:00:04. > :00:06.Hello, tonight Inside Out is at Columba Park in Nottinghamshire.
:00:06. > :00:13.Coming up in the next half-hour, Britain's boozy habits cost us
:00:13. > :00:18.millions, but could you give up alcohol for a whole month? I've got
:00:18. > :00:20.to find something to replace the booze with. Also tonight,
:00:21. > :00:26.celebrating in style, but there's a hefty price-tag for the traditional
:00:26. > :00:32.Asian wedding. There isn't something as a cheap Asian wedding,
:00:32. > :00:35.they just get insaner and insaner. And in loving memory of a fallen
:00:35. > :00:40.soldier, the family determined to bring his adopted dog home from
:00:40. > :00:50.Afghanistan. With the surprising stories from where you live, I'm
:00:50. > :01:00.
:01:00. > :01:04.Marie Ashby, and this is Inside Out We Brits are the biggest boozers in
:01:04. > :01:09.the world. Binge drinking costs our country billions in alcohol-fuelled
:01:09. > :01:13.crime and serious illnesses. How many of us realise we have a
:01:13. > :01:18.problem in the first place, and how many of us can kick the habit of we
:01:18. > :01:22.want to? We decided to put that to the test, and asked radio presenter
:01:22. > :01:31.Ed Stagg to go cold turkey for the whole month of December. How did he
:01:31. > :01:38.go cold turkey in the most sociable month of the year?
:01:38. > :01:41.It's Saturday night and I'm out to us on my mates in Leicester. I love
:01:41. > :01:47.a good drink as much as the next person, but could I survive without
:01:47. > :01:51.the alcohol? I've been asked to give up booze for a month to find
:01:52. > :02:00.out. I need to reconnect with who I was when alcohol wasn't such a big
:02:00. > :02:10.thing in my life. What will I discover about my relationship with
:02:10. > :02:11.
:02:11. > :02:18.booze? If you can learn to drink, you can learn to drink differently.
:02:18. > :02:22.What is the real cost to society? One person in 16 is in hospital
:02:22. > :02:27.because of alcohol. It is an extraordinary statistic, really.
:02:27. > :02:33.hope that giving up alcohol for a month will help me find the answers.
:02:33. > :02:41.Ed Stagg, BBC Radio Nottingham. This is me at my day job, well it's
:02:41. > :02:45.a night job really. It about 7:05pm. When I get home, I really want to
:02:45. > :02:50.drink to help me unwind. I get that it's a crutch, but how will I cope
:02:50. > :02:58.without it? There's a week to go before I give up the booze. Medics
:02:58. > :03:02.at the QMC have agreed to run some tests are me. I understand a lot of
:03:02. > :03:07.it is about liver function, and how my liver may have been damaged by
:03:07. > :03:15.what I have been doing to it. They are taking bloods which they are
:03:15. > :03:21.going to test for various things. We have just taken some blood
:03:21. > :03:25.samples, we are going to send him down to the lab for analysis.
:03:25. > :03:30.will be coming back here in a month for another set of tests. Will not
:03:30. > :03:33.drinking affect my health in any way? Before I start this experiment,
:03:34. > :03:37.I want to know how much I'm drinking. I have come to the
:03:37. > :03:41.alcohol advisory service, APAS, to find out. I list my drinking habits,
:03:41. > :03:48.a couple of cans of export strength lager each week, at the weekend a
:03:48. > :03:52.few bottles of lager and some gin and tonics. Most of the people I
:03:52. > :03:55.see are much further down the line than you, but when we start teasing
:03:55. > :04:01.it out, and looking back at their history, often, at some point in
:04:01. > :04:08.their lives they have been drinking in the way that you are now. It's
:04:08. > :04:11.not long before I discover that I'm drinking 41 units per week. I
:04:11. > :04:15.wonder how many other people actually realise how much they are
:04:15. > :04:18.drinking? The government's recommended limit for men is 21
:04:18. > :04:25.units per week, that's eight pints of export strength lager, or two
:04:25. > :04:35.bottles of wine. For women, its 14, that's five and a half pints of
:04:35. > :04:39.export strength lager, or one and a There's one more day before I give
:04:39. > :04:43.up, but I'm not the only one. Across the country, reporters for
:04:43. > :04:48.all 11 Inside Out programmes are doing the same. Time for one last
:04:48. > :04:58.pint, and the inevitable competitive banter. I've heard that
:04:58. > :04:58.
