:00:06. > :00:11.Tonight we are at Ashford in the Water in the Peak District with
:00:11. > :00:16.stories from where we live a. Coming up: We meet the people
:00:16. > :00:22.behind the statistics. When you see people in a warm house and you are
:00:22. > :00:27.out on the street it gets you down a lot.
:00:27. > :00:31.Mike Dilger is on wildlife watch what the people trusted to look
:00:31. > :00:41.after our countryside. We are looking for a bird. You haven't
:00:41. > :00:58.
:00:58. > :01:04.seen one, have you? And can Dez The number of people sleeping rough
:01:04. > :01:08.and the East Midlands has shot up by 55 % a year according to the
:01:08. > :01:12.Government's own figures. Add to that the news last week that not
:01:12. > :01:18.enough homes are being built, and clearly there is a big problem. So,
:01:18. > :01:23.what is it like being homeless? Tony Roe sense -- spend some time
:01:23. > :01:31.with people who know. No one chooses to live in places like
:01:31. > :01:39.these. For almost a year, the woods next to an old quarry in Mansfield
:01:39. > :01:43.has been where Martin: Sleeps. still sleep -- Martin: Sleeps. If I
:01:43. > :01:49.sleep in town I will get glass bottles thrown at me. It is
:01:49. > :01:54.horrible. During filming, he would often scurry off into the woods to
:01:54. > :02:00.hide his few possessions. Things get stolen, even his tent. So on
:02:00. > :02:07.one of the coldest nights of the winter, he slept in a shelter.
:02:07. > :02:14.lucky to be alive. It was cold and frosty. It was awful. Nottingham,
:02:14. > :02:18.and a Bixley about to raise awareness. -- a big sleep out to
:02:19. > :02:24.raise awareness. We have a sticky tape and things are to decorate the
:02:25. > :02:29.box. We are prepared. Winnie were homeless, you are not prepared.
:02:29. > :02:34.when you are homeless. They are raising money because services to
:02:34. > :02:41.help homeless people have been caught. One night in our lives to
:02:41. > :02:50.help so many people who have really appalling lives. This night was
:02:50. > :02:59.mild. The city does not sleep. It is just noise all of the time.
:02:59. > :03:04.cardboard cap the wind off, which was quite nice. -- big cardboard
:03:04. > :03:10.cat the wind off. Sleeping outside one night does not give you the
:03:10. > :03:15.experience of walking all day on the streets. Martin has his routine.
:03:15. > :03:21.I go down to the Four Seasons and try to get some money and then I
:03:21. > :03:27.wait until 12:00pm to go down to the church to get a meal. He heads
:03:27. > :03:33.down to the shopping centre. He should not bed. He gets kicked out
:03:33. > :03:37.by security. He is humiliated. makes me feel uncomfortable a lot.
:03:37. > :03:42.You're trying to get a meal inside you and they are not having any of
:03:42. > :03:47.it. Martin used to work for a security company. He says he does
:03:48. > :03:53.not drink much or do drugs. He lost his job when his boss was murdered.
:03:53. > :04:01.He lost his way. Three years ago I had it all. I had a roof over my
:04:01. > :04:06.head. Now I am on the streets trying to find shelter. Martin get
:04:06. > :04:12.�105 per fortnight in benefits to live. It will buy a couple of
:04:12. > :04:16.nights in a bed and breakfast but not a lot else. �15 to last you a
:04:17. > :04:24.fortnight. It does not even last you a day. You get a bit of food
:04:24. > :04:28.and that to keep you going. We head to the Beacon Centre St -- next to
:04:28. > :04:38.St John's Church, where they feed the ball rubble at lunchtime. There
:04:38. > :04:38.
