13/02/2012 Inside Out East Midlands

British farmers are at a crossroads. More and more are going out of

business as we turn to cheap imports for our meat. One solution

is to create bigger, more industrialised farms. But an

application to build a megafarm in Derbyshire with more than 25,000

pigs has outraged not just the people who would live next door to

it but animal rights campaigners and a host of celebrities. We

believe what we're doing is high welfare. We are looking after our

pigs to the best possible standard that we can. It simply is not right

for a pig to live its whole life without ever feeling the sun on its

back. Without ever having the chance to root around in the ground.

Two pig farmers, two opposing views. Martin Barker is planning a second

agricultural revolution in which thousands of animals are kept

indoors making bigger profits and providing cheaper meat. GRUNTING.

Peter Melchett runs an organic farm. He's appalled by this brave new

farming world. There's a big difference though to having pigs on

a foot or two of straw over a big area. Yes but at the same time

there is a big cost to that. Plans by Midland Pig Producers to have

more than 25,000 pigs at Foston in Derbyshire has led to a series of

angry demonstrations. Several well- known faces have added their voices

to the protest against the growth of intensive farming. I think it is

barbaric actually and really we ought to be creating a more humane

farming and more sustainable Does the world really need more

cheap meat? Do we in the UK want to be producing huge volumes of

cheaper meat? Is that the right direction of travel? Everything

that is happening to our health would suggest otherwise. A room

with a view at Foston in Derbyshire. A view Sue Weston fears will be

blighted if the application for a pig farm in the field opposite is

approved. People say are you being a nimby but this is not literally

in my backyard, it is in my living room. 30,000 pigs sat on my sofa,

Sue's son Tom suffers from a weak heart rate. He's worried that

thousands of pigs will bring additional hazards to his already

frail health. I've only just come out of hospital. I'm really not

wanting to pick up any diseases that they might carry. I am really

susceptible, anything could be fatal if it goes to my heart.

you categorically guaranteed to the people living in Foston next to

this farm there will be no spread of disease? Not any more than they

can guarantee that they will not give our pigs any disease

themselves. It is an odourless system where all the air that goes

out of the building is treated. There will be far less problems out

there and less smell than there is from the current unit that is

already in the village. There are very large pig farms and large

daries as well. They are new developments and the diseases

associated with them and the risk of those diseases spreading to

people are new risks so of course we cannot be absolutely certain

that the people will definitely get set but I am absolutely sure that

Martin cannot be certain they won't. -- sick. Alan McNally, a biochemist

at Nottingham Trent University, believes the planned pig farm poses

few risks to local residents deaths safeguards are stringently observed

but he still would not want to live next door to it. I am a father, I

have a two-year-old son, everyone would like to live next to a farm

but I don't think anyone would want to live next to a farm that is

processing natural waste products from tens of thousands of animals.

He spends the day much as he spends every day, attending his farm, he

has pigs, cattle and turkeys. The way we used to farm. It's still a

Rob Mercer runs a farm with about half the number of pigs of the

planned Foston development but his animals are outdoors and there were

few objections. He isn't against indoor farming and sees room for

both. I firmly believe that this is the way I want to farm and I like

to see pigs this way. You can see they are on lots of acres, they are

running around, the sow and piglets are running around. They can get

fresh air, they can interact socially and exhibit their normal

For Martin Barker, where there's muck there's brass. The waste from

his pigs will provide an estimated �1 million worth of energy a year.

He likens the new farm to a modern luxury hotel for pigs, comfortable,

spacious, green and clean. This system will not produce a smell. If

it does then we will be shut down. Foston has a women's prison and

people in the village say the farm will be like a second jail with

pigs trapped on a slow conveyor belt to the abattoir. I have lived

in the countryside all my life and I have no problem with farming but

I do not see this as farming at all, this is industrial. It is just an

industrial production of meat. I think somebody in relation to this

application said in years to come there will not be any animals

outside, they are trying to get them all indoors, this is the thin

end of the wedge. A year ago, Nocton Dairies withdrew a plan to

build a mega farm in Lincolnshire after months of protests and

demonstrations. Farms on that scale are commonplace in the United

States. Industrial animal farms there are usually much bigger than

anything planned hear. -- here. This woman farms near Foston and

says they do farms whatever their size are alien to British farming

heritage. -- mega farms. Let's keep the small of farms who breed their

pigs naturally. The pigs are allowed to root and have their

piglets with them. When you see them going out in spring to grass

they just adore it. They frolic. They prefer to be outside.

large-scale European farms sows are usually kept in such a narrow space

they cannot even turn around. The Forston Farm. Would have doubled

the space and welfare would far exceed current regulations. Midland

pig producers say they will provide Most people now get their meat from

supermarkets but rarely question where it comes from or how it's

produced. The British Pig Executive says consumers need to be aware of

what they're buying. Research we did a couple of years ago actually

suggested that two-thirds of all the pork we actually import into

this country, that is the majority of the pork we eat in this country,

would be illegal to produce here. Why would it be illegal? Mainly

because of the way the sows are kept. In this country we keep them

in large social groups, abroad they are in stalls for virtually their

whole life. A british farmer would get jail for producing what's on

the supermarket shelves. The foreign products coming in is

probably kept in standing systems, The government says we have a

choice. Farming minister Jim Paice has argued we can maintain what he

calls sentimental farming or set the industry on fire by producing

more meat at affordable prices. Earlier this month there was

another demonstration in Derby against the Foston application. The

battle to decide what we eat and how we produce it has only just

And a decision on that pig farm is expected in the next two months.

