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From Our Own Correspondent

From Our Home Correspondent 23/07/2017

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Mishal Husain presents reports from Jersey as a childhood islander returns, from Birmingham's closing greyhound stadium, plus the reflections of an ex-children's television star.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the BBC.

0:03.0

Thank you for downloading from our home correspondent.

0:06.0

I'm Michelle Hussein.

0:08.0

In this edition, Life in the Shadow of the Tower,

0:11.0

one local resident's take on the way the Grenfell Fire has changed

0:15.6

his neighbourhood.

0:17.3

How the latest government drugs initiative is seen by those at the sharp end working with

0:22.3

addicts. We'll hear about the right of passage

0:25.4

evoked by the imminent closure of a West Midlands stadium and the special

0:30.2

place of Blue Peter presenters in the nation's hearts.

0:35.0

First, this month saw the final report by the inquiry into child abuse in the care system

0:41.1

on Jersey. It detailed multiple failings over many years, notably at the

0:47.3

notorious one-time children's home called Odila-Garen on the island's east coast. It has long since become a very different

0:56.0

place, but the inquiry nevertheless called for its buildings to be demolished.

1:01.6

Christine Finn grew up on Jersey and has happy memories of her own childhood there.

1:07.0

But on a recent visit, she found herself staying at Odila Garen.

1:12.0

I was heaving

1:13.7

heaving with a friend's summer wedding. The island was heaving with tourists. A number of

1:19.0

modest seaside B&Bs, the type familiar to me from growing up in my parents guest house in St Helia

1:25.0

had closed. Of those left, most were full. Others had been turned into boutique

1:30.7

hotels for Jersey's new surfer crowd attracted by some of Europe's most beautiful beaches.

1:36.7

But there was another option for a brief stay if I was prepared to confront the past. a room in a building I didn't recall as a child, but which was now hauntingly familiar from the news.

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