:00:07. > :00:11.Hello and tonight, Inside Out is at Sutton Scarsdale in Derbyshire.
:00:11. > :00:21.Coming up in the next half hour how safe are our children? The grown
:00:21. > :00:24.men who target 12-year-olds. They are criminals, organised crime.
:00:24. > :00:31.They are sleeping with kids. It is not normal.
:00:31. > :00:34.Also tonight, is the clock ticking for our stately homes? Our fear is
:00:34. > :00:37.that this place could become lost to the community and become a
:00:37. > :00:44.private playground to some privileged people.
:00:45. > :00:48.And the pinball wizards making a comeback. It is like you and the
:00:48. > :00:58.machine can act. It is man and pinball machine.
:00:58. > :01:06.
:01:06. > :01:08.This is Inside Out for the East The trafficking of children for sex
:01:08. > :01:12.is becoming more common and sexual exploitation more organised -
:01:12. > :01:15.that's the finding of a report by the children's charity Barnardos.
:01:15. > :01:19.The government has just launched an action plan aimed at stopping the
:01:19. > :01:29.abuse. But with grooming methods cunning and sophisiticated, what
:01:29. > :01:33.
:01:33. > :01:41.There's a crime that's growing in our towns and cities. But if you
:01:41. > :01:48.don't look for this crime you'll not know it's there. I didn't tell
:01:48. > :01:52.anyone about it. Nobody knew. are criminals. Organised crime.
:01:52. > :01:54.They are sleeping with kit, it is not normal.
:01:54. > :01:57.Last year Derby was at the centre of it.
:01:57. > :02:01.We were horrified very early on once we'd approached one victim who
:02:01. > :02:03.led us to another victim, who led us to another victim.
:02:03. > :02:06.Little is understood about on- street child grooming. Who's
:02:06. > :02:14.targeting these children? And what's being done to combat the
:02:14. > :02:18.Emma was targeted by a gang of on- street groomers when she was just
:02:18. > :02:23.12 years old. What made you get involved with
:02:23. > :02:29.them? They were different, they were very sure of their self, they
:02:29. > :02:33.was nice looking. They had nice cars. They were exciting.
:02:33. > :02:38.I'd been in the grooming process for a long time and when I got to
:02:39. > :02:42.13, one of them... I was with two men and one of my friends, and we
:02:42. > :02:46.went up to the outdoor market stalls and then one of them grabbed
:02:46. > :02:52.me and took me around the corner, and he was just on top of me the
:02:52. > :02:58.next thing I knew and I'd got two men holding me down.
:02:58. > :03:01.Jacob thought he'd found a friend online when he was 13 years old.
:03:01. > :03:08.He said his name was Ben. The conversations at the start were
:03:08. > :03:13.very mundane. Asking how my day was. Making me feel like someone was
:03:13. > :03:20.there to hear me. So I asked if he could meet me in Derby and we could
:03:20. > :03:24.go for a coffee. He said, yeah, that's fine. We can go to Derby, I
:03:24. > :03:30.can pick you up, we can go shopping and then spend the night at my
:03:30. > :03:35.hotel. My mum recognised the relationship for what it was and
:03:35. > :03:38.took me to the police station. What did you then find out about
:03:38. > :03:45.him? I found out that he had actually been a convicted
:03:45. > :03:51.paedophile and got out on a loophole. Derbyshire police say
:03:51. > :03:56.they deal with several hundred cases of child exploitation a year.
:03:56. > :03:58.In January, the problem made national news. Abid Saddique, seen
:03:58. > :04:04.here buying vodka, and Mohammed Liaqat were married and had
:04:04. > :04:07.children. But both men led sinister double lives. They were also the
:04:07. > :04:13.ringleaders of a vicious gang that cruised around the city in flash
:04:13. > :04:17.cars tempting young girls with alcohol and drugs.
:04:17. > :04:21.It was the biggest case of child exploitation ever to hit the city
:04:21. > :04:26.of Derby. In January, the gang of nine men were convicted of hideous
:04:26. > :04:34.crimes against 27 teenage girls including kidnap and rape. One of
:04:34. > :04:44.their victims was just 13 years old. Eight of the men were Asian. Only
:04:44. > :04:52.
