0:00:00 > 0:00:06Now on BBC News it's time for Inside Out.
0:00:06 > 0:00:14Hello and welcome to inside out. Tonight, could the emergency
0:00:14 > 0:00:18services have acted any faster on the night of the Manchester Arena
0:00:18 > 0:00:24bomb?I said we need paramedics, we need paramedics now.How life after
0:00:24 > 0:00:30top-level sport can be traumatic. When you are part of the team it is
0:00:30 > 0:00:35brilliant, and going away from that had a massive impact on me.And why
0:00:35 > 0:00:40Liverpool is the start of a new Hollywood movie.I just want to go
0:00:40 > 0:00:48back to Liverpool.Say it again. Liverpool.Wow.
0:00:56 > 0:01:02In May, a suicide bomber killed 22 people at Manchester Arena. Hundreds
0:01:02 > 0:01:07more were injured. Inside out has learned that some of the most
0:01:07 > 0:01:11seriously wounded victims had to wait over an hour before receiving
0:01:11 > 0:01:14expert medical treatment. One of the first reporters on the scene that
0:01:14 > 0:01:18might also explores why are firefighters were held back the
0:01:18 > 0:01:30nearly two hours. -- for nearly two hours. On the 22nd of May, Salman
0:01:30 > 0:01:37Abedi made his way to the Manchester Arena, waiting for the Ariana Grande
0:01:37 > 0:01:43concert to finish. As fans streamed out he detonated a suicide device.
0:01:43 > 0:01:46There was rubble and smoke everywhere, and there was just
0:01:46 > 0:01:52screaming.It was too much for two or three paramedics to deal with.
0:01:52 > 0:01:55That night the emergency services treated hundreds of people, many
0:01:55 > 0:02:00with life changing injuries. But what we have learnt is that some of
0:02:00 > 0:02:03the most seriously wounded had to wait for more than an hour before
0:02:03 > 0:02:10receiving any expert medical treatment. 12 months before the
0:02:10 > 0:02:14bomb, a training exercise was staged at the Trafford Centre on the
0:02:14 > 0:02:19outskirts of Manchester. Authorities were pleased with how it had gone.
0:02:19 > 0:02:22We are delighted, I mean the aim of the exercise was to really stress
0:02:22 > 0:02:26test all of the organisations that would respond to a terror attack.
0:02:26 > 0:02:32But what happened on May 22, when a real terror attack took place?
0:02:32 > 0:02:39Salman Abedi triggered his bomb at 10:31 p.m.. On the night I was here
0:02:39 > 0:02:43right in the centre of Manchester, and in the aftermath I was
0:02:43 > 0:02:46interviewing people on Radio 5 live trying to piece together what had
0:02:46 > 0:02:51happened.Everybody started running as much as we could.The whole
0:02:51 > 0:02:58building shook, and there were bodies everywhere.How long were you
0:02:58 > 0:03:06lying there for?Probably an hour. So on the night, people were telling
0:03:06 > 0:03:09me that some of the injured were waiting an hour to treatment.
0:03:09 > 0:03:13Shortly after 11pm, added half an hour after the bomb went off, those
0:03:13 > 0:03:19who had been in the foyer, injured but able to walk, were evacuated to
0:03:19 > 0:03:25hear, and this is Victoria Station, approach. Ambulance crews from
0:03:25 > 0:03:29across England treated the injured who had been able to escape the
0:03:29 > 0:03:34scene. But for those in the foyer, expert help was still very limited.
