High winds cancel Condor services
Airport delays across the Channel Islands
Cafe broken into on Christmas Eve
Alternative plans for secondary education published
New hospital facilities hope to reduce number of visits
Updates on Wednesday 27 December 2017
Rob England
BBC News Online
Our coverage across the Channel Islands has finished for today.
We'll be back on Thursday from 07:00 with the latest news, weather, travel and sport.
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A chilly night is forecast across the Channel Islands with a few showers continuing overnight.
Winds will be westerly and moderate.
Minimum Temperature: 4C (39F)
Jersey:
Guernsey:
Jersey Evening Post
An inter-island seaplane service, external carrying Islanders between St Helier and St Peter Port could be operational next spring.
BBC Radio Jersey
Police have closed Le Mont des Vignes in St Peter, Jersey, after trees were found to be leaning towards the road in a "dangerous position".
Officers said the road would remain closed until at least tomorrow.
Ollie Guillou
BBC Radio Guernsey
Plans to run secondary education in Guernsey from two schools have been published today.
They were drafted by four Deputies looking at an alternative to the Committee for Education, Sport and Culture's three school model, external.
The four deputies behind the report are Matt Fallaize, Richard Graham, Rhian Tooley and Mark Dorey.
Here is an outline of what the model might look like:
Two-school model
Further/Higher education
In this plan, deputies say, the College of Further Education would continue offering the services it already does, as a single, integrated organisation.
But it would also be an objective of the College to integrate with the Institute of Health and Social Care Studies and the Guernsey Training Agency as soon as possible, and to form a partnership with a UK university to become University College Guernsey.
Jersey Evening Post
Food banks will soon become ‘part of the norm, external’ in Jersey, according to a Reverend who runs one of the services in the Island.
Rob England
BBC News Online
If you are wondering why there are no national papers on sale in Guernsey today, the boat bringing them over from Jersey was cancelled.
The Channel Chieftain Five has experienced problems travelling between the islands in December, and this morning was no exception.
Earlier this month crew members filmed the 14m(45ft) catamaran battling huge swells on its way to Guernsey.
Guernsey Press
The Salvation Army provided a Christmas lunch for 74 islanders, external this year.
Rob England
BBC News Online
The first phase of work to turn waste ground at the back of Le Murier School in St Sampson's, Guernsey, into a small village is almost complete.
An existing granite building has been refurbished into a 'village hall' where pupils can practise vital life skills like cooking.
The school says the second phase of work to build four log cabins for overnight stays will start in February.
Jersey Evening Post
Viagra, the internet and the fact that people are living longer have contributed to one of the Island’s sexual health clinics treating more ‘mature’ people, external, a clinical nurse specialist has said.
Amy Gladwell
BBC News Online
Alderney’s "most popular annual walk," the Boxing Day walk, has been rescheduled for New Year's Eve, external after it had to be postponed due to bad weather.
Alderney Wildlife Trust said it will start at its centre on Victoria Street from 14:30 on Sunday.
The route is about 3 miles long and will finish with mulled wine and homemade mince pies and a screening of the Alderney War Years film, with limited space.
Rob England
BBC News Online
Sark shipping has cancelled services today due to poor weather conditions, and Condor Ferries has advised travellers booked on the Rapide and Liberation on Friday and Saturday that services are subject to review.
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Tomorrow's timetable for Condor's high speed services is as follows:
The Liberation's Poole to Guernsey sailing with depart at 09:15, arriving at 12:15.
This service will then depart Guernsey at 12:45, arriving in Jersey at 13:45 before turning back to Guernsey at 14:45.
The Liberation is then due to depart from Poole at 16:25 - arriving at 19:25.
Meanwhile, the Rapide sailing from St Malo to Jersey will go ahead at 08:00, returning to Jersey by 11:25.
Guernsey Press
The prison’s much-vaunted drone defence system cannot be used fully yet, external, governor David Matthews has admitted.
Rob England
BBC News Online
Guernsey Airport:
The 08:50 and 10:40 Aurigny services from Alderney have been cancelled.
Flybe's 09:15 flight from Southampton is due in at 13:00.
The service to Jersey due to leave at 08:10 is now expected to depart at 13:45.
Jersey Airport:
The 08:30 flight from Guernsey has been delayed until 15:05 for "operational reasons".
The 10:30 from London City is also delayed by a few hours, and is expected in Jersey at 13:30.
Guernsey Press
Brave islanders took to the chilly waters of the bathing pools at La Vallette on Christmas Day morning for the Guernsey Swimming Club’s Polar Bear Swim, external.
BBC Radio Guernsey
St John Ambulance Guernsey has released figures for the number of incidents attended over Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
Guernsey's Marine Ambulance was dispatched twice. On Christmas Day the Flying Christine III was sent to Brecqhou to collect a patient and on Boxing Day the boat was requested by the Sark doctor to transfer a patient for treatment in Guernsey.
A volunteer skipper and engineers crewed the vessels and a paramedic and technician were also on board for both crossings.
The land ambulance service attended 25 incidents over the 24 hour period.
A spokesman said the calls were "a mix of falls and medical cases, including some sudden severe illness".
Emergency services also responded to a single car road traffic collision on Bulwer Avenue.
Guernsey Press
An application for an air transport licence to operate a seaplane service, external in Guernsey has been received by the Transport Licensing Authority.
BBC Radio Guernsey
Implementing Guernsey's Disability and Inclusion Strategy is a top priority for Employment and Social Security in 2018.
The committee was due to release outline plans for the strategy - which was approved by the States in 2013 - in November but did not meet the deadline.
Committee President Deputy Michelle Le Clerc said she was "disappointed" by the lack of progress in 2017, but work was already underway to make sure it gets done.
Quote MessageWe are now putting resources in place so we can fullfill that obligation. I think if we do not succeed in bringing in this legislation by the end of this term then I will feel like I have failed as president of this committee, because that is a really important piece of work."
Deputy Michelle Le Clerc
Jersey Evening Post
St Helier residents are due to be asked how they would like to spend a £600,000 windfall, external at a ratepayers’ meeting at the end of next month.
Rob England
BBC News Online
Passport changes which will come into effect when the UK leaves in EU in March 2019 will also affect Jersey passports, according to the States.
A spokesman said: "The Jersey Passport Office have been working with their colleagues in the UK to ensure that Jersey passports will be aligned to the British passport and are reassuring passport holders that they do not need to take any action before the renewal date in their current document."
The Jersey variant passports give the same status to holders of the British version.
Image source, HOME OFFICE/GETTY IMAGESBritish passports will change from burgundy to blue after Britain leaves the EU, the Home Office has said.
Immigration Minister Brandon Lewis said he was "delighted" to return to the "iconic" blue and gold design which came into use almost 100 years ago.
The new passports will be issued to those renewing or applying for a passport from October 2019.