:04:52. > :04:57.one was white. The English Defence There are members of that community
:04:57. > :04:59.constantly being arrested for rating. Their conviction was a
:04:59. > :05:02.result of a police operation called Retriever.
:05:02. > :05:05.I know after Retriever you were keen to point out that you didn't
:05:05. > :05:08.feel that there was a racial element to this but looking at the
:05:08. > :05:13.different sorts of exploitation would you say that perhaps there
:05:13. > :05:17.Your online groomer tends to be very much a white male. Whereas the
:05:17. > :05:20.street grooming depends on the ethnicity of your city at that time.
:05:20. > :05:23.So for example in Derby it happened to be more Asian men in Retriever?
:05:23. > :05:33.It did because in terms of our ethnic profile within Derby, there
:05:33. > :05:35.
:05:35. > :05:40.are much more Asian males living within the city. They took me to a
:05:40. > :05:46.flat and locked me in a bedroom and they sent me after -- man after man
:05:46. > :05:53.in. I remember begging one of the men to not let him come near me and
:05:54. > :05:59.then they sent him into the bedroom. Her abusers lead double lives.
:05:59. > :06:09.were normal men. They had married, normal jobs, some of them had quite
:06:09. > :06:11.
:06:11. > :06:14.good jobs. This is 216 Slack Lane in Derby. Some of the girls in
:06:14. > :06:16.Operation Retriever were brought to this house, owned by Saddique. Here
:06:16. > :06:23.there were parties, vodka and cocaine served downstairs, and
:06:23. > :06:26.upstairs, extreme sexual abuse, some of it filmed on mobile phones.
:06:26. > :06:31.Alyas Karmani used to work in Rosehill area of the city. He's now
:06:31. > :06:35.an Imam and youth worker who specialises in street grooming.
:06:35. > :06:39.80% of abusers tend to be white males. However, there are worrying
:06:39. > :06:41.patterns within the Pakistani community. Me, as a British born
:06:41. > :06:45.Pakistani, I've identified some really challenging issues in my own
:06:45. > :06:48.community that I want to tackle and deal with head on. What I've found,
:06:48. > :06:52.certainly amongst young Pakistani males, is that they're completely
:06:52. > :06:54.disengaged in terms of sex and relationship education in school.
:06:54. > :06:57.They've got very distorted and often kind of quite misogynistic
:06:57. > :07:00.attitudes towards women, as well often derived from the street, from
:07:00. > :07:10.their peers, from pornography, from images of women which are very
:07:10. > :07:11.
:07:11. > :07:14.distorted and over-sexualised as Normanton is the centre of the
:07:14. > :07:19.Pakistani and Indian communities in Derby. Communities that pride
:07:19. > :07:29.themselves on strict family values. But at night it's a hotspot for
:07:29. > :07:31.
:07:31. > :07:37.prostitution and drugs. Mohammed Yakub has lived here for 30 years.
:07:37. > :07:41.Almost every night, these young girls standing on the corner. We
:07:41. > :07:51.asked them all sorts of questions and we see that the young men
:07:51. > :07:52.
:07:52. > :07:55.driving up and down in their car. They are obviously there.
:07:55. > :08:01.worries that prostitution and drugs are corrupting the morals of the
:08:01. > :08:04.young men growing up here. As you know as a Muslim, the drink and
:08:04. > :08:09.drugs are forbidden for religious purposes. All our community don't
:08:09. > :08:13.want our kids to go out and have a drink and do drugs. The two worlds
:08:13. > :08:18.are causing friction within the community here. And claims that on-
:08:18. > :08:20.street grooming is a Pakistani problem is causing upset. Not all
:08:20. > :08:23.Pakistanis are paedophiles, people will be very defensive of it
:08:23. > :08:26.because they feel the way the media has stigmatised the whole community
:08:26. > :08:36.rather than recognising that this is a very small minority that's had
:08:36. > :08:41.
:08:41. > :08:45.an impact on people. We are so focused on the race element and not
:08:45. > :08:48.on the victims. Derby is home to the country's first child
:08:49. > :08:51.exploitation charity - Safe And Sound. There's been work in Derby
:08:52. > :09:01.since 1999 so Derby's got a very proactive response, really, to this
:09:02. > :09:04.