:04:38. > :04:44.has been an assault and it is Now we cannot get anything to eat
:04:44. > :04:48.until tomorrow morning, breakfast time. This is one of the places
:04:48. > :04:53.that Martin has stayed in in the centre of town. Something has
:04:53. > :04:57.happened in this alley overnight as well. If you are homeless, one of
:04:57. > :05:02.the frustrations is the sight of boarded-up buildings. There are
:05:02. > :05:08.plenty of those. Mansfield is a town, like many, with a shortage of
:05:08. > :05:12.homes. The Brownlow Road area had a poor reputation, dubbed in one
:05:12. > :05:18.national newspaper of the most vandalised and terrifying road in
:05:18. > :05:26.Britain. Not now. Two-under that 15 homes have gone. It is a waiting to
:05:26. > :05:31.government. -- 215. Not even half of the homes needed to ease the
:05:31. > :05:38.shortage are being built. One way out of the street is to get help
:05:38. > :05:46.from a housing association. Martin has been waiting for a Graham at
:05:46. > :05:56.one of the shelters - a rare for a grim at one of the shelters. Alf --
:05:56. > :06:00.
:06:00. > :06:07.This is my best hope of getting off the street. Martin is so happy, he
:06:07. > :06:11.has learned that he is getting a room at 3:30pm the next day. I am
:06:11. > :06:18.just waiting for half past three. It is going to be dragging like
:06:18. > :06:23.hell. Another godsend for the homeless in Mansfield Park church
:06:23. > :06:29.volunteers. This is the Beacon Centre. -- in Mansfield or church
:06:29. > :06:38.volunteers. This is the Beacon Centre. They provide food and a
:06:38. > :06:44.place to watch -- wash. But their budget has been cut. This is not
:06:44. > :06:50.easy work to do. You get -- have to have a real hard for this kind of
:06:50. > :06:53.job. One person in for food today has some bad news. Teresa got a
:06:53. > :06:58.housing association place in September, which meant she could
:06:58. > :07:07.stop sleeping rough. On Christmas Eve she got an eviction notice
:07:07. > :07:16.because of cuts. All of the furniture and everything they have
:07:16. > :07:21.accumulated a gone. It is like a vicious cycle. This was Teresa's
:07:21. > :07:26.home. She shared it with John and one other person. It is not a
:07:26. > :07:30.palace but it is nice and warm. These cameras must be a bit
:07:30. > :07:35.inhibiting. They are quite intruding. You were very aware that
:07:35. > :07:40.you were being watched. At the end of the day we are all human. If we
:07:40. > :07:44.wanted to be watched we be on Big Brother. It is a place to stay
:07:44. > :07:52.before moving on to independent living, but the support money is
:07:52. > :07:59.being stopped. The council -- County Council gave the charity
:07:59. > :08:05.money to support some people. The Housing Association collected 100
:08:05. > :08:10.and Denise �2 a week per person. The three tannins here were forking
:08:10. > :08:13.out hundreds of pounds -- thousands of pounds per month for a house in
:08:13. > :08:20.a poorer part of town. It meant that John could not think of
:08:20. > :08:25.finding a job. I cannot afford to go to work or I will not be able to
:08:25. > :08:30.pay my rent. They should put some kind of scheme in place so that you
:08:30. > :08:35.can go out and better yourself and work for yourself.
:08:35. > :08:41.They were meant to leave this house by the end of January. For Martin,
:08:41. > :08:48.this is the day he had been waiting for, a place in a Framework's
:08:48. > :08:54.hospital. This is a miracle. I am just stunned at the moment. I do
:08:54. > :09:00.not know what to say. I am gobsmacked. He now has six months
:09:00. > :09:06.to say -- stay somewhere permanent. Because of the cuts, Framework
:09:06. > :09:12.needs to raise �30,000 to get staff to help them do that. To stop bed
:09:12. > :09:22.blocking. They hold a sleep out on the coldest night of the year. They
:09:22. > :09:23.
