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Good evening. Welcome to NorthWest Tonight with Gordon Burns... And | :00:10. | :00:19. | |
Ranvir Singh. Our top story: Guilty and jailed. A day of reckoning as | :00:19. | :00:25. | |
the courts crack down hard on the rioters. Rerecognise that justice | :00:25. | :00:32. | |
must be swift. Also, councils get tough on tenants and their children, | :00:32. | :00:38. | |
those convicted of disorder could lose their homes. | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
Questions over the police' riot kit, is itroom up to the job? And going | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
home, six weeks after major heart surgery, little William prepares to | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
leave hospital. Six weeks we have been here. Every | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
day is like a week. What we want to get back to normality and bringing | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
up William. And the volunteers getting back to | :01:00. | :01:10. | |
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Good evening. Swift justice was meted out to some | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
of those involved in the rioting in Manchester, Liverpool and Salford. | :01:19. | :01:25. | |
In a special measure in the last 36 hours 97 people have appeared | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
before extended sittings of Manchester and Liverpool and | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
Magistrates' Courts. 16 of those people have been sentenced with the | :01:32. | :01:38. | |
rest due back in the dock at a later day date. At Manchester | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
Magistrates' Court four crown prosecutors worked through the | :01:44. | :01:51. | |
night Our Chief Reporter Dave Guest saw some of them returning from | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
sentencing, Dave, clearly an unusual situation there? That is | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
right. The court behind me is closed, but the hours it has worked | :01:59. | :02:05. | |
over the past council of days has been unprecedented, but these are | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
unpress dened times. As important as it was for the police to be seen | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
catching those possible, it was important for the courts to be | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
dealing with the culprits effectively. It was said in | :02:18. | :02:24. | |
Manchester that a stock had lost stock worth �200,000. Victim need | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
to see that justice is being done and being done effectively. | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
First came the rioting, then the retribution. These are the faces of | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
some of those who have been taken to court and jailed for their | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
involvement in Tuesday's disturbances. Manchester city | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
Magistrates' Courts stayed open throughout the night to process | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
these and many more arrested as a result of the riots. | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
This is the first time ever. We dealt with more than 70 cases. We | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
recognise that the justice to be effective must be swift. The boy in | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
red was the youngest dealt with today. Just 12 years old. He looted | :03:05. | :03:11. | |
from a supermarket. He was given a nine-month referral order. The | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
mother had strong words for reporters outside of the courts. | :03:16. | :03:22. | |
(BLEEP). At this jewellery shop one man | :03:22. | :03:29. | |
stepped into a shattered window and helped himself to jewellery up to | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
the worth of �700,000. He admitted that he came from a good family. | :03:35. | :03:41. | |
His family did not know he was in court. There is a good chance he -- | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
they do now, though, he was remanded into the custody and sent | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
for sentencing. District Judge Alan Berg said he | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
brought shame and disgrace on herself. A message brought to | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
others today. He said that their behaviour was intolerable. He would | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
be imposing exemplary sentences. People who think they were involved | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
in something that was just a bit of a lark will end up with severe | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
sentences. Here today in the coward, the situation was that Dayle | :04:15. | :04:23. | |
Blinkhorn and his friend stole goods from Bang & Olufsen up to | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
�,000. The judge handed a six month | :04:27. | :04:35. | |
sentence to them. Jordan Kelly admitted going to a | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
shop heading into Manchester with a balaclava and a black bin bag. | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
Meanwhile, the police are looking at CCTV to help them catch up with | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
more of those involved. Well, away from the courts, how | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
should the rioters be punished? One suggestion backed by the Prime | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
Minister this afternoon is that they should be evicted from their | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
council houses. Another that they be stripped of their housing and | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
other benefits, but some organisations say that making | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
people homeless will merely create new problems and social landlords | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
say it can take years to get rid of problem tenants. | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
We have this report. Scorched streets and smashed shops | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
show where Liverpool saw trouble, but what should happen to those who | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
cause this? Some ministers think that rioting social tenants should | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
be -- evicted. You have gone out and caused | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
devastation to other's communities. There is no reason you should | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
continue to get the been fits and the privileges from the state that | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
you enjoy. Housing Association, not the council run the social housing. | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
