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:00:04. > :00:07.Mansfield to look at the dark side of the night-time economy.

:00:07. > :00:15.The town with a drastic drinking problem tries to shake off its

:00:15. > :00:20.reputation. He went to Mansfield for a Friday night out and never

:00:20. > :00:23.came home again. It wants something doing so it is safe.

:00:23. > :00:33.Also tonight, a mother's story of sorrow and safety after a house

:00:33. > :00:34.

:00:34. > :00:37.fire kills her four children. many children of mine are alive and

:00:37. > :00:47.he shook his head and I knew anyway. And the Nottinghamshire marathon

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:00:48. > :00:54.man getting set for the sprint of his life at London 2012. By Marie

:00:54. > :01:00.Ashby and this is Inside Out for the East Midlands. -- I Am Marie

:01:00. > :01:06.Britain's night-time economy employs hundreds of thousands of

:01:06. > :01:08.people and has a turnover of billions. But weekend binge-

:01:08. > :01:15.drinking also creates massive problems in some of our town

:01:15. > :01:18.centres. So just as clean beaches earn blue flags, a new purple flag

:01:18. > :01:21.scheme will highlight the towns which boast a better and 'safer'

:01:21. > :01:25.night out. So far, Nottingham is the only place in the East Midlands

:01:25. > :01:35.to have one. Stuart Woodman takes up the story of a town that's now

:01:35. > :01:38.

:01:38. > :01:41.For many, the weekend is about just one thing - a big night out. But

:01:41. > :01:50.how safe are our pubs, clubs, towns and cities every Friday and

:01:50. > :01:55.Saturday night? This story starts in a town which has had its

:01:55. > :02:01.problems. Serious street assaults, brawls and even a night club death

:02:01. > :02:04.at all ruined a reputation for night -- nightlife in Mansfield. A

:02:04. > :02:06.recent report highlighted this town has a drinking problem. The highest

:02:06. > :02:11.numbers of alcohol-related hospital admissions and the highest levels

:02:11. > :02:15.of alcohol linked crime in Nottinghamshire.

:02:15. > :02:25.So we're out with the boys - and girls - in blue, on one of the

:02:25. > :02:30.busiest nights of the year. And we're in for a rough ride. What has

:02:31. > :02:37.happened? I have told you once, I will not

:02:37. > :02:39.tell you again. The cut walk around Mansfield like this, you do know

:02:39. > :02:42.that? Before I spend an evening with the

:02:42. > :02:44.police I want to discover for myself this town's darkest hour.

:02:44. > :02:53.The mid-Noughties. A time when serious incidents were happening

:02:53. > :02:56.most weekends. Some involved door staff as well as customers. They

:02:56. > :03:02.went to Mansfield for a Friday night out and never came home again.

:03:02. > :03:07.That was it. You have just got to be careful. It wants something

:03:07. > :03:10.doing so it makes it safe for children, you know they can go out

:03:11. > :03:13.and be safe. And not have the heartbreak we had.

:03:13. > :03:23.Sandra from Langold in North Nottinghamshire lost her son Paul

:03:23. > :03:28.

:03:28. > :03:34.Stephens in a Mansfield club that's They said he had no brain activity

:03:34. > :03:38.and they had to turn the machine off. We had to make that decision

:03:38. > :03:41.to turn the machine off? Yes. died as he was being evicted from

:03:41. > :03:44.the club. His death on some stairs sparked a major police

:03:44. > :03:53.investigation with the arrest of two bouncers. But the evidence was

:03:53. > :03:58.inconclusive and no charges were ever brought. I got an open verdict

:03:58. > :04:03.and I'll have tried for three years to get justice for Paul and I just

:04:03. > :04:08.can't get enough evidence. People will not talk about it and somebody

:04:08. > :04:14.must have seen something that night. All we want his answers. Answers,

:04:14. > :04:17.that is all I do want. -- his answers. I have tried for three

:04:17. > :04:24.years and I am still asking questions and I am hoping that one

:04:24. > :04:27.day, I will get them. Whatever happened, it ended in

:04:27. > :04:31.tragedy and Paul isn't the only person to lose his life on a night

:04:31. > :04:35.out in Mansfield. Now the police and the authorities are fighting

:04:35. > :04:37.back to try to make the town safer. Every weekend officers are briefed

:04:37. > :04:47.about problem pubs and people, incident hotspots and likely

:04:47. > :04:49.