:04:59. > :05:06.when you don't drink you're like wallpaper. Hi yeah, come and sit
:05:06. > :05:10.down. I'm scared already, looking at that. So, Ed, what I'm going to
:05:10. > :05:16.show you his what you are going to look like in 10 years' time if you
:05:16. > :05:20.carry on drinking. Are you ready? Not necessarily, but let's have a
:05:20. > :05:30.look. Seriously, looking at that, I'm absolutely mortified. The night
:05:30. > :05:35.goes on, and I drink way too much. This is day one of not drinking. To
:05:35. > :05:40.be honest, my feelings at the moment, long may it continue. Why
:05:40. > :05:43.do I do it to myself, why do I drink so much? The sad thing is,
:05:43. > :05:48.I'm not alone, we are a nation of boozers, and that's taking its toll
:05:48. > :05:54.on the NHS. I've come to the QMC to meet Dr Steve Ryder to find out how
:05:54. > :06:00.bad things have got. He's a liver expert. So what kind of cases do
:06:00. > :06:05.you see? Half the people on this ward are here because of liver
:06:05. > :06:09.failure. Alcohol has caused many of the things. Dr Ryder has been at
:06:10. > :06:12.this unit for nearly 20 years. have probably seen about a
:06:12. > :06:16.threefold increase of people dying of liver disease in Nottingham in
:06:16. > :06:20.that time. It's not people in their eighties, the average age is people
:06:20. > :06:27.in the fifties. If we see that drinking continue, it will be
:06:27. > :06:34.people in their forties. It is a huge waste of life. Nationally,
:06:34. > :06:37.that costs the NHS �2.7 billion a year. It's not just our health.
:06:37. > :06:45.Police say it is the cause of most violent crime, including murder, in
:06:45. > :06:48.the Midlands. You think that would be enough to keep me focused on not
:06:48. > :06:53.drinking. Within days of not drinking, I'm feeling the pull of
:06:53. > :06:57.the booze again. I really want to drink now. This is exactly what
:06:57. > :07:02.happens, I've got this kind of deep feeling that I want to go out, and
:07:02. > :07:07.I want to have a good time. Thanks to some support from Fiona, my urge
:07:07. > :07:14.for a drink does subside. I managed to get there for another week, and
:07:14. > :07:17.the good news is that I feel healthier and more focused. I want
:07:17. > :07:22.to share what I'm learning with listeners on BBC Nottingham's mid-
:07:22. > :07:25.morning radio programme. I came into this thinking that I would
:07:25. > :07:30.give up drinking for a month, and I would feel fantastic, but what it
:07:30. > :07:33.has made me evaluate is what I was using drinking for. When we are at
:07:33. > :07:36.home nobody is watching you drinking, when you go to the
:07:36. > :07:44.supermarket and you buy a really cheap alcohol, you can wallop
:07:44. > :07:49.through that, the supermarkets are not be the turn around adn stop you.
