Attending a mental health awareness session from guns the mind the director of Care and Martin says next trained some employees as mental health 1st aid is so this year we focused on mental health so we. Can See mind to come in and she to Sutton's with managers and all employees on mental health awareness this next year will be focused on getting some people trained as mental health 1st aid just to industrial skips of non-native invasive creeping figure was ripped up from the Leo islands this week the plants otherwise known as fiscus ficus Pima is an invasive species across the island morea Riley reports the envious of creeping figure is more commonly find across eastern and often grows and then blankets across need of island species Jimmy Hooper from Les also taken as he has was one of the contractors who helped remove the plant he predicts it was originally brought over to Guernsey to be used indoors on a run the house environment Guernsey's say the removal of the creeping fig will help protect the grass on habitat on the rare solitary bees and would announce that live there in other news now says in Northern Ireland a walking out for 12 hours in a route over pay and patient safety is the best strike by members of the Royal College of Nursing in its 103 year history the r.c.n. Says nurses in Northern Ireland get paid less than in the rest of the quay and there's a higher vacancy rate at council says politicians need to address the real issues that affect the region I guess I would love a little Christmas mark all that would be wonderful I would say stop. Dating what you're doing and look at what is actually going on in Northern Ireland people don't really care or a bite or engineering anymore that's not what's important what's important is our health and education a new way of delivering chemotherapy is being charged in the k. Would it hope will lead to fewer side effects for cancer patients a patient of the role models a hospital in sorry is the 1st in the wilds have tested acoustic cluster therapy Professor diet Banerjee from the Institute for Cancer Research says a more targeted approach than what's currently used we know the mocking with r.p. We give more this to my shrink However some point the question starts giving l. And this technology that we're trying to days of trying to use the same amount of chemotherapy that we're using now but significantly increase the amount of chemotherapy within the council thus giving us a better chance to shrink too much football and Aston Villa the 1st side through to the semifinals of the League Cup after they beat Liverpool 5 nil Villa Park b.b.c. Radio against it's 5 past 8. B.b.c. Radio again say I'm in station phone with. Well it's going to start out fair or fine this morning we're told with some sunny periods becoming cloudy this afternoon with outbreaks of rain from late afternoon perhaps persistent and rather heavy for a time this evening temperatures up to 11 degrees which is slightly cooler than we can expect for the rest of the week to more there up to 12 for instance lows of knowing today and alternate visibility is good occasionally moderate from late afternoon the wind Southwest moderate for backing south to southeast this morning then increasing fresh 5 to strong 6 later strong 7 by this evening the open sea started start to moderate increasing rather rough this afternoon occasionally rough this evening with a low swell. And say the Island station for travel. The morning on the raised today. Is close between Richmond Ave and King's Road until Friday but continues on the full on road until Sunday in the Capital Region mass is one way from 2 route to 10 until Saturday read last Saleen round case there which has been closed the last week and a half or so should be open again from about half past 9 this morning and there are temperatures in the cattle the group call you until Friday and instant save is a quiet matter until later on in the month at the airport mail was in at $635.00 and I promise to tell you about there at the moment no problem in the hall there either and the papers arrived at 552 this morning the latest travel news share your trial. By the late 1993 to. 7 minutes past 8 on the dot Wednesday morning the 18th of December welcome to breakfast on b.b.c. Radio morning great to be with you this morning on Sunday 7 for. 30 foot long trailers of post and parcels landed at the White Rock and were driven to Envoy house to be processed the stormy weather has meant a backup of post in Portsmouth understand bound for guns but now with the law the full effects are being felt by the island's postseason the chief exec of guns the post barely Smiley is with us and it's great to see both thanks for being here good morning and would you just tell us about some facts and stats that you might have with just how busy is it at the moment paint a picture for us yes so I guess for the law for 33 nearly 4 days last week we didn't receive any parcels in particular because of the delays to the ferries or the cancellation of the ferries so this time of year typically we would expect to be delivering between $7.10 passengers a day over the last 3 days we've delivered over to over 20000 nearly 30001 day well so these are the full effects of this backlog if you like if we can put it like that yes so this is the mail this basically held in Portsmouth until the the seas calmed. All of that now with us as is that now come the weekend Yes So our team. Been working exceptionally hard over Monday and yesterday and again today so everything's been received and by the end of today with a fair wind we should be back up to date we can criticise social media we like but I don't know if you've been shown it they've been so absolutely marvelous tributes if you like to what your your guys are doing out and about there have been and it's we we make sure we put all of that notice boards with people to feel to see it is really nice and very much appreciate that my customers how are people coping house morale they look up every year there's a challenge somewhere along the line that I have to deal with and every year amazes me how they do so with relative calm the So on Monday when you know we literally as you mentioned in your introduction we had 7 trailers of mail turn up on the door I did not expect to go to clear in this amount of time and I have done very calmly just got on with it and the job done and how do you go about doing that then do you employ more people this time of year or is it a greater effort by everybody who's already working with you it's a combination of all those things in the main