0:03:34 > 0:03:38Before the police court was made secure, only one north-west
0:03:38 > 0:03:42ambulance service paramedic made it the foyer. Over the next hour, he
0:03:42 > 0:03:48was joined by two more paramedics. Eyewitnesses we have spoken to say
0:03:48 > 0:03:53more medical help was desperately needed. Kim and Phil Dick from
0:03:53 > 0:03:55Bradford were in the foyer to collect their daughter and
0:03:55 > 0:04:02granddaughter.Keep going, keep going.Second after the explosion, a
0:04:02 > 0:04:08victim with serious injuries collapsed in front of Kim.She could
0:04:08 > 0:04:12hardly walk, she was stumbling, bleeding from her arm and her mouth
0:04:12 > 0:04:16and her leg and how was burned, and I grabbed her because I thought she
0:04:16 > 0:04:24was going to fall.How long was this?Just over an hour, I kept
0:04:24 > 0:04:31saying, be brave, but it is kept coming.As time passed, concern grew
0:04:31 > 0:04:35about the lack paramedics in the foyer.There were police, there were
0:04:35 > 0:04:39armed police, I just kept shouting, we need paramedics, we need
0:04:39 > 0:04:44paramedics now. And they were making sure there was no more bombs.An
0:04:44 > 0:04:47hour after the explosion, the wounded in the foyer were only
0:04:47 > 0:04:51receiving basic first aid rather than expert paramedic help.The
0:04:51 > 0:04:56longer it went on the more silent it became, and it was absolutely, it
0:04:56 > 0:05:02was really eerie, and people who I had seen a little earlier who are
0:05:02 > 0:05:08severely injured, when our dead. They made a decision at some point,
0:05:08 > 0:05:14about an hour in ten minutes after the explosion that... The medical
0:05:14 > 0:05:19staff were coming up to the foyer, but they were going to evacuate the
0:05:19 > 0:05:24casualties.The girl they looked after did survive. Security fears
0:05:24 > 0:05:28may explain why only three paramedics could enter the so-called
0:05:28 > 0:05:31hot zone, where the bomb had gone off. But
0:05:31 > 0:05:35it's hard to understand the delay in the arrival of Fire and Rescue
0:05:35 > 0:05:40staff, commanders on the night held Fire and Rescue staff back at their
0:05:40 > 0:05:46stations until 12:18 a.m., fully one hour and 47 minutes after the blast.
0:05:46 > 0:05:51The fire service made a decision to go to a rendezvous point which is
0:05:51 > 0:05:55normal practice for the ambulance service, the ambulance service was
0:05:55 > 0:05:59called forward and at this stage I am unsure as to why the fire service
0:05:59 > 0:06:03was delayed for so long.Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service
0:06:03 > 0:06:07has a technical response unit, these are people trained specifically to
0:06:07 > 0:06:12deal with terrorist situations. That unit took part in the Trafford
0:06:12 > 0:06:16Centre exercise last year, it is still uncertain who on the night
0:06:16 > 0:06:24made the decision not to deploy that units. Save the UK firefighting
0:06:24 > 0:06:28service is the major online platform for firefighters in the UK. But on
0:06:28 > 0:06:34the night of the Manchester bomb those who were on duty use this page
0:06:34 > 0:06:37as the event was unfolding to vent their frustrations they were not
0:06:37 > 0:06:43being sent to the arena.I have been a firefighter in Manchester for
0:06:43 > 0:06:47nearly ten years and I had never felt so much guilt in my life.We
0:06:47 > 0:06:50were only half a mile away from helping, half a mile from
0:06:50 > 0:06:53potentially saving lives and that will always stick with me forever.