:04:49. > :04:52.locations where trouble may flare. And no one place is busy on a

:04:53. > :04:55.Saturday night so tonight will be busy. It's the Saturday before

:04:56. > :04:58.Christmas and it's expected to be one of the busiest and most

:04:59. > :05:07.boisterous nights of the year. I'm meeting the man in charge of

:05:07. > :05:10.policing tonight. It is 830 at night at Mansfield Town Centre is

:05:10. > :05:17.still not a particular pleasant place for families on a Saturday

:05:17. > :05:20.night, is it? No, because there is not much for family. Most of the

:05:20. > :05:25.premises argued that what we call vertical drinking which means that

:05:25. > :05:35.it is aimed more at the 18-30, 35 age group. It is very much geared

:05:35. > :05:36.

:05:36. > :05:46.as like a party venue. For us, this It doesn't take long for the party

:05:46. > :05:46.

:05:46. > :05:50.to start. He sometimes get quite a few fights. Bouncers have already

:05:50. > :05:57.kicked you and send you on. The first police incidents of the

:05:57. > :06:01.night range from cannabis smoking openly in the street. You cannot

:06:01. > :06:08.walk around Mansfield smoking cannabis, you don't know that?

:06:08. > :06:17.Forged ID and an underage drinker. Stop being smart because you have

:06:17. > :06:21.got into trouble. It has already not work. A fight between a couple

:06:21. > :06:26.of women and another unrelated scuffle in the club which spells

:06:26. > :06:29.out onto the street. If you don't listen to me, you will get a

:06:29. > :06:39.direction-to-leave and then you'll get arrested.

:06:39. > :06:41.

:06:41. > :06:45.What are you swearing at me for? Don't kick the van! She was being

:06:45. > :06:48.pretty abusive, why didn't to arrest her? We could have arrested

:06:48. > :06:58.her and taken her straight to the police station but we are looking

:06:58. > :06:58.

:06:58. > :07:03.at ways of dispersal. It is all like to keep arresting people but

:07:03. > :07:08.we might need the police cell later on. Will be back on the beat

:07:08. > :07:13.shortly. A direction-to-leave simply means simply sending someone

:07:13. > :07:20.home for the night to sleep it off. If they come back into the town,

:07:20. > :07:22.they will be re-arrested. This is one of a number of techniques to

:07:22. > :07:25.deal with problem drinkers more effectively. A more serious device

:07:25. > :07:28.is a drink banning order. After a number of violent drunken incidents,

:07:28. > :07:31.Luke Price was named and shamed when he received the town's first

:07:31. > :07:35.DBO. He was barred from every licensed premise in Mansfield for

:07:35. > :07:42.two years, except the one he lives in. Luke's agreed to meet me at his

:07:42. > :07:49.dad's pub. It was embarrassing for me and the family. It was big news.

:07:49. > :07:57.I live in a pub and I am banned from pubs so that is the worst

:07:57. > :08:02.thing about it. 122 of them? Yeah. And off-licences. Do you think

:08:02. > :08:06.these drink banning orders work? Yes, it is always in the back of

:08:06. > :08:12.your mind. You do not want to be out causing trouble and if you get

:08:12. > :08:16.caught, in my case in Mansfield, I get a �2,500 fine or even a prison

:08:16. > :08:20.sentence. I do not want to go back down there and cause trouble. I

:08:20. > :08:23.want to change, I have learned their lesson.

:08:23. > :08:30.Back in town, it's well after midnight and the police have their

:08:30. > :08:33.hands full. They are dealing with a possible assault on a bus. I need

:08:33. > :08:36.to get a statement from me about the assault.

:08:36. > :08:39.An incident involving a spilt kebab which has turned nasty.

:08:40. > :08:49.And it was while they were dealing with another squabble that our own

:08:50. > :08:51.

:08:51. > :08:56.cameraman took a random hit, and a There was a guy inside a pub who

:08:56. > :09:06.was boasters, pushing into people, he came outside. He has hit this

:09:06. > :09:11.

