:00:08. > :00:17.Tonight, Inside Out goes behind the scenes at the regions' heart unit.
:00:17. > :00:23.We meet the staff changing lives and the parents under pressure.
:00:23. > :00:28.this hospital isn't able to support her and we have to go to
:00:28. > :00:35.Newcastle... There is not going to be enough time to get her there.
:00:35. > :00:45.Also tonight, remembering a day out with a difference. It was the Alton
:00:45. > :00:52.
:00:52. > :00:54.For parents with children born with heart problems, life becomes an
:00:54. > :00:59.emotional rollercoaster few of us appreciate and hopefully most of us
:00:59. > :01:02.will never experience. Now many fear a shake-up of the country's
:01:02. > :01:08.specialist surgical centres will put the lives of the most
:01:08. > :01:12.vulnerable patients at risk. The East Midlands Congenital Heart
:01:12. > :01:14.Centre here at Glenfield is one of those centres. For one day, they
:01:14. > :01:19.allowed our cameras into their intensive care and theatre to see
:01:19. > :01:29.what impact those changes could have. As I found out, it's not just
:01:29. > :01:33.
:01:33. > :01:41.One in every 133 children in Britain is born with a heart
:01:41. > :01:51.condition. For some it's life threatening. And the early care
:01:51. > :01:52.
:01:52. > :01:59.they receive is critical. Everything is indexed... We never
:01:59. > :02:02.know when we are going to have an emergency. So every day is
:02:02. > :02:09.different. Others may need treatment for the rest of their
:02:09. > :02:16.life. But in the future, it might not be so close to home. If you
:02:16. > :02:19.haven't got that continuity of care, it in itself could rip the family
:02:19. > :02:22.to pieces. As the Government reviews child heart surgery in
:02:22. > :02:31.England, it's now the survival of the fittest for all ten specialist
:02:31. > :02:34.centres. Without cardiac surgery here, this intensive care unit
:02:34. > :02:41.would close. For parents with critically ill children, emotions
:02:41. > :02:46.are high as a decision draws closer. If this hospital isn't able to
:02:46. > :02:51.support her, and we have to go to Newcastle or somewhere like that,
:02:51. > :02:54.she'd... There is not going to be enough time to get her there.
:02:54. > :02:57.if childrens' heart surgery stops here, one of the biggest weapons in
:02:57. > :03:07.the fight against a deadly virus moves, too. And that could affect
:03:07. > :03:08.
:03:08. > :03:12.us all. Any dramatic change in moving ECMO around is likely to
:03:13. > :03:22.have unforeseen consequences. you see on for scene, do you mean
:03:23. > :03:23.
:03:23. > :03:31.It's the end of a long night shift and the start of a new day at the
:03:31. > :03:36.East Midlands Congenital Heart Centre at Glenfield in Leicester.
:03:36. > :03:42.On intensive care, it is a usual day. It is fairly busy. We cater
:03:42. > :03:46.for children, zero-18 years of age that have got congenital cardiac
:03:46. > :03:50.abnormalities. We have eight physical bed spaces and nursing
:03:50. > :03:56.staff for seven of those beds. It is a one-to-one nursing ratios so
:03:56. > :04:03.it requires at least seven nurses to staff one-bed in a 24 hour
:04:03. > :04:07.period. She has been spiking temperatures. She has got a probe
:04:07. > :04:14.underneath her right arm. In a side room, two-year-old Anna Wright from
:04:14. > :04:19.Whetstone in Leicestershire is waiting to join the ward. She has a
:04:19. > :04:23.tracheostomy. That was put in because of the pulmonary arteries
:04:23. > :04:28.crushing her air waves. There is the extra risk of bleeding as you
:04:28. > :04:34.go into the chest. And there are some congenital syndromes
:04:34. > :04:38.associated with this which make the use of blood product slightly more
:04:38. > :04:43.complicated. Everything adds a level of difficulty as you go down
:04:43. > :04:53.the list. It is a very nervous day for us, obviously. But she is in
:04:53. > :04:57.
:04:57. > :04:59.good hands and we hope they will be Every year, around 5,000 babies are
:04:59. > :05:09.born with heart defects and thanks to the biggest baby boom in two
:05:09. > :05:14.
