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Re-writing history. for the news where you are. | :00:11. | :00:11. | |
Claims in a national newspaper that tens of thousands of slave workers | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
were killed and Alderney was a secret base for | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
chemical weapons are rubbished by local historians. | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
Good evening and welcome to the late news from BBC | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
Channel Islands, I'm Charlie McArdle. | :00:25. | :00:25. | |
Lack of investment means time stands still for one of Jersey's most | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
It is the first paddle steamer to come to the island so we need to see | :00:31. | :00:49. | |
this as the start of modern travel. For it to be taken away would be | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
tragic. Controversial claims that | :00:52. | :00:52. | |
German Occupying forces turned Alderney into a secret chemical | :00:53. | :00:54. | |
weapons base have been criticised Two former army officers | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
have written the stories for the Daily Mail, | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
saying their research shows that up to 70,000 slave workers died | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
in Alderney during World War Two. Richard Kemp and John Weigold | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
also claim V1 missiles But as Mike Wilkins reports, | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
not everyone's convinced. It was the only Nazi concentration | :01:15. | :01:21. | |
camp on British soil. It was one of four camps in Alderney | :01:22. | :01:28. | |
to house the workers building It's not clear how many | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
people were killed here, but they were brutally treated | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
by the SS. In two articles in a national | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
newspaper, two former military men claim that tens of thousands | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
of slave workers were And they go on to suggest that | :01:44. | :01:45. | |
Alderney could've been a base We came to the conclusion with other | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
factors that this was why they were cited in Alderney because you could | :01:50. | :01:57. | |
construct and prepare V1s with nerve agent warheads on them | :01:58. | :02:05. | |
which you could do in total secrecy given the unique | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
circumstance of Alderney. There was no possibility | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
of discovery. But those claims are being | :02:13. | :02:14. | |
criticised by a local historian. It's like saying I have | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
evidence of fairies These V1s were easily | :02:19. | :02:20. | |
identifiable from the air. You could not have | :02:21. | :02:31. | |
got V1s there and why But those claims have been | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
criticised by the Channel Whether or not you agree | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
with the claims in these articles, they've prompted an Alderney | :02:42. | :02:43. | |
politician to ask for top secret When the people of Alderney returned | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
home at the end of the war it was to write a new chapter, | :02:47. | :03:02. | |
and now more than 70 years on others Cannabis will be grown | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
in Jersey for at least a year after the Health Minister decided | :03:06. | :03:14. | |
to award a one-season licence Four varieties of the plant will be | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
produced, to create oil for cooking The chief pharmacist has reviewed | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
the proposed seeds to ensure The farm's location | :03:24. | :03:30. | |
hasn't been revealed. It shows disregard | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
for our maritime history. That's the view of a local | :03:37. | :03:38. | |
historian on the neglect It was built 20 years ago and cost | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
a quarter of a million pounds but it's been plagued | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
with problems ever since so much so, it seems no-one wants | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
to take responsibility for it. The fountain has stopped, | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
the bubbles are gone, and the clock is wrong - | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
on both sides. But these problems are nothing | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
new with Jersey's Steam Clock. It was surrounded by controversy | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
when it was built, and still is. The Steam Clock was | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
commissioned in 1996 by the Waterfront Enterprise Board - | :04:09. | :04:10. | |
that board is now known as the Jersey Development Company - | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
but the land it sits on was sold to the Ports of Jersey in October | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
2015, but the Ports of Jersey say they only realised they need | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
to maintain it six months ago. We always knew we were assuming | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
responsibility for the land, but we weren't aware | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
we were assuming responsibility for the repair and renovation | :04:31. | :04:32. | |
and maintenance for the Steam Clock. That's why we've now given | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
commitment that we will keep it secure and we will keep it safe | :04:36. | :04:37. | |
and we will keep it tidy. As regard to what will happen | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
to the Steam Clock in the longer term, we need to commission some | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
expertise to find out James says advice so far suggests | :04:45. | :04:46. | |
it s beyond economic repair. But love it or loath it, | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
it s here to remind us of our maritime history, | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
which some say needs to stay. It's like saying should General Don | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
stay in the Parade or George II stay They've been put there | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
because of their importance Here, of course with | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
the Steam Clock, it's here because it's the harbour, | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
this is where the Ariadne used to come in and the Ariadne herself | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
was the first paddle steamer to come to the island, so we really | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
have to see the Ariadne For it to be taken | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