0:06:53 > 0:07:00Paramedic when he came to us, -- lady came to us, pleading with us to
0:07:00 > 0:07:05help, because they needed.One firefighter who was on duty that
0:07:05 > 0:07:09night has come forward to tell us how it felt.We sat there waiting,
0:07:09 > 0:07:13waiting for the get go. You are kicking yourself what you could have
0:07:13 > 0:07:16done, it might have changed anything, but we could have been at
0:07:16 > 0:07:21a help. -- might not have changed anything. But we could have been
0:07:21 > 0:07:24there to help. They were homeless people helping, members of the
0:07:24 > 0:07:30public helping, I am a paid public service and I wanted to help, I just
0:07:30 > 0:07:33wasn't allowed to help.Those who were trapped in the foyer that night
0:07:33 > 0:07:37remain grateful that so many put their lives at risk to help save
0:07:37 > 0:07:41others. But almost six months on, some remain concerned that emergency
0:07:41 > 0:07:47medical help was so slow to arrive. They wanted to minimise the risks to
0:07:47 > 0:07:50as many people as a possible, I understand that. But they employed
0:07:50 > 0:07:56tens if not hundreds of -- police officers into the arena, and if some
0:07:56 > 0:08:01of those had been medically trained they could have... You can't say for
0:08:01 > 0:08:04certain, at some peoples injuries could have been dealt with quicker
0:08:04 > 0:08:08and perhaps, just perhaps, some lives could have been saved.But one
0:08:08 > 0:08:11man who collected his son from the arena leaves the authorities did the
0:08:11 > 0:08:16absolute best they could.You would like everybody to get help
0:08:16 > 0:08:20straightaway, you would like every single medic, every doctor who was
0:08:20 > 0:08:25in Manchester should have been out. And you would have liked them to
0:08:25 > 0:08:28have been there and everyone would have been in their helping, nobody
0:08:28 > 0:08:35would have died, and that would be it. It couldn't happen.The mayor of
0:08:35 > 0:08:42greater Manchester has now set up an independent review to learn lessons
0:08:42 > 0:08:46from the event in May. It is due to report next year.There was a
0:08:46 > 0:08:50feeling out the time that the wrong call was made in those moments. It
0:08:50 > 0:08:55seems to me there is some substance to that, and it was one of the
0:08:55 > 0:08:59reasons why the independent review was set up. But it's not about
0:08:59 > 0:09:04feelings is it, that's the point, it is about what is the evidence and
0:09:04 > 0:09:09that evidence is being looked at by the review.Those in charge of the
0:09:09 > 0:09:12emergency services that night had a truly terrible decision to make.
0:09:12 > 0:09:16Should they deploy as quickly as possible, trying to save lives,
0:09:16 > 0:09:20while there was still the threat of a second explosion? Or should they
0:09:20 > 0:09:25wait until the area happened -- had been declared safe, there for
0:09:25 > 0:09:31delaying treatment to victims of the bomb as a result. We contacted all
0:09:31 > 0:09:34the emergency services, the north-west ambulance service told us
0:09:34 > 0:09:38they were proud of their response to the Manchester Arena attack. Rated
0:09:38 > 0:09:42Manchester Fire and Rescue said they have conducted their own internal
0:09:42 > 0:09:45debriefing to the organisation's response to the Manchester Arena
0:09:45 > 0:09:50attack, and are fully cooperating with the review. Greater Manchester
0:09:50 > 0:09:53Police told us that they contacted the north-west ambulance service
0:09:53 > 0:09:57within three minutes of the incident being declared, and they followed
0:09:57 > 0:10:02their major incident plan. None of these organisations wanted to appear
0:10:02 > 0:10:12in this film while the review is ongoing.
0:10:12 > 0:10:17The life of a professional sportsman or woman can be incredibly
0:10:17 > 0:10:21glamorous. The fame, the financial rewards, the adulation. But what
0:10:21 > 0:10:29happens to those things when they stop competing? Ara Porter -- our
0:10:29 > 0:10:36reporter is the former Olympic athlete, known as Diane Edwards.
0:10:36 > 0:10:44Diane Edwards in lane three.Those were the days. I have always thought
0:10:44 > 0:10:55that a sporting career is like running a long-distance rates.They
0:10:55 > 0:10:59can now, is it fast enough... Occasionally there will be barriers
0:10:59 > 0:11:04along the way, and maybe falls, but they will also be fantastic highs.