An online petition has 100,000 signatures calling for rioters to | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
lose benefits. But it did not find support among | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
those we spoke to ($$NEWLINE would say it is harsh. If you have | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
a single mum with an 18-month-old lad, what is she to do. | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
Social landlords met to discuss the order. They promised robust action | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
against the rioters, but pointed out it is not just the social | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
tenants before the courts. The reality is that, some of the | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
stuff going through the courts show that is by no means exclusive to | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
social housing. Lots of the examples have been professional | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
people, teachers, things of that nature. | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
One charity in Birkenhead said that evictions could cause as many | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
problems as they solve. I can see the people rioting then | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
because of that and maybe more people becoming involved, extended | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
families, friends, especially if they are talking of evicting a | :06:44. | :06:50. | |
whole family because of one single member of that family. | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
Evicting tenants can be tostly and time consuming. Courts can be | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
reluctant to make families homeless. If any rioters or their families | :06:58. | :07:07. | |
are to lose their homes, it is unlikely to happen quickly. | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
Well the leaders of both Manchester and Salford City councils have | :07:12. | :07:18. | |
issued to warnings to the council house tenants in the areas if they | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
were involved in the looting, they could be kicked from their homes. | :07:23. | :07:29. | |
With me now is councillor John Merry, councillor mermer, could be | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
or will be evicted? We will be pursuing those through the courts, | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
yes. Well what should it be? Well, we | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
can only seek orders from the court to evict them, but yes. These | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
people have attempted to destroy our community. We have to remove | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
them from our community. So, making that clear, all those | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
convicted in the courts could be convicted from their houses? | :07:53. | :07:59. | |
would attempt to. They have to be guilty first of an indictable | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
offence. Then we have to get the permission of the court to evict | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
them, but we seek to recover possessions of the homes, yes. | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
How many tenants have been identified so far as being | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
involved? In the next few days we will be in a position to announce | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
that. At the moment the police are executed warrants in Salford and | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
will be for the next few days. There will be a substantial group | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
of those who actually are council house tenants, we will take the | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
required action. You issued an ultimatum to parents, | :08:31. | :08:37. | |
shop your kids and keep your house? I did not put it in those terms, | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
but yes. If your child has bin involved in any of the crimes, the | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
best way of securing your future and that of the child's is to | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
report that to the police. If you are saying that they know | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
they have been involved and don't report them to the police they will | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
be thrown from their house? We are considering that proceeding against | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
them. It would depend on the particular circumstances, but if | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
they have been guilty of allowing their child to riot and have done | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
nothing about it or taken advantage of it, we will attempt to evict | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
them. Does this situation follow through | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
to everything away from rioting? If somebody robs the local off-licence | :09:15. | :09:21. | |
or the local sweet shop, their families will be evicted from their | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
house? If a sald ford tenancy agreement, it says if you are found | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
guilty of an indictable offence, we will seek to take the property from | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
you. Have you done that? Yes, and | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
evicted people guilty of antisocial behaviour. | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
I want to get on to the other point of what happened to -- what happens | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
to the families when you evict them? You don't care that much what | :09:44. | :09:52. | |
happens to them? They have to sort thements out? They have -- them | :09:52. | :09:58. | |
selfs out? They have to find a home for themselve, yes. I have to think | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
of the people in the community, the great majority of people who are | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
law-abiding and did not loot and who are appalled at this behaviour. | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
Secondly, of course we are concerned about the welfare of the | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
children. We will do something about that and will continue to do | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
John Merry, thank you very much. Interesting stuff. So the looters | :10:17. | :10:23. | |
are feeling the full force of the law. They may lose their homes, by | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
why weren't more caught on the night? Today one of Greater | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
Manchester's Police lay some of the blame at the door of the Government. | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
Inspector Bob Cantrell claimed that us stairity measures left them | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