:07:49. > :07:53.With so much booze available, no wonder it causes problems. The
:07:53. > :08:00.biggest group to suffer are women. Two per cent of female deaths are
:08:00. > :08:06.caused by alcohol. That's one in 50. That could have been Jenny, she
:08:06. > :08:11.used to drink at home. My life was normal, I was one of the girls, and
:08:11. > :08:14.it was fine to drink. In her Thirties things began to change,
:08:14. > :08:18.the stress of raising children, and running her hairdressing business
:08:18. > :08:21.began to take its toll. I could not concentrate on anything, apart from
:08:21. > :08:25.wandering where I could hide empty bottles, or the box of wine. I knew
:08:25. > :08:35.that if I did not stop, and the doctor told me that I could be dead
:08:35. > :08:40.in six months. With the help of APAS, Jenny has not touched a drop
:08:40. > :08:44.of alcohol for four years now. It's been three weeks of not drinking,
:08:44. > :08:49.and when my first big test is coming up. I'm going home for
:08:49. > :08:58.Christmas, will I get through it without a drink? At least I can be
:08:58. > :09:06.sure my mum will support me, or not. Thanks for your support. Are you
:09:06. > :09:10.sure I can't have one? That so good. To your health. This non-drinking
:09:10. > :09:15.is starting to grate on me now. I feel the social pressure to have a
:09:15. > :09:21.drink. I'm feeling like a real outcast. My mum and my brother have
:09:21. > :09:25.gone next door to have some Boxing Day drinks. It would not usually
:09:25. > :09:35.bother me, that I don't fancy going, but I don't know it is because of I
:09:35. > :09:35.
:09:35. > :09:39.don't want to stand there and have to explain why are not drinking.
:09:39. > :09:47.It's been a month since my last drink, I survived Christmas. How's
:09:47. > :09:54.my body coped with non drinking? Your pulse has gone down from 81 to
:09:54. > :09:59.56. Your weight has gone up are about three kilograms. That'll be
:09:59. > :10:04.all the mince pies I ate. My liver has not changed, it is too early to
:10:05. > :10:09.see a difference. I've only got four hours to go outside and have
:10:09. > :10:14.my first drink. There's a lot of pressure. I can feel it. Should not
:10:14. > :10:24.have a drink, should I have a drink? I am going to have a drink,
:10:24. > :10:25.
:10:26. > :10:35.I can't wait. I did it! A month of no booze. My first drink, it could
:10:36. > :10:40.
:10:41. > :10:45.I've learned a lot about my relationship to alcohol, and also
:10:45. > :10:49.how unhealthy it was. It's been very difficult to give it up, but a
:10:49. > :10:54.real eye-opener for me. I met people who have had their lives
:10:54. > :10:57.damaged by alcohol, and see how much it is costing society. I know
:10:57. > :11:07.I need to reassess my relationship with alcohol, so we've agreed to
:11:07. > :11:28.
:11:29. > :11:32.see each other less. Gang called the action mind on the
:11:32. > :11:35.number. Now, Columba Park is one of many
:11:35. > :11:38.lovely locations in the region where you can tie the knot, and
:11:38. > :11:41.lots of happy couples have said their vows right here in the glass
:11:41. > :11:45.house. There have been some pretty big Asian weddings in the grounds,
:11:45. > :11:48.too. We have been examining a multi-million-pound industry which
:11:48. > :11:58.has been bucking the trend in recent times, and plays a big part
:11:58. > :11:59.
:11:59. > :12:04.Once upon a time the extravagance of an Asian wedding could be
:12:04. > :12:14.measured by the flamboyance of the flowers, how things have changed.
:12:14. > :12:14.
:12:14. > :12:17.From lavish venues, guest lists in the high hundreds. The cost of an
:12:17. > :12:23.Asian wedding is thought to be 40 grand, that's twice the amount of
:12:23. > :12:25.the traditional English wedding. So with the glamour of Bollywood,
:12:25. > :12:35.British celebrity culture, and increased spending power, welcome
:12:35. > :12:38.
:12:38. > :12:42.to the world of the Asian weddings, Two years of planning, and lots of
:12:42. > :12:48.it, it is just endless, endless planning. You kind of get pressured
:12:48. > :12:53.into it, don't you? We actually wanted something really simple.