0:11:04 > 0:11:09The Australians are coming out, they are into the wind...So what
0:11:09 > 0:11:12actually happens when you reach the finishing line? Sometimes, I think
0:11:12 > 0:11:23that can be the hardest part of all. Danny Sculthorpe was a successful
0:11:23 > 0:11:27proper would with Wigan and England. For him, rugby league was
0:11:27 > 0:11:32everything, especially when it was a big game.There has back of your
0:11:32 > 0:11:38neck are on end, the adrenaline is going through your body that is
0:11:38 > 0:11:42absolutely unbelievable, I can't explain how good it was, it was
0:11:42 > 0:11:47brilliant, absolutely brilliant.But towards the end of his career, Danny
0:11:47 > 0:11:50had serious injury problems, and when his final club Radford Bulls
0:11:50 > 0:11:55tore up his contract in 2010, he was devastated. A shack Radford. He was
0:11:55 > 0:12:05just 31. -- Bradford.I lost my job, lost my career, I get choked up
0:12:05 > 0:12:09about it, I had two kids and a wife that I couldn't support, and that's
0:12:09 > 0:12:15when the depression started. For a long time I did what most men do
0:12:15 > 0:12:20when they have mental health issues, I kept it to myself I didn't deal
0:12:20 > 0:12:27with it, I am supposed to be this 6-foot four prop forward, I can't
0:12:27 > 0:12:33have mental health issues, I found myself in a cart with a bottle of
0:12:33 > 0:12:38pills and I was going to take my own life but I am just lucky that I
0:12:38 > 0:12:43decided not to do it on that occasion, I'd render coming home and
0:12:43 > 0:12:47a day after that is when my mum and dad and my wife sat me down and
0:12:47 > 0:12:51called me out on it, and saved my life.Danny's experience is actually
0:12:51 > 0:12:55not that unusual in the world of professional sport, as neurologist
0:12:55 > 0:13:01and professional footballer told me. If they have not developed options
0:13:01 > 0:13:06and opportunities to transition into another career than their brain can
0:13:06 > 0:13:10often go into a threat state, and their thought process can be more
0:13:10 > 0:13:15negative, and that can lead to many issues such as clinical depression.
0:13:15 > 0:13:18We are unaware of certain athletes who have taken their life because of
0:13:18 > 0:13:21that loss of identity that retirement brings.
0:13:28 > 0:13:33As an amateur boxer, Natasha Jonas won a stack of titles, including
0:13:33 > 0:13:39European Championship gold and World Championship bronze. She made
0:13:39 > 0:13:43history at London 20 when she became the first British woman to box in
0:13:43 > 0:13:48the Olympics.Boxing is just a skill. But you learn so much more
0:13:48 > 0:13:54and you learn a lot of life skills. There are a lot of milestones.
0:13:54 > 0:14:00Obviously the Olympics was by far my greatest boxing achievement.But
0:14:00 > 0:14:04then a foot injury led to defeat in the Commonwealth Games and failure
0:14:04 > 0:14:14to qualify for the real Olympics. Natasha made the decision to retire.
0:14:14 > 0:14:20I couldn't do it for another four years. My time was done. I don't
0:14:20 > 0:14:25think that I could have been that athlete again. So I thought, now is
0:14:25 > 0:14:30the time.Natasha started to prepare for life outside the ring. She found
0:14:30 > 0:14:37work with outside associations and broadcasters. And there was another
0:14:37 > 0:14:41compelling reason for her to reappraise her plans. She was
0:14:41 > 0:14:45pregnant with her daughter.I had a whole new world and I can itself
0:14:45 > 0:14:52busy with a baby, with new companies.For the first year or so
0:14:52 > 0:14:58of her life you are trying to get her into a routine, so I was off
0:14:58 > 0:15:05doing what I needed to do -- I wasn't off doing what I need to do,
0:15:05 > 0:15:08because I was focusing on her. Despite this, the pull of boxing
0:15:08 > 0:15:16proved too powerful.Working with others was what I missed. I had left
0:15:16 > 0:15:23boxing on a bit of a low. I got beaten in the Commonwealth Games,
0:15:23 > 0:15:30where should have won a medal. I had unfinished business. Once I got over
0:15:30 > 0:15:36the physical stuff, I thought, I've still got it. And so earlier this
0:15:36 > 0:15:40year she turned professional, working with Manchester trainer Joe
0:15:40 > 0:15:47Gallagher. She has already won her first three fights.I want your six
0:15:47 > 0:15:54digit number to be as close as possible to that.Ben Burgess is
0:15:54 > 0:15:57known to the students as their favourite teacher. But to thousands
0:15:57 > 0:16:05of football fans he is remembered as a striker at nearby Bloomfield Road.
0:16:05 > 0:16:10His 14 year career took him to no fewer than ten clubs, including
0:16:10 > 0:16:17Blackburn, Oldham and Stockport. But after years of wear and tear and 21
0:16:17 > 0:16:22operations on his knees, then realised in 2012 that he wouldn't be
0:16:22 > 0:16:28able to fulfil a new contract he had just signed.When your body can't do
0:16:28 > 0:16:32what your mind wants to do it the most frustrating thing in the world.