:09:11. > :09:14.other person -- was being We're out with the police until

:09:14. > :09:18.dawn. Over the last few years, the crime stats claim to show things

:09:18. > :09:21.have improved, but there's clearly some way to go. I want to find out

:09:21. > :09:24.for myself if this town really does deserve its damaging reputation. So

:09:24. > :09:30.I'm meeting a veteran of the Mansfield club scene and a licensee

:09:30. > :09:35.who's involved in improving night- time safety. You have been running

:09:35. > :09:38.this place for 10 years. How has things change? You have got far

:09:38. > :09:42.more police presence in town. Things have got better. More

:09:42. > :09:47.initiatives put into place. I have worked in the town for over 20

:09:47. > :09:50.years and I can say that the town is no way near as bad as people

:09:50. > :09:55.make out. You have got lots of good people doing good things to make

:09:55. > :09:58.this place better. It really offends me badly when people say

:09:58. > :10:01.that Mansfield has got a reputation because it is not true.

:10:01. > :10:07.Some of these new initiatives include 'street pastors' to calm

:10:08. > :10:10.and care for clubbers. We will be keeping an eye on her.

:10:10. > :10:13.Pubs and clubs going glass-free after midnight to reduce incidents

:10:13. > :10:16.and injuries from broken glass and the removal of slot machine punch

:10:16. > :10:24.bags which the police say added fuel to the flames on Saturday

:10:24. > :10:34.Before we end the night, I'm meeting Councillor Mick Barton who

:10:34. > :10:35.

:10:35. > :10:39.fought hard to close one chaotic This place has a sad history, Paul

:10:39. > :10:43.Stevens lost his life and then it opened again as a different name

:10:43. > :10:48.club. The problems continued. What sort of things were going on?

:10:48. > :10:53.was brought to our attention by the police that there were violent

:10:53. > :10:57.behaviour, assaults, drugs. All sorts of problems. As a licensing

:10:57. > :11:02.authority, they wanted to take action. To withdraw the licence.

:11:02. > :11:05.Does this send a message, do you think was Mike yes, we will not

:11:05. > :11:10.tolerate any misdoings with people's licences. It is safer than

:11:10. > :11:17.it has ever been here. There was a year-on-year reduction regarding

:11:17. > :11:22.the town centre and regarding drugs and alcohol. It is sending out a

:11:22. > :11:24.good message. You can only get this place open if you are running a

:11:24. > :11:26.place like this. Despite the crackdowns, initiatives

:11:26. > :11:36.and goodwill, handling the weekend binge-drinking remains a challenge

:11:36. > :11:39.

:11:39. > :11:42.in Mansfield. You are going to go or get arrested, do you hear me?

:11:42. > :11:48.we enter the early hours, the police are left mopping up the mess.

:11:48. > :11:51.The drunk and disruptive refuse to go home quietly. Stay in the back

:11:51. > :12:01.of the van, because I am getting bored. And the most violent

:12:01. > :12:03.

:12:03. > :12:10.incident of the night happens when You were in shock? I am, really, I

:12:11. > :12:14.So that's Christmas Saturday night in Mansfield. Five arrests and

:12:14. > :12:17.three directions-to-leave. All for alcohol-related behaviour. With no

:12:17. > :12:23.CCTV and no witnesses willing to make a statement, the bus assault

:12:23. > :12:28.claimant drops her charges. The man who randomly hit our cameraman and

:12:28. > :12:31.then ran was caught and cautioned for common assault. And most

:12:31. > :12:34.serious assault of the night led to three men being arrested and bailed

:12:34. > :12:40.pending further investigation. But this town is serious about

:12:40. > :12:42.fighting for its purple flag. An indication of a more family-

:12:42. > :12:45.friendly night out, and somewhere which discourages binge-drinking.

:12:45. > :12:48.The good news, police incidents have halved from the same Christmas

:12:48. > :12:50.Saturday last year, and the man in charge, he's optimistic young

:12:50. > :12:59.drinkers shouldn't be the only people making the most of

:12:59. > :13:05.Mansfield's nightlife. The future for Mansfield is very positive, to

:13:05. > :13:08.be fair. I think it will have its challenges but, with all the

:13:08. > :13:14.agencies and partners working with the police and the council, before

:13:14. > :13:24.too long, people and families will be able to come out into Mansfield.

:13:24. > :13:25.

:13:25. > :13:29.It is exactly a year since four children were killed in a house

:13:29. > :13:32.fire in Derbyshire. Somehow their mother survived and is now having

:13:32. > :13:35.to cope without them. There were smoke alarms in the house, but they

:13:35. > :13:37.weren't working. Derbyshire Fire Service wants people to have them

:13:37. > :13:40.installed and checked. And as Kylie Pentelow's been finding out,

:13:40. > :13:50.they're now pushing for a more extreme safety measure - sprinklers

:13:50. > :14:08.

