. > :05:08.Free student travel, introduced at the beginning of last year,
:05:09. > :05:13.was a big contributor to the rise, up by more than 20,000 journeys.
:05:14. > :05:19.The number of fare paying passengers also increased by 8,500.
:05:20. > :05:21.Following months of dispute, the States has agreed to class
:05:22. > :05:25.the streets on a Jersey trading estate as main roads.
:05:26. > :05:28.Members of the public will have to pay to park at Rue des Pres
:05:29. > :05:33.Previously the land was un-restricted, leading
:05:34. > :05:36.to numerous complaints about bad parking and blocked rights of way.
:05:37. > :05:40.The minister responsible said the only solution
:05:41. > :05:45.was to class them as main roads, so they can be more tighly
:05:46. > :05:49.Guernsey has secured a four-year sponsorship deal that
:05:50. > :05:53.will support its Island Games team until the 2021 games.
:05:54. > :05:57.Today, the chairman of the Guernsey Island Games
:05:58. > :05:59.Association signed a new deal with Generali Worldwide.
:06:00. > :06:04.The global insurance company has sponsored Team Guernsey since 2011.
:06:05. > :06:15.The association says funding is invaluable to island athletes.
:06:16. > :06:23.They give us Persaud is so that every sport has been given a bursary
:06:24. > :06:28.to help develop their sports towards the games. It's not only just the
:06:29. > :06:30.prospect of going to the games, is the development of the sport that
:06:31. > :06:35.the development of the sport that they have been doing.
:06:36. > :06:38.Orphaned children from Africa have been in Jersey to spread the message
:06:39. > :06:42.The Watoto Choir travel the world to broaden the horizons of the young
:06:43. > :06:45.people in their care, but also inspire thousands of others
:06:46. > :06:46.who watch their performances, which they are also taking
:06:47. > :06:50.Emma Chambers went to see them perform.
:06:51. > :07:04.You would not tell from hearing and seeing them, but all these
:07:05. > :07:07.children have experienced heartbreak and suffering.
:07:08. > :07:09.They are orphans from Uganda, who are now in the care
:07:10. > :07:12.of Watoto Ministries, an East African religious group
:07:13. > :07:15.who care for vulnerable young people and widows.
:07:16. > :07:17.This choir is on a once-in-a-lifetime trip
:07:18. > :07:25.Not one of sorrow, but one of hope and empowerment.
:07:26. > :07:27.They are from homes that were very violent to them.
:07:28. > :07:30.Mothers that have, literally, disowned them.
:07:31. > :07:33.Fathers who have run away from children,
:07:34. > :07:38.who have been thrown away, And for them, that is a painful
:07:39. > :07:40.thing, but thank God, they are young and can easily
:07:41. > :07:45.So, all we are trying to say is, it doesn't matter how bad things were,
:07:46. > :07:50.And it was well received by these students.
:07:51. > :07:57.The things we take for granted, they regard as privileges,
:07:58. > :07:59.but it was great to see them enjoying themselves
:08:00. > :08:08.It is amazing that they have such a positive attitude to life.
:08:09. > :08:12.You can be seven years old and have the confidence to get
:08:13. > :08:22.This is the second time they have been invited to the school.
:08:23. > :08:25.We are very proud of our international links and this just
:08:26. > :08:30.We are part of the world and part of growing up and being educated
:08:31. > :08:32.is to understand how that world works.
:08:33. > :08:35.And for the first time, the choir is taking their message to Guernsey,
:08:36. > :08:38.where they will be performing later this week.
:08:39. > :08:41.So more Channel Islanders can see there is happiness and hope,
:08:42. > :09:03.Good evening. We've had some lovely weather again today. Lots of
:09:04. > :09:11.sunshine to enjoy. This picture was taken by one of our weather
:09:12. > :09:16.watchers. The model is very similar. Fine and dry. Sunshine again but
:09:17. > :09:21.more in the way of cloud drifting towards is in the second half of the
:09:22. > :09:24.day. Light once again coming from the East but there are weather
:09:25. > :09:29.fronts trying to get to us from the north over the next 24 hours or so.
:09:30. > :09:32.By the time they get too as they had to pass through this area of high
:09:33. > :09:37.pressure and weakening of the wail of the travel south. Little, if
:09:38. > :09:42.anything, up for us to see, in terms of those weather fronts. Changes are
:09:43. > :09:49.in store as it moved towards the end of the week end and into the early
:09:50. > :09:53.fine for the islands. The cloud that fine for the islands. The cloud that
:09:54. > :10:01.we have seen from today across parts of the island and the central part
:10:02. > :10:06.of England may header we tomorrow. It likely will not last. Easterly
:10:07. > :10:10.winds, clear skies of making the fairly cold night again, with
:10:11. > :10:15.temperatures as low as four Celsius. A brief touch of Frost. Tomorrow
:10:16. > :10:19.model is a lovely day, plenty of that sunshine but a bit more in the
:10:20. > :10:28.way of cloud coming in from the North later in the day. 12 Celsius
:10:29. > :10:33.the maximum temperature. Here's the board as we head into the end of the
:10:34. > :10:37.league and the weekend. Some were weather on Friday, rather cloudy on
:10:38. > :10:41.Saturday, that we can weather front, fine on Sunday but the weather front
:10:42. > :10:42.arriving on Monday. More chance of some rain.
:10:43. > :10:43.That's your news this Wednesday evening.
:10:44. > :10:46.BBC Radio Guernsey and Jersey will have bulletins from 6am
:10:47. > :10:48.tomorrow and I'll be back at 6.30pm tomorrow.
:10:49. > :11:02.going into the weekend as well. A similar story across the UK. Thomas
:11:03. > :11:13.matter has that story. Good evening, before we get to the
:11:14. > :11:19.forecast, I want to show you a map which depicts how dry it has been
:11:20. > :11:24.during the course of April. Brown is below average rainfall, blue is
:11:25. > :11:28.above average. You can see how Brown the map is. Some areas in the south,
:11:29. > :11:34.some counties have only seen a few percent so far in April. Not
:11:35. > :11:38.necessarily a good thing at all. The rest of the week, not an awful lot
:11:39. > :11:41.of change, a fair bit of cloud and just a bit warmer but only
:11:42. > :11:42.marginally. The clouds are