:09:04. > :09:08.issue. We worked with a girl who jumped out of a first for a flat
:09:08. > :09:13.window to escape from the people who were abusing her, and a girl
:09:13. > :09:19.who was locked in a room and made to wear pretty clothes while men
:09:20. > :09:23.came in and out of the room. Safe and Sound Derby worked with 120
:09:23. > :09:26.young people last year. They're not all being exploited but they have
:09:26. > :09:36.been highlighted as being at risk of being exploited, or being
:09:36. > :09:36.
:09:36. > :09:39.exploited. I've joined one of their outreach teams to see how it's done.
:09:39. > :09:46.Our first stop is the Riverside Gardens, a favourite spot for
:09:46. > :09:50.teenagers in the evening. You get people down here, and up here.
:09:50. > :09:56.cold and damp and no-one's here. So the team decides to go to
:09:57. > :10:00.Chaddesden Park. It's not long before we bump into some girls.
:10:00. > :10:09.Here's a leaflet, it's got numbers on to call if you know of anyone
:10:09. > :10:14.who's in trouble. It's very dark and quiet. I do not think I would
:10:14. > :10:22.walk here on my own. But when you approach them, you do not seem to
:10:22. > :10:32.say, why are you here? We have to build a positive relationship with
:10:32. > :10:35.the young people. Teams like this are essential in the fight against
:10:35. > :10:38.child grooming. We need to educate kids on what grooming is, what
:10:38. > :10:40.sexual exploitation is, so that they can keep themselves safe and
:10:40. > :10:44.they can recognise when something's wrong. On-street grooming is
:10:44. > :10:48.associated with organised crime and drugs. At least one community is
:10:48. > :10:58.starting to wake up to the danger. But all races and social classes
:10:58. > :11:01.
:11:01. > :11:05.are involved in the grooming of children. We cannot brush this
:11:05. > :11:11.under the carpet. We must deal with this openly. Whether that is drug
:11:11. > :11:14.misuse or drug supply or criminal gangs, you find there is always an
:11:15. > :11:18.association with the pimping of girls and the sexual abuse of women
:11:18. > :11:21.as well. #With this type of crime on the increase it's only our
:11:21. > :11:30.understanding of all the factors involved that will help us put an
:11:30. > :11:33.Our historic and stately buildings have dominated the East Midlands
:11:33. > :11:35.landscape for centuries, but as the recession hits us hard and public
:11:35. > :11:38.services are cut, councils are having to prioritise money
:11:38. > :11:48.elsewhere and there is precious little money to keep public owned
:11:48. > :11:50.
:11:50. > :11:53.buildings like this one going. Many are owned by councils. And as their
:11:53. > :11:57.coffers dwindle, it means some of our historic homes could be out of
:11:57. > :12:00.bounds for good unless the money can be found somewhere else.
:12:00. > :12:03.An important part of our social history, our historic buildings
:12:03. > :12:08.have shaped our region just as much as the people who have lived and
:12:08. > :12:11.worked here. But once the prized possession of royalty and the
:12:11. > :12:17.nobility, nowadays, ownership and the financial burden of maintaining
:12:17. > :12:23.them has passed to the councils. And as money has become tighter,
:12:23. > :12:26.the councils are facing a difficult decision - what to do with them.
:12:26. > :12:34.Elvaston estate in Derbyshire dates back to the 1100s and was bought by
:12:34. > :12:36.Derbyshire County Council over 40 years ago. But over the decades,
:12:36. > :12:39.it's become weather-beaten and dilapidated, which has meant the
:12:39. > :12:41.council has had to stop public access altogether, and is looking
:12:41. > :12:51.to lease it out to a private partner, a decision deeply
:12:51. > :12:55.
:12:55. > :13:01.unpopular with the locals. How long have you been coming here?