Now one in four women and one in seven men have endured some form of

sexual abuse as a child. Many can't face the ordeal of taking their

abuser to court. Bravely, Dawn Berry did just that. Tonight, she's

waived her right to anonymity to talk to Jo Healey. Dawn's journey

is disturbing but inspirational. Her motivation? To give others,

like her, a voice. It is all those childhoods that were stolen. It was

innocents who were stolen. We should have been playing, jumping

in puddles. We should not have been worrying about, or my God, I'm

supposed to go to sleep now, myelitis off but what is going to

happen next in the dark? -- my light is off. We should not have

had the monster in the bedroom. She is packing for a holiday. It is for

an anniversary. Not for her wedding or a birthday, it is of at trial

and crucially its verdict. 12 junior members came back and said

we believe you. It was something that I never ever thought I would

hear in the whole of my life. -- Jury members. Her young life was

scarred by terrible abuse at the hands of her stepfather at her home.

She was repeatedly raped. Even though why was a child it was

completely wrong and there is no way you could persuade me otherwise.

There would be certain orders. Pipe tobacco, beer, that would just in

green fear in week whether he was present or not. -- in the main fear

in me. That fear can be just as intense today just as it was in

1976, 77 and so on. -- ingrain fear. She was an only child and she

thought he was his only victim but then just a few years ago or

another victim contacted her. Because of that, she forced herself

to walk with her has been through the doors of this police station.

But would anyone believe her? When you have been abused on this level

you are conditioned by the predator that you will not be believed, no

one will listen to you, you will be classed as dirty, disgusting and

all sorts of different things. Being believed becomes something

that you think will never be in your possession. But the officer

she met did believe her. Here she is meeting him again for the first

time since that night. A law. my hero. Welcome back. Seven of us

went to trial in the end. The way you handle that, you were to meet

our pivotal in that it happened. Thank you, would you like to come

in? I would, thank you. For the very first time in my whole life I

felt two major things, hair and believed. Brilliant. -- heard and

believed. It is brilliant I have had such an effect. You really did

have. It is brilliant that justice has been done. But the journey to

justice was painstaking. There were hours of video, interview and

written evidence. The officers worked tirelessly to try and build

the prosecution case. To ensure that the man is convicted at court

because you have got a victim at the end of it too has had the

courage and conviction to come forward and say 37 years ago I was

abused and I have never told anyone else. The judge praised the victims

for having the courage to come forward. In sentencing him to 18

years in prison he told the man he was despicable and disgusting

without a jot of remorse. Since the case last year four more people

have come forward seeing the two Did the court case make a

difference? A tremendous difference. It gave an opportunity for closure

but also it gives a message out to predators that whilst you may

interfere with children and keep them silent, one way -- one day we

grow up and find our voice. And it seems there are many voices out

there. One in four women and one in seven men have suffered some sexual

abuse as children. Three months after Keith Brown was sentenced,

another paedophile was in court in at Nottingham. Patrick Gallagher.

He had been a foster carer in Mansfield. He fostered young boys.

He also raped some of them. Bravely, they worked with the police to

bring him to court. Last May, he admitted 55 charges against 16

children, including rape and sexual assault. It is currently Iffy

subject of a serious case review. The findings will be out later this

year. They insist lessons will be learnt. But the judge said the

damage he had done to his victims was incalculable. I was in court

and listened to statements from two of the poor use. One of them said,

I was just a little boy. I felt disgusting, like a tramp. I felt

dirty. He said he was completely destroyed by what had happened to

him and could not get his face out of his head. Another boy said he

was at his most vulnerable. What I needed was a loving family. I've

never felt so frightened, he said. I felt like dying. My innocence was

stolen. My first anger is that the authorities and for the people who

were around two may have seen something and chose not to act

because of the difficulties it might have cause for themselves. My

second reaction is to want to go and cuddle every single one of them

and allow them, and give them permission, to grieve and more

importantly to find a way to reinstate a sense of childhood and

innocence. Dawn is still finding her way. Each week, she gets

counselling from the incest and sexual abuse survivors charity. She

is one of around 300 people referred here each year in

Nottinghamshire alone. A service they say it is under-resourced and

under threat. We have many suicidal clients who come to us and who have

nowhere else to turn. If we didn't exist, then unfortunately I think

the suicide rate would increase in Nottinghamshire substantially.

dawn admits they have been times she has come close to ending it all.

But she is now determined to help other victims and regain something

of the child had she was denied. -- childhood. At this moment in time,

I'm doing my best to jump in puddles because there is a part of

my childhood that I lost, that I was not allowed to play. So, if you

see me at their jumping in puddles, all I can say is, come and play! We

all need to jump in a few puddles. If you have been affected by any of

the issues raised in our film, you can find details of help on that

Amateur boxing has been in decline for years. The number of registered

boxers has hit an all-time low. But one group is fighting back, women.