:09:23. > :09:28.make a good start. �11,711. We know that 100 to 200 people in Mansfield
:09:28. > :09:32.are homeless, and that is a shame on us all. It is up to us to put
:09:32. > :09:38.right. We have to say to the government, local and national,
:09:38. > :09:43.enough is enough. We have got to end this and help people into homes
:09:43. > :09:49.so they can stay there. The fund raisers are brave a night out in
:09:49. > :09:54.temperatures of a minus eight degrees. I know it is quite bad but
:09:54. > :10:00.tomorrow night I can go in my own bed. We can go home and have a nice
:10:00. > :10:07.shareware but homeless people will not. -- a nice shower. John has
:10:07. > :10:12.found himself a council flat in Kirkby. It is nice to feel Secure.
:10:12. > :10:22.To reset, we have been told, is back on the streets. The house on
:10:22. > :10:23.
:10:23. > :10:27.Glaston Street has been handed back If you go for a walk on a nature
:10:28. > :10:33.reserve in the East Midlands, there is a good chance it is run by the
:10:33. > :10:38.Wildlife Trust. They now manage 90,000 had tears. Mike Dilger has
:10:38. > :10:44.been finding out how they rely on some four legged friends to look
:10:44. > :10:50.after the countryside. We are a nation Of M amor lovers
:10:50. > :10:57.and we think -- like to think we are becoming more aware. -- animal
:10:57. > :11:01.lovers. But in England every year, two plants or animals are becoming
:11:01. > :11:05.extinct. There are people who are passionate about wildlife trying to
:11:05. > :11:12.do something about it. A bird that should be breeding throughout
:11:12. > :11:18.England, but they are very rare. have got a problem with gorse. The
:11:18. > :11:22.gorse is coming back. Species that we used to be considered -- that we
:11:22. > :11:29.used to consider, and are becoming rare. The Wildlife Trust is linked
:11:29. > :11:34.to a UK office. In Nottinghamshire, they manage over 1,000 had tears of
:11:34. > :11:39.land all over the county. It is a constant battle to stop sites
:11:39. > :11:49.becoming overgrown, but they have an ingenious solution. They bring
:11:49. > :11:50.
:11:50. > :11:55.and the experts. Meet the flying They do not fly but they are called
:11:55. > :12:04.the flying flock because the trust moves than between sites. Today I
:12:04. > :12:08.am lending a hand. We have six Herdwick sheep we want to move.
:12:08. > :12:13.Explain how sheep can be involved in conservation because they are
:12:14. > :12:19.eating machines? These sheep have eaten down the thistles, bramble
:12:19. > :12:26.and nettles. They are nibbling all the aggressive plants. That is
:12:27. > :12:36.right. The greys around 20 sites in this way. They are one beak when
:12:37. > :12:39.
:12:39. > :12:44.the lawn mower. One in the name of Fabulous! Nottinghamshire Wildlife
:12:44. > :12:51.Trust was set up in 1953 by a group of birdwatchers. Adam there was the
:12:51. > :12:58.first reserve. As the trusts have grown, they are always on the
:12:58. > :13:03.lookout for Mossides. I am off to see one of the neighbours. Here in
:13:03. > :13:10.Derbyshire the Trust has acquired a new reserve in Shipley. It is that
:13:10. > :13:16.way. Set up 50 years ago this year, the trust him managers over 600
:13:16. > :13:22.hectares of land, ranging from the Peak District to the not quite so
:13:22. > :13:27.spectacular yet. One of come to Shipley. We have come here on this
:13:27. > :13:33.sunny morning. You have come to hunt for bugs. Time to see what we
:13:33. > :13:37.can find. Time for bug hunting. They cannot manage the land until
:13:37. > :13:47.they know what is on it, said they have help from their local Watch
:13:47. > :13:53.group. Damsel fly. A male damselfly. Beside his future and it has an
:13:53. > :13:58.interesting history. Yes, originally it was all coal mines,
:13:58. > :14:04.loads of coal mining across the side. This for me is find of the
:14:04. > :14:08.day - a little toad. The site was taken over as a theme park and then
:14:08. > :14:14.for the last few years it has been abandoned. The is by the weather,
:14:14. > :14:20.we are finding some cracking stuff. These boys have seen a vaults were
:14:20. > :14:25.passed. That is food for kestrels. The plan is to get people flocking
:14:25. > :14:30.back for a different reason. The is a trail that runs through the
:14:30. > :14:35.middle, so lots of cyclists and runners are using it already. Most
:14:35. > :14:40.of them pass through but we want to slow them down and appreciate a bit
:14:40. > :14:47.of what life. I'm off to of Rutland Water to catch up with the
:14:47. > :14:57.Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust and hopefully some impressive
:14:57. > :14:59.