:05:14. > :05:16.decades, that number is on the rise. The plan today is to try to
:05:16. > :05:22.complete this compares it -- this operation which may mean putting in
:05:22. > :05:28.a craft -- a graft. At Glenfield in Leicester, surgeon Giles Peek and
:05:28. > :05:32.his colleagues will do around 300 operations a year. We are seeing
:05:32. > :05:38.more and more children with more and more challenging disease. And I
:05:38. > :05:43.think as our ability increases and as the technology improves,
:05:44. > :05:48.children crew, maybe 10 years ago, would not have had any attempt at
:05:48. > :05:52.an operation are now managing to be treated. So it gets more and more
:05:52. > :05:56.complicated. Anna is on her way to theatre. For her parents, it's the
:05:56. > :06:02.end of weeks of waiting and the start of a whole load of new
:06:02. > :06:09.worries. How long will this operation take? Most of the day. So,
:06:09. > :06:13.it is... What time is it? It is 10:40am. Hopefully, we will be out
:06:13. > :06:16.by tea time. In the future, children like Anna may have to
:06:16. > :06:18.travel further afield for their ongoing care. Experts want fewer
:06:18. > :06:25.centres with more surgeons spreading their workload and
:06:26. > :06:35.experience of complex surgery to improve care in years to come.
:06:35. > :06:39.Glenfield might not be one of them. We are all committed to the idea
:06:39. > :06:47.that we want to do the best job we can and we want to work in teams
:06:47. > :06:52.that are strong enough to be safe and sustainable. So, yes, the
:06:52. > :06:58.review is a good thing. But, obviously, it is very worrying
:06:58. > :07:01.because we know what a great job we Glenfield's central location and
:07:01. > :07:06.easy access have helped secure its position as the preferred choice in
:07:06. > :07:11.the current review. Unlike many other centres, is also has
:07:11. > :07:16.overnight accommodation for parents. But there are three other options
:07:16. > :07:26.and Glenfield doesn't feature in any of them. It's by no means a
:07:26. > :07:27.
:07:27. > :07:31.done deal and senior staff are We are one of the smaller units and
:07:31. > :07:35.we are not a dedicated children's hospital. There has been a lot of
:07:35. > :07:42.emphasis on a dedicated children's hospital. However, we have
:07:42. > :07:46.something additional to offer. We have all the services for their
:07:46. > :07:51.patients -- we have all the services for patients. Without
:07:51. > :07:56.cardiac surgery, this intensive care unit would close. The reality
:07:56. > :08:03.is the majority of them would go to Birmingham children's hospital. And
:08:03. > :08:07.for the adults, the future is more uncertain. Expertise will be lost,
:08:07. > :08:11.that is my worry. The speciality and for children that have
:08:11. > :08:19.congenital heart disease. It will take time to train a new people.
:08:20. > :08:26.People with years of expertise will move into other areas. If we drop
:08:26. > :08:30.her blood pressure significantly, you will be afflicting seed flow. -
:08:30. > :08:33.- affecting the flow. Paediatric consultant Suhair Shebani fears the
:08:33. > :08:38.patients she's seeing on her ward round today won't get the best if
:08:38. > :08:42.they have further to travel. will be completely fragmented.
:08:42. > :08:49.Something taking five days would take a month to be sorted and the
:08:49. > :08:53.patient will go to the back Q. We have surgeons on side. It will
:08:53. > :08:58.never be the same for the patients and this is the Boric. You are from
:08:58. > :09:02.Leicester. Is it important for you to have the unit so close by?
:09:02. > :09:06.Otherwise we would have to travel out of the city for appointments
:09:06. > :09:11.and everything like that, so it is good that it is so near. We are
:09:11. > :09:18.from Nottingham so it is about 30- 40 minutes to drive. If it was to
:09:18. > :09:23.move, our closest would be Birmingham or London summit would
:09:23. > :09:28.be a trick. Where are you from? Uppingham. It is just down the road.
:09:28. > :09:32.Does it matter where the centre is as long as they are providing the
:09:32. > :09:36.best care? The Midlands has a population of 11 million. That
:09:36. > :09:41.requires more than one centre. There is 9 million population in
:09:41. > :09:45.London and it has been -- it has been decided they need two centres.
:09:45. > :09:51.We need Birmingham Children's Hospital and we need this centre as
:09:51. > :09:57.well. Albert Tansey has just turned two. Born with an extremely rare
:09:57. > :10:07.heart condition, every day is precious. His condition's
:10:07. > :10:08.
