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This week, we meet a man with motor neurone disease, who

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is trying to preserve his voice for the future.

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And find out how to help red squirrels prosper.

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Welcome to Inside Out. I'm Paul Hudson.

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Tonight, we'll meet Jason, who has motor neurone disease.

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Find out how voice donors will help him speak with his own voice,

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even when he is no longer able to talk.

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I just don't want to be a programmed voice on a computer.

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Also tonight, how putting grey squirrels on the pill

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And later in the programme, the engineering company which helped

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build everything from the Taj Mahal to the Sopwith Camel.

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This was a time when Britain were engineers to the world.

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Now, Jason Liversidge has motor neurone disease,

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and it affects every aspect of his life, and he will

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But a clinic in Scotland is using voice donors to try to help

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create a voice for him, and the idea is that rather than him

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sounding like a robot, his new computerised voice

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will sound as close to him as possible, together

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Three years ago, Jason Liversidge was diagnosed

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In that time, it has caused his muscles to waste and to weaken.

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Lily, what would you like? Broccoli!

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Are you having broccoli for breakfast?

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Some mornings can be quite chaotic, and because Jason obviously needs

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help with everything, unfortunately, he has to wait till

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last, because I've got to get up and get the girls ready and make

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sure they're ready for school. It's better when the carer's here.

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I try my hardest not to be rough with him,

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but I have been known to drag him around a bit.

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Being cared for is something Jason's had to get used to,

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Each week can bring a new difficulty.

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I mean, the whole thing is frustrating, but probably one

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I think sometimes, Jason would rather struggle than ask

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anybody to help him, because for him, it's

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obviously about his pride and his dignity and,

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you know, sometimes I know he's struggling, but I won't attempt

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to help him until he asks me, because he doesn't always

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Very early on, it was, Jason couldn't use his hands,

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so he would find things like doing buttons incredibly difficult.

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He then lost the ability to dress himself, and then he started

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Then he was not able to walk unaided, and it is that constant

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He is not even able to pick the girls up and give them a cuddle.

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There are some things Jason has had to accept he may never do again.

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And the disease means he will eventually be

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There are no greater heights to aspire to them the stars.

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There are no greater heights to aspire to than the stars.

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Professor Stephen Hawking is perhaps the most famous sufferer

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I think you will agree with me that it is absolutely fantastic.

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This is Jason, giving a speech at his sister's wedding.

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For those of you who aren't familiar, our father

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passed away quite some time ago, and...

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Jason will also have a computerised voice, but he wants

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It has been left to me to give her away, I'd like to say

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So when you talk, out of the computer, it will

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There's a research clinic in Edinburgh that can help.

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The Anne Rowling Clinic was set up by Harry Potter author JK

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The Anne Rowling Clinic was set up by Harry Potter author

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JK Rowling after her mother had multiple sclerosis.

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It specialises in degenerative diseases.

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It has a project trying to create personal synthetic voices.

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Your voice is as identifiable to other people as your face is.

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You know, and is very unique to you, so being able to preserve

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that, I think, is very important for people.

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There are already other personalised systems,

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but they need to record the patient's voice

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This University of Edinburgh project is different.

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When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air, they act

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Previously, methods have needed to take maybe 8-10 hours of speech,

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which is an awful lot for anybody, let alone if you have a condition

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where you tire quite easily, or speech is starting to become

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a problem, or what we can do is ill voices using as little as about 20

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to become a problem, but what we can do is build voices

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using as little as about 20 minutes' worth of speech.

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And they aim to repair the flaws in a patient's voice using donors.

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When Jason came to record his voice, it was still very clear,

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you could still understand everything he was saying,

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but you could hear it was starting to become a bit more effortful,

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perhaps a little bit more slurred sounding,

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so it may not sound exactly how he used to sound, and that's

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where we would use more of those donor voices.

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And one of the first volunteers is his best friend, Phil.

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Jason and I went to school together from being, oh,

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From being so active, skiing, driving, to go from that

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lifestyle to this one, I just can't imagine.

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So, how does he feel about donating his voice?

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We're from the same area, we got a similar accident,

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We're from the same area, we got a similar accent,

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so yeah, it was just, of course I'm going to do it.

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Is there anything in your head sort of strange about the idea

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of your voice getting blended with Jason's?

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I think, because it's blended, it's less of a problem.

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I think if it was my voice and I was to ring him and speak

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to me on the other end of the phone, then maybe that would be

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So, when that writing turns red, if you can read it out for me,

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Yeah. Here we go.

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Ask her to bring these things with her from the store.

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Six spoons of fresh snow peas, five thick slabs of blue cheese,

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and maybe a snack for her brother Bob.