:13:01. > :13:06.place has been open as a country park since 1970. It was the first
:13:06. > :13:10.country park in England. It was on Good Friday. What upset as you most
:13:10. > :13:14.about the current situation? fact that the County Council will
:13:14. > :13:18.not listen to what the people want. We have had four public
:13:18. > :13:22.consultations. My fear is the praise could be lost to the
:13:22. > :13:29.community and become a private playground for a few rich and
:13:29. > :13:33.privileged people. The gardens here are said to be some of the finest
:13:33. > :13:38.in the country, with people coming from far and wide. But the house
:13:38. > :13:43.has not survived the decades so well. It must have been a
:13:43. > :13:48.magnificent place when it was a private house? Yes. And the ceiling
:13:48. > :13:56.is interesting as well. Letting in the sunlight into an otherwise dark
:13:56. > :13:59.area. Let's see if we can get these shutters open, John. How about
:14:00. > :14:03.that? Derbyshire County Council say they do want public access to
:14:03. > :14:12.continue at Elvaston but that they do need to come up with a solution
:14:12. > :14:21.soon. If the castle was not to be leased out, what would happen to
:14:21. > :14:26.it? I fear Edward fall into his state of disrepair. -- it would
:14:26. > :14:31.fall. Unless the council backed away of its existing policy of
:14:31. > :14:35.retaining ownership, we would be left with no alternative than to
:14:35. > :14:42.put it on the market with the tool that he private investor or a
:14:42. > :14:46.business would come along and buy it from us. -- with the tool that a
:14:46. > :14:49.private investor. It would cost over �2 million to repair Elvaston
:14:50. > :14:56.and the council say they don't have that kind of money. Private
:14:56. > :15:00.investors are the only option. don't think there should be a
:15:00. > :15:04.shortage of money for such a worthy project as this. In September last
:15:04. > :15:07.year, Nottingham City Council put the "for sale" sign up on some of
:15:08. > :15:10.its oldest buildings as the public coffers began to run dry. But it's
:15:10. > :15:14.their decision regarding a quiet grey stone building in rural
:15:14. > :15:19.Nottinghamshire that has really caused controversy. Grade I listed,
:15:19. > :15:22.Newstead Abbey dates back to the 12th century. It was given to the
:15:22. > :15:32.Byron family after the dissolution of the monasteries and was later
:15:32. > :15:42.
:15:42. > :15:48.home to the most famous Byron, the 80 years ago, a man called the Sir
:15:48. > :15:58.Julien Cahn acquired and gave Newstead Abbey to the Nottingham
:15:58. > :16:00.
:16:00. > :16:04.poor - -- Nottingham Corporation as a gift. The house is now mostly
:16:04. > :16:07.kept So when they decided to cut costs by opening the house just one
:16:07. > :16:16.day a week, it provoked a strong local reaction. Miranda Rijks is
:16:16. > :16:20.the granddaughter of Sir Julien. What would your grandfather have
:16:20. > :16:26.felt about what was happening to this place? I think he would have
:16:26. > :16:32.been extremely upset about it. His word was his bond and he wanted the
:16:32. > :16:41.Abbey to be made available for the people of Nottingham and for
:16:41. > :16:45.international historical lovers. Miranda Rijks thinks that the
:16:45. > :16:48.council bringing in money could be the solution they need. I do think
:16:48. > :16:54.some sort of plan should have been put in place to get over the fact
:16:54. > :17:02.it was obvious funs would run out at some point, and now to take some
:17:02. > :17:05.very proactive steps to create some sort of partnership, perhaps.
:17:05. > :17:08.is there really an easy answer to protecting our old buildings?
:17:08. > :17:12.English Heritage have been stepping in to find appropriate uses for
:17:12. > :17:14.buildings regarded too expensive to have a place in modern Britain. The
:17:14. > :17:17.ex-council-owned City rooms in Leicester were successfully
:17:17. > :17:27.converted into a hotel with the help of English Heritage, but it's
:17:27. > :17:30.
:17:30. > :17:35.not a solution that would fit all historic buildings. The solution is
:17:35. > :17:40.always individual to the particular building. The first priority is to
:17:40. > :17:44.sustain the significance of Historic places like Elvaston but
:17:44. > :17:49.our second priority is to make sure they are reduced and that they are
:17:49. > :17:51.cherished and that they have an economically viable future.
