Rob Byrne
BBC News Online

Guernsey's external relations minister has welcomed plans to adapt Victor Hugo's classic novel Toilers of the Sea into a movie, partly filmed on the island.

Deputy Jonathan Le Tocq said the author's novel had particular significance in Hugo's native France.

"I think it's superb," he said.

"As far as the French are concerned, Victor Hugo is the most important writer and thinker, and upholder of human rights, of social reform that that nation has ever known.

"In Les Travailleurs, you get certainly this idea of right and wrong, the big fight between evil and good in the world and it's based here in Guernsey."

Emily Wood
BBC Weather

Tuesday will be another fine and dry day with lots of bright sunshine and largely clear blue skies. There will be a moderate south-easterly breeze.

Maximum temperature: 10 to 13C (50 to 55F).

Miranda Griffin
BBC Radio Guernsey

Aurigny has announced new routes to and from Guernsey, including the return of a Jersey service that was cancelled in 2016.

From May, the States-owned airline will be offering twice daily flights to Jersey and also direct flights to Southampton.

Aurigny said that the introduction of these new routes would offer customers "greater choice, reliability and an added inter-island business connection".

The services have been announced as part of the expansion of the operator's route portfolio.

Full schedules will be available for booking from 1 March.

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BBC Radio Jersey

Eye tests for diabetics at Jersey's hospital have been stopped for months because of problems with the retinal screening programme.

It was suspended in the autumn because the island's system was not up to scratch and did not meet UK standards.

The tests are needed to make sure high blood sugar levels do not damage the back of they eye.

Health and Community Services group director Dr John McInerney said the 4,000 known diabetics in Jersey were to get a letter explaining about planned changes to the programme.

They include seeing an increase to tests being done once a year, and including children from the age of 12 and pregnant women with diabetes.

The charity Diabetes Jersey welcomed the decision to review the programme. It also said it was to pay £35,000 for two new retinal screening cameras.

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