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Hello and welcome to a brand new series of Inside Out. Tonight we're

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at the Midland railway centre in Butterley to ask - where will we

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build the trains of the future? What next for Bombardier -

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Britain's last train-builder? impact will be phenomenal. It

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affects so many people in the area. Cutting services to cut the deficit

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- why it spawned a summer of discontent. CHANTING.

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And who's sending Paul Smith these mysterious presents? They always

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come as objects with stamps on them and the address on the item. This

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is one of the earliest trains built in Derby in 1865. Times have never

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been tougher for the city's industry. This week, new research

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into the decision to award a lucrative train-building contract

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to a German firm has found it could end up costing British taxpayers

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millions. Simon Hare has been investigating the real cost of the

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They've just been told almost half the workforce is going and the

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long-term future of Bombardier in Derby is under review. Devastated.

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3,000 workers in the City... Weeks before, a major train-building

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contract was awarded by the UK government, to Bombardier's German

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competitor, Siemens. Look after your own first, is all I said.

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a deal which was said to offer the best value for money. But for the

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first time, Inside Out has discovered the real potential

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economic cost. Jobs of that quality are not easy to backfill when lost.

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The government are guilty of economic genocide. It was

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appropriate that the Queen and Prince Philip should arrive at

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Derby, the centre of railway technology, and the Royal Train...

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The day Derby was granted city status... Without trains, it would

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probably have remained a market town. It's been building trains for

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over 170 years. MUSIC. Trained making is in the DNA

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of this city and everybody in Derby Adair knows someone, is related to

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someone or is married to someone in the Korean making industry. This

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was supposed to be the future - the Aventra - Bombardier's newest train.

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But it won't be running on the Thameslink line to Brighton. And

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will it ever be built in Britain? Kevin Owen has been here his whole

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working life. His grandfather worked on the railways and he

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followed his uncle into train- building. You can see their history.

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They are still the buildings from the 1800s. It is a great place to

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work, it is a community within a community and a great place to be.

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Kevin's a welder with 24 years' experience. He's also now a blogger

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with 24,000 hits. I want to pick myself as someone who was involved

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from the building -- beginning. I think the government gave the order

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to Siemens because there was no upfront money because of the

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economy and it seemed like a good deal for them so they could get

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trains built about spending money up front. -- without spending. He's

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become a key part of the campaign to urge the government to do a U-

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turn on Thameslink. Today, that campaign has got up early to meet

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in the world's oldest railway roundhouse, where steam locomotives

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were once serviced. They're off to London on a special train. We don't

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want this a real way to be a showcase for foreign trains. --

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this real life. We have to keep the pressure on and hope the government

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will reverse the decision. They can if that is what they want to do.

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The impact on Derby is going to be phenomenal. We are all being put at

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risk and we are all going for the assessment process, which is a

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weight on our shoulders. There is also the weight of the UK review.

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As well as the Bombardier workers, the great and the good from Derby

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have come to lend their support. am here today because I am angry. I

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work as an ambassador for Derby. I care about my home city. This

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decision is absolutely disgraceful. It makes an absolute nonsense and

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David Cameron bringing his cabinet to Derby earlier this year, in the

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spring, saying it was a vibrant and dynamic city and it is a role model.

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It makes a nonsense of that. 1971 was a defining moment in Derby with

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Rolls-Royce. 2011 is a defining moment with Bombardier. I believe

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there is a chance for the government to review that decision.