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The sentences do seem a bit strange, but they've been specially selected

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so that we can capture all those speech sounds that we need

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when we create this synthetic voice, so rather than trying to record

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every single word in the dictionary, we capture all those sounds

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so that we can use them in any other word in which they occur.

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OK. Thank you.

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Right, are you going to get in the van?

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Getting all the donors will take months.

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In the meantime, Jason and Liz work hard to keep

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Jason is still able to drive and adapted vehicle,

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Jason is still able to drive an adapted vehicle, and it means

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a lot to him to do normal dad things, like take

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It's really important for us that we try to get out

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and about with the girls and make as many memories as possible.

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We are trying to compile lots of video and photographs we've

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taken of Jason and the girls together, so later on,

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when Jason's no longer here, the girls will have

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something to look back upon, something to remember him by.

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It has been more than a year since Jason recorded his voice.

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21 men from Yorkshire have become donors and read out

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Now, Jason is back in Edinburgh to hear his blended and synthesised

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voice for the first time. But will it sound like him?

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Using eye movements, Jason selects letters

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on his computer to type out what he wants to say.

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It can be slow, but predictive text helps.

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"This is the first time I have heard my new voice."

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That's pretty good. Yeah, that is, yeah.

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I would definitely recognise it as Jason.

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Today is my birthday and we are staying at Edinburgh

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tonight with no kids. Woo-hoo!

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It doesn't have the same excitement, I don't think!

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It may not be able to perfectly express emotion, but this melting

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pot of his own and all the donor voices has given

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"This is the first time I have heard my new voice."

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And don't forget, if you've got any views on tonight's programme,

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or you've got a story you think we might like to cover,

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you can get in touch on Facebook or on Twitter.

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The engineers to the world with a hand in everything

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from the Taj Mahal to the Sopwith Camel.

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Now, grey squirrels might look cute, and many of us, the only

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Now, grey squirrels might look cute, and to many of us, the only

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But they are considered a pest, and the only way to keep

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Keeley Donovan has been finding out whether contraception is a more

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humane weapon in the fight against the greys and to

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But under the leafy canopy, deadly aliens are on the loose.

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And the villain here, causing millions of pounds of damage,

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and upsetting forest ecosystems, is an innocent looking

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little woodland creature, the grey squirrel.

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The grey squirrels very clever man will -- mammal, and it is basically

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outsmarted man for decades. If we get one grey squirrel with

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out our native reds. If we get one grey squirrel with

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squirrel pox into this area, we can lose our entire population here.

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Chemical controls, including contraceptives, have so far failed.

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Culling remains the only viable method of keeping numbers down.

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The chaps are out most mornings trying to shoot them.

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But this could all be about to change.

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Victorian aristocrats get the blame for introducing grey

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bringing them in from America and releasing them into parks.

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The animals adapted rather too well, and numbers swelled.

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There are now around three million of them in the UK,

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One of their first crimes was to squeeze out Britain's

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There are now only about 15,000 left in England,

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But there is one small corner of the Yorkshire Dales where red

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Simon, this is a wonderful spot, isn't it?

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Yeah, it's great. We are very lucky to have them here in this part of

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Yorkshire, and people still don't realise that there are Red Square

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roles in Yorkshire. Seeing this close is just

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incredible, isn't it? Yes, they are very bold. They start

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off very shy, but they soon work out this is their home, they are the

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boss, and they will do anything they want. That is greedy! You have a

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ready got one in there! If this was ever an icon of British wildlife,

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this is it. If you ask people to draw a squirrel, this is usually

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what they draw, despite that most people haven't seen one.

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I can't believe how close we can get!

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Simon has been photographing the squirrels for years. They are just

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inspiring tins of our British wildlife.

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Unfortunately, we need to carry out this work to reduce the number of

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grey squirrels. That involves killing any grey

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squirrel that comes near. If the Wensleydale reds came

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in contact with a grey, they could pick up the fatal

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squirrel pox virus. We knew that there were reds Upper

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Dale, and we only seeing greys coming through here. We thought, if

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we can control the greys, at least we are protecting those reds there.

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Eventually, we controlled the greys, and we left it squirrel free for a

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while, and then the reds started to come down.

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squirrels? squirrels?

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You have seen them, you have filmed them. They are to Lily wonderful

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creatures, but apart from anything else, they are native. And I think

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it is really important to protect and encourage as many of our native

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healthy ecosystem, to live in the healthy ecosystem, to live in the

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woods, and balance the whole population.

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The grey squirrel is officially an alien invasive species.

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It is legal to kill them in a humane way.

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It's against the law to release one into the wild.

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Some people argue that it's unrealistic to expect reds

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So why not let reds and greys co-exist?

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All animals are welcome at Whitby Wildlife Sanctuary,

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They have special permission to take in grey squirrels.