fighting a mob with equipment not up to the job and risking their | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
lives. They were under attack and on the move. For hours officers | :10:45. | :10:51. | |
gave chase. Many were caught, most were not. Why? I know there has | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
been comment about why we did not catch as many people. Believe me, I | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
would have loved to have caught those people. | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
The helmet... This, he says is what let them down. Kit as old as his | :11:03. | :11:10. | |
career with the force. I'm wearing kit that I was wearing | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
17 years ago. The people who turned out on that | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
day with me, without fail did what I asked when I asked them to do it. | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
Like I say, it is when you look back on it, you think that was | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
really, really dangerous. Today I spoke to this company in | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
Northampton, they provide police protection equipment. When we | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
called them this afternoon, they were taking in a shipment for the | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
Metropolitan Police. I asked them to come pair the kind of protection | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
gear they sold today to the stuff that they were selling 20 years ago. | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
They said that the modern stuff is lighter, stronger and more flexible. | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
That there was no comparison. But while the Met is spending, the | :11:53. | :12:00. | |
Greater Manchester 7 police is not the �130 million that they save | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
means that they cannot afford to. We have been working with the | :12:04. | :12:13. | |
Government, but have the Government been there for us? Chief Constable | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
Fahey has said that they could make the cuts without affecting the | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
service, but another said this evening that was not true. | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
The way that the Greater Manchester Police dealt with the riots has | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
been criticised today. One MP saying that the effect on public | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
confidence was devastating as officers failed to stop the looting. | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
Our Political Editor joins us now from Westminster. This was not | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
clear of individual officers, was it? No, it was not. All of the MPs | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
were keen to stress that they understood that the police officers | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
had been brave and courageous in trying to deal with the riots, but | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
there was concern from MPs in Salford and in Manchester about the | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
way that the police had used their tactics for this, the techniques | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
that they were using. In particular when the rioters were looting the | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
shops and some police officers were appearing to be standing by and | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
watching it happen. Some criticism came from Hazel | :13:11. | :13:17. | |
Blears, a former Policing Minister herself. She described the attacks | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
as deliberate, organised, violent criminality. It was the case that | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
some officers had instructions where they did not have riot gear, | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
that they were not trained that they had to stand by and watch what | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
happened. The effect on public confidence is devastating. | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
Many of my constituents were horrified when they saw the police | :13:37. | :13:43. | |
in full riot gear watching as the looters went into the shops, filled | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
the black plastic bags and they were full of loot and left un- | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
arrested by the police. Well, the Prime Minister has | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
discussed the issues with a number of people in Greater Manchester | :13:54. | :14:02. | |
Manchester. Among them, Tony Lloyd, the Labour MP for Manchester | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
Central. To what extent do you share the concerns that we heard | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
there? I am bound to share the view that is universal in Parliament | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
today. Let's put the blame firmly on the rioters. That is where the | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
problems stem from. Of course, what we have got to have a -- is a | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
proper review of the policing tactics. If things could have been | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
done differently and most importantly if the things could be | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
done differently in the future. We saw enormous damage to the property. | :14:31. | :14:37. | |
If things were worse we could have seen this done to people. I think | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
that everybody needs assurance that whilst we ask the police to be very | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
brave in these things, without a witch hunt over their tactics let's | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
have a proper review and know if the equipment is right if the | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
numbers are right and if there is a different way of doing things that | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
could have protected the property and disperse the rising crowd | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
earlier. Thank you very much for your time. | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
Clearly this is an issue of concern for David Cameron. Who told the | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
Commons today, that lessons must be learned. | :15:07. | :15:13. | |
And radio Manchester is on air with a special phone-in about the riots | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
after Question Time on BBC One. A couple have appeared before the | :15:17. | :15:23. | |
magistrates charged with the murder of a four-month-old baby boy in | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
Lancaster. The baby boy was admitted to the Royal Lancaster | :15:28. | :15:34. | |