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I think they've got it would go away and that the summer recess

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would kill of protest. It has not. The protest is as strong as ever

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and Derby remains as committed as ever to fight the decision. As the

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protest went on outside, inside Westminster, one expert called to

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give evidence delivered a damning indictment of the government's

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decision. The first mistake they made was the bundling of the

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building up the trains with leasing. The other was that I made the wrong

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value for money calculation. -- they made. You what reasonable

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quality for the lowest price. That is eight reasonable approach to

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about -- buying a toaster but it does not work for a contract for

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1,200 carriages. They did not consider that every Derby worker

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pays taxes. If you put that into the equation that means that the

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British bid has benefits which were outside their value for money

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calculation. As well as lost tax revenues, Nottingham Business

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School has worked out other economic impacts. It's calculated

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the Derby economy will lose �150 million next year as a direct

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result of the Bombardier job losses already announced. That would rise

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to more than 300 million should the plant close. It would be the paper

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on a Sunday, the sandwich at lunchtime, in addition to other

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goods and services that they will be using their earnings to purchase.

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The estimates we produced our conservative estimates, they are a

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starting point. If we were to look in more detail at the supply chain

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effect, I suspect we would see it significantly higher estimates

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still. Bombardier may be Britain's last train-builder, but Derby is

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still home to the world's greatest concentration of rail companies.

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Just over the factory fence is a firm which would've made the

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plastic front ends for the new Aventra, but the loss of Thameslink

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has seen it lose 30 jobs. It is never nice having to let anybody go.

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That had a very big impact on me. We had men close to tears and the

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atmosphere was so bad, I shut the factory and said everybody home. --

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sent everybody home. Datum works for Siemens as well and has healthy

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order books with other industries. But there's still anger. We would

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normally be manufacturing up until 1 o'clock in the morning every day.

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Now we are finishing my afternoon and that it. It is a strange place

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to be at the moment. How does that make you feel? Annoyed that the

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Paras that we can make such a massive capital investment decision

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without considering the social economic impact. The Derby and

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Derbyshire Rail Forum says its members expect to cut 1,100 jobs in

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the next two years. Those are on top of the Bombardier losses

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already announced and represent only a fraction of the UK supply

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chain. If I were to make a similar decision in a private sector it

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would prove to be catastrophically wrong and I would be fired into --

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instantly, and rightly so. Philip Hammond, the Secretary of State for

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Transport, insists the Government can't perform a U-turn on

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Thameslink, but will look at including other economic factors in

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future contracts. He has tonight left the position. We just wanted

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to go away but how can it? It is as in the firing line, it is as

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fighting for our jobs and for survival of an industry. We can't

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just roll over and die. We saw it happen with other industries. It is

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a future industry, not a dying industry. Kevin is still waiting

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for news of his own position. A decision on whether Britain is to

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retain its last train-builder will be announced in the next few weeks.

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It seems that every day the news about the economy gets bleaker and

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we're told we've got to get to grips with the deficit. But with

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cuts comes pain for those affected and a huge division of opinion on

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where the axe should fall. It's also spawned a new kind of protest

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movement, which Tony Roe has been filming throughout the year.

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They call themselves UK Uncut. For a year now, they have been

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arranging to meet through Twitter, Facebook and old fashioned word of

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mouth. Their mission is to disrupt and protest to make a point about

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the cuts being imposed. Their concern is the people who don't

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normally have a voice as loud as theirs. I feel like I'm a nothing,

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that I don't count anywhere in this world. We are embarking on some

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very bleak, sad times. You probably hadn't heard of UK Uncut until

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these disturbances in London in March. The violence and vandalism

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made the headlines at an anti-cuts protest involving half a million

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people. Most of those arrested that day were the 145 who held a

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peaceful sit-in at the luxury food store Fortnum and Mason, to protest

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over alleged tax avoidance by the business's part-owners. So, we

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decided to follow the activities of UK Uncut over the summer. We'd also

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get the alternative view from those who believe in a policy of cuts.

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Indeed, there are those who think the cuts should be deeper. It is

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about time the government started to stand up for British tax payers.

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It looked like we were heading for a summer of discontent... April. A

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warm day in Nottingham.UK Uncut supporters gather on a street

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corner dressed as nurses and hospital workers. It's a busy

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Saturday morning. They have a list of targets, but the police don't

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know what they are. All of a sudden, there's a quick march to a bank.