:17:51. > :17:54.with the councils struggling for cash, it seems surprising that the
:17:54. > :17:57.Mayor of Leicester wants to restore and re-open Leicester Castle, a
:17:57. > :18:07.medieval court building that most people in Leicester have never
:18:07. > :18:09.
:18:09. > :18:19.heard of. This is the medieval castles cellar and it is known
:18:19. > :18:27.locally under a name, Duke of Gaunt. For a while, he was the resident.
:18:27. > :18:31.But it is amazing, it really is. How much would it cost to get this
:18:31. > :18:35.building into the state where the public could come back in? I think
:18:36. > :18:41.the cost of enabling people to come back into it are probably counted
:18:41. > :18:45.in the terms of tens or hundreds of thousands of pounds. Much more
:18:45. > :18:49.expensive is bringing it into use for the future and there, we could
:18:49. > :18:55.be talking about many millions. Where will the money comes from?
:18:55. > :19:00.That is the big question. At a time when we, as a council, are having
:19:00. > :19:04.to cut 30 million from our bills in the current year and 20 million
:19:04. > :19:09.next year, finding the money is very challenging indeed. People are
:19:09. > :19:13.bound to raise questions about priorities. I believe that looking
:19:13. > :19:19.after our schools and older people are priorities but so was the trust
:19:19. > :19:22.we have, the responsibility we have, to care for the heritage of our
:19:22. > :19:26.city. Some of our council-owned historic buildings can bring in the
:19:26. > :19:33.cash and pay for themselves if invested in and with the right use.
:19:33. > :19:36.But there are many more with an uncertain future. We want to see
:19:36. > :19:41.this place remain within the community for the benefit of that
:19:41. > :19:51.unity and not for anybody else. long will you keep fighting?
:19:51. > :19:56.
:19:56. > :19:59.long as it takes, Marie. They call it "the church of the
:19:59. > :20:03.silver ball. Now the passionate fans of pinball say their game is
:20:03. > :20:06.enjoying a big revival. Rob Whitehouse has discovered a
:20:06. > :20:14.thriving collection of pinheads - yes, that's what they themselves -
:20:14. > :20:21.right here in the East Midlands. It is official - there's a pinball
:20:21. > :20:31.revival underway. It is the Church of the silver ball. It is creating
:20:31. > :20:39.marital tension... There of two of us and many machines! And don't
:20:39. > :20:49.ever call them at nerds! We are a pinball community but not a nerds,
:20:49. > :21:02.
:21:02. > :21:07.In this village on a quiet Sunday afternoon, you might expect to hear
:21:07. > :21:12.the reassuring sound of leather on willow. But this isn't cricket.
:21:12. > :21:17.It's a pinball tournament taking place at the bottom of his garden.
:21:17. > :21:22.People approach these tournaments deadly seriously. It is like a
:21:22. > :21:28.little on the ground movement in a shed and some garages up-and-down
:21:28. > :21:33.the country. A taking it all slightly less seriously is Linda,
:21:33. > :21:39.who is helping to host today's event. It does feel like hosting a
:21:39. > :21:42.children's party, especially with even the food. Crisps, biscuits!
:21:42. > :21:48.Making sure everybody is happy. And if they are happy, they will enjoy
:21:48. > :21:58.the game. Pinball is in all the pubs, isn't it? It is like a
:21:58. > :22:02.movement. It is like when we were kids. Spike, with -- who is a
:22:02. > :22:06.father of three, accepts he may have lapsed into childhood and
:22:06. > :22:13.loves it. The silver ball was never far from his mind. I would have
:22:13. > :22:17.been about seven, eight. 6p was what you paid. The fascination with
:22:17. > :22:21.the ball being knocked around and the lights. The lights were what
:22:21. > :22:31.used to attract me. And you have got that historic sound of the
:22:31. > :22:31.
:22:31. > :22:36.times. Ding! Those were the days! Now, spike has seven machines
:22:36. > :22:44.installed in a purpose built a log cabin under orders of his wife. Did
:22:44. > :22:48.you labour law down? Absolutely. A condition of the pinballs entering
:22:48. > :22:58.our lives was that they were out of the house. There have been moments
:22:58. > :23:04.when family life and pinball life have clashed, I could say. Yes.