:14:08. > :14:16.Tommy was liner, Alicia, six, Appolonia, two, and Rocca was four.

:14:17. > :14:21.If they all died in a house fire. Their mother survived.

:14:21. > :14:27.The doctor said how many children at? He just shook his head, and I

:14:27. > :14:31.knew anyway. Could this tragedy have been

:14:31. > :14:35.avoided? You could stop almost all fire

:14:35. > :14:40.deaths. Instead of killing 400 people a year, we could be down to

:14:40. > :14:45.zero. You just need to decide how to do it. The we will be finding

:14:45. > :14:54.out what it is like when your home fills with smoke, at a Derbyshire's

:14:54. > :14:58.chief is fighting to save lives. -- and how Derbyshire's chiefs.

:14:58. > :15:08.We can no longer have tragedies happening when there are solutions

:15:08. > :15:14.

:15:14. > :15:20.It was a cold January evening. Four children went home, their mother,

:15:20. > :15:25.Rachel, lit a fire, then the family went to bed.

:15:26. > :15:32.The next thing, the house was full of thick, black smoke. I heard

:15:32. > :15:37.Tommy say, mummy, the house is full of something, and that is when I

:15:37. > :15:44.woke up, because he actually would be. I tried to get the window open,

:15:45. > :15:49.but the smoke was just too thick. I got hold of Tommy and was trying to

:15:49. > :15:53.work out what was going on. I managed to get the window open. I

:15:53. > :15:59.was stood behind Tommy and I picked him up like this, and was trying to

:15:59. > :16:06.push him out the window, but his arms were going like that and he

:16:06. > :16:10.was frightened to go through the window. I was really confused and

:16:10. > :16:14.didn't have enough about me to tell him he had to go out or he would

:16:14. > :16:18.die. Rachel said at the inquest that the

:16:18. > :16:26.next thing she was flying through the air. I do not believe I jumped,

:16:26. > :16:32.she said, maybe I felt. The doctor said how many children

:16:32. > :16:38.were alive? He just shook his head, and I knew anyway.

:16:38. > :16:46.Her hair was burnt off, she had got bruises everywhere. A horrible

:16:46. > :16:51.scratch down one side. It was where Tommy was holding on to her. And

:16:51. > :16:55.she smelled of smoke. That is all you could smell. The it was a

:16:55. > :16:59.horrible thing. Every time you get that smell, that is all I think

:16:59. > :17:04.about. For the blaze was caused by a spark

:17:04. > :17:08.from an open fire. There was no fire guard. There was smoke alarms

:17:08. > :17:12.in the house, but they were not working. Two had not been fitted

:17:12. > :17:19.and the other one had no batteries in it. The fire service said if

:17:19. > :17:23.they were working, the family could have survived.

:17:23. > :17:28.It is one of the worst fires we have had to attend for many years,

:17:28. > :17:33.especially in terms of loss of life. But the general theme throughout

:17:33. > :17:38.fires is the need to have working smoke detectors on every floor.

:17:38. > :17:44.Over the past 18 months, 18 people have died in house fires in

:17:44. > :17:47.Derbyshire. That is the third worst record in the country.

:17:47. > :17:52.Does everybody agree that the smoke alarm is the most important thing

:17:52. > :17:56.in the table? They are trying everything they can

:17:56. > :18:00.to reduce that number, training them young.

:18:00. > :18:09.Wherever you live, you should always have a smoke alarm.

:18:09. > :18:15.Some people get free smoke alarms. I am just going to tested!

:18:15. > :18:20.But now a new, ambitious campaign. The Derbyshire Fire Service wanted

:18:20. > :18:24.to be mandatory for sprinklers to be fitted in every new home. In a

:18:24. > :18:32.dramatic demonstration, they are setting fire to two children's

:18:32. > :18:36.bedrooms. This room has no safety measures. This one has sprinklers.