it's a greater effort from everyone that works for the organization or hours working more hours yeah in addition to that we recruit about 10 extra people to help us particularly within our sorting in the in the office but generally particular delivery people are out much longer than they would normally be logistically just take us through what happens on the standard day you might get in fairly early but there will be people there way before you Oh absolutely yes. The day this time of year the day can start around about 4 o'clock in the morning so we'll be at that point unloading trailers that we've received from. Our suppliers like normal and then as everyone probably realizes the mail plane lands about. $630.00 so we will pick up that mail then it's. A question of sorting that as quickly as possible and out on the road as quickly as possible but on a typical day throughout the year we'll just get that aircraft and so on Monday we know we had 740 foot trailers and aircraft plus volume from another 3 or 4 carrier is probably our busiest week ever actually by by circumstance but you know they've done an exceptionally good job so you work Bang Goes far as to say this is this is the busiest Christmas that you can remember in your post Yeah I think it then by the end of the week will now I mean we've. We expect by the end of today or early tomorrow to of handle about 3000000 items this Christmas this December. Which is ahead of where we would have expected to have been at least at this point notwithstanding the disruption that we've had so yes certainly Sony the biggest Business Week I can remember and probably if we if we get a good few days between now and Christmas Eve probably the busiest Christmas ever it's interesting isn't it to get a figure like that from you because of the top of my head if you're saying between 5 and 10 items 510000 items a day throughout a December month that will be what about about $22000000.00 items but but another 1000000 on top of that I just wonder why are we all ordering much much more or what you put it down to so I suppose there's 3 simple aspects to our business we talk a lot about pass olds that's still only represents about 20 percent of what we do so was letters are declining there's still a lot of there's still a lot more of them so we've got an initiative that we've got a big export business so you know we still have some but my lawyers on the island that that contribute towards that that big number. 20 percent of what your processor passes imagine you can only expect that to go up most as the years go on I think every year when when when I'm asked this question it's relatively the same answer which is we're seeing declines in letters of somewhere between 5 and 10 percent every year and increases in passes of somewhere between 5 and 10 percent every year and I guess at some point not a plateau but it doesn't look like that's going to happen anytime soon in Christmas cards you still send them we do of course we have to me yeah I mean we're seeing that they've dropped quite significantly this year but again that's a trend that we've seen of the last 5 or 10 years so I'm expecting that to be down between 5 and 10 percent the last 12 months must have been quite interesting for you in your position and with a t. Chief exec of course and I don't know how long ago it was when we heard from you about your whole fleet turning into electric vehicles for instance was that this year or so that was the summer we completed that and then the the solar I went online in October Wow So how's that transition to be really good I mean the whole transition to the electric vans you know we really realize the benefit of that this week where we've got to provide so much capacity to get out of the livery so that they've been a tremendous success. Not quite as good as I post these of course who have to get out there and do the job themselves but the combination is great and I suppose a word for those who are stuck behind some post fans over the last few days and in the build up to Christmas as well over the next week spare a thought for for the guys out and about yeah working their socks off they are and apologies if we're holding anyone up but I'm sure everyone wants their Christmas presents delivered well in advance you're a public service organization can we tip the pastries or not there's certainly no obligation to earned I probably say what you'd expect me to the post is of a great relationship with our customers and I don't really want to get involved in that if if customers want to do a lot and that's not to their Thanks your time and good luck. For for next year as well thank you very much happy Christmas you to Miley with us from going the post is quarter past a quick look at our news headlines then this morning and the chief executive of guns the Post says it's been the busiest week from now deliveries on record. Say they're working to develop a system for health records and screenings for Chan transgender people in the bay do it and the manager of all the me's Wildlife Trust says they want to work with the states to create specific legislation to protect species we would do to speak to organize Wildlife Trust manager this morning I think we're now going to do that tomorrow morning for you at breakfast time quick word on the weather forecast for fun with Sunny periods. Temperatures 11 degrees the visibility good in the wind Southwest moderate for backing south to southeast later this morning increasing fresh 5 to strong 6 is the day goes on. With may try to get up or change this Saturday at 12 noon with number one hits from Pink Floyd What's life if one. Was born on Christmas Day and she tops our bodies list this time around there's only one choice for Christmas along my reply is the Phil Spector Christmas album become a track on this week's show there's a 6070 $61.00 Christmassy on the long side continue. Why you should. Join major And again I'm here on b.b.c. Radio Guernsey when the soundtrack to your life continues this Saturday at noon on Monday tell them go to John Randalls in the building he is already I didn't know he got up before 11 he's on air from 9 that's why. I've gotten it on instead of Jenny that makes a lot more sense now Jon's music is the best thing since sliced bread behave set in my. Mind I'm an angel I know my I know my place in this organization. In a most. And you're going to tell us about something rather interesting that you spotted out west yesterday but 1st we do the sensible stuff. That. Stuff in the newspapers I think is it politics or is it yeah there's quite a lot of politics