:10:08. > :10:12.hyperplasic left heart syndrome. It's known as half a heart. One of
:10:12. > :10:19.his pumping chambers is useless. It is there in some very small shape,
:10:19. > :10:23.but it cannot do the job it is meant to do. So you learn this is
:10:23. > :10:30.one of a number of conditions, but it is probably at the end of the
:10:30. > :10:34.scale of how bad it can get. From meningitis, to thinking we are
:10:34. > :10:41.wasting for an -- wasting their time, to heart failure, that is
:10:42. > :10:47.heartbreaking. We went through some intensive care and the only way was
:10:47. > :10:50.to go through some dangerous surgery. The Tansey family live
:10:50. > :10:57.mid-way between Leicester and Birmingham, at Burbage. Albert was
:10:57. > :11:05.taken to Glenfield. We live relatively close to Birmingham, but
:11:05. > :11:11.the difference between knowing Birmingham and Glenfield, it is
:11:11. > :11:15.worlds apart. You can be there, you can park, you can go off on to the
:11:15. > :11:19.road networks, wherever you need to go, so that family and friends,
:11:19. > :11:23.whoever, they can come in from all areas of the country to visit and
:11:23. > :11:32.there will always be a car park space. Back at Glenfield, the
:11:32. > :11:36.waiting game continues for Matthew and Sally Wright. It has been a
:11:36. > :11:41.long day. We have done quite a few laps of the hospital, round and
:11:41. > :11:51.round. Lots of sitting about and waiting. Lots of clock-watching.
:11:51. > :11:52.
:11:53. > :11:57.So many people for one very small girl. The quality we have got here,
:11:57. > :12:04.which is true in all the units, probably, is not down to me but how
:12:04. > :12:12.we worked together as a team. That takes years and years to build up.
:12:12. > :12:16.But only a few seconds to destroy. Beautiful eyelashes. I can't wait
:12:16. > :12:20.to see what she looks like because it is hard to tell. Three-year-old
:12:20. > :12:30.to paediatric intensive care was only 50 miles. But that was almost
:12:30. > :12:30.
:12:30. > :12:35.too far. They didn't think she was going to be around very long. And a
:12:36. > :12:41.three-way conversation between Chesterfield, Leeds and Leicester
:12:41. > :12:45.meant that they thought she was a definite candidate for ECMO. If
:12:45. > :12:53.they didn't get her to Leicester in time, she was going to die. Georgia
:12:53. > :12:58.needed ECMO, a specialised life support to rest her heart and lungs.
:12:58. > :13:04.Doesn't matter how far you have to travel, but when you're putting
:13:04. > :13:08.your daughter's life in jeopardy, then, yes, it does matter. I have
:13:08. > :13:14.seen Georgette in this sort of scenario before. And this time has
:13:14. > :13:20.been the worst. And if it wasn't for ECMO, she would not be here now.
:13:20. > :13:25.It has saved her life. Glenfield is the only place in the country that
:13:25. > :13:29.can also treat adults on ECMO, like Gus from Luton. When I met him,
:13:29. > :13:39.he'd already been on ECMO longer than any other patient in the UK as
:13:39. > :13:48.doctors tried to find out why his lungs had failed. You have been in
:13:48. > :13:54.hospital now for three months? How is it going? It's all right.
:13:54. > :14:00.it hard being in hospital so long? Yes. How do you feel about being
:14:00. > :14:06.attached to this ECMO machine? get frustrated at times. But I am
:14:06. > :14:11.all right with it. I had never heard of Glenfield Hospital before
:14:11. > :14:15.and ECMO, never heard of it before. Not until the night when the doctor
:14:15. > :14:20.came to pick him up. That is when the doctor explained to me what
:14:20. > :14:30.they were going to do. That is the first time I heard of ECMO. And
:14:30. > :14:31.
:14:31. > :14:38.Glenfield is a world leader in ECMO treatment. It's also the NHS's main
:14:38. > :14:41.provider. Not so long ago, nearly every bed was full. It was a major
:14:41. > :14:51.issue with swine flu, because of the age of patients that were
:14:51. > :14:54.affected. This swine flu epidemic was quite different to previous
:14:54. > :14:56.H1N1s in that, it wasn't the older population and the very young who
:14:57. > :15:00.wear primarily severely affected. What would have happened to those
:15:00. > :15:03.patients, if they hadn't been able to have ECMO? Well, many of them
:15:03. > :15:07.would have died. Richard Furman brought ECMO to this country more
:15:07. > :15:15.than 20 years ago. He and his team at Glenfield coordinated the
:15:15. > :15:17.treatment of swine flu patients up and down the country. We ended up
:15:17. > :15:27.receiving between 20-30 referrals a day, which we triaged between the
:15:27. > :15:28.