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Lloyds TSB - a bailed out bank which is 41% owned by taxpayers.

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The government his privatising the NHS. They go in to protest at news

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the bank's made 2 billion profit and paid no tax and spent 200

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million on staff bonuses. They claim Boots is avoiding tax by

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moving its HQ from Nottingham to Switzlerand, where corporation tax

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is almost half the rate of Britain. Alliance Boots say the change is

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because they're now part of a Europe-wide pharmacy group. They

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march on. And it has to be said, people march by, trying not to pay

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attention. They go to more banks and businesses they say are

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avoiding paying their fair share of tax. The argument being if the tax

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were collected, fewer cuts would need to be made. We wanted to know

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what motivates someone to get involved in action like this.

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mammy help you? Sam Dixon has lost her job because of the cuts, but

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says that's not why she has decided to give up part of her weekend to

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protest. I am outraged for people who are losing services and

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people's lives are going to be put at risk. I will be able to find

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another job and move on. These are the people Sam means - those helped

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by a programme called Supporting People. It has upset me, regarding

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what is happening to frontline services, because these people are

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either going to end up dying or needing some severe statutory

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intervention, which I find is a false economy. In Nottingham,

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Supporting People services are facing massive cuts. The charity

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Framework, which provides a safety net by tackling homelessness and

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its causes, has had a big hole cut in that net - half its funding. A

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ring fence to stop that happening was removed by the last Labour

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Government and the City Council has decided to cut. Back in February, a

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film maker from a charity gave those affected a chance to talk

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about their fears of an uncertain future. I have spent 25 years on

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the streets. There came a point of crisis in my life when I needed a

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lot more help and I came in here. am just going to be last. I'm not

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going to have that medal support that I actually need. I'm going to

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have nobody to fill my mind with love. I'm just going to have the

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devil on my back and I can't face going back into that situation

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again. May. A rainy day in Lincoln. Sam and the UK Uncut protestors

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from Nottingham are on a day trip gathering new supporters. This time

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they're dressed as bankers. first time I came across this, but

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it is very worthwhile. Hopefully some people will listen and

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sampling will change. Once more, it is a peaceful march around the city.

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The police keep a watchful eye, but not everyone is happy with the

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demonstrations. They are wasting taxpayers' money and wasting police

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time as well. If they pay taxes, they were have an argument. Idiots.

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They are all students. I can tell. It's a week later, on a sunny

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Saturday morning in Loughborough. Jago Pearson is up early for a

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student. He's off to London to a demonstration in favour of cuts.

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It's organised by the Taxpayers Alliance. There are people here who

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believe the cuts don't go far enough What they want are deeper

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cuts to public services to get the economy back on track. We are not

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going to start paying us back until five years time. The interest

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payment is going to get bigger and bigger and bigger. They want deeper

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cuts to public services to get the economy back on track. It is time

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for us to get real. Let's face up to the truth, our public finances

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are in a total shambles. Britain is skint. I am state educated. We have

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got to accept that everybody is going to get ahead in different

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ways by cuts that are happening or further cuts that we are calling

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for. The fact is, we cannot let our vested interests get in the way of

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what is good for the country and for our grandchildren in 50 or 60

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years time. June. Nottingham and around the country. The teachers

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are on strike over pensions and UK Uncut are supporting them on a

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march. This is another example of the mess and the bankers have left

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us in and the government are expecting a tax payer to fit the

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bill. -- the taxpayer to foot the bill. But a decision has been taken

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to save money on the public sector pension bill. And for people like

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Jago Pearson, that's the right thing to do. There are people out

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there who believe the cuts are right and that we could go further.