around there talking about Boris Johnson's plan to pass legislation preventing the extension of the prospects a transition period beyond December next year the Financial Times as a high risk strategy they're talking about Jeremy Corbin meeting with Labor M.P.'s for the 1st time since the party's election defeat and according to the mail he was cut to shreds lots of descriptions there of how tough a time he was put through with that with that meeting something he infuriated M.P.'s by continuing to play bricks in the media for what happened with the election City am is still king about what it cools the Prime Minister's surprise step of boycotting the World Economic Forum in Davos next month the Guardian said he's banned ministers from attending as he seeks to consolidate his party's position among working class voters the Financial Times quotes a senior Tory figure as saying it would be inappropriate for ministers to go to the elite gathering because the party's focus is on delivering for the people not champagne with millionaires Well that sounds quite nice and the Times is talking about air pollution and it's published a letter from a group of doctors and health professionals warning the air pollution could lead to hospitals and g.p. Surgeries being called up with thousands of cases of Asmer bronchitis and pneumonia it is the severe pressure in the winter months is being exacerbated by preventable causes leading to a public health crisis so Lindsay who will who we heard from a bit earlier on. Had been planning to wear the traditional speaker's wig at the State Opening of Parliament tomorrow but as reported in The Daily Telegraph it's vanished it was. Last seen in 2000 when the speaker at the time Mark Martin declined to wear it the original supplier of the week has offered a new one it will cost one and a half 1000 pounds though and the Telegraph thinks that weeks lend dignity and after years of declining repute Parliament needs all the dignity it can get maybe the Telegraph will buy the wake for Lindsay who you never know. And the I was remembering the life of the D.-Day veteran who speech at the 75th anniversary commemorations this summer received a standing ovation from the Queen President Trump and other dignitaries the death of John Jenkins he was 100 was announced yesterday after landing in our motion in 1944 he moved ammunition from the beaches to the front line he later took part in the liberation of a German concentration camp and he was as they expressed a man of courage an honor and a true hero yes I've seen a video of. His speech recently at a commemoration Yeah oh and the thing that you were saying that I spotted just a sorcerer's really quite a few people who fight it was so good Rachel took of all right Nativity sim exactly it did look a little bit like that as in the dark is the bus stop out by the imperial and there's a cow in in the bus shelter and a couple of other cows sort of just you know more than one. Meandering around outside it waiting for the bus I assume it just looked it just looked really funny I mean I hope they've been reunited with their field now but it just it just sort of so sums up the good life in some ways isn't it I love the fact that. You seal little things like this every so often only out west some say. It just helps doesn't it's a ladies night. I mean they don't see probably just been to the pub and were on their way home for the Bar I think the. Only again yeah that's the way I like it. Case in the Sunshine Band Ok 20 past 8 thanks i'll are going into town with the street past is a little bit later we're talking about Christmas cards as well but 1st doctors are a trialing a new way of delivering chemotherapy which could reduce the side effects felt by cancer patients the Royal Marsden Hospital is leading the trial which is still at a very early stage Laura Foster has the details for us this morning at the moment when a cancer patient has chemotherapy the drugs flow around their whole body it's why so many people experience side effects such as hair loss north and tiredness but acoustic cluster therapy is trying to use a combination of ultrasound and microscopic clusters to pump more of the chemotherapy drugs into the chamber where it's needed and leave healthy tissue alone Karen Childs is the 1st person in the world to receive the treatment they feel quite vulnerable but it's also very exciting and we're guinea pig in this fight quite nerve racking with chemotherapy the hope that there's an uneasy away or a more gentle way of treating people hopefully you know this will happen it's hoped this targeted approach will make chemotherapy more effective as patients won't need such high doses of the drugs with fewer side effects it could also improve the chances of tackling more difficult to miss and ones previously thought to be untreatable even if this trial is successful though many more clinical trials will be needed before the technique could be used more widely Well there we are. That report and you can read more as well online b.b.c. U.k. Ford's last news I'm to tell you what else is on the website this morning the b.b.c. News website and what else we're going to reflect for you later on in the program and throughout the day with Miranda who's working on the news desk with us Australia has experienced its hottest day on record with the national average temperature reaching a high of 40.9 degrees Celsius which is 105.6 foreign hide the Bureau of me to allowed me to be my work at the Bureau of Meteorology I can do it why can't I do it it says extensive heat on cheese steak seeded the previous record of $40.00 set on the 7th of January 2030 taking the average of maximum temperatures across the country is the most accurate measure of a heat wave and the record comes as the nation battles a severe drought in bushfire crisis of course and that's been in the news lately too in forecasters predict the most intense heat would come later in the week meaning the record could be broken again so there's that and also Did you see Star Wars last night 1st reactions are out and they've been revealed it's not called Star Wars and cats as it is called Star Wars and and something else the final film in the trilogy but Katz is another film which was also out last night had its debut screening in Hollywood and because its premiere took place in New York lots and lots of people talking about it on social media what about here was it on and did you stay up and if so why on earth he stood up at 20 past 8 in the morning why haven't you been to bed yet. 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