:15:28. > :15:30.various hospitals that were doing ECMO for swine flu. So we had one
:15:30. > :15:33.nurse-coordinator, basically acting like a Bangalore call centre, and
:15:33. > :15:36.just triaging all these patients. If children's heart surgery stops
:15:36. > :15:40.at Glenfield, under the current plans, ECMO would move to another
:15:40. > :15:49.centre. The country's leading swine flu expert says it's a risk we
:15:49. > :15:52.can't afford to take. 20 years experience in anything is good. 20
:15:53. > :15:58.years experience in something like intensive care, in ECMO, it must be
:15:58. > :16:01.at the top of the pyramid. So, one would not want to, unless there was
:16:01. > :16:06.an amazing reason, for it, one would not want to tinker with that
:16:06. > :16:11.pedipyramid, with that structure. That has been so carefully built up
:16:11. > :16:20.over the years. So, tinkering with it, messing it around, I am sure
:16:20. > :16:30.could lead to things we wouldn't want to see. My son is number one.
:16:30. > :16:33.And I'm going to be with my son as long as he needs me. So I don't
:16:33. > :16:43.know what's going to happen after that. Gus's mum stayed by her son's
:16:43. > :16:51.
:16:51. > :17:00.After seven hours in theatre, Anna Wright is on her way back to
:17:01. > :17:03.intensive care. How did it go? it went very well. The approach,
:17:04. > :17:07.using the incision across the chest, was good because it helped the
:17:07. > :17:10.tracheostomy, and down, we managed to get in, without making a hole in
:17:10. > :17:15.the heart, which is always good, and we did exactly what we hope to
:17:15. > :17:23.do. The next few days will be quite crucial. She has got a long road
:17:23. > :17:26.ahead of her, really. And hopefully, once she gets the drains out and
:17:26. > :17:32.things, she will move on to the ward, and, all systems go,
:17:33. > :17:35.hopefully. At the end of a long day, the nightshift begins. Some
:17:36. > :17:42.patients that have had operations yesterday may well go back to the
:17:42. > :17:46.ward tomorrow. We are also planning for a patient that has been here
:17:46. > :17:49.for quite some days to go back to another hospital tomorrow. And the
:17:50. > :17:53.others, as they get better and no longer require intensive care, will
:17:53. > :18:03.hopefully move on to the ward, and hopefully home. Three weeks later,
:18:03. > :18:08.Anna was back at home in Georgia was transferred to
:18:08. > :18:15.Sheffield the next day. A decision on the future of the country's
:18:15. > :18:20.child heart centres is due, soon. Staff and parents just hope their
:18:21. > :18:30.views will be heard. What I hope, and what I believe will happen, is
:18:31. > :18:31.
:18:32. > :18:34.that we will stay as a congenital heart centre. We will build on our
:18:35. > :18:37.strengths, we will expand and take even more children from the East
:18:38. > :18:46.Midlands and from slightly beyond. I think we have an excellent team,
:18:46. > :18:49.and I want to see that continue into the future for our patients.
:18:49. > :18:53.The fact that it's children, and it's very sick children, it's made
:18:53. > :18:57.it a real hot potato, that someone then has to make a decision on, and
:18:57. > :19:07.they may feel the need to make change, bu but we will see whether
:19:07. > :19:07.
:19:07. > :19:10.that really is sensible, now. viruses are a huge threat, and not
:19:10. > :19:15.just flu, either. They are a huge threat. It is mother nature at her
:19:15. > :19:21.worst. We have got ourselves organised at the present time,
:19:21. > :19:25.working pretty well. This would be my biggest fear, that another
:19:25. > :19:28.pandemic comes along in the next six years, which is quite possible.
:19:28. > :19:31.And meanwhile, we're not as prepared as the last one. That
:19:31. > :19:40.would be an awful situation to be in. This is actually real life.
:19:40. > :19:44.It's not TV. And it's what I have had to deal with for the past three
:19:44. > :19:51.and a half years. I need to know, as a parent, that my daughter is
:19:51. > :20:01.going to get the best possible care. And I'm not sure that that's going
:20:01. > :20:03.