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Take away the bureaucracy and the European Union. We spend billions

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of pounds on the European Union and it is just about time that spot --

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stops. August .Riots in London. Disturbances and arrests in

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Nottingham too. It is worrying that people are getting to that point

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and those sorts of behaviours have been displayed. September sunshine

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in Nottingham. This time UK Uncut are only targeting one shop -

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Vodafone. The shutters are already down when they get there. People

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walk by. This time there is no police presence. It's all over very

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quickly. Another filming session for those not normally heard from

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and they have a lot to say... lost my job because of the funding

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cuts and I have been looking for work for six months. I feel

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unsettled in myself. I feel like I don't belong anywhere. Is that

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anything to do with this play's closing down? You yeah. While that

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there are justices and on equalities taking place on that

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scale, I will take action wherever I can get to it. Westminster Bridge,

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last Sunday. UK Uncut from Nottingham join with protestors

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from around the country to demonstrate against the NHS Bill.

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It's a sign that it's a movement which is not going away.

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And now a surprising story of mystery and intrigue that's got one

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of our most famous fashion designers puzzled. For 20 years now,

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Nottingham designer Paul Smith has been getting gifts from a mystery

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sender. Tonight, we're showcasing the work of a new Nottingham

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director, Ben Wigley, who made this film about Mr Smith's rather

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special deliveries... I think it was the early 80s. I was

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on a train going to Nottingham and daydreaming and looking out the

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window. I was with an American guy. He said what are you looking for? I

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said if I see a rabbit, it is good. For my next fashion show and it

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will be successful and later, this papier-mache rabbit arrived. Now we

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get dozens and dozens of rabbits arrive constantly. I have to be

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careful what I say. The amazing thing about the things

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that were sent is that they are completely random. There is no

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message, here they come from. The absolute key point is that they

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never, ever are in a box. They always come as objects with stamps

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on them and the address written actually on the item. What amazes

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everybody, including me, is how they ever get here. Whoever is

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sending them really thinks carefully about the colour of the

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stamps. They might be water related, like a surfboard, and then the

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stamps will be all surf related. Sometimes I am tempted to use the

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things. A sledge arrived and I thought I could use it. They like

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but it is a shame to spoil it because it has the stands and

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everything on it. These are some of the latest objects to arrive. A

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bird box, which happens to be a galleon as well. These rather nice

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stamps. These are water skis but it is not a pair, just two different

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ones. The joy of these things is that they are not a special design,

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they are just things. For many years I have been just collecting

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things that inspire me in some way or another. Then, when I had my

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first little shop which was literally three metres square,

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which was tiny with no windows, the objects became a really nice thing

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for when people came in. They were quite shy and suddenly, they were

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confronted with me, the manager and owner. The fact that I could go,

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have you seen this, it's so scary, or something, it was a real ice-

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breaker. The objects were a useful tool for me to make people feel

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more comfortable and more relaxed. This is a joyous thing ransom the

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semi- last week, which is my room, in every detail. It is amazing.

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They have got the bicycle, but television, the bunny rabbit over

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there. This came from Poland. It is at very nice letter, which I'm not

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showing you, which is too embarrassing, but it is nice

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things! I have had a reputation for being interested in toys, object,

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beautiful things. What I'd do is the things I collect, I actually

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using might work, abstracting it. You start with one thing, then it

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goes in another. If you look through my old notebooks it says

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things like butterfly wings. To me that means something. Butterfly

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wings would mean iridescent colours, the way you put to deluge --

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colours together. It could end up being a piece of knitwear or

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something. It is just using Your eyes and your imagination to

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develop ideas. What is so amazing about this is that it is a

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completely unsung hero. It is someone who is massively creative

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but nobody knows about it. The object, taking on this iconic,

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artistic presence, even though there are still a traffic cone. It

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is more art than masses of the art that is out there. I am not really

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sure what it is, to be honest! But somebody knows. It is just a joy to

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have mystery.. Goodness for that. - - thank goodness for that.

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The surreal world of Paul Smith. And thanks to independent director

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Ben Wigley, who made that film. That's it from us for now. We'll

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see you at the same time next Monday.

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