19/04/2017 Channel Islands News

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Dinosaur dental work causes a fire at Tamba Park.

It was a dominant -- domino effect. Another good day.

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

The children's choir overcoming heartbreak and suffering

Repairs to a giant model dinosaur sparked a fire and full

evacuation at a Jersey tourist attraction today.

Staff at Tamba Park in St Lawrence were welding teeth

in a 10-foot dinosaur exhibit when the fire started.

No-one was hurt, but it took more than 20 fire fighters to bring

Thick black smoke could be seen for miles, after a welder doing dino

dentistry at the St Lawrence theme park sparked a big fire.

Staff were doing routine maintenance on the exhibit when it caught fire.

Flames soon spread to plastic on the roof, on to a car

We noticed some black smoke appearing from behind

the greenhouses and then there was some

The smoke got a lot worse, billowing up into the sky.

No-one was hurt in the fire, but it took 19 firefighters

a couple of hours to bring the flames under control.

They say the smoke was particularly dangerous because rubber and plastic

Any smoke is a bad thing, but this one in particular,

is going to full of some very nasty chemicals.

The firefighters limited the fire very quickly,

Roads close to the the park were closed for several hours

Visitors praised the Tamba staff for their quick

actions, as they cleared the play-areas and cafe.

The owner was relieved there was not any more problems.

A good few thousands worth of equipment.

Fire crews remained on site throughout

The park itself has not been damaged and will open as normal tomorrow.

A man has gone on trial for the indecent assault and rape

30-year-old Kevin Irving is alleged to have got

into the bed of the woman and assaulted her while she thought

The trial is expected to last four days in Jersey's Royal Court.

This is not the archetypal rape case of struggling

and shouting to stop, the court was told

by the prosecution, but it was still rape,

with the traumatic consequences associated with it.

On this the first day of the trial, we heard

In front of the jury of six men and six women,

she told the court what happened last summer.

The woman explained how she had signed up to the dating site,

Plenty Of Fish, where her profile made it clear she was not adverse

to meeting for a relationship with no strings attached.

She and another man started messaging and, while on a night out

with friends on July 29 last year, the two messaged and met up.

When they met up, Kevin Irving was also with the man.

They went to a property in St Helier.

The victim said she was happy to go back with the man,

while Kevin Irving planned to call a taxi from the house.

But in the hours following, the prosecution claims,

while vulnerable, in bed and in the dark, the woman

was assaulted and raped by Kevin Irving, when the other man

The victim said she only realised it was someone else

when there was shouting and the door opened.

She left the property in a state of shock and reported to the rape

to a policeman she found on the street.

Kevin Irving denies the charges and the trial

Ministers have paid ?33,000 for advice

from a public relations firm on how to handle media interest

They got a UK political consultant to give guidance

on dealing with national and international interest

in the Jersey inquiry into historic child abuse,

which is due to publish its report soon.

The Chief Minister wants to improve upon the way Ministers have handled

The number of people using Guernsey's buses has gone up.

In the first three months of this year, passengers increased by 12%

Free student travel, introduced at the beginning of last year,

was a big contributor to the rise, up by more than 20,000 journeys.

The number of fare paying passengers also increased by 8,500.

Following months of dispute, the States has agreed to class

the streets on a Jersey trading estate as main roads.

Members of the public will have to pay to park at Rue des Pres

Previously the land was un-restricted, leading

to numerous complaints about bad parking and blocked rights of way.

The minister responsible said the only solution

was to class them as main roads, so they can be more tighly

Guernsey has secured a four-year sponsorship deal that

will support its Island Games team until the 2021 games.

Today, the chairman of the Guernsey Island Games

Association signed a new deal with Generali Worldwide.

The global insurance company has sponsored Team Guernsey since 2011.

The association says funding is invaluable to island athletes.

They give us Persaud is so that every sport has been given a bursary

to help develop their sports towards the games. It's not only just the

prospect of going to the games, is the development of the sport that

the development of the sport that they have been doing.

Orphaned children from Africa have been in Jersey to spread the message

The Watoto Choir travel the world to broaden the horizons of the young

people in their care, but also inspire thousands of others

who watch their performances, which they are also taking

Emma Chambers went to see them perform.

You would not tell from hearing and seeing them, but all these

children have experienced heartbreak and suffering.

They are orphans from Uganda, who are now in the care

of Watoto Ministries, an East African religious group

who care for vulnerable young people and widows.

This choir is on a once-in-a-lifetime trip

Not one of sorrow, but one of hope and empowerment.

They are from homes that were very violent to them.

Mothers that have, literally, disowned them.

Fathers who have run away from children,

who have been thrown away, And for them, that is a painful

thing, but thank God, they are young and can easily

So, all we are trying to say is, it doesn't matter how bad things were,

And it was well received by these students.

The things we take for granted, they regard as privileges,

but it was great to see them enjoying themselves

It is amazing that they have such a positive attitude to life.

You can be seven years old and have the confidence to get

This is the second time they have been invited to the school.

We are very proud of our international links and this just

We are part of the world and part of growing up and being educated

is to understand how that world works.

And for the first time, the choir is taking their message to Guernsey,

where they will be performing later this week.

So more Channel Islanders can see there is happiness and hope,

Good evening. We've had some lovely weather again today. Lots of

sunshine to enjoy. This picture was taken by one of our weather

watchers. The model is very similar. Fine and dry. Sunshine again but

more in the way of cloud drifting towards is in the second half of the

day. Light once again coming from the East but there are weather

fronts trying to get to us from the north over the next 24 hours or so.

By the time they get too as they had to pass through this area of high

pressure and weakening of the wail of the travel south. Little, if

anything, up for us to see, in terms of those weather fronts. Changes are

in store as it moved towards the end of the week end and into the early

fine for the islands. The cloud that fine for the islands. The cloud that

we have seen from today across parts of the island and the central part

of England may header we tomorrow. It likely will not last. Easterly

winds, clear skies of making the fairly cold night again, with

temperatures as low as four Celsius. A brief touch of Frost. Tomorrow

model is a lovely day, plenty of that sunshine but a bit more in the

way of cloud coming in from the North later in the day. 12 Celsius

the maximum temperature. Here's the board as we head into the end of the

league and the weekend. Some were weather on Friday, rather cloudy on

Saturday, that we can weather front, fine on Sunday but the weather front

arriving on Monday. More chance of some rain.

That's your news this Wednesday evening.

BBC Radio Guernsey and Jersey will have bulletins from 6am

tomorrow and I'll be back at 6.30pm tomorrow.

going into the weekend as well. A similar story across the UK. Thomas

matter has that story. Good evening, before we get to the

forecast, I want to show you a map which depicts how dry it has been

during the course of April. Brown is below average rainfall, blue is

above average. You can see how Brown the map is. Some areas in the south,

some counties have only seen a few percent so far in April. Not

necessarily a good thing at all. The rest of the week, not an awful lot

of change, a fair bit of cloud and just a bit warmer but only

marginally. The clouds are