:12:53. > :12:57.How's it turned out? Quite extravagant. Each bride wants to
:12:57. > :13:00.look better than the last bride. Sometimes the hair goes bigger and
:13:00. > :13:06.bigger. Sometimes the skirt trail goes bigger and bigger. Yes,
:13:06. > :13:09.there's so much competition. Inside Out has been invited to two
:13:09. > :13:16.weddings, but to begin I'm visiting the Midlands, and one of the
:13:16. > :13:19.biggest Asian wedding shows in the region, in Leicester. So Rani,
:13:19. > :13:26.you're big day's in March, what the process been like, the
:13:26. > :13:29.preparations? Is been non-stop. It's getting better now. We've got
:13:29. > :13:39.to the end where everything's booked up, but has been pretty
:13:39. > :13:42.manic. The spending is huge, what is it about Asian weddings that is
:13:42. > :13:46.different to a Western wedding? things you're looking for as a
:13:46. > :13:51.bride? Everything you look for is completely bling. I'm not someone
:13:51. > :13:54.who's become a Bridezilla, as of yet! There's a few things I wanted
:13:54. > :13:57.to do, and I have kept to that. It's about keeping everyone happy,
:13:57. > :14:01.but keeping yourself happy at the same time. What you think about the
:14:01. > :14:04.amount of money that spent on Asian weddings? I think it's terrible, it
:14:04. > :14:07.really is. It's not going to an intimate wedding, it's going to
:14:07. > :14:11.cater for everyone else. I think with Asian weddings, it's
:14:11. > :14:14.traditional, isn't it? It's trying to please the grandparents, and
:14:14. > :14:18.everyone else, they've got expectations of what it should be
:14:18. > :14:23.like. You've gotta do what the family wants, really. Not the
:14:23. > :14:26.reaction that I was expecting. The expectations are very high. For
:14:26. > :14:31.those who have never been to an Asian wedding, they can be massive
:14:31. > :14:35.events, lasting up to five days, up to 1000 guests. The average budget
:14:35. > :14:38.is thought to be 40,000, but some can go up to the cost of a family
:14:38. > :14:45.home. Seema and Mikesh from Leicester have been saving very
:14:45. > :14:51.hard, and today is their big day. It's a feeling of mixed emotions,
:14:51. > :14:55.happiness, excitement, nervous, anxious, I can't wait to see him.
:14:55. > :14:57.Then on the other side, I'm going to leave my family, I'm going to
:14:57. > :15:05.miss my family tremendously, especially my sisters and my
:15:05. > :15:10.parents. I'm only down the road, so I won't be too far. It's going to
:15:11. > :15:16.be a big day? Yes, massive, massive day. Excited and nervous at the
:15:16. > :15:21.same time. A bit emotional. Just can't wait to see her, really, to
:15:21. > :15:26.be honest. With guests flying in from all over the world, Seema and
:15:26. > :15:28.Mikesh are getting married in front of 800 friends and family. Hindu
:15:28. > :15:34.wedding ceremonies take place under a mundap, a spectacular purpose-
:15:34. > :15:41.built structure putting the bride and groom at centre-stage. Married
:15:41. > :15:47.now, I've got my husband, and vice versa. The whole day went perfectly
:15:47. > :15:53.for me, in terms of my planning. On his side was a bit different.
:15:53. > :15:59.me, I was running late. I got on to the horse, and realised that the
:15:59. > :16:05.dol player hadn't arrived. They got the dates mixed up. That made me
:16:05. > :16:12.panic a bit. And also because I hadn't be on a horse in my life. I
:16:12. > :16:17.was panicking a bit. And now you're looking for to the honeymoon?
:16:17. > :16:22.I can't wait. I don't know where we going. Blackpool. Blackpool it is
:16:22. > :16:25.then. With a wedding as big as there's, maybe the honeymoon is a
:16:25. > :16:28.compromise. So, with multiple outfits, catering for hundreds of
:16:28. > :16:35.guests, and gold jewellery a must, back at Leicester's wedding fair,
:16:35. > :16:38.the issue of budget is on everyone's lips. So, with the
:16:38. > :16:47.traditional English wedding there is just the one dress, the Asian
:16:47. > :16:53.wedding is a whole new ball-game. Absolutely. With an Asian wedding,
:16:53. > :17:03.the minimum is four bridal outfits. It's so beautiful and ornate, but
:17:03. > :17:05.that must come at a cost? They can be up to �6,000. There are four
:17:05. > :17:15.dresses, �6,000. Possibly you're not going to wear those dresses
:17:15. > :17:18.again in your life. It is heavy bridal wear, only for one-time use.