infirmry but died four days after. Christopher Roberts and Karen | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
Irvine are to appear tomorrow morning at the crony court. | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
The police say that they do not believe that a woman who died at | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
Stepping Hill Hospital was linked to the problems with the saline | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
solution. The police are still trying to establish if Vera | :15:52. | :15:58. | |
Pearson's death was part of this. The police are also reviewing the | :15:58. | :16:05. | |
deaths of three others and if their deaths were involved in the | :16:05. | :16:11. | |
contaminated saline solution. Still to come: The baby William, | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
ready to go home. And down on the farm. | :16:14. | :16:24. | |
I decided to help longer, I have been here ever since! Next, farmers | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
on the Isle of Man are turning to ab twars here in the UK to get a | :16:29. | :16:36. | |
better price for livestock. They tharg the only plant on the island, | :16:36. | :16:42. | |
the Government-funded Isle of Man Meats is not giving enough money | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
for their animals. We have this report. Trying to make | :16:47. | :16:53. | |
the sums add up. For Ballasalla farmer, exporting livestock to the | :16:53. | :16:59. | |
UK is the only option. He says that the prices for his stock is better | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
than what he receives here at the Francois Mitterrand. | :17:03. | :17:11. | |
I can get �1,500 in England and �600 here. | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
The abattoir on the island say that the prices are taken on the | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
averages. Generally for cattle and lambs, it | :17:19. | :17:25. | |
is based upon the figures, the cattle prices are based upon the | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
four-week rolling average and lamb prices based on the one-week | :17:30. | :17:38. | |
average. The ab tory has undergone to make | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
improvements, but here they feel that there is no option to set up | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
their own private abtory. The more we looked into it, it is | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
something that we looked into seriously it is something that we | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
believe we can make work on the island. | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
Key to the success of the application needs backing from the | :17:56. | :18:04. | |
Government. The focus is making the current abatoir to work with all | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
partners. If there is an opportunity with | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
others in the future, that is good as long as the industry is large | :18:12. | :18:18. | |
enough to sustain it. Sports news and the riots in London | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
have led to Everton's Premier League match against Tottenham | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
Hotspur being postponed. The weekend's top-flight matches are | :18:27. | :18:34. | |
all on. Now on to happy news. Six weeks ago, | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
four-month-old William Burns had a major operation on his heart. We | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
were there with him and his family before, during and after that | :18:41. | :18:43. | |
surgery at Alder Hey Children's Hospital. | :18:43. | :18:49. | |
After, though, as we told you, there were complications. Since | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
then he has had to have two more operations, wo weeks ago, he almost | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
died -- two weeks ago, he almost died, but William is now out of | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
intensive care and this weekend he is finally going home. | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
We have this report. It is difficult to believe that | :19:07. | :19:13. | |
just two weeks ago baby William almost died. | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
He had had three serious operations in as many weeks and spent more | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
than a month in intensive care, but this weekend, William, is going | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
home. What is the first thing you will do | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
when you get him home? Sit and cuddle him without all of 9 wires, | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
anything. He probably will not be put down until he is too big to | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
pick up! We met William and his family for the first time at the | :19:38. | :19:44. | |
end of June. The left side of his heart does not | :19:44. | :19:50. | |
work properly. He had had one operation this was his second. | :19:50. | :19:56. | |
It took longer than expected. Six- and-a-half hours, as the surgeons | :19:56. | :20:02. | |
tried to get William's lungs to take some of the pressure off his | :20:02. | :20:08. | |
heart. And the next day he was back in theatre, his left lung | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
obstructed as this X-ray shows. He did not look well the first | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
night of the operation. He looked better after the second operation. | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
You could say that it looked like it worked, but he fell poorly again. | :20:21. | :20:27. | |
William needed another operation, this time to a-- repair his | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
diaphragm. Then he developed a blood clot. | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
I never had any doubt that he would be OK, until we were taken into a | :20:36. | :20:42. | |
room with the tissues and it was put Palestinianly -- plainly to me | :20:42. | :20:48. | |
how poorly he was. What did you think about the | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
situation? The people that helped. The doctors, the surgeons. | :20:53. | :20:59. | |
He is a little fighter, he really is! Obviously he is meant to be | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
here! Now that William is out of intensive care, once his body has | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
withdrawn from the drugs, he will finally be able to leave Alder Hey | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
Children's Hospital. It is an amazing feeling. We can't | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
wait. It is six weeks we have been here. Every day is like a week. We | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
want to get back to normal life. Being a family. | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
William will need one more operation in a few years' time. 15 | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
years ago surgeons could have done nothing to help children with his | :21:28. | :21:36. | |