:18:36. > :18:40.By fitting sprinklers into the home, it is like having a firefighter in

:18:40. > :18:45.every room in your house. Immediately available to respond

:18:45. > :18:50.should there be a fire. The fire start. Then after just a

:18:50. > :18:56.few minutes, the sprinklers activate. In the other room, it is

:18:56. > :19:00.a different story. We are about 12 minutes in a. The

:19:00. > :19:05.fire service has gone in, but there is no chance of survival if a child

:19:05. > :19:09.was inside that room. After the fire, the devastation is

:19:09. > :19:14.clear. But in the room with the sprinklers, there is hardly any

:19:14. > :19:18.difference. The campaign has the backing of former Crimewatch

:19:19. > :19:24.presenter Nick Ross. What a Derbyshire is doing is

:19:24. > :19:28.fantastic. They need to get influence in Whitehall. They do not

:19:28. > :19:34.see a political issue, because deaths have been coming down bit by

:19:34. > :19:41.bit. So they think it is a price worth paying. Derbyshire say it is

:19:41. > :19:45.not. Each one of those is a tragedy. Also watching his Caroline, who was

:19:45. > :19:50.seriously injured in a fire when she was a child.

:19:50. > :19:56.Her sister died. How did it feel watching those fires?

:19:56. > :20:01.It brought it all back, the smell, the sound. It just shows how quick

:20:01. > :20:08.and easy and fast it can happen. One minute everything is normal,

:20:08. > :20:12.the next minute, your house is full of smoke and is on fire. The flames

:20:12. > :20:16.can take over so quickly. What would you say to people who

:20:16. > :20:21.have the power to put sprinklers in new homes?

:20:21. > :20:26.Do it. It will cost some money, but what is more important, money or a

:20:26. > :20:30.human life? It was the deaths of Rachel's four

:20:30. > :20:35.children at that prompted the fire chief into action.

:20:35. > :20:38.As soon as that fire happened, had what a tragedy it was, I took a pen

:20:38. > :20:42.to paper and wrote to the fire minister and said that we can no

:20:42. > :20:46.longer have tragedies like this happening when there is a solution

:20:46. > :20:50.available to prevent it. Smoke detection is required to give it

:20:50. > :20:53.that early-warning, but if you are going to do the job and do it

:20:53. > :20:59.properly, we should have sprinklers installed, because a sprinkler will

:20:59. > :21:02.not only allowed an individual but there is a problem, it actually

:21:02. > :21:07.extinguishes the fire, there for the person has a longer time to

:21:07. > :21:12.escape, and when my fire fighters turn up, they are not putting

:21:12. > :21:16.themselves at so much risk to say somebody else's life.

:21:16. > :21:20.But until there is a change, fire fighters need to be ready for the

:21:20. > :21:30.big blazes. This is where they trained, and I am going inside to

:21:30. > :21:33.

:21:33. > :21:41.see what it is like when your home These might is becoming quite a

:21:41. > :21:47.thick. -- the smoke is becoming quite a thick.

:21:47. > :21:50.We have been in here probably about two minutes. I can see the camera

:21:50. > :21:58.in front of me because of the light, but I cannot see the lens or

:21:58. > :22:02.anything. You really need a plan. If you were Cup in this situation,

:22:02. > :22:10.even if it is your own home, you would not have a clear which way to

:22:10. > :22:15.turn or which way to get out of bed, let alone find a way out a fire. --

:22:15. > :22:21.woke up. Every day is very difficult. I

:22:21. > :22:27.cannot say otherwise, because it is. But it is getting better, at the

:22:27. > :22:31.morning's do not feel quite as harsh now. -- and the mornings.

:22:31. > :22:35.These pictures were taken on Rachel's mobile phone. A

:22:35. > :22:43.firefighter managed to save it from the house. Pictures of their

:22:43. > :22:51.smiling faces, all Rego has left of her four children.

:22:51. > :22:56.When I woke up in the morning, Rocco, he was always on my legs.

:22:56. > :23:02.Alicia, I would always do the girly things with her. I miss Tommy's

:23:02. > :23:05.support. 2012 is, of course, Olympic year.

:23:05. > :23:08.And the Paralympics has been setting personal bests in

:23:08. > :23:12.successive games in terms of profile, especially on these shores.

:23:12. > :23:16.It's why the London Paralympics will be the biggest ever. Richard

:23:16. > :23:26.Whitehead wants to be part of it so much he's switched from marathon

:23:26. > :23:31.

:23:31. > :23:34.running to sprinting. Ross Fletcher's been to see him prepare.

:23:34. > :23:38.He is a world champion and world- record holder. An elite athlete

:23:38. > :23:45.with a training routine to match. And he is the face of TV ad

:23:45. > :23:52.campaigns. Richard Whitehead is Britain's Blade Runner.