:17:18. > :17:23.I think in terms of people getting into debt, there is a possibility
:17:23. > :17:26.people are. They are not holding back. People are taking a little
:17:26. > :17:32.bit longer in terms of getting married, between engagement and
:17:32. > :17:36.weddings. That is not normally the way of Asian weddings. I have been
:17:36. > :17:44.seen couples taking a little bit longer, they are saving up. In
:17:44. > :17:48.terms of getting into debt, they may be. It is a shame. One thing
:17:48. > :17:52.that seems to be a must have is a wedding film. Jatinder Vaid from
:17:52. > :17:55.Derby is beginning to break in to this lucrative market. He has given
:17:56. > :18:00.up his day job as an IT analyst, he produces Bollywood style wedding
:18:00. > :18:10.films. Just like the films on the silver screen, his productions are
:18:10. > :18:14.
:18:14. > :18:19.People have had a three or four-day wedding film. They expect a certain
:18:19. > :18:27.amount of length, and end product. We have been there for three day
:18:27. > :18:31.filming. They don't want to see a 30 minute DVD. They want to know
:18:31. > :18:34.what happened to everything. A typical wedding film, you are
:18:34. > :18:40.looking at somewhere between three and four hours. Jatinder's filming
:18:40. > :18:43.takes him all over the world. However, many weddings are hear in
:18:44. > :18:48.the East Midlands. Jaz and Jay have gone for a Brit-Asian theme for
:18:48. > :18:52.their Sikh wedding. It is bagpipes and bhangra at a grand stately home
:18:52. > :19:00.in Northamptonshire. Theirs is undisclosed budget, described as
:19:00. > :19:08.pretty big. Two years of planning, and lots of it. Just endless,
:19:08. > :19:18.endless, endless planning. I can't remember any of it, I'm forgetting
:19:18. > :19:22.There isn't such a thing as a budget in an Indian wedding. They
:19:22. > :19:25.just get insaner and insaner. The families extend and extend. Every
:19:25. > :19:35.generation has different ideas of what they want, so it's huge, it's
:19:35. > :19:36.
:19:36. > :19:40.a big deal. For me, it was my dream wedding. It was a what I envisaged.
:19:40. > :19:44.You go to so many Indian weddings that you don't want to go to
:19:44. > :19:49.something again, that's like your own. I think we put the pressure,
:19:49. > :19:52.and expectations on ourselves to make it a big day. That's what it's
:19:52. > :19:58.all about, great memories for the bride and groom, and there are
:19:58. > :20:01.hundreds of guests. In a culture when the wedding season runs
:20:01. > :20:07.throughout the spring and summer and invites arrive weekly, your
:20:08. > :20:10.wedding needs to stand out and be something very special, indeed.
:20:10. > :20:13.lovely thing about Indian families is that when they got children,
:20:14. > :20:18.they make it their first and foremost to save and put aside what
:20:18. > :20:28.they know is going to happen. It is something that they dream about,
:20:28. > :20:32.Finally tonight,the story of a special friendship in extraordinary
:20:32. > :20:36.circumstances. When paratrooper, Conrad Lewis,
:20:36. > :20:39.were stationed in Afghanistan, he befriended a wild dog. He named her
:20:39. > :20:43.Pegasus after the regimental emblem and had always hoped to bring her
:20:43. > :20:46.back home with him to the Midlands. But tragically, Conrad was killed,
:20:46. > :20:56.but his family has been working really hard to make sure their
:20:56. > :21:00.
