Summary

  • Coach full of passengers crashes in Jersey

  • Jersey schools short of more than 50 teachers

  • Guernsey undersea power cable 'to be replaced in October'

  • Postal independence 50th anniversary marked by stamps

  • Jersey cow help extended to other African nations

  • Updates from Tuesday 3 September 2019

Live Reporting

  1. Postal independence 50th anniversary marked by stamps

    BBC Radio Guernsey

    Guernsey Post is releasing two commemorative stamp sets to mark the 50th anniversary of postal independence.

    The stamps will be released on the 1 October - 50 years after the Bailiwick became an independent postal administration.

    The six stamps depicted are part of a private collection that once belonged to Guernsey man Doric Sarre, who began collecting Bailiwick Stamps when he was 10.

    They will showcase a variety of topics since postal independence, including one of Castle Cornet and Winston Churchill.

    Winston ChurchillGetty Images

    Former UK Prime Minister, Winston Churchill will feature on one of the stamps

  2. Guernsey undersea power cable 'to be replaced in October'

    BBC Radio Guernsey

    Work to repair and replace the GJ1 power cable - which runs from Guernsey to Jersey then on to France - should be completed this year, electricity bosses say.

    A major power cut in Guernsey last October highlighted the issues with the cable, Guernsey Electricity Chief Executive Alan Bates said.

    The island then lost power on Monday morning when work was being done on the undersea cable.

    The project is going very well. The 1 October power cut highlighted to us we had a real issue with the connection between here and Jersey. What we've been doing since then is a project to replace that cable and we're in the final stages of that. Now we're starting to expose a cable, getting ready to replace it in October."

    Alan Bates, Guernsey Electricity Chief Executive

    Guernsey electricity undersea cable mapGuernsey Electricity

  3. Jersey cow help extended to other African nations

    BBC Radio Jersey

    Jersey Overseas Aid says a project to breed Jersey cows in Africa is a sustainable way of bringing people out of poverty.

    A breeding programme was first launched in Rwanda in 2005 to help farmers produce more high quality milk.

    Following its success, the programme has now been extended to two other African nations - Malawi and Ethiopia.

    Technicians are being trained to help breed tens of thousands of cross and pure-blood Jersey cows.

    Jersey cow

    First and foremost there's the nutritional value in its milk. It has high fat content and the Jersey cows are very adaptable to new climates and landscapes so they consistently produce high quality milk. Whether they're eating a lot or not much or whether there's high altitude or low altitude.

    Edward Lewis, Jersey Overseas Aid

  4. Channel Islands weather: Sunny spells but generally cloudy

    BBC Weather

    A few sunny spells are expected but it will be generally cloudy with a chance of drizzle.

    There will be moderate westerly winds too.

    Highs of 18C (64F).

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