:14:59. > :15:05.ospreys. Pandion haliaetus - one of the few places in England where you
:15:05. > :15:11.can see breeding ospreys and they are here because of an introduction
:15:11. > :15:15.project we ran here between 1996 and 2001. We brought them down from
:15:15. > :15:21.Scotland and release them with the idea of establishing a colony and
:15:21. > :15:26.hey presto! Of spray hunting, this is what it should be like. It has
:15:26. > :15:33.taken a lot of work by Tim and his team but they have now five
:15:33. > :15:42.breeding pairs. Just over the bank. That is a lovely view, right past
:15:42. > :15:49.us. Amazing how quickly they cover the water. We have lauded to try
:15:49. > :15:53.and follow them but they have disappeared. We are looking with --
:15:53. > :15:58.for a bird. Have you seen them? They have obviously gone fishing.
:15:58. > :16:04.The project is based at Rutland Water, a reservoir managed by the
:16:04. > :16:09.trust and the water company that runs it. We have something like
:16:09. > :16:13.24,000 wildfowl coming from Russia and Scandinavia for the winter and
:16:13. > :16:20.the conservation we do focuses on maintaining the habitat for them.
:16:20. > :16:26.For instance, we manage the Crossman's to create fantastic
:16:26. > :16:30.conditions. All the time, ospreys are a flagship species but the
:16:30. > :16:35.reserve is important for a vast array of bird life. The majority of
:16:35. > :16:40.funding comes from membership. They can get grants are but they cannot
:16:40. > :16:45.exist without volunteers. Nearly 2000 in the East Midlands, giving
:16:45. > :16:50.up their time like this lot helping out in Derbyshire. We have people
:16:50. > :16:56.who build fences, chainsaw work, everything. We even had people in
:16:56. > :17:01.the office. Remember Agnes and the flying flock? She even gets her
:17:01. > :17:06.family involved. He would not think the sheep and golf go together but
:17:06. > :17:09.in Holinwell you are more likely to see the Trusts Herdwicks than a
:17:09. > :17:14.hole in one. There she had made a difference to this heathland
:17:14. > :17:20.habitat. It was becoming unmanageable. This is what we like
:17:20. > :17:26.to achieve, some have there and some silver birch trees. A nice
:17:26. > :17:36.heathland site. Not any Tom Dick or Harry can say Agnes, can you come
:17:36. > :17:40.
:17:40. > :17:42.to your -- our house and cut my lawn with your sheep. No. Agnes is
:17:42. > :17:49.a full-time shepherd and looks after the largest flock of
:17:49. > :17:55.Hebridean sheep in the world. It is not 9-5 but you get to see some
:17:55. > :18:02.spectacular scenery. Just look at this had there, it is incredible! -
:18:02. > :18:08.- Heather. There is an injured sheep somewhere that we need to
:18:08. > :18:15.treat. With the antibiotics she should recover. And bit his hands
:18:15. > :18:25.on again for me. They are strong! Agnes, you must be incredibly
:18:25. > :18:28.
:18:28. > :18:33.It works! You are very good as a shepherd and a very good shepherd
:18:34. > :18:38.teacher. I have seen a fraction of the work the trust is doing. They
:18:38. > :18:42.teach schoolchildren and even get involved in planning decisions.