:21:00. > :21:05.This is the story of a young man's quest to make a difference. A
:21:06. > :21:09.friendship with a feral dog in a foreign land. And a family's fight
:21:09. > :21:19.to make sense of a terrible loss, with the help of a mongrel called
:21:19. > :21:19.
:21:19. > :21:27.For Sandy Lewis, it all began on a winter's day with the ominous sight
:21:27. > :21:30.of a man in a suit waiting on the doorstep of her home in Claverdon.
:21:30. > :21:40.Apparently, he had been there most of the day waiting for us to come
:21:40. > :21:41.
:21:41. > :21:50.home. He just came out with it. He said, "I think you need to sit down.
:21:50. > :21:55.I've got something to tell you." Conrad was just 22 when he was
:21:55. > :22:02.killed while fighting in Afghanistan. He'd always been an
:22:02. > :22:06.adventurous boy and loved the army. Conrad was a very active lad. He
:22:06. > :22:09.was always in the thick of everything. When he went, we were
:22:09. > :22:13.obviously nervous and very fearful and even more so because we knew
:22:13. > :22:17.he'd give it everything he's got, which he did. And of course, it
:22:17. > :22:19.cost him everything in the end. make life bearable in Afghanistan,
:22:19. > :22:26.Conrad befriended a dog called Pegasus, named after the Parachute
:22:26. > :22:29.regiment's flying horse emblem, tattooed in biro on her side. Was
:22:29. > :22:36.it quite unusual for guys out there to form a relationship with the
:22:36. > :22:39.dogs? I don't think it is unusual. I think they find it a little piece
:22:39. > :22:42.of home, that little bit of comfort when you're that far away and maybe
:22:42. > :22:47.a bit of reality and compassion when actually you're fighting most
:22:47. > :22:52.days. There was a bond and he brought pictures of her home at
:22:52. > :22:55.Christmas when he came back on leave. He talked us through those
:22:55. > :22:58.pictures of the dog at length. Conrad had talked many times about
:22:58. > :23:04.bringing Peg back home to England and now the family set out to
:23:04. > :23:10.fulfil his wish. They discovered a charity called Nowzad, named after
:23:10. > :23:16.a small town in Afghanistan. And with their help, the hunt for Peg
:23:16. > :23:20.began. She'd disappeared after Conrad's death. Again, those dogs
:23:20. > :23:23.out of Afghanistan and across the country can be quite difficult.
:23:23. > :23:26.Sometimes, quite easy, sometimes a short journey in a car, other times
:23:26. > :23:32.it might be a series of journeys, we have to arrange different
:23:32. > :23:35.transport if the dog is down in Helmand. They might be in the
:23:35. > :23:38.provincial capital, Lashkar Gah. Then to Kandahar and actually
:23:38. > :23:40.coming up to us in northern Afghanistan. From his cramped
:23:40. > :23:44.cottage, which he shares with three other war zone dogs, Pen
:23:44. > :23:47.masterminds homecomings of dogs and cats. It can be fraught, dangerous
:23:47. > :23:56.and complicated because officially the soldiers are forbidden to keep
:23:56. > :24:00.In Afghanistan, it is a matter of who you know and what you can do
:24:00. > :24:08.and sometimes you can bribe to get the dogs from one location to
:24:08. > :24:10.another. The rescue of Peg which involved a Humvee, the Afghan army
:24:10. > :24:20.and furtive tactics was co- ordinated from the Nowzad base in
:24:20. > :24:24.
