Police tonight released the first pictures of their forensic teams at work in the underground chambers at the former Jersey care home where it is claimed children were abused.

Several hundred people today gathered at a rally to support alleged victims of child abuse at a former Jersey care home.

Excavation work at a former Jersey care home at the centre of a child abuse scandal will stop today to relieve forensic teams who have been working up to 13 hours a day searching for human remains.