:18:43. > :18:47.They are a dedicated bunch and had been giving a voice to world live
:18:47. > :18:56.here for the past 50 years. The key question is what does the future
:18:56. > :19:00.hold? It is a really exciting time. Anglian Water has invested �60
:19:00. > :19:04.million creating new habitat on the reserve. There are hopes the
:19:04. > :19:09.ospreys will nest on the Trent Valley. In a tin shed they are
:19:09. > :19:14.expanding the project for cattle to encourage farmers to graze their
:19:14. > :19:18.land in and a common way. -- traditional way. As for Agnes and
:19:18. > :19:24.her sheep, they are off again. we had been here for 50 years and
:19:24. > :19:28.we hope to be here for another. the time these volunteers grow up,
:19:28. > :19:33.the Shipley side should be a well- established reserve. Hopefully
:19:33. > :19:38.somewhere they can bring their own children to learn about what life.
:19:38. > :19:42.If that does not inspire you to get out in the countryside, I do not
:19:42. > :19:47.know what will. Tonight Des Coleman sings in a rat
:19:47. > :19:53.pack group celebrating the glory days of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin
:19:53. > :19:59.and Sammy Davis Junior. But there was one member of -- other member
:19:59. > :20:06.of that Rat Pack, Buddy Greco. Could des persuade him to sing with
:20:06. > :20:16.him in the East Midlands? My guess start tonight, he is my favourite
:20:16. > :20:23.
:20:23. > :20:28.Here in a few moments in my home city of Derby are will be sharing
:20:28. > :20:31.the stage with a legend - a lifelong hero of mine. Me a Meert
:20:32. > :20:40.Rat Pack impersonator singing alongside the sole survivor of the
:20:40. > :20:45.real brat pack. -- Rat Pack. At the age of 85, Buddy Greco is still
:20:45. > :20:53.singing and playing just as he did all those years ago alongside Frank
:20:53. > :20:59.Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jnr. The bad boys of swing
:20:59. > :21:05.known as the Rat Pack. We did everything together, a lot of good
:21:05. > :21:10.things and bad things. Were a lot of girls involved? Look at my face.
:21:10. > :21:15.Oh yes! This party animal was born and raised on the mean streets of
:21:15. > :21:22.Philadelphia. In my neighbour had you're either a fighter, sing at
:21:22. > :21:28.all gangster and I was all three. How did I, a boy from the East
:21:28. > :21:36.Midlands, become a Body found? Growing up in Derby I was in to
:21:36. > :21:41.Classic Soul, rhythm and blues, James Brown. I feel good! But
:21:41. > :21:46.thanks to my mum and dad's record collection I was exposed to the
:21:46. > :21:53.greats of the swing era - Nat King Cole, Frank, Dean and Sammy and it
:21:53. > :21:59.never left me. And as a kid, I vividly remember seeing Buddy Greco
:21:59. > :22:05.on programmes like the Lulu Show. To me he was called. Den of spin
:22:05. > :22:10.the clock forward 40 years and I am making 11 impersonating Sammy Davis
:22:10. > :22:20.Junior. Never imagining that I might one day work alongside the
:22:20. > :22:23.
:22:23. > :22:33.But this star or Vegas had to swap the desert sands of Nevada for a
:22:33. > :22:37.
:22:37. > :22:42.British seaside resort. And here is what happened. But the's lack in
:22:42. > :22:47.the States simply ran out. Bookings dried up and his nightclub in Palm
:22:47. > :22:51.Springs went under and that is when this man, David NAC, and East
:22:51. > :23:00.Midlands promoter and Frank Sinatra impersonator stepped in with an
:23:01. > :23:04.offer of work here in the UK. -- David Alesi. What I hope to have
:23:04. > :23:11.done is brought him to a new audience, a younger audience and
:23:11. > :23:14.brought him to a wider audience. Four years when he came over here
:23:14. > :23:24.was not getting television coverage, now he is doing Jools Holland
:23:24. > :23:31.
:23:31. > :23:41.But he now lives in Westcliff-on- Sea, a genteel suburb of Southend
:23:41. > :23:52.