:20:03. > :20:06.The Department of Health tell us a decision on the future of the
:20:06. > :20:09.country's specialist heart units should be announced by the end of
:20:09. > :20:18.the year. Our thanks and best wishes to all the children and
:20:18. > :20:21.parents who to park in took part in our film. And now the remarkable
:20:21. > :20:27.story of a time when lions roam the Leicestershire countryside, and it
:20:27. > :20:30.wasn't so very long ago. Our tale takes us back to the 1950s, when
:20:30. > :20:35.the owners of crumbling stately homes had to come up with ever more
:20:35. > :20:39.inventive ways of raising cash. Now, Stapleford Hall near Melton Mowbray,
:20:39. > :20:45.that meant a day out to the member. And for one baby boomer, Tony Rowe,
:20:45. > :20:49.those memories are as fresh as ever. The 1950s was a tough time for the
:20:49. > :20:52.English country house. Over a thousand had been burnt down or
:20:52. > :20:59.blown up in the first half of the century, as owners could no longer
:20:59. > :21:09.afford their upkeep. Many that survived this cull were forced to
:21:09. > :21:10.
:21:10. > :21:13.move with the times and open to the hoi-polloi. NEWSREEL: Has there
:21:13. > :21:17.been a more popular sideshow than this? The duke's stepdaughter, the
:21:17. > :21:20.duchess, and the duke himself, selling souvenirs. All this gets
:21:20. > :21:26.the Duke of Bedford about 130,000 visitors ahead of his nearest
:21:27. > :21:34.rivals. Not to be outdone - and out of necessity - in 1953, Lord
:21:35. > :21:38.Gretton opened Stapleford Park in Leicestershire. But this was to
:21:38. > :21:46.turn into a very different day out, to dusty house tours and cream teas
:21:46. > :21:55.on the lawn. So along with a few others, I'm reliving a day from my
:21:55. > :21:59.childhood. The thing I remember most about Stapleford is that I
:21:59. > :22:02.grew up on the doorstep. I lived three quarters of a mile away. And
:22:02. > :22:05.when I was little I thought it was a natural thing to hear lions
:22:05. > :22:09.roaring for their breakfast first thing in the morning. It was quite
:22:09. > :22:12.a novelty in the Midlands at that time to have a safari park nearby.
:22:12. > :22:22.And I remember especially bank holidays, cars would be queuing for
:22:22. > :22:26.
:22:26. > :22:30.miles to get in. When I was a small child, it was amazing, turning up.
:22:30. > :22:33.You'd turn off into the parkland and then all of a sudden, out of
:22:33. > :22:40.the woods came this little steam train and you got on, and off you
:22:40. > :22:44.went. Lord Gretton used public openings at Stapleford to indulge
:22:44. > :22:48.his favourite hobby - trains. And he did this on a grand, and small,
:22:48. > :22:54.scale. There were two miles of track winding its way through the
:22:54. > :22:56.parkland. With bridges and tunnels, signal boxes and sidings. Lord
:22:56. > :23:01.Gretton built four stations, employed seven men and commissioned
:23:01. > :23:07.three scaled-down steam engines. The highlight was a 15 minute
:23:07. > :23:10.cruise on one of two miniature luxury liners. It was a grand day
:23:10. > :23:13.out. But it cost the Grettons a small fortune. While the trains and
:23:13. > :23:23.boats pulled in the punters, big cat, at big houses like Longleat in
:23:23. > :23:25.
:23:25. > :23:31.Wiltshire was a new idea not to be missed. Lord Gretton and the
:23:31. > :23:34.Chipperfields became business partners and it was an instant hit.
:23:34. > :23:36.I'm meeting two men who were involved in looking after the
:23:36. > :23:46.animals at the Stapleford Safari Park. Untrained and unprepared,
:23:46. > :23:49.
:23:49. > :23:53.were they simply "thrown to the lions"? Being a wildlife ranger,
:23:53. > :23:55.you would imagine you would have to have a lot of training? I'm sure
:23:56. > :23:59.that's true today, Tony, in 2011, but certainly, it wasn't, back in
:23:59. > :24:02.1970. Training then was pretty rudimentary, as I recall. We were
:24:02. > :24:12.dropped in at the deep end, if you like. On a day-to-day basis, how
:24:12. > :24:13.
:24:13. > :24:17.did you operate? What was your job? We drove ancient Land Rovers, much
:24:17. > :24:21.like the one we got here today. And I suppose duties were threefold. We
:24:21. > :24:24.had to keep the lines away from the cars and away from other prides, in
:24:24. > :24:27.fact, because the four prides had to be kept distinctly separate,
:24:27. > :24:29.otherwise they fought like the blazes. The other aspect was making
:24:29. > :24:33.sure that people didn't open car window, which they frequently did,
:24:33. > :24:36.to take nice photographs, you see. So we had to keep an eye on the
:24:36. > :24:39.public and on the lions. Wasn't there some sort of warning? There
:24:39. > :24:49.was a sign, as visitors came into the reserve, saying, "do not leave
:24:49. > :24:50.