They helped dramatically by the historic change to a rather special

For years they've been discriminated against. Pushed out

of the limelight, banned from the ring. But the more you keep someone

down, the more determined they are to succeed. And this year it's paid

Women's boxing has at last been recognised as an Olympic sport.

It's the first time in the history of the games. They're so hungry to

get in there but when they do get in there you know it's fight of the

night. They've realised that these girls can actually fight. It's

irrelevant if they're women here now. They're given the chance.

They need to work so hard to get there. But will the Olympics change

anything? Will women now be considered equal to men in the

boxing big time? Amateur boxing's experienced a dramatic decline in

numbers over the years. But in gyms around the country women are

bucking the trend. In the last seven years the number of

registered female boxers has risen dramatically. There used to be 70,

now there are more than 1,000. One of those boxers is Talia Anthony or

Tilly as she's known to her friends. Before I get in the ring, you

cannot explain it, it's a weird feeling. Once the bell goes,

everything clears from your mind. She had been sparring with her

brothers and they gave her the first step on the ladder. From

there, she progressed. Another girl breaking the mould is Sandy Ryan.

There are a lot of girls who want to do it more now. But better

because there are more fights for the! -- that is better because

there are more fights for me. is a very driven individual. She

will train and train. Sometimes I have to tell her to stop training.

Usually, it is hard getting them in at the gym. It's like butterflies

in your stomach when you get into the ring. This is Chadd Amateur

Boxing Club at Chaddesden in Derby. She shares the space with a group

who've got their eyes on a rather different prize. They could have a

future British Olympian on their hands. In five years time I'll

hopefully be in Rio in 2016. That'll be my ultimate goal, it'll

be a brilliant experience to be in the team for that. These girls are

both working towards the same goal. This is their dream, this is Great

Britain's boxing squad. First, they have got to earn their stripes. You

have been a boxer, a British and Commonwealth champion. High d you

rate the women? You've got to go to a women's tournament and then you

will understand that there is some tremendous talent. One of those is

Nicola Adams who's ranked second in the world for her weight. Number

two in the world Nicola, what does it take to get there? A lot of hard

work and dedication. What would you say to young girls coming up who

really want to be you? The eye trained three times a day, four

days a week in Sheffield. -- I It's the finals of the Amateur

Boxing Association championships held at Mansfield. Close to 100

girls and women are competing. Tilly Anthony's one of them. But

her opponent's Nina Smith. She's in the GB boxing squad. Scouts for

Team England are also here. They'll be watching her every move. It's

Tilly's chance to impress. If she can out-box her, she stands a

chance of making the GB squad herself. Obviously the coaches and

selectors back at team GB want the best girls in the squad and if

upsets do occur then then they'll re-evaluate I suppose and see.

is one of the big ones, one of the Olympic waits! -- weights. It's not

long before Nina shows how And after a courageous fight, Tilly

loses on points. A bit gutted obviously but there's nothing I can

do about it now. So yeah, go from there and try and improve on the

things I done today. But it's not over for Tilly. The England scouts

have got plans for her. We will get the video and analyse what she did.

We will work out what we need to work on because this is development,

not the finished article. It is clear Tilly's got some work to do.

She'll have another chance for the title in six months' time. For male

boxers, the Olympics has always been a springboard to a

professional career. Some of our greatest boxers were also Olympic

medal winners. They went on to earn millions from boxing. But what

about female boxers? Can they make a living out of it? Juliette Winter

turned pro 12 years ago. She was the first woman in the East

Midlands to do so. So how hard has it been for you going professional?

Tough, very tough. When I first started, I was training hard. I

could out-box the blokes in the gym. I had all the technical skills. I

couldn't get on the shows because I wasn't selling the tickets like the

boys were. A lack of British boxers forced Juliette to move to Germany

to fight. And after six years she came back to the UK and won the

first ever British Masters Superflyweight title. She hasn't

had a competitive fight on British soil since. The biggest obstacle

for you is getting there flights. Why are you not getting them?

in the UK, we needed big promoters to Bacchus and they have not done.

-- to back us. It could be the male attitude of certain promoters.

Hopefully there is a future there because of the Olympics. There will

be in recognition for amateurs and hopefully pathways to the

professional ranks. I am being It's been six months since Tilly

was beaten by Nina Smith. But she's back for another shot at the title

again. And Sandy's also made it to the competition. It's good news.

They both win and are now the England champions for their

respective weights. When your hand gets raised in the ring, it's a

real buzz. It's like the best feeling ever. I can't explain it.

It's like a weird feeling. It's just an adrenalin boost. I want to

achieve more than this. I don't just want this behind me. I want

more from it. More from boxing. taboo status of women boxing has

all but disappeared from the amateur sport. The fact it's an

Olympic event for the first time this year is testimony to that. But

if women are to make a living from the sport things need to change

dramatically. Pro boxing, for now that is, is still very much a male

And women's boxing makes its debut as an Olympic sport in the last

week of July. That's it from Derbyshire. Thanks for watching.

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