Channel Islands Live: 10 July

Summary

Vehicles damaged and destroyed in garage fire
Further review of actions taken after care inquiry
Updates from Wednesday 10 July 2019

Live Reporting

Channel Islands weather: Staying dry with clear spellspublished at 16:52 British Summer Time 10 July 2019
BBC Weather
Staying dry on Wednesday night with cloud tending to thicken, although plenty of clear spells still expected. Some patchy mist likely. Light winds.
Minimum temperature: 14 to 17C (57 to 63F).
Thursday will be another dry day with cloud breaking up in the afternoon to allow for some lengthy sunny spells. Turning cloudy again in the evening and overnight.
Maximum temperature: 16 to 19C (61 to 66°F).
Jersey:
Guernsey:
Chinese tech giant to build island's 5G networkpublished at 16:38 British Summer Time 10 July 2019
Telecoms company ZTE is given the opportunity to construct Jersey's 5G mobile network.
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HPV vaccine extended to boyspublished at 15:16 British Summer Time 10 July 2019
Adam Durbin
BBC News Online
Jersey is to offer year eight boys the vaccine to prevent human papillomavirus (HPV), which can cause a variety of cancers.
The vaccine has been available to girls on the island for over a decade to guard against cervical cancer later in life.
Recent scientific studies in the UK have shown men have been benefiting significantly from the indirect "herd protection" that has built up from 10 years of the girls’ vaccination programme.
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For the younger generation, the HPV vaccine is a game changer. We anticipate there will be a future recommendation in coming years telling us that those women who were vaccinated as girls need only have cervical screening a few times in their lifetime."
Dr Linda Diggle, Head of Preventive Programmes, Jersey
Vehicles damaged and destroyed in garage firepublished at 10:18 British Summer Time 10 July 2019
Andrew Segal
BBC News
Image source, Jersey Fire & Rescue
A number of vehicles have been badly damaged or destroyed in a fire in a garage in Jersey.
The fire has been extinguished after fire crews were called to the scene in St Martin on Wednesday morning.
One crew was remaining on scene to dampen down, the fire service said.
Crews remain on scene to dampen down after garage firepublished at 10:05 British Summer Time 10 July 2019
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Further review of actions taken after care inquirypublished at 08:53 British Summer Time 10 July 2019
BBC Radio Jersey
The progress on legislation, the States' role as a corporate parent, the "Jersey Way" and legacy issues relating to the finding of the Jersey Independent Care Inquiry is being reviewed.
Released in July 2017 the inquiry's report into seven decades of abuse found children may still be at risk in the island's care system.
The Care of Children in Jersey Review Panel was formed to look at the progress made by the Council of Ministers to ensure a safe and secure environment for children in care - based on the inquiry's recommendations.
A review looking at the first four recommendations - a commissioner for children, giving children and young people a voice, inspection of services and building a sustainable workforce - was published in December.
The panel is now focused on the other four recommendations.
It will be writing to key stakeholders and the public are invited to get in touch by 16 August.
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There are a number of overarching issues that fall throughout the four recommendations, especially in relation to legislation and the perception of the ‘Jersey Way’, and we are especially interested to gather views and evidence in relation to how they have been responded to by the government."
Rob Ward, Chairman of the Care of Children in Jersey Review Panel
Garage fire in St Martinpublished at 08:19 British Summer Time 10 July 2019
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Channel Islands weather: Sunny, turning cloudy laterpublished at 08:11 British Summer Time 10 July 2019
Alex Osborne
BBC Weather
It will be a dry Wednesday with plenty of sunshine but some partly cloudy skies will develop in the afternoon.
It will feel warm with light winds.
Maximum Temperature: 20 to 23C (68 to 73F).