0:16:32 > 0:16:36We wrote the two years of the contract off and that was it. We
0:16:36 > 0:16:40just sort of parted. I was really emotional at the time and it was a
0:16:40 > 0:16:45lot to take in. Driving home from Liverpool, I had to stop the car and
0:16:45 > 0:16:51gather my thoughts.The key factor which helped with his transition
0:16:51 > 0:16:57into the real world was that unlike most athletes, he had planned ahead.
0:16:57 > 0:17:01I always had on the back of my mind that I needed something. I managed
0:17:01 > 0:17:05to get a journalism degree. I was doing little bits of freelance while
0:17:05 > 0:17:10I was still playing. As I knew my career was coming to an end, it was
0:17:10 > 0:17:13like, what can I do with my qualifications? Someone mentioned
0:17:13 > 0:17:18that if you have a degree you can become a qualified school teacher.
0:17:18 > 0:17:22You could say his transition from footballer to school teacher is a
0:17:22 > 0:17:28lesson for all.While they are competing it is important for them
0:17:28 > 0:17:32to have interest outside of that sport, which can then lead into
0:17:32 > 0:17:36their transition when they come to the end of their career.Danny
0:17:36 > 0:17:41Sculthorpe is in a good place now. His failed suicide attempt proved to
0:17:41 > 0:17:47be a turning point.My family is absolutely everything. I could have
0:17:47 > 0:17:53done something stupid that they and I could have ruined their lives. To
0:17:53 > 0:18:03see them growing up healthy, you know, just means the world to me.
0:18:03 > 0:18:10Big smiles for dad.He is now working with State of Mind, a mental
0:18:10 > 0:18:15health charity.We've spoken to 27,000 people over the last six
0:18:15 > 0:18:20years and 28 people have told us that because of one of our sessions
0:18:20 > 0:18:24they've changed the minds of taking their life, which is unbelievable.
0:18:24 > 0:18:28Family life is at the centre of Natasha Jones's life as well and she
0:18:28 > 0:18:32is a winner once again, but she knows the day will come when
0:18:32 > 0:18:40retirement will come.It is scary. I can't walk away from boxing. I don't
0:18:40 > 0:18:43think I will 100% of the leaf boxing. I'll always have something
0:18:43 > 0:18:48to do with it.Children are at the heart of Ben Burgess's daily life
0:18:48 > 0:18:54too. Football life in the past, he is working on developing the
0:18:54 > 0:18:59citizens of the future.I don't want their children to see that you are
0:18:59 > 0:19:03the clever or you're not or talented or not, it's about how hard you
0:19:03 > 0:19:07work.It's clear that some athletes handled the move into retirement
0:19:07 > 0:19:14much better than others. But for me there's a duty care for everybody in
0:19:14 > 0:19:18sport to ensure that our sports men and women make that transition as
0:19:18 > 0:19:21easily as possible.
0:19:25 > 0:19:33There's a bit of an Oscar buzz about a new movie called Film Stars Don't
0:19:33 > 0:19:37Die in Liverpool. It tells the remarkable true story of a man whose
0:19:37 > 0:19:41life is turned upside down when he met and fell in love with a
0:19:41 > 0:19:45Hollywood superstar back in the 1970s.I've been to meet him. If I
0:19:45 > 0:19:50make you a drink will you come to my room? I need a partner for my dance
0:19:50 > 0:19:57class.I mean, if you fix me a drink, I'll come in...A classic
0:19:57 > 0:20:01young man meets older woman love story, except in this case he was
0:20:01 > 0:20:04just a young actor from Liverpool and she was a former Hollywood
0:20:04 > 0:20:10screen goddess. A bit far-fetched? Maybe, but this is very much a true
0:20:10 > 0:20:19story. It begins in the late 1970s. She came to do a play in London and
0:20:19 > 0:20:23came to rent this groundfloor apartment in this house and I was at
0:20:23 > 0:20:33the top of the house.Were you aware of who she was immediately?No.