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We are licensed to keep and release them here, because we are nowhere

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near red squirrels, and we have visits from Natural England, and

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they are very happy with our facilities. We have your basic

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regulations. You think grey squirrels get a bad

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rap. Why is that? Out of all the tarmac killed, 53% of

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those are killed on roads, and 2% by pox. Blaming beat grey swirls alone

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for the red squirrels' decline, it is nothing in comparison to human

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activity. I don't think killing greys is the answer.

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There are two issues here ? it's not just the threat to reds,

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grey squirrels are attacking our native woodland.

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Not like this with chainsaws, but by chipping away at tree bark.

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A nightmare for places like the Yorkshire Arboretum,

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home to a priceless collection of tree species.

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How much of a problem are squirrels here?

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They are a terrible nuisance. They do some damage to the collection, to

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the trees all round. And really they cause a lot of problems, killing

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things, or just simply damaging them.

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What exactly do they do? This is a classic example, how they

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have stripped the bark in this section and indeed, up and down the

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tree. This really now is a completely wrecked tree.

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So the tree is missing its bark. It is not going to get its food and

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drink? Absolutely. And how common is this

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kind of damage in the Arboretum? Very frequent. These are invasive

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species. There is a sycamore here, there are others over here which are

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just wrecked. This sort of damages everywhere.

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Squirrels have been wreaking woodland having fears.

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In the 1950s, a despairing government organised a mass

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Farmers were paid a shilling a tail to rid the countryside

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The squirrels responded by breeding in bigger numbers.

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They now cause an estimated ?17 million a year of damage,

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and are threatening the future of our woodland.

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We will have major changes in the UK in terms of our landscape if we do

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not control grey squirrels. The damage that they are doing to trees

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is immense. At the moment, landowners get grants

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to keep squirrel numbers down. Most mornings, this time of year,

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the chaps are out checking the traps or shooting.

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It must be difficult for somebody who loves nature to have to kill a

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species? Of course it is. We would prefer not

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to. Some other form of control would be fantastic.

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For years, scientists have been trying to perfect a less brutal way

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of controlling the grey squirrel population without killing

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A team at Sheffield University spent most of the 1990s working

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We are reasonably optimistic and confident at the moment.

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Once outside of the lab, it worked well on those

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squirrels that picked up the contraceptive-laced nuts.

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Unfortunately, half of them didn't take the bait,

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Bearing in mind that it is very expensive now to do shooting and

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trapping, we're talking about getting on for ?60 a squirrel, we

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have to find some sort of game changer.

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So they have charged another set of scientists,

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at the government lab in North Yorkshire, to try again.

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And they think they may this time have cracked a way of getting

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It would be a paste. It would go in a dispenser, and the beauty is that

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the grey squirrel would have to eat it, actually at the face, at the

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dispenser. So because it is in this kind of

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liquid form, they must eat it straightaway?

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Exactly. Within the bay, we would make sure we have a UV marker, so

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when the squirrel feeds on this, the market would get onto its whiskers,

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and at the grey squirrel goes back into the woodland, we can actually

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see where it is, and actually just how effective we have been with this

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dispensing device. They hope these contraceptive

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dispensers could be dotted through our woodlands

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within five years. Just looking forward, how could this

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potentially change the squirrel populations?

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I think it could be massive. The modelling we have done shows that we

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could actually reduce the breeding population of grey squirrels by

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about 70%. What with that then do to the reds?

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Well, what would happen is, actually, reds are very good at

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coming into grey squirrel areas, and you would see a whole new range of

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reds moving south into Yorkshire, and that is enormously exciting.

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Here is a quiz question for you. What is the connection between the

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Taj Mahal, the Ealing film studios, Grimsby fishing trawlers, and the

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Sopwith Camel? Well, they are all powered by engines built by Rustons

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and Horby, engineer to the world, a strike here in Lincoln. -- Rustons

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and Hornby. A few years ago, a photographer

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wandered into an old factory I was the last company full-time

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photographer. We were in here to do a quick shoot. We walked into this

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room and kind of stopped. When you realise what you have got here,

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there were tracking and tracking and boxes and boxes of glass slides,

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glass negatives. Cine films. The whole thing was just an Aladdin's

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cave. He had come across one of the most

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complete records of British industrial history, the archives of

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engineering firm Ruston and Hornby. Behind me, this is their factory,

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but at one time, this whole area was covered in engineering firms.

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This is an old catalogue, about 1900. And it shows the variety, at

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your Mendis variety of stuff they made.