:24:50. > :24:52.your car. Survivors will be prosecuted." While Richard worked
:24:52. > :24:57.in the reserve, his father, an amateur movie-maker filmed his
:24:57. > :25:00.visits. And he wasn't the only one with a camera capturing events.
:25:01. > :25:04.Pathe and the BBC made regular visits with the stars of the show
:25:04. > :25:11.being Leicestershire's new lion pride. Gosh, that's a pretty
:25:11. > :25:14.boisterous welcome, John. He has my finger, yes, I know! You take the
:25:14. > :25:18.food away from a lion, you've got to get it in quick. You can't get
:25:18. > :25:21.much closer than this. We had taken a cage along, so that the whole
:25:21. > :25:24.film crew could get close up pictures without being in any
:25:24. > :25:28.danger. We were a bit surprised when the Lions took very little
:25:28. > :25:33.notice of us. They ran through the other end of the paddock. And there
:25:33. > :25:35.was only one thing for it. We had to follow. As the years passed the
:25:35. > :25:38.lion park expanded into a bizarre menagerie, boasting everything from
:25:38. > :25:47.British badgers to wild bears. As well as the untrained rangers,
:25:47. > :25:50.locals in nearby villages had close encounters with escapees.
:25:50. > :25:53.brother, when he was seven years old, was playing in the village
:25:53. > :25:56.with his friend, David, and he remembers that the Rangers drove
:25:56. > :26:03.around the village with a tannoy, announcing that the lion had
:26:03. > :26:11.escaped from Stapleford, and that everyone was to stay indoors. And
:26:11. > :26:14.Michael and David promptly went to try and find the lion. Despite the
:26:14. > :26:21.success of Stapleford Safari, Lord Gretton's passion was always the
:26:21. > :26:24.trains, even if that meant not making much money from his ventures.
:26:24. > :26:27.We are talking about a huge investment made by Lord Gretton at
:26:27. > :26:29.the time, into building this, though, aren't we? In today's
:26:29. > :26:33.values, you're talking about �500,000. I wouldn't like to put a
:26:33. > :26:41.value on it, to be quite honest. But to build something like this is
:26:41. > :26:44.an awful lot of money. There's no two ways about it. When he died in
:26:44. > :26:49.1982 the estate shut its gates to the public, the great house was
:26:49. > :26:53.sold, the boats scrapped and the trains mothballed. But this wasn't
:26:53. > :26:59.the end of the line for Stapleford's Railway. You must have
:26:59. > :27:03.been quite sad when it all sort of stopped. Oh, yeah, it was very sad.
:27:03. > :27:08.It was quite a big attraction of its time, as well. It was the Alton
:27:08. > :27:18.Towers of this area, in some ways. Everybody used to come from all
:27:18. > :27:21.
:27:21. > :27:24.over, in buses, used to come for It's a toy train set, isn't it?
:27:24. > :27:33.I've got a toy train set, I must admit, but it's not quite the same
:27:33. > :27:36.So 30 years since it shut up shop, it's nice to be back. And to think
:27:36. > :27:39.back to a time when lions roamed in Leicestershire, little cruise
:27:39. > :27:44.liners sailed on the lake and scaled down steam trains chugged
:27:44. > :27:48.their way through parkland. It's as much fun now as it was back then.
:27:48. > :27:53.lot of nostalgia. I mean, I'm a local lad., Who travelled this way,
:27:53. > :27:57.to school, and yes, it's lovely to see. It brings it all back. It's
:27:57. > :28:03.been a source of humour for some time that, on my medical records,
:28:03. > :28:08.it actually says mauled by a lion. It was a full afternoon treat. It
:28:08. > :28:18.was great. There was everything here. I suppose today it would seem
:28:18. > :28:18.
:28:18. > :28:22.very simple, but, to us, it was Lions in Leicestershire. Follow
:28:22. > :28:27.that! And if you've got any interesting stories from around the
:28:27. > :28:29.East Midlands, with or without wild animals, let me No. But that's it
:28:30. > :28:33.from Glenfield Hospital in Leicestershire. See you next Monday.