0:20:33 > 0:20:44Gloria Graham -- Grahame? I hadn't seen any of the films.What he
0:20:44 > 0:20:49didn't realise was 20 years ago Gloria Grahame was at the top of her
0:20:49 > 0:20:53tree, starring in various films and playing femme fatale to lead by
0:20:53 > 0:20:59comfrey Bogart, Kirk Douglas and Lee Marvin. -- Humphrey Bogart. Around
0:20:59 > 0:21:10the time she met Peter Gloria was interviewed on the BBC.I'm just a
0:21:10 > 0:21:16girl who can't say no. I'm an interminable fix. They asked if I
0:21:16 > 0:21:22could sing and I said no. They said, of course you sing, using in the
0:21:22 > 0:21:28shower? I said, no, I couldn't carry it in a bucket.We just connected
0:21:28 > 0:21:33and there was a big age gap and at that time it was quite
0:21:33 > 0:21:38controversial. She used to travel around on the buses or the tube and
0:21:38 > 0:21:44waiting queues and all things like that.For two years the couple lived
0:21:44 > 0:21:48it up in LA, New York and London, before splitting up in 1980. But
0:21:48 > 0:21:53within a year the final dramatic scenes would be played out in
0:21:53 > 0:21:58Liverpool. Gloria would spend her last days here, at Peter's family
0:21:58 > 0:22:05home. It all followed a phone call from the Duke's Theatre in
0:22:05 > 0:22:13Lancaster. What did that phone call CTU?It was very brief. Gloria is
0:22:13 > 0:22:22here, she's very ill. What? How ill? They said, well, she is very, very
0:22:22 > 0:22:28ill and would you come immediately? She came to Liverpool when the chips
0:22:28 > 0:22:35were down, a place where she felt safe. She wanted to get better. It
0:22:35 > 0:22:44was futile. I think she knew she was going to die. She knew she had left
0:22:44 > 0:22:49it late.Eventually Peter wrote a moving account of the difficult days
0:22:49 > 0:22:53that followed and the fabulous years which preceded them. The book was
0:22:53 > 0:22:58published in 1986 and now has been turned into a film starring Annette
0:22:58 > 0:23:13Denning and Jamie Bell as Peter.Not that Gloria Grahame, in our kitchen,
0:23:13 > 0:23:19making a bacon Sam Wyche!It is the relationship that has most affected
0:23:19 > 0:23:24him. I would spend many hours of him just sitting down and asking what
0:23:24 > 0:23:31were to him the nine questions but to me meant everything.Has anyone
0:23:31 > 0:23:37told you how you look when you smoke?Yeah, Humphrey Bogart and I
0:23:37 > 0:23:43didn't like it then either.This is the backstage.Fantastic. At the
0:23:43 > 0:23:48time, Gloria was seriously ill in the family home and Peter was
0:23:48 > 0:23:51appearing in a play at the Liverpool Playhouse. The theatre is the
0:23:51 > 0:23:56location of one of the most moving scenes in the film and Peter has a
0:23:56 > 0:24:05small cameo.It was so strange, surreal, to be on stage with
0:24:05 > 0:24:16Jamie...Being you.Playing that part and with Annette Bening being
0:24:16 > 0:24:24Gloria Grahame. It was like a time capsule... Where am I? What's going
0:24:24 > 0:24:33on?Life is full of surprises. 31 years after writing his book and 36
0:24:33 > 0:24:38years after he had last seen Gloria, Peter Turner finally got to see the
0:24:38 > 0:24:42film. He watched it in a private screening with the producer.At the
0:24:42 > 0:24:51end of the screening I said, you want to sit by any? Barbara came and
0:24:51 > 0:25:04gave me a big hug.It's such a significant part of your life.It is
0:25:04 > 0:25:10big. The whole period, the whole relationship, you know, kind of has
0:25:10 > 0:25:20given me so much and too fine to weigh an too, logic stands.The film
0:25:20 > 0:25:25is a heartfelt tribute to Peter Turner's love affair with a
0:25:25 > 0:25:30remarkable woman. A relationship which took a young man on a journey
0:25:30 > 0:25:38which changed his life. And the film is released on the 17th
0:25:38 > 0:25:47of November. Inside Out is back in the new year. See you then.