away would be tragic. But with no promise that it will be | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
returned to working order, the time could be up | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
for this landmark. Jersey Reds have retained | :05:33. | :05:40. | |
the Siam Cup in what was a close Guernsey Raiders lost | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
by just two points - 20-18. It was the closest game in years | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
after new rules were introduced last year limiting the number | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
of professionals allowed to play. With fewer professionals on the home | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
side, both teams and spectators knew Guernsey were the first | :05:57. | :06:03. | |
on the scoreboard, with three points from this penalty from Kenny | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
Hellier. Less than ten minutes | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
later they looked to do Jersey then hit back with this | :06:12. | :06:13. | |
try from Karl Haitaner. In the second half Jersey went | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
on to score another try, Then Guernsey bounced back, | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
securing seven points starting with this close range | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
try from Craine. They then followed with this try | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
to close the gap to just two points. Tensions ran high as Kenny Hellier | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
took the conversion. He missed, depriving his | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
side of a draw, leaving The first one in the first half, | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
that is the three points that would We were never going to get | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
the cup with a draw but We looked down and out | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
when they got that try, Jersey only had three | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
of its professionals on the pitch after last year's restrictions | :07:02. | :07:08. | |
to limit the strength It is a great contest and think | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
it was great for the neutral. For us to come away | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
after the season we have had with 19 amateur | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
players in the game like this is fantastic and I said | :07:21. | :07:22. | |
to the lads before the game, have no regrets and make the most of | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
your memories because some of them will never be here again and they | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
have done so I am proud of them With both sides happy with a close | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
game, could this more competitive score become a regular feature | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
in future Siam Cups? Guernsey have announced their squad | :07:38. | :07:47. | |
for Saturday's Muratti final Striker Ross Allen is included | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
in their list of 18. Jersey will be revealing | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
their squad tomorrow morning. You can find out who's in the line | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
up on Good Morning Jersey with Matthew Price on BBC Radio | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
Jersey from six. It's the seventieth anniversary of | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
the Jersey International Road Race This was the scene in | :08:08. | :08:09. | |
St Helier earlier today. Dozens of classic cars gathered | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
near the Cenotaph to show off their vehicles as part | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
of the anniversary celebrations. The Grand Prix race ran from 1947 | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
to 1952 and ended when it became too It was the first Grand Prix | :08:20. | :08:26. | |
on British soil after Hello, good evening. There is plenty | :08:27. | :08:45. | |
of talk about how dry the ground is and we need rain. That is the | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
potential for some rain later this week. Our weather has a fine, dry | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
start, plenty of sunshine. Later in the week there may be some showers | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
and a change in the wind direction. For tomorrow, it is a lovely day. | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
Feeling warm and some decent spells of sunshine. A bit of a breeze | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
coming in from the east and holding the temperatures down. We have this | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
bridge of high pressure across Britain and northern France but down | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
here over Spain and Portugal there is a little area of low pressure. | :09:18. | :09:25. | |
Introducing a more cloud and potentially introducing some of | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
rain. On Friday there is no high-pressure visible, low pressure | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
is beginning to take charge. The easterly winds continue overnight | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
tonight. Temperatures are quite low, nine or 10 degrees tonight. Tomorrow | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
is a lovely day but that is a chance of a bit of patchy cloud floating | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
bipeds apart from that it is fine, dry and it is quite warm. 15 or 16 | :09:50. | :09:59. | |
degrees. Lots of fine weather across Spain and Portugal as well as | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
France. Cloud across Central part of France and Paris, temperatures | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
similar to Earth. As we move into next week, the end of the week in at | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
the weekend, it turns more unsettled. By Thursday the cloud is | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
thick enough for a view showers. Friday, the show was more frequent | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
and potentially that could turn out to be quite heavy but relatively | :10:24. | :10:24. | |
mild at 16 or 17. Tomorrow is Liberation | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
Day in the 16 or 17. The BBC will bring you full | :10:28. | :10:28. | |
coverage throughout the day on BBC Radio Jersey and Guernsey | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
with regular travel updates Online they'll be plenty of pictures | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
and videos capturing And we'll have highlights here on | :10:37. | :10:43. | |
BBC Channel Islands News at 6:30pm. That's it from the late news team, | :10:44. | :10:52. | |
I'll be back with you tomorrow will become drier and feel warm. Now | :10:53. | :11:05. | |
the National forecast. | :11:06. | :11:08. |