:23:52. > :23:55.There's one from the swimming gala. Mum and dad's albums say it all.

:23:55. > :23:58.And that's where he swam his first mile.

:23:58. > :24:01.Right from the start, sport has been a driving force in Richard

:24:01. > :24:06.Whitehead's life. The lad from Lowdham was born without legs and

:24:06. > :24:11.spent a year of his childhood using wooden prosthetics. But despite the

:24:11. > :24:15.obvious challenges, he was always pushing the boundaries. The power

:24:15. > :24:17.of sport pushed a lot of boundaries in the late '70s, early '80s when

:24:17. > :24:20.there wasn't an inclusion spectrum at all.

:24:20. > :24:25.And that really helped me get by and understand what life is all

:24:25. > :24:32.about. I was not given a silver spoon. I was not given everything

:24:32. > :24:35.on a plate. I have had to earn the respect I have now.

:24:35. > :24:41.It was hard at the beginning. But his approach to everything was "I

:24:41. > :24:43.can do it." There were times when I was struggling in certain areas,

:24:43. > :24:47.maybe mobility-wise because of the prosthetics, they're the memories

:24:47. > :24:54.that you bank and put in those boxes, you store for the times that

:24:54. > :25:02.are tough now. It has made me the tough person,

:25:02. > :25:06.the motivated person that I am. Now his daily routine is that of a

:25:06. > :25:10.prospective Paralympic champion. Richard is the current world record

:25:10. > :25:18.holder in the 200 metres in his disability class. But it was

:25:18. > :25:22.marathon running that really got him started. He only took it up in

:25:22. > :25:32.2004. But since he has completed 25 races, running up African mountains

:25:32. > :25:35.and setting a series of landmarks for disabled athletes.

:25:35. > :25:39.My 2004 race was the hardest thing I have ever done in sport. At 26.2

:25:39. > :25:47.miles, it is a long way for an able-bodied person to run, never

:25:47. > :25:50.mind a double leg amputee that has never run a mile before in a race.

:25:50. > :25:52.Richard uses his experience to motivate others, with his talks

:25:52. > :26:01.taking him from schools to big business, and an association with

:26:01. > :26:05.the American army charity Wounded Warriors.

:26:05. > :26:09.Even when he goes to America to talk to the soldiers that have lost

:26:09. > :26:14.arms and legs, not a lot of people could do that. There's got to be

:26:14. > :26:21.that connection with him. Children just follow him like the Pied Piper.

:26:21. > :26:24.Absolutely. "I want to be like Richard." But now his main focus is

:26:24. > :26:29.the Paralympics. Lottery funding allows him access to first-rate

:26:29. > :26:34.facilities. But in just his second season on the track, there is

:26:34. > :26:39.plenty of adjusting to do. The ones with soles are for the

:26:39. > :26:43.road, and these have the base for the track work I do. It is

:26:43. > :26:53.important that I get my running technique right with those. There

:26:53. > :26:57.

:26:57. > :27:01.is less contact with the ground You're on a 1.20 now.

:27:01. > :27:05.This is tough. As an athlete that's used to running 90 miles a week, I

:27:05. > :27:09.am not used to this kind of speed work and the effects it has on my

:27:09. > :27:12.body. The challenge is now to put this

:27:12. > :27:15.world record so far out of everybody's touch that ideally we

:27:15. > :27:19.just want to be waiting at Heathrow for the opposition to land next

:27:19. > :27:29.year, hand them a box of Kleenex, say, "You may as well cry now,

:27:29. > :27:40.

:27:40. > :27:45.because there's not much point in I have to train hard today, so I

:27:45. > :27:47.have to eat well in the morning to set me up for the day. You might be

:27:47. > :27:51.wondering why Richard is not attempting the marathon at London

:27:51. > :27:57.2012. The short answer is he can't. The

:27:57. > :28:00.longest event that caters for his classification is the 200 metres.

:28:00. > :28:04.In New Zealand last year he became world champion and he has since

:28:04. > :28:11.broken the world record. But this summer will be the biggest race of

:28:11. > :28:14.his life. It is not just for me when I race

:28:14. > :28:18.the 200 metres for Great Britain, it is for my family and friends and

:28:18. > :28:24.for everybody that has supported me over the 35 years that I have been

:28:24. > :28:28.here. I will get into that start line in my best shape. If that

:28:28. > :28:38.means I come eighth, that means I have done the best I can. But I

:28:38. > :28:45.