:23:04. > :23:10.There are a few more machines in our marriage. Not just three people
:23:10. > :23:17.- a few machines. Grab it! Just occasionally, spike lets his wife
:23:17. > :23:21.have a go. Not a good idea! It can be frustrating. I want to be
:23:21. > :23:31.flipping for them. It is a bit like being in a car when you why a
:23:31. > :23:33.
:23:33. > :23:37.passenger and you want to press the brake pedal. The first coin-
:23:37. > :23:45.operated pinball machines were made in the 1930s in the USA. They
:23:45. > :23:48.enjoyed a post-war boom that lasted well into the 1980s. At one stage,
:23:48. > :23:55.there were 150 companies making machines that are Arab teenagers to
:23:55. > :23:59.strut their stuff in Cafes and bars all over the world. -- that allowed
:23:59. > :24:03.teenagers. The silver rut became a symbol of rebellion. Computer games
:24:03. > :24:12.were the death knell of pinball but now the nudges and flippers are
:24:12. > :24:17.fighting back. It is because video games are down and in decline and
:24:17. > :24:20.pinball, for a little bit, for the older generation, they played it as
:24:20. > :24:30.young people and now their children, they want to bring them into the
:24:30. > :24:36.
:24:36. > :24:41.game and show them it as well. It This is the UK's annual Pinball
:24:41. > :24:48.party. Over 100 machines have been installed in the ballroom of a
:24:48. > :24:52.Daventry Hotel. We are getting together and having three Knights
:24:52. > :25:01.of hedonistic pleasure, basically. And there are players from all over
:25:01. > :25:04.the world. For the third time, European champion of this year!
:25:04. > :25:09.go to tournaments in Belgium, Italy and France, and now for the first
:25:09. > :25:17.time, in the UK. In this country, some beagle might stereotyping
:25:17. > :25:27.ball-players as being nerds? -- some people. We take a lot of time
:25:27. > :25:31.
:25:31. > :25:40.with it. We don't deserve his name! At the Pinball party, the pinheads,
:25:40. > :25:45.that is what they call themselves, are ready to go. We are used
:25:45. > :25:51.lightbulbs and specific parts. It is very important. There is also a
:25:51. > :25:56.brisk market in buying and selling the machines. There is a sane in D
:25:56. > :26:01.pinball world - at one is never enough! When you have a newby who
:26:01. > :26:07.has his first machine, every body types in, one is never enough.
:26:07. > :26:13.You'll be wanting your next and your next. They breed! Alexander
:26:13. > :26:18.makes a very good living buying and selling pinball machines. Some as
:26:18. > :26:23.much as �7,000. We sold to Lord Of the Rings pinball table and with
:26:23. > :26:29.the sort of shows here, I find it hard not to stock up for our show
:26:29. > :26:33.room, so I bought one or two. It is a reaction against computer games
:26:33. > :26:38.and people like the interactivity of it and the nostalgia. But the
:26:38. > :26:43.real star of the show is a man who has been dubbed the Messiah of the
:26:43. > :26:51.silver ball. Josie Jack. Why has he travelled all the way from New
:26:51. > :26:57.Jersey to Daventry? Pinball is this match game where anything is
:26:57. > :27:01.possible. -- is magical game. There are great people here so I wanted
:27:01. > :27:06.to come over and be part of that. Only two companies currently make
:27:06. > :27:13.the machines. Now Jack, a self- confessed pinhead and entrepreneur,
:27:13. > :27:16.is about to become the third, with a Wizard Of Oz themed games. I made
:27:16. > :27:22.this bold announcement that we would build The Wizard Of Oz, with
:27:22. > :27:28.a licensed title from Warner Brothers. The office would be an
:27:28. > :27:33.emerald city limited edition again. -- the offer. We wanted to get it
:27:33. > :27:38.back into the mainstream consciousness of the world. So been
:27:38. > :27:45.ball is back in business, but you - - if you are still puzzled about
:27:45. > :27:50.the attraction of this game, let a spiritual Spikes some things up.
:27:50. > :27:58.When they go in really well, it is almost like you and the machine