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Farmer's son Joseph Ruston started this empire by making

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So maybe it's appropriate that I'm visiting a garden shed to learn

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You wouldn't necessarily think of a big engineering plant coming from

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Lincoln. Lincoln is thought by most people

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who don't know it as an agricultural town. Being an agricultural town,

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they needed agricultural implements. But then, the age of steam came. The

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Industrial Revolution. This was a time when Britain were engineers to

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the world. Ruston had both an eye for business

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and for new inventions. Like steam powered diggers,

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sold to the builders At that time, all can now is on

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railways were adored by manual Irish Labour, -- all canals, and there

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were so much work going on, that the price of their labour had

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skyrocketed. They put in an order for 71 Ruston nappies, very good for

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Ruston. -- navvies. You can chart the history of the

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products they have developed over the last century and a half.

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Certainly, the diesel engine, in conjunction with two three from

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and oil engine invented by Herbert and oil engine invented by Herbert

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Stuart Ackroyd was first made in Grantham by Richard Hornsby. History

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shows that Rudolf diesel proved better at filing patents, but in its

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day, the Hornsby- Ackroyd engine was used the world over, including in

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the Statue of Liberty, the Taj Mahal, and the generator that

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powered Marconi's first transatlantic wireless signal.

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I think engineers by nature horde stuff, because they think that they

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need to refer back to it, and of course, that is the beauty about the

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archive. Yes, the archive, that stature

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pictures and documents, telling Roston's history.

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Photographer Phil had told friends at the University about the hoard

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Coincidentally, Siemens were looking for a new home

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But few places could take such a mass of material.

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One of our key goals was to try and keep them intact, with the help of

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Professor David slide from the University. We put together a plan

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to try to keep them together. That plan was to place the whole lot

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in the Lincolnshire Archive, and open it up to the public,

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putting it online. We saw it on site down at First

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Road, and had a slight panic! I am trained as a historian and an

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activist, so this is quite alien to me. We needed help, both of

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knowledge and of just hands doing a physical scanning.

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It was time to call in the engineers ? volunteers with Ruston knowledge,

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handy when identifying what was in all the boxes.

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We would just collaborate between each other, and bounced ideas about,

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and we have virtually seen everything from the early days of

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the 1850s right up to modern day gas turbines.

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I actually found a photograph of me in about 1970!

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So I am actually in the archives! So I am actually in the archives!

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It is Lincoln's history, and in no way should be destroyed or lost or

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forgotten about. That history includes a few

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missed opportunities, That man, Roberts, he was the first

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engineer who was the brains behind the development of the engine, and

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the track vehicles. There was a special stretch and Skegness beach

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that was the equivalent of Daytona Sands in America, where they had

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these things go through their trials.

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The caterpillar is a huge American company now. -- caterpillar is.

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Yes, because two three's failed to convince the army and they failed to

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convince the farmers that the Americans -- but the Americans were

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wiser. They paid ?4000 for the patents, and

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a few years later, when World War I came about, we were paying them.

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Definitely the one got away. Definitely.

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At the end of World War I, the companies merged.

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Hornsby's had an empty order book. But Rustons were flying high.

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They'd spent the war making aeroplanes.

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This factory behind me was where they built nearly

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For the next 50 years, engines of every size and shape left

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And the company kept up Joseph Ruston's knack

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'In the precise language of the engineer, it's a gas turbine.

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One of the marvels of the century marbles.

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Ruston's wanted a part of the new jet technology developed

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These then technical director was then sent to a -- to recruit the top

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man to develop the gas turbine. Today, we are one of the major

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industrial gas turbine manufacturers, where our products

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are used on oil pipelines, offshore, so lots of the North Sea equipment,

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and the same in the Middle East. The online archive's growing ?

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they're uploading 2,000 images And that's only a fraction of what's

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going to be made available. I hope people use of research, of

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course. There are a lot of people who are still interested in the old

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diesel engines. When you start reading into it and going through

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stuff, it really is. There's a thriving community

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of people restoring Not surprisingly, Ray Hooley

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has been involved in One of his longest term projects

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began in the late '70s, hauling a 1904 steam navvy out

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of a flooded quarry. It took me two years

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to assemble divers. Machinery, cranes, and so on, to

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dismantle this machine underwater and then lift it out in pieces,

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bring it back to Lincoln, and get it restored.

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40 years and two museums later, the navvy is back in action at

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In 1966, in a world of corporate takeovers,

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Nowadays, you only see those names on old restored engines.

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But the business is still here in Lincoln.

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Several changes of owner later, as Siemens, it's still the city's

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largest private employer, they're still making gas turbines,

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and they're working with the University to provide

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Something to be proud of. Lincoln always was an engineering

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city, so it is something to keep it for future generations, I believe.

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It is working. Keep it working. I think it is important that people

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know it not just as Siemens, but how it started. It is our history, isn't

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it? Our heritage. For Lincoln and for England.

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APPLAUSE That is all from us here in Lincoln.

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