:23:52. > :23:58.Welcome! The 5th at Mrs Greco, yes, 5th, showed me around their elegant
:23:58. > :24:04.seafront home. Every thing in the flat, with the exception of our
:24:04. > :24:10.beds, it is a charity shop furniture. When it comes to doing a
:24:10. > :24:20.charity shop, did A body like that? He likes the fact he has a wife
:24:20. > :24:25.
:24:25. > :24:35.that shops charity. The others spent thousands! Buddy still loses
:24:35. > :24:38.
:24:38. > :24:45.that Vegas swagger. -- oozes. you know these guys? Wow. Dean
:24:45. > :24:49.Martin, Sammy Davis, me and Frank Sinatra. We all did a couple of
:24:49. > :24:53.songs and then Frank would say, let's come out together, so we
:24:53. > :24:57.would come up not knowing what we would do. Next thing you know,
:24:57. > :25:02.somebody would push out this card full of booze and before we would
:25:02. > :25:06.sink we would have a drink. All of us are drinking and people are
:25:06. > :25:14.going nuts, it was never done before. But living with a legend
:25:14. > :25:18.can be stormy at times. We have had some great cat fights. I have never
:25:18. > :25:24.thrown his clothes off the balcony into the sea front though. Is it
:25:24. > :25:29.true that you once, whilst on stage, pushed a planet at the guy smoking
:25:29. > :25:38.a cigar? It is true because he was ruining the show for everybody else.
:25:38. > :25:44.I said, if you do not stop that I will roll this piano on year. I did
:25:44. > :25:51.things like that. Buddy is the last living link to that swing era, one
:25:52. > :25:56.of the last people to see Marilyn Monroe alive. This limousine pulls
:25:56. > :26:01.up and I see this beautiful thing coming out of the car. She walks up
:26:01. > :26:06.to the veranda and puts her arms around me and gives me a big kiss.
:26:06. > :26:11.My then manager just happen to have a camera and took some pictures. I
:26:11. > :26:20.am really proud to say I had the last six pictures ever taken of
:26:20. > :26:27.Since he has been in the UK, I have been lucky enough to perform a
:26:27. > :26:32.couple of times with A body but tonight is the big night. He is
:26:32. > :26:39.stirring in my rat pack show at a club called The Spot in Derby. One
:26:39. > :26:44.my way to the gig with Buddy. I am excited, tense. He can be a little
:26:44. > :26:49.bit temperamental. I remember one time when things were not going in
:26:49. > :26:55.the right direction for him. He stop everybody and said, I am Buddy
:26:55. > :27:00.Greco! If Jesus Christ's walks on this stage, you look at me for! For
:27:00. > :27:06.the band has warm up, tuxedos and ties at the ready and the audience
:27:06. > :27:12.primed. Then we get a phone call. He has not been well. He got up and
:27:12. > :27:18.fell down the stairs. Buddy has taken a fall and is in hospital.
:27:18. > :27:26.What can we do? I am devastated and concerned for Buddy but what shall
:27:26. > :27:30.I tell the audience? Unfortunately body will not be appearing tonight.
:27:30. > :27:39.The Rat Pack share will still go ahead without a doubt. The band are
:27:39. > :27:43.here, we will be on in about half an hour. Thank you very much indeed.
:27:43. > :27:53.The audience had been real supportive but it is that old
:27:53. > :28:06.
:28:06. > :28:11.A few weeks later, and Buddy is on the mend but my dream of a special
:28:11. > :28:16.performance with this legend seems doomed. But I will also have --
:28:16. > :28:26.always be able to treasure this, just by the and me at his piano in
:28:26. > :28:26.
:28:26. > :28:29.Westcliff-on-Sea. # She gets too hungry for dinner at eight.
:28:29. > :28:31.# She loves the theatre but never comes late.
:28:31. > :28:41.# She'll never bother with people she hates.
:28:41. > :28:42.
:28:42. > :28:46.# That's why the lady's a tramp. Your hired! They got together in