condition. Today William will be able to lead an almost normal life. | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
He looks lovely and healthy there, it is amazing. An emotional day for | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
the family. A nice story. | :21:44. | :21:52. | |
Let's take a look at the weather Let's take a look at the weather | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
now with Diane. I have not had any good news this | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
week, so let's bring you a little bit. It will get better. Heading | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
towards the weekend things will be drier and fresher. Here are the | :22:02. | :22:08. | |
next couple of days. Once Friday is out of 9 way. There could be one or | :22:08. | :22:18. | |
two showers on Sunday, but look at that, gradually settling down. We | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
were talking about Cumbria and Lancashire veeing the heaviest of | :22:21. | :22:30. | |
the rain, that is how it turned out -- seeing the heaviest of the rain. | :22:30. | :22:39. | |
There are the rain falls. Significant amounts today. | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
It is grey over Manchester City centre. | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
For Lancashire and Cumbria, the risk continues through the night | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
and through the Pennines it will be damp. | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
There will be mist and fog over the high ground, but the overnight | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
temperatures are not so bad up to 16 Celsius. | :22:59. | :23:05. | |
It continues to be overcast and damp. That is our story again in | :23:05. | :23:11. | |
the morning. Damp rather than pouring down. | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
I think that for parts of Merseyside, Manchester and Cheshire, | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
a little glimpse of sunshine. Towards the tail of the day, this | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
is what you get. Another band of rain moving in from the Irish Sea. | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
It should have spread just about everywhere by tomorrow night, but | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
get it out of the way and the picture starts to settle down | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
through the weekend. The temperatures falling by a couple of | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
temperatures falling by a couple of degrees. | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
Earlier in the week we looked at the volunteers making life brighter | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
for a group of children in Blackpool. Tonight in his second | :23:50. | :24:00. | |
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report, Radio Manchester's Alan Beswick met children giving up | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
their free time to provide a breath of fresh air to children down at | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
the farm. I am shovelling this stuff at a | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
farm near Birkenhead. The animals at the farm made all of this stuff, | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
but who makes the farm tick? Well, several hundred dread people, in | :24:17. | :24:24. | |
fact. None of them afraid to muck in. Workers from 12 to 86 with a | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
range of abilities and in some cases, disabilities. The one thing | :24:30. | :24:37. | |
in common-they are all volunteers. I started when I was in my old | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
secondary school. I started for one day. I thought I was only going to | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
do it for that long, but I really liked it here. I have been here | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
ever since. He still doesn't do what you tell | :24:50. | :24:56. | |
him, six years or not! Come here, you! For some it is a stepping | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
stone. Next year I'm planning to go to | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
Africa and work with animals doing safari work. So I thought it would | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
be a good idea to get a little bit of experience here. | :25:08. | :25:15. | |
Even though it is smaller animals. And they don't eat you! Yes! That's | :25:15. | :25:25. | |
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it! And no snakes here! Here you go. The great thing about this is, it | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
costs absolutely nothing to get in. Thousands come every year and who | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
can blame them? But how does it survive? Well, it is run as a | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
charitable Trust and gets by on donations, phrasing and the support | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
of the councils. Voluntary work is crucial as life can be a bit hand- | :25:46. | :25:54. | |
to-mouth. It is always a worry. At the back | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
of your mind you are thinking where is the next bit of money coming | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
from? Where is the next project coming from? Where is the next | :26:03. | :26:11. | |
staff coming from? Some are old, some are a little greener. | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
I come at least once a week. If I'm off school then I try more. | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
So, you have to go to school as well? Yes. | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
Blimey. What do you want from it? It is a new experience, basically. | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
We have about 300 volunteers on the books. | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
We probably gain about another five a week. They are incredibly | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
important. Partly because they are from our local community here and | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
we would not survive in the area that we are in without the local | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
community being a part of it. The thing that is good about this | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
place is that the volunteers get as much benefits from the farm as the | :26:47. | :26:53. | |
farm gets from the volunteers. You may say that they are all a bit | :26:53. | :27:02. | |
like pigs in muck! He seemed to be really enjoying himself. | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
There$$NEWLINE I am partial to a pig, I have to say. There is | :27:06. | :27:13. | |
something very cute about them. We should say that Alan is the | :27:13. | :27:23. | |
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Breakfast presenter the Radio Bes wick. | :27:24. | :27:33. | |
Before we go, we should say happy birthday Ranvir. You have been a | :27:34. | :27:38. |