:24:24. > :24:28.Kabul by shelter manager Louise I phoned the soldiers that had
:24:28. > :24:31.helped us. I said, we'd got her, she's fine, she's healthy. It was
:24:31. > :24:34.like the weight of the world had come off my shoulders. This is
:24:34. > :24:37.actually wear Pegasus was being kept and looked after for the month
:24:37. > :24:40.while she was vaccinated against rabies, distemper, before we sorted
:24:40. > :24:43.out the paperwork to get her back to the United Kingdom. Peg, the dog
:24:43. > :24:49.that survived bombs, bullets and a 3,500 mile journey to the UK
:24:49. > :24:54.eventually arrived at quarantine kennels near Nuneaton. When she
:24:54. > :24:59.first came in, she was quite shell- shocked. It's a long journey from
:24:59. > :25:02.Afghanistan. She was very thin and sad. But within a matter of weeks,
:25:02. > :25:07.she's really come on leaps and bounds and we're really pleased
:25:07. > :25:12.with her. Peg's six-month wait in quarantine is nearly over and for
:25:12. > :25:22.the family, that day can't come soon enough. Can I have your paw?
:25:22. > :25:25.
:25:25. > :25:28.The family visit two or three times a week, always very special times.
:25:28. > :25:32.She was obviously the only one that knows the true tale of what
:25:32. > :25:35.happened out there with Conrad. She meant so much to him and it's so
:25:35. > :25:40.nice to be able to look after something that he can't look after
:25:40. > :25:43.any more. The wait for Peg's return weighs heavily on all the family.
:25:43. > :25:50.Tony Lewis walks Fergie, the family's laid back and very relaxed
:25:51. > :25:54.bulldog to the memorial bench and tree established to honour Conrad.
:25:54. > :25:58.I think she's our link to Conrad's time in Afghanistan. She is the
:25:58. > :26:00.deliveryof a promise to him, to at least bring her back and she's
:26:00. > :26:05.something that we can put our affection, that obviously we had
:26:05. > :26:09.for Conrad, back into her. Obviously we'll never forget Conrad
:26:09. > :26:14.and will never stop loving him. We miss him every day but she's a
:26:14. > :26:20.reminder. The story of Peg has led to a huge spike of interest in
:26:20. > :26:24.Nowzad. With many more dogs and cats being rescued and re-united,
:26:24. > :26:28.now the donations are flooding in. People are so generous. They send
:26:28. > :26:32.us lots of things. We've blankets going out to the shelter in
:26:32. > :26:35.Afghanistan. We've got a dog food that has been donated. One of the
:26:35. > :26:39.most important things is drugs for our small clinic that we have in
:26:39. > :26:43.Afghanistan. Back in Nuneaton, Peg has a very important visitor.
:26:43. > :26:49.Louise, who's on leave from the shelter in Kabul. This will be the
:26:49. > :26:54.first time she's seen Peg since the rescue in Afghanistan. She's
:26:54. > :27:04.absolutely fantastic. Every bit as loving as the day I first met her.
:27:04. > :27:05.
:27:05. > :27:07.Conrad was the 353rd soldier killed in Afghanistan and the family have
:27:07. > :27:17.launched a fund raising organisation called 353 to pay
:27:17. > :27:20.tribute to theirson and what he was The day has finally arrived when
:27:20. > :27:30.Peg can leave quarantine and move to her new home. There's a feeling
:27:30. > :27:34.
:27:34. > :27:44.of excitement, anticipation and an It's nice to finally be able to
:27:44. > :27:48.
:27:48. > :27:53.think Peg's home, she's safe and Now, there's just the half hour car
:27:53. > :27:56.journey home. No problems for a dog that's been hidden in a bag,
:27:56. > :28:06.smuggled in a taxi, ferried by helicopter and flown at 30,000 feet.
:28:06. > :28:09.
:28:09. > :28:13.Just one question, how will Peg and That didn't seem to go down well
:28:13. > :28:16.originally. Actually, that went pretty well. She wasn't showing any
:28:17. > :28:19.major signs of aggression. Both tail were wagging. And it wasn't
:28:20. > :28:29.long before they settled down. But getting along with the cat, called
:28:29. > :28:32.And our very best wishes to them all. That's it for this week.
:28:33. > :28:36.Thanks for watching, see you next Monday, bye-bye. Next week, what's
:28:36. > :28:40.the future when you're over 50